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Re-Treat Yourself Processes

Re-Treat Yourself to a periodic review and use appropriate Journaling Tools, Ideas and Topics

Any time micro Re-Treat Yourself Process – Reap the benefits of awareness pauses.
Daily mini Re-Treat Yourself Process – Make the most starting and reviewing every day.
Weekly Re-Treat Yourself Process – Focus on goals, balance and peace of mind.
Monthly Re-Treat Yourself Process – Focus on rejuvenation and staying on purpose.
Quarterly/Yearly Re-Treat Yourself Process – Precious solitude to relax and reconnect with your big picture.

The tools below are presented in order from left brain, logical tools to right brain, intuitive tools.

Tools for managing and tracking your journaling process:

Hot List - Keep handy your list of most important topics for journaling.
Dream Calendar - Put your ideal day, week and year on one page.
Daily Tracker - Measure what is important to you. Confirm your progress.
Stepping Stones – Life History Log - Create a meaningful life history log.
The Review/Summary - Sift the wheat from the chaff.
The Pause - Step back and allow integration to work for you.

Tools that focus intention and create awareness:

Blank Page Journaling - Empty the mind by filling a page.
Sentence Stubs - Complete the sentence....
Regular Check-ups - Stay aware of the aspects of our lives that matter most.
List Making - Watch how your mind works. Expand your creativity.
Radar Trap - Catch yourself in the act. Enhance your awareness.
Smart Questions - Allow questions to draw out your own inner wisdom.
Unsent Release Letter - A very healing way to let go of the past.
Feeling Finder - Add more dimensions to your feeling nature.
Captured Moments - Re-experience the depths of peak events.
Time Capsule - Capture the past, present and future.
Character Sketch - Experience someone more deeply.
One Word Essence Journaling - No time to journal? Write just one word.
Headlining - Use creative 7 word headlines to capture the day.
Creed - Make a declaration about what you want, who you are, where you are going.
Perspectives - See things differently.
Three Perspectives Journaling - Journal writing from 3 perspectives.

Tools for making inner connections:

Mind Mapping - Watch your brain work graphically.
Lateral Thinking - The fastest way to develop creativity.
Allow Alliteration - Identify infinite important informative ideas.
Rhyme Time - Find and unwind your kind mind.
Alpha Poems - 26 quick creativity stimulators.
Stream of Awareness - What am I experiencing, feeling, and thinking?
Dyad - Another powerful way to express your depths.
Intuitive Resonating - Give a voice to your unconscious.
Metaphors - Explore different ways to say the same thing.
Modelling - Often the indirect route is the best route.
5 Wise Whys - How to go deeper to find the truth.
Duality Tension - Let your mind stretch and integrate two extremes.
Artwork - Allow your inner artist to share its wisdom.
Top down, bottom up connections – Ground the abstract and find purpose and meaning in the details.
Where am I in the movement of ...? - Gain new perspectives on changes in your life.
Life Pyramid - Connect the higher mind and concepts with the lower mind.

Tools for developing the imagination and consciousness:

Evolving Essences - A new way to set goals using essences and intentions.
Gratitude Journal - An affirmation of ownership, responsibility, and appreciation.
Dialogue - Converse with whoever and whatever you want.
Life Question - What question can you ask yourself that will inspire, empower and energize you?
Prose and Poetry - Let the beauty and rhythm of words share their feelings.
Dream Journal - Capture your night-time dreams.
Meditation Journal - Meditation opens us to more connection, insights and harmony.
Stream of Consciousness - Awaken your awareness.