Today’s post is a Dreamtastic Creative Journals post. Dreamtastic is an ongoing (free!) e-course about using your journal as a tool for transformation, healing and dream-growing.
Today I’m answering a question I got…
My question is the best ways to use your journal to put those dreams into action. I am decent about dreaming it up a bit in my visual journal however I seem to often get stuck on that part.
It’s good to start with more clarity about why and where and how you get stuck.
Often, when we get stuck we just… stop.? It’s good to remember that it’s not the stuck that gets you stopped, it’s the decision you made to stop that gets you stopped.
Stucks are our fears, limiting beliefs and established patterns.? They try to put up a wall when we try to change out of that old way of being and step up to create something new.
And they are a natural part of the process of bringing a dream to life.
Exploring stucks ALWAYS leads to something amazing.
Start with the assumption that there is a good reason why you got stuck.? The stuck indicates that there’s something for you to look at.
Welcome the stuck.? Make space for it.? Let it be a part of the process.? Find out more about why it’s here and what it wants.
Journal about being stuck about how to bring your dreams to life.? Journal about what you would do if you weren’t stuck.? Journal about it every day until you don’t feel stuck anymore.
Journaling through the emotional stucks gets you clear enough to be able to take action.
Yesterday I felt stuck.? I drew it out in my journal:
See here at the bottom – that yellow circle with small orange rays?? And the arrow pointing to it that says “I AM HERE”?? Right on top of that – that’s a pile of boulders.? That’s how I was feeling when I started exploring the stuck – like I was buried under a giant pile of boulders, and my dream was on the other side, and I had no tools.
Because I do this all the time, I quickly found the gift in the stuck, and got myself un-stuck.
You can see the rest of the page looks pretty happy… this was me working it all out and getting myself back on the Woo Hoo I Can Do It Possibility Train.
If you’re new to exploring stucks, it will take a little longer.? It’s like with anything – the more you practice, the better you get at it.
Resources:
- Read Creative Journal Prompt For When You Don’t Know How To Make Your Dream Real.
- Read 100 Reasons Why You Can Do this.
- If you’re in the Creative Dream Circle you have an entire Un-Sticking Station to quickly un-stick ANY stuck.
- And, of course, sometime you need support to get through a stuck!? We’re starting a session of the Creative Dream Incubator on January 28… I guarantee no stuck is stronger than the Incubator.
