Recreating morning pages with this blog
It's been almost 2 years since I've started doing morning pages by Julia Cameron. It's a daily exercise where you complete 3 full pages of longhand stream of consciousness writing.
The point is to continuously write, handwritten, about anything until you fill the 3 pages. If you can't think of anything to write, you can simple write "I can't think of anything" as simple as that.
So I started doing this 2 years ago. At first I was consistent ~ I had a lot of things I want to do, improve in my life. I was talking a lot about goals, my emotions whenever I feel bad about something, things that I need to take action on.
Sometimes it takes me a few pages to convince myself to exercise, or start something new, and it would always work - I'd always talk myself into it and I'd do it.
It was very useful for me when it comes to planning and implementation, and letting some steam cool off too.
However, as things were starting to calm down, I began to lose topics I want to write about. Sounds silly, but yes, morning pages solved almost all of my problems. I was pretty happy with my life overall, I didn't know how to improve it any further, drastically. So I only wrote my morning pages when I had something to talk about, when I had something to solve in particular.
Apart from nothing to write or my writing has become repetitive (not a reason to stop I know..), I've been travelling for more than a year now, so most days I'm busy, I lost my daily routine. I felt that I lost my time slot for writing the morning pages.
So fast forward to 6 months later, I'm starting this blog. I want to keep writing, I want to keep reflecting on my thoughts, but this time I want to share my thoughts so that I feel like my realizations won't go to waste.
And maybe, just maybe, you'll find yourself in a similar situation as me, dear reader, and relate to the everyday things I encounter, and how I solve them.
The Morning Pages exercise did prove to me one thing - wherever you are in your life, it's really 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
So let's continue to be grateful and happy.