Name: Journaling: How to Write Stream of Consciousness ✏️
Uploaded: 2017-07-17T09:02:22.000Z
Duration: 5 min 57 s
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Today's video is about journaling, specifically how to write stream of consciousness style.

Stream of consciousness is a style of writing where you just literally flow, from your brain

You literally write what you're thinking.

Think of it as transcribing what's going on in your brain, transcribing your thoughts.

You stay very nonjudgmental about your work.

they write with a purpose or they want it to sound pretty or poetic or meaningful, whatever

Stream of consciousness is like the opposite of that kind of writing.

Stream of consciousness is nonjudgmental flow.

It's not supposed to grammatically correct.

You don't even have to have the right punctuation or spelling.

Stream of consciousness is my favorite way to write.

that I communicate with myself within, my soul and my heart.

or your mind feels really cluttered, really messy, or you're just confused about something,

stream of consciousness writing is a great way for you to just let it out,

once you see all the thoughts out on paper, then you'll have some revelations

as you're writing and it will become much more clear in the process.

To me, stream of consciousness writing is like magic.

a lot of what you have within and it can uncover a lot of what you have within.

So, if you're new to this style of writing, it may be hard for you to immediately flow

the words onto paper in the beginning because you might just not be used to it.

So, in the beginning, if you don't know what to write and your mind is blank,

you can literally write, "I don't know what to write.

write your thoughts as they come, but that's the whole point.

So it really is about not giving up, not stopping,

Just to spark your ideas on what you can write when you're trying to do

stream of consciousness writing: you could write about what you're feeling at the moment.

You can write about what you did that day or what you plan to do later.

And if there's something that's bothering you: something that's really helpful for me

Basically, you make a statement and ask "Why?"

and you just ask why five or more times, and it's really interesting to get to the core

This is something, I can't really explain, but if you could pick one thing that,

and just keep asking why, why, why, why, why, and you'll get to some place really interesting.

Another thing that I like to do is write as if I am my future self,

as if I've already accomplished the goals that I wanted to achieve

and just write in the present tense like, "Oh my god, I'm so grateful that this just

And my life is going wonderfully, blah blah blah."

So if you haven't seen my law of attraction video,

Basically, just feeling how it feels to have reached your goals

or to be living your dream life, will bring that closer to your reality.

Sometimes I utilize my morning pages time to just dive myself into that place

where I want to be and write in the present tense of that.

You could also write about things that you're grateful for, things that you're excited about,

Write your feelings out to people, how they made you feel.

You can also write in bullet points and make diagrams and doodles,

But most of the time, for me at least, I think in words.