Week 4: Journaling and Poetry - Summary and Conclusion
************** Hello Again! **************
09-25-2022
I hope that everyone had a productive and restful week. This week was insane. I went through Monday like a champion only to find out I was developing a really bad cold. That cold got worse and kept me out of school for the entire middle of the week. This gave me a lot of reflection time on how I want to better my life and work on my routine. It also made me realize that I was burning a little too hot and needed to cool down a little and slow my pace. I have always had a problem with getting overwhelmed and I am thankful my body recognized I needed a breather and gave me the opportunity to take one.
That being said, this was my last week of journaling and poetry. Overall, I think I have found a love for journaling. I plan on continuing journaling more recreationally as a way of centering myself around my life and passions. I have found it was very therapeutic to sit down and focus on my goals, dreams, and memories rather than worrying about milestones and assignments. Poetry however, was not my cup of tea. Over the weeks, I have found myself moving away from it. Whenever I had to read or write poetry, it felt like a chore rather than a creative exercise. That is why this week was mainly journaling. I respect people who can write and love reading poetry but it is not for me. Maybe I will find the one or two poems that stick out but overall, poetry is not my thing.
Next week I will be starting some physical art assignments and I am really excited! I love doing art and I only got a small taste of it from my high school years. I have a few projects I want to try and complete in the four week period and am excited to see where it goes! In the meantime, here is my last week working on Journaling and Poetry. Enjoy!
*********************** Monday *********************** On Monday, I was on a roll. I had one of the most productive days I have had in a long time. However, once I got home from school, I developed a fever and became very sick. During this time, I did not have the strength to get up and write anything and looking at a screen made my eyes hurt. However, I felt this was the perfect time to try working on my creative practice because I wanted to see how it would impact my health. Instead of reading poetry, I went online and listened to people read poetry.
This experience was the best I have had with poetry. I could lay there in my sickly coma and let my mind wander with the words and discover all of these places and meanings. I do not have any clips of the recording I listened to because I wasn't able to save the videos, but I can definitely say I felt calmer and at ease. I still felt horrible of course because I was sick, but the words and the person reading them helped calm my mind and soothed it. I highly recommend listening to poetry and if any of you have any recommendations, let me know!
*********************** Wednesday *********************** On Wednesday, I was feeling a little better but not entirely. I decided today would be a great day to search up more prompts for my personal journaling project I am starting. I found that I love summative journaling, as I like to call it. By journaling once a week or every two weeks, I am giving my brain the ability to reflect on where I am at and where I am going. I found that if I did it every day, I got tired of journaling. It is not something that I need in my everyday life but making it apart of my life is something I still want to do.
I went on Pinterest and started adding a lot of questions and prompts to my folders. Because this is something I am continuing in my personal time, I felt it necessary to leave this information private. However, my Pinterest board is growing strong. I am happy I chose growth as my theme because that is exactly what I need right now. This entire journaling stage has been nothing but helping me on that path of growth. The act of searching also helped put my mind at ease because I had a goal and a task. It took away my other stressors because I was engaged in the task at hand.
*********************** Friday *********************** Friday was the day I finally was feeling normal enough to attend classes and meetings again. I was so excited to finally get back into my working rhythm after my reflecting and healing from being sick. I decided that as the last day of this section, I was going to finish of my journaling questions. This prompt seemed to save the intense ones for the last five, for it took me double the time to finish these. They really had me thinking about the things I wanted in life and how I have gotten to this point. I am very glad I picked those twenty-five questions and I can't wait to do more.
Physically, it felt like letting go of a breath I had been holding. I was finally done with this section of the project and these questions opened a door that I am excited to explore. I will say my physical health was not impacted as much with journaling but my mental health went leaps and bounds. Below are the answers to the journal questions I had.
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