Hi everyone.
Welcome back to Lavendaire.
So good to see you guys.
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
to the paper.
You try not to think too much.
You literally write what you're thinking.
Think of it as transcribing what's going on in your brain, transcribing your thoughts.
It's really organic.
It's very authentic.
You just let it flow.
You let the words flow out.
You stay very nonjudgmental about your work.
Because I think, a lot of people,
they write with a purpose or they want it to sound pretty or poetic or meaningful, whatever
it is.
Stream of consciousness is like the opposite of that kind of writing.
Stream of consciousness is nonjudgmental flow.
It's supposed to be messy.
It's supposed to be ugly.
It's not supposed to grammatically correct.
You don't even have to have the right punctuation or spelling.
There are no rules, absolutely.
The only thing is just flow.
Stream of consciousness is my favorite way to write.
I feel like that is the way
that I communicate with myself within, my soul and my heart.
That's how I figure out what I want.
If you're going through a tough time
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,
try to organize whatever's in your mind.
When I say "organize", I don't mean
organize as you write.
I mean, let it flow out.
Let it be messy.
But you realize that
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.
It can really heal
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
out
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.
My mind is so blank.
Blah blah blah.
Words words words.
I still don't know what to write."
You could literally
write your thoughts as they come, but that's the whole point.
You'll notice that,
once you do that, more will come out.
So it really is about not giving up, not stopping,
just let it flow.
Let it flow, and you'll love it.
It's so much fun.
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
is to continually ask myself, "Why?".
Basically, you make a statement and ask "Why?"
and then you answer that statement.
And then you ask "Why?"
again,
and you just ask why five or more times, and it's really interesting to get to the core
of what it is.
This is something, I can't really explain, but if you could pick one thing that,
maybe one issue that you have.
Be like, "Why do you feel this way?"
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
happened
and this just happened.
And my life is going wonderfully, blah blah blah."
This is part of the law of attraction.
So if you haven't seen my law of attraction video,
I'll link it here and here.
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,
things that you want to be working on.
You can write letters to people
who are in your life.
Write your feelings out to people, how they made you feel.
You can also write in bullet points and make diagrams and doodles,
whatever your heart feels like.
There are no rules.
It doesn't have to be paragraphs.
But most of the time, for me at least, I think in words.
I'm less of a visual person.
I'm more of a words person.
So I have pages and pages and pages of just words.
And sometimes–I think a lot of times, I get video ideas from stream of consciousness
writing.
If I have a good idea or good quote that I want to use, I'll just put a star
next to wherever that is and come back to it later.
It's a really great tool
for anyone in general, but especially if you're a writer or you're a creator.
You get a lot of ideas from writing this way.
To me, it's like my form of meditation.
It's how I connect to the spiritual side of me.
Alright, I hope this gave you a better idea
of how to write stream of consciousness style and how it can really,
positively impact your life and make you feel more connected to yourself
and bring you closer to your dreams.
All that good stuff.
So what are you waiting for?
Get out a journal, and write, write, write, write, write.
Okay, love you all and see you next time.
Bye!