#Reflective #prompts can help individuals explore their #thoughts, #feelings, and #beliefs. By #prompting #selfreflection and #introspection, individuals can better understand themselves and their values. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/episode/B0C3P9SPYV

You should know that sometimes the beauty around me puts
me to despair.
I get a sense of not quite inhabiting my own surrounding
while my physical self is preened and pruned by the
elements of sun, wind, salt and responsibilities.
Little seabirds, terns, hovering suspended, floating
rudderlessly as the unfettered memories of my mind. Storm
winds creep low from the horizon, ambushing the gulls.
They bounce on the air, gently, as suspended as a child's
mobile, wafting merrily above his crib. In unison, they
go, like a clutch of shredded coconut, gleeful in the
inky sky.
I am left with motes of feather somewhere deep within the
soul of the body that stands bereft and lonely, damply
insecure of love and life once .
#poetry #writersofmastodon
#introspection

How Great Storytelling Lingers in the Mind: Shirley Jackson's ominous foreboding; thought stickiness; living rent-free in your head; Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom; introspection; meaning

https://brainpizza.substack.com/p/lingering-narratives-capturing-the

#storytelling #ShirleyJackson #ominous #foreboding #thoughts #livingrentfree #Amanitaphalloides #death #introspection #meaning

Sorry for the quiet. Gotta love migraines 🙃

A little reminder when journalling. There are no rules. You can answer prompts in a sentence, in a dot point, with an essay. Make an art spread, draw, paint. It's your safe space, your mind. Let it flow.

So back to the prompts..

🌻 What is a moment that you were just blissfully comfortable?
🌻 What would be your dream bed situation? (Covers, kinds of doonas, toys, frame, colours, family heirloom blankets, go nuts and describe)
🌻 Write three tiny moments today that made you smile and two that annoyed and one that enraged.

#journal #journalling #journalprompt #mentalhealth #selfcare #selflove #introspection #writing #snailmail #write #history #live

Just another real quick note that will potentially end up with me sobbing after 2 hours of increasingly #baroque #Introspection
I have been told — my entire life — how smart I was. I'm not bragging (translation for the youngsters: 'This is not a flex.') I'm saying they were <I>wrong</I>.
Well fuck, <I>were</I> they? See, I knew this was going to be troublesome.

The joke from before is now teetering on the edge of coming true, and I just don't have time today.

A form of journalling I sometimes like is writing a letter. So here I offer a few options. Choose which one you're in the mood for...

🍄 Write a letter to someone you miss
🍄 Write a letter to someone who infuriates you (and really let it rip, get it all out)
🍄 Write an encouraging letter to your younger self. The one you wish someone had handed you.

#letters #letterwriting #snailmail #journalling #journal #diary #mentalhealth #selflove #kindness #Introspection #health

Today's Prompts are a bit of inner reflection but simple.

🪷 Take a breather. Take note of how you feel right now, in this instance? Physically, Mentally and Emotionally. Don't be harsh, just take stock and write why you feel like this. What caused it? No pressure. You don't have to go deep.

🪷 What was a high of today? What was a low?

Remember you don't need to always go deep, even with inner reflection prompts. Sometimes it's just nice to note down how you're feeling without going deeply in depth. If you want to, go for it! But journalling is to make you happy. If all you can manage is a few lines or one word answers, so be it. It's still journalling.

#journal #journalling #journalprompts #journalprompt #diary #BookStadon #bookstodan #books #innerthoughts #mentalhealth #writing #letterwriting #snailmail #Introspection #hobbies #passions #selflove #goals #wins #newyears #climatechange #environmental #childhood

What are some of yout favorite things about youself?

#LoveYourself #Introspection #TellTheTherapist

Today's prompt....

🌿 Pick an emotion and describe what it feels/looks/tastes/etc like to you.

Doesn't have to be one you're feeling right now, can be which ever one. But just focus on the connotations of it as it applies to you.

#journal #journalling #journalprompts #journalprompt #diary #BookStadon #bookstodan #books #innerthoughts #mentalhealth #writing #letterwriting #snailmail #Introspection

For today....

🌻What's an insect that you like? Why?
🌻 What is a piece of music that is outside your norm that you love?
🌻 What is something that is a consistent issue you can't seem to conquer? Why?

#journalprompts #journal #journalling #diary #insects #nature #music #letterwriting #snailmail #letters #memories #problem #writing #mentalhealth #introspection

Quick shout-out for one of the nicest, most thoughtful papers I've read in a long time:

Narrative thinking lingers in spontaneous thought

'Some experiences linger in mind, spontaneously returning to our thoughts for minutes after their conclusion...our thoughts in the present moment echo prior experiences that have been incorporated into deeper, narrative forms of thinking'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32113-6

#narrative #thinking #story #linger #transportation #introspection #freeassociation #subjective

An interesting video on how the #Japanese #longbow is made, and the modern use of the longbow as a #sport or form of #introspection.

https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1592558984480886786?s=61&t=Z9_es7eACV3bnTh1AOaWmQ

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Take time out for a moment of #reflection and #introspection. https://twitter.com/IntrospectSpace/status/1480343815328256006

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