Inner Child: Journaling Excercise

Journaling Excercise

• About tapping into your Inner child

• Dominant hand is your “normal self” non dominant hand is your “inner child”

Research shows that non-dominant hand writing opens pathways in your brain that you normally do not use. Using your left hand gives  you greater access to the right hemisphere brain functions like feelings, intuition, gut instinct, creativity, inner wisdom.  Using your non-dominant hand, takes the pressure off of being good at something - 

focus on the experience, on the process

Using your non-dominant hand increases creative divergent thinking 

It is different thinking 

Maybe play with your non dominant hand at first, see how it feels using this not often used part of  your body

On the 1st page, with your Dominant Hand, write “Dear Little X, What would you like me to know? Do you have a message for me? Is there anything you need from me? Love, Big X” 

2nd page with your non dominant hand write 

• Non Dominant Hand “Dear Big X, 

Keep going, keep going if it is uncomfortable, keep going if you hate it, keep going even if you don’t know what to say 

Keep going until the timer runs out 

This isn’t meant to make sense with your logical mind 

This is meant to come from another place

Notes: 

Allow the discomfort 

Sometimes discomfort is good for you, it means you are growing, 

It allows for change

For new possibilities

This isn’t meant to make sense with your logical mind 

This is meant to come from another place

**The 2nd and 3rd photos are examples of my journals when doing this excercise. It is meant to be messy as it looks like a child's handwriting.

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