Soul Journalling
Journalling can be a beautiful way to slow things down and notice what’s happening beneath the noise of everyday life.
It can also be a useful practice for exploring your intuition.
I don’t think everything that comes onto the page is automatically intuitive guidance. Our thoughts can be influenced by emotions, fears, hopes, past experiences, expectations and all sorts of other things.
That’s part of what makes journalling interesting.
Rather than trying to get the ‘right’ intuitive answer, you can use the page to become curious about what you’re noticing and begin recognising how your own intuition tends to communicate with you.
Sometimes something will feel immediately clear.
Other times, you’ll write something down and want to sit with it for a while.
Both are useful.
How to Start Soul Journalling
Find somewhere you can spend a little uninterrupted time.
You might like silence, gentle music or whatever helps you settle into the practice. You can write by hand, type, or even record yourself speaking if words come more naturally that way.
Take a few breaths and notice what’s happening internally before you begin.
Then choose a journal prompt and start writing.
Try not to edit yourself too much as you go. Let yourself explore the question without needing to reach a conclusion.
If you don’t know the answer?
Write that too.
You don’t have to turn every journalling session into a profound insight.
Sometimes the interesting part comes later, when you return to something you’ve written and notice it differently.
Soul Journal Prompts for Exploring Your Intuition
- What am I noticing right now?
- What do I want to make more room for?
- What feels true for me at this point in my life?
- Where am I trusting myself — and where am I second-guessing myself?
- What am I curious about right now?
- What have I been avoiding, if anything?
- What do I want that I haven’t fully admitted to myself yet?
- What am I assuming, and what do I actually know?
- If I took other people’s expectations out of the equation, what would I want to explore?
- What does my first impression tell me?
- What happens when I question that first impression?
- How does intuition tend to get my attention?
- What feels like intuition to me — and what might be fear, hope, habit or expectation?
- Where have I trusted myself recently?
- What did that experience teach me about the way I make decisions?
- What am I ready to explore?
- What am I willing to question?
- What am I learning to trust in myself?
You Don’t Have to Believe Everything You Write
This is probably one of my favourite parts of intuitive journalling.
You can write something down without immediately deciding that it’s true.
Maybe a sentence feels intuitive.
Maybe it’s something you really want to happen.
Perhaps it’s fear talking.
Maybe it’s an old belief you’ve carried for years.
Or perhaps you simply don’t know yet.
Instead of asking, ‘Was that definitely my intuition?‘, you can become curious about the information.
You might ask:
Does this still feel true when I come back to it later?
Is there evidence influencing what I’m feeling?
Am I hoping for a particular answer?
Does this feel familiar because it’s intuitive, or because it’s an old pattern?
Discernment doesn’t have to work against intuition.
I think the two belong together.
Your Intuition Might Not Sound Like a Voice
When people hear the phrase “inner voice”, they can assume intuition should arrive as words in their mind.
That’s only one possibility.
You might experience intuitive information through imagery, a physical sensation, an immediate knowing, words or sounds, or a combination of different experiences.
I explore this through the Four Clairs in my intuition teaching.
Journalling can help you notice these differences because it gives you somewhere to record what happened without needing to explain it immediately.
Over time, you may begin to recognise patterns in how you experience intuitive information and what tends to influence it.
Try It Your Way
There’s no correct way to soul journal.
You don’t need a beautiful journal, a morning ritual or an hour of uninterrupted meditation.
You also don’t need to be particularly spiritual or already confident in your intuition.
Pick a question.
Write what comes.
Question it if you need to.
Come back to it later.
Notice what you learn about yourself along the way.
Want to Explore Your Intuition Further?
If this kind of exploration interests you, my free Intuition Type training is a good place to continue.
Across three parts, you’ll begin exploring how intuitive information can show up, your natural intuitive style and what can influence your ability to recognise and trust your own experience.
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