Blogging, The New Journaling

Published July 21, 2013 | By admin

Blogging is the new journaling. Writing a journal has often been recommended as a form of therapy. I used to never be able to get into it (I have lots of journals that I started writing in and then quit); but give me a potential audience and I am a writing fiend! I also can marshall my thoughts better on paper than in a discussion with someone. On the one hand, I find myself when someone is asking me for advice telling them to read my blog and on the other hand, using that person’s question as topic of a future blog. At the same time, my blog is an account of my journey into my own psychology and the progress I have made partly because of my writing.

St. Augustine writing, revising, and re-writing: Sandro Botticelli’s St. Augustine in His Cell (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I am an auditory writer and I hear what I am writing in my head as I write it. Then I reread it and make additions and revisions as I listen to them inside my head. I add pictures and look at a preview of my blog and hopefully add visual interest to it. When I am procrastinating and not getting anything else done, I can always write. Anything that occurs to me during the day as well as much of the material I read adds grist for the mill. I sometimes go back and read previous blogs and have found now and then that I have written a very satisfactory post, but don’t remember doing it.

All the reading and writing I have done has helped me in my “journaling” online. I have spent hours dictating social histories in one pass over the telephone from my interview notes. This may account for my auditory approach to writing. I have always liked to learn and explore new ideas. I have more books on self-help and mysticism than anybody really should have. Most of my life, I have been cut off from cosmopolitian centers where people attend groups and workshops and study these sort of things. These many books have provided me with alot of food for thought and this knowledge has been incubated over the years and has now blossumed forth.