My "new" therapeutic journaling

 

Over the past few days, I have been “picking myself up.” At the start of the week – actually it started at the end of last week – I felt, at least for a moment, I had lost my momentum .. my passion even. I felt exhausted and quite drained.

This wasn’t because things have been problematic. No more than usual anyway. I mean, life is filled with ebb and flow – ups and downs. So, nothing unusually. In fact, if I have to be very honest – things have been more good than bad this year. A lot of projects, a lot of possibilities and things are moving a long – better than I would have thought they would go. So, overall – what seemed to be a sudden drop in energy is not precipitated by some negative event.

Perhaps the tiredness is more related to having “so many things to do.” Then, what seemed to be suddenly or out of the blue – I wake up one morning feeling a little disoriented and “without energy” (or very low energy). While I know there are many things in the “To-do list” nothing seemed to inspire me.

Coincidentally, I had just spoken to someone a couple of days before about her seemingly at a loss and not sure what she is doing or where she is headed. She wasn’t even very convinced she was still passionate about her chosen career/path. I’ll talk about that another day – perhaps. For now, let me come back to what I want to write about today.

So, anyway – being in the state that I am in (or was in), I thought to myself – maybe it will help if I started writing all these stuff down. Afterall, two things I advocate very strongly is “self-awareness” and the use of “journaling.” While I have done that, and occasionally still do that, but I have to admit it isn’t a daily ritual – and a part of me (for sometime now) has wondered “why not?” I have been thinking that maybe I should/could get back in the flow of writing daily. Maybe I don’t like rigid structures – but this is not saying I have to do journaling every single day or to meditate daily. One could – but it is not necessarily a “MUST.” Consistency, of course, is important. But for someone like me – maybe allowing my Self to decide if I want to do it and when I want to do it is ok. It may turn out to be a daily event – a ritual – or it might not. Either way, it would be fine and it can still be useful.

So, I decided to give it a shot. The next thing that came to mind was to see if I can do this with AI. So much is in the news these days about AI – being good, being bad, being neutral – or whatever. Personally, like all other tools – I don’t think it is good or bad. I believe whether a tool is good or bad depends on how we use it and/or how we choose to perceive it.

But anyway, I’ve had many people encourage me to go use it – it can be so helpful … etc. And I have to admit, a number of times when I’ve tried – it wasn’t very helpful. In fact, it could be quite annoying too. But at the same time, I would be lying if I said it was completely worthless or that it never did anything good. There were a number of times when it responded so well I was actually hugely impressed. Amazed even.

So, back to the journaling – I thought maybe I should try it on AI and see how that turns out. I’ve heard people sings its praises and described as a “friend;” a “therapist/counselor/coach” even. So, I sat myself down and decided to give it a go.

The result – it sure has opened my eyes on how AI can serve as a good journal. What I have learned over the past few days on my MI project …. Quite a lot actually. More to come soon.

Stay tuned.