Different Journaling Methods from our visitors

I'm a new person to the web, but I am really feel great about your website and about the Tools of Transformation. I have been using them and building a spiritual practice and seen wonderful changes in my life. I am kind of new to journaling (not the idea of it, but actually doing it), but I am finding your guidelines to be really helpful.

I've kept a diary, on and off, since I was about 12 (I'm just about to hit
the big 30 in a couple of months) When I look at it, my diaries have been
kind of a midway between bona fide journaling and just plain diary
writing. I've always kept ticket stubs from events I've gone to, also put in photos of places I've gone and holidays. I have also written up my thoughts and moods as well as my
activities.

The majority of my journaling is done via writing at the moment, but I also include collages, sketches and other visual forms in my journal.
Although I'm not particularly good at sketching, I still sketch because it helps me to bring my concentration onto what I am focusing upon. I figure that a journal is for me alone, for my personal and spiritual development and no-one's going to be rating my artistic talent.

I feel that by taking a broad approach to the way that I journal, by including sketches and also clipplings from newspapers and magazines and then writing notes around them, I am able to really track my consciousness and my life.

--John M.