Recently got into journal writing, something I’ve never actually done but, it actually has many benefits. Firstly, it reinforces what you have learned simply by writing it down, and you can always refer to it later. Secondly, you can monitor your progress and growth of your learning. Lastly, it’s fun, and can be extremely therapeutic.
Make sure you get a quality journal though. Somethings you wanna look for are bookmark so you can find you place easily and elastic strap at the front to close the book nicely. Quality paper, amount and size is also something to consider. Oh, and don’t forget your favourite pen! Here’s a picture of mine:
I got this at the dollarstore. The reason for the red pen will become obvious if you read on ...
Once you’ve got a essentials, what to write about? Naturally, considering the content of this blog, if it’s any reflection of my life, I chose to write about the heart, and this is all the entire book is dedicated to:
Opening page, kind of pathetic. I got to learn how to say that word in many different languages though!
The point is to fill the journal completely with anything pertaining to the topic. I am going to includes passages from the Qu’ran, hadiths, sayings from the Auliya, my own observations, other people’s view points, food that is good or bad for the heart, scientific and biological information of the heart, etymology of the word in different languages, what the ancients thought about it … basically anything and everything about the heart. You can see a sample entry below:
Terrible, terrible handwriting
I’m really excited. Goal is to use this activity to awaken something in the heart. The best part, once this book is done, I get to open up a fresh one on a completely different topic!
Tags: Allah, etmyology, heart, journal, language, learning, notebook, reflection, writing
Perfect. I have been thinking to start journal myself.
I used to have a journal just full of dreams that I dreamt, I used to read it back. it was so much fun.
and then i had another one about anythign that got me mad.
and you know this is how i started poetry, whenever I started to get mad I started to put it in poetry form, and before you know it I did a full research project almost at university level in poetry form.