365-Day Journal Your Story Project: Day 14: Memory Snapshot Journaling: Part 2 of 2

OVERVIEW AND PLAN

On Day 12, we did the first part of Memory Snapshot Journaling where we realized that our memories have shaped or lives and who we are. Therefore, it is important for us to remember the good memories and the bad ones--not just the good and not just the bad. We even started to list some memories. Today, we are going to list even more memories and then we are going to start to actually doing the Memory Snapshot Journaling. After all, it has just been a list of possible memories so far.

Shall we dive right in and start to explore this?

WEEKLY LISTS

If at all possible, every week, do this exercise in preparation for Memory Snapshot Journaling. 

~*~ List three new memories from the past you have not listed before.

~*~ List three memories you have made this week.

That is it. Imagine the goldmine you will have at the end of the year. Then, imagine this after five years, ten years, etc. How incredible would that be? 

MEMORY SNAPSHOT JOURNALING

~*~ Pick a memory from the past you want to journal about more fully. Go through your journal at your memory lists if one does not come to mind. 

~*~ Picture in your mind the memory. Play it from start to finish. 

~*~ What three images jump out to you about the memory? List them.

~*~ With each of those snapshots, write what happened before, during, and after. 

~*~ What did you see?

~*~ What did you hear?

~*~ What did you think?

~*~ How did you feel?

~*~ What did you smell?

~*~ What did you do? 

~*~ Who was there? 

~*~ What strikes you most about the memory? 

~*~ How has this memory shaped who you are?

Then, do the same, but with a memory from the last week. 

Do this exercise once a week.

~ Stacy Duplease

Journalkeeper