Journalling: Medicine for the Mind

                        “You know your problem,
                        you keep it all in”

                        The Beautiful South, “You Keep it all in”, 1989

The African continent causes many things to grow to spectacular proportions. Deserts, spiders, trees and scorpions all grow to outsized proportions. As with natural phenomena so with the human psyche, our heart and soul.

Seriously though, the pressures of heat, humidity and a clash of cultures can magnify any personal issues you might have. Journalling is a great way to get control over the pressure cooker of emotions that can explode or implode messily.

Here’s a bit of my journal from my time spent in the village:


                        Well, first big outing, went to the boutique and bought pens, pencils a cahier and some paper for sketching                         seem to have lost my Bible in Zig! Struggled a little for some light and blesing this afternoon. The                         answer is to fear God and keep His commandments, love, but let God give that love and define it.
                        Asked God to help me like the food - don’t know how that’ll go.
                        BTW - am very happy to have the hat.


It may not seem like much, but it sure helped me become the balanced individual that I am today.

I found this article useful. It talks about how journalling can help process information in a non-linear fashion. Interesting Article on journaling here.