helpful journal questions

KMB4222 · April 4, 2018

Most of these questions were inspired by reading Sadhguru's book "Don't Polish Your Ignorance...It May Shine".

What is the me/i/identity that i am holding on to?

What do I keep telling myself, trying to convince myself of?

What am I holding onto?

What lessons can I learn from ego-less or lower-ego beings?

What priorities and hobbies do I feel are dominating me?

How am I letting my guard down, slacking off where I shouldn’t be?

How am I treating my environment? (people, places, objects)

How am I getting in my own way?

How can I be more of a leaver? (ie. taking only what is necessary, when necessary)

How am I punishing others?

How can I take my power back from society?

What is my current sense of worth?

What personal boundaries am I not respecting?

What parts of me can I bury and let go of?

How can i identify with that which breaks me?

How is there too much variety in my life?

What can I trust in? how can I increase my relationship with this trust?

How am I intentionally building my personality to suit my activity?

How can I structure my personality in a conscious way?

How am I structuring my personality in an unconscious way?

How am I using faith when I should be using commitment?

What do I commit to?

How is my sense of manhood/masculinity just an illusion?

How am I playing the game solely for victory? How can I play just to play?

How can I let go of making my life about me?

How am I constantly gathering, acquiring, accumulating?

What do I need to do now?

How far am I willing to go? Or do I just want to have a nicer life?

In what ways can I find myself less in objects? What are the objects I identify with? Why?

How do I act loving and kind in ways to just get what I want?

What is it about being alive that frightens me?

Am I seeking security in death? How?

What things am I characterizing as be-all and end-all?

How am I seeking unconsciously?

How can I make my seeking a conscious behaviour?

In what ways do I blame others?

In what ways do I feel I am entitled?

How can I separate the person from the act?

How can I be more empathetic towards other beings? What are the foreseeable benefits of being more empathetic?

How can I open more doors to communication with others?

What am I doubtful about in my life?

How am I acting as if I will live forever?

What is uncertain in life? My life in particular?

Is there anything in life that is permanent? My life in particular?

How can I firm up and train my mind?

How am I creating the world?

Go through a typical day in your head. What kinds of things are you doing? How do they make you feel? What are the different emotions that arise? Why do they arise when and how they do?

How am i giving my power to other people/systems?

In what areas (and how) am i still using a trampoline when i should build a stepladder?

How am i heading toward my potential? How am i not?

What kinds of noises bother me? Why?

How have I made myself unaware?

Am i willing to die the way i am right now? Why and/or why not?

How are my choices supporting my ego?

What do i claim ownership over that doesn’t actually belong to me?

How can i pay equal attention to everything?

What are the attachments i have to my own body? How can i lessen these?

What are the illusions I have of people (particular people, people in general)? (ie. what are my expectations of them?)

What are the illusions/expectations I have of myself?

What (to me) is the right thing to do?

How am I living accidentally? How can I live more intentionally?

What are the daily challenges I face? How can I use them as a mechanism for growth?

What media do I consume? How does it affect me? What is its value to me?

How am I identifying with that which I am not?

How am I not enjoying creation as it is?

How can i be clear about what i am seeking? What am i seeking?

Observe people/nature. What are your thoughts and feelings about what you observe?

In what ways am i acting fanatical?

How am I thinking about life rather than living it?

What expectations do I have of life? Of my life, in particular?

What hero roles am i playing?

What is really obstructing my progress? How am i holding myself back?

What routines do i speed through that can i do painfully slowly?

When do i feel a sense of lack? How can i let go of this sense of lack?

What "small" things do i not pay enough attention to?

How am i engaging in low-quality consciousness?

How can i learn to hold my beliefs lightly?

In what ways is investigation never-ending?

How can i go from belief to direct experience?

In what ways can i re-contextualize my outlook on life, etc?

What am i defending (about myself)? How do i defend it?

How can i behave/be more authentic? How am i being inauthentic?

How am i seeking in the service of certainty, instead of seeking in the service of truth?

How does my seeking certainty limit me and my progress?

How can i seek in the service of truth?

How can i get in touch with my own wholeness?

Why are you afraid to let it go?

What would things be like if you let it go?

Why do i lie?

How do i lie to myself?

How do my lies affect me?

How do i lie to others?

How do my lies affect others?

What are the subtle ways i am trying to be better than others?

What are the ways i am trying to be something other than what i am?