Daily Log
Keeping a daily log is recommended, but it’s not essential. It’s similar to a diary but with the emphasis on feelings and inner experiences rather than external events.
To write in the Daily Log:
- Sit in silence first and let your mind gently go back over your day. Spend a minute or two or maybe even five or more in silence.
- Record briefly the events of your day to provide a context for your feelings and inner experiences.
- Write about your feelings and inner experiences. (It’s encouraged that you write about the experiences as they happen. Some people carry a notebook with them and write in it from time to time during the day. For most people this is not possible but writing about inner experiences as they occur happens more often than you would expect. Usually new experiences occur while you’re writing, and because you’re writing, they can be recorded as they happen.)
- Record dreams here. This is a brief account to fix it in your memory so that later it can be recorded in full in your Dream Log.
- Write whatever and whenever you can. Often daily entries are impossible because our lives are too busy. Summarize the intervening days — the outer events and the inner experiences associated with them.