Journal Checklist

  1. Dialogue with Persons: Who were the persons who had inner importance to you during this unit of time? Describe the relationships, including both the pleasant and the unpleasant aspects.

2. Dialogue with Work: What were your work projects and activities during this period? What happened to them? Which came to a dead end? Which were completed? Which were halted and then resumed at a later time? Tell the feelings and the experiences that were involved in these.

3. Dialogue with the Body: What was the physical condition of your life, your health or illness, your sensory life, your overall relationship to your body, and its use during this period?

4. Dialogue with Society: What were your social attitudes during this time, your beliefs, loyalties, antagonisms? What was your relationship to your family, your nation, your historical roots? Were changes taking place in your social or philosophical orientation during this time?

5. Dialogue with Events: Were there events that occurred in your life at this time that were striking in their impact and that brought about sharp changes in the circumstances of your life? Were there events that seemed to have fateful or mysterious qualities? How did this feel to you at the time, and in the times that followed?

6. Dreams/Twilight Images: Are you aware of having sleep dreams or twilight images during this period of your life? Are there any that stand out from the others with respect to their symbolism, the insights they gave you, or possibly the predictions they made?

7.Inner Wisdom Dialogue: Were there persons who inspired you, persons from history or mythological times, or persons living in your own time, in whom you felt a quality of wisdom that was especially relevant to you?

8. Choices/Intersections: Were there intersections or decisions in your life during this time? Considering that you chose to take particular roads and left other roads untaken, how do you perceive the consequences now?

9. Meaning Dimension: Did you have any experience of connection to meaning in life during this period?Did you feel a lack of meaning in life?

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