Reflection of my Class Journal

The teacher told us to write 5 times in a week in a free line notebook. She told us to write in a free line notebook because we needed to feel free and without any restrictions when were writing in the journal. The only rules we had were: that we don’t get logical, that we need to write whatever comes to our mind, and that we need to keep writing without worrying about the spelling and grammar. We cannot cross out, we need to just be free and write everything you want without caring about the reader because no one will read it; not even the teacher.  With this project I learned to be fluent and learned more vocabulary. Also this project helped me a lot to express myself without worrying that someone will read it and without trying to be perfect. Those papers were everything I had on my mind. Also it helped me to organize my feelings and thoughts. It helped me to know more about me and about the mess I used to have on my mind. But I wasn’t always writing about the situations I had or the plans I got on my mind, sometimes I wrote none sense stuff; it was just expressions in a paper.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                In the other hand we also did a life compass. We needed to do 3 life compasses in our journal. It consist in a circle with four lines similar to a north, south, east, west compass, but instead of the locations we had on it: spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical. We had to write next to each word in a scale of 0 to 3 how we were feeling. For example if I was very sad or angry I was supposed to write 0, and if I was happy I was supposed to write 3. Like the journal entries this life compasses helped me organized my feelings and know how exactly I was felling at that moment. Also it helped me know how I’m supposed to work with my feelings letting me know which one was lower.

I got 40 journal entries and 30 life compasses also my mental status were in total 73, my emotional status were in total 55, my spiritual status were in total 54, and my physical status were in total 55. I got 31% in mental and 23% in the other ones. Like you can see I have a balance between my emotional, spiritual and physical status, but when it comes to mental you can see that when I grab the pen to write in my notebook I have a lot of thoughts and they are very constant. But that’s not always like that, sometimes I was in blank and like I said I wrote a lot of none sense stuff because of that. Also I did charts of my feelings and I can see that my emotional, spiritual and physical relate a little, especially the emotional and the spiritual. I can see that the days I was very sad I wasn’t very spiritual and sometimes it was reflected in my body, in my physical status. The lower number in physical also reflects that I’m almost always in pain because of my back, and the lower numbers in my emotional and spiritual status at the final days reflects the sadness I have been passing through; sadness that my journal helped me relieved.