“Pain is a combination of physical sensation, emotional trauma and memory. Brain imaging has revealed that the emotional brain is far more involved in the experience of chronic pain than acute pain. To the nervous system, chronic pain is most often akin to an emotion we feel in a part of our body.” –Dr. Haider Warraich
My right brain planning practice is a part of my recovering and wellness.
- Processing whatever I am experiencing (feeling, thinking) enables me to be self-compassionate and present (mindful, involved and connected) in my living.
- My vent journals provide sacred space for me to get [it] out (verbally, visually express), “decipher” and determine root causes of what I am experiencing.
- My journal-planners are space to cut through the details of my defaults and avoid undue influence.
It took most of the past decade to understand the value of my right brain planning practice. I began to identify specific details of my practice that serve to calm me, as well as to clarify and provide meaning and guidance regarding what I am experiencing.
Braveheart, I share quotations here as a point of inspiration, but also for notations regarding my own journey.
Finding (and having) language to express and understand ourselves provides comfort along with a new lens, allowing us to see new perspectives.
I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion
Thank you kindly for your presence here.
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
There is no substitute for observation + trial and error experimenting with what works for you as a right brain planner.
- This site, and the concept of right brain planning, is not about how-to’s — merely ideas and prompts provided for your interpretation, Braveheart.