Journaling is a great tool for connecting with your day to day experiences and for going deeper in your writing (for all my writers out there).  Take a picture, like the one above, and dive into it.  What images or thoughts come to your mind?  What body response is triggered when you look at the image above?  If you could dialog with any part of the picture what would it say to you?  Adopt the first person and give that part a voice. 

It can be very surprising where this type of exercise takes you.  You don't need this picture, you can randomly open up a magazine and look at the first picture you find or even go out into your back yard or visit a park and dive into an object in nature.  The important thing is to allow your imagination to flow, limiting nothing and giving your subconscious a chance to speak its response. 

Try it and see where it takes you.

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