Keep a daily record of your own 15-week spiritual journey with respect to awakening to the spiritual and overcoming or working through a specific personal challenge that tends to inhibit, limit or sabotage your spiritual transformation. Some examples of challenges are family of origin issues, the impact of a father’s absence, the influence of family violence, the wounded child, sibling rivalry, parent/child conflict, abandonment issues, low self-esteem, unassertiveness, overweight, underweight, procrastination, obsessive compulsive disorder, grief and loss, difficulty with forgiveness, low self-worth, conceit, childhood hurts, and the seeming inability to un-bond from past wounds. Document the teachable moments, lessons learned, fears evoked, insights gained, enlightenments, spiritual activities engaged in, and anything else that seems to be of spiritual significance, facilitate healing and promote spiritual enhancement or development and self-empowerment. Each student will demonstrate having experienced spiritual growth and development evidenced in the spiritual practice of keeping a daily journal consisting of reflections, contemplations, imaginations, insights, illuminations and inspirations gleaned from assigned readings, class discussions, reflections and self-guided experiences. Whether it is a full page or just a sentence, recording memories is a spiritual practice that is a vital part of bringing unconscious materials to the surface for examination and processing as well as eliciting and reflection one’s own life’s story.
