"Tangent Journaling"

Tangent journaling is the practice of creating separate journals to explore nuance within topics from the parent journal. It brings concept-map elements into your journaling practice. Each journal has a subtle connection to one another through a connecting theme or idea.

Tangent journaling is a tile in the mosaic that brings a spiritual-like quality to a journaling practice. Tangents afford a path to personal insights.

Tangents are the result of curiosity being followed. It signifies deeper exploration into a given topic.

Exploring tangents deepens understanding, leading to more questions and more tangents. Eventually, these tangents meet —

This meeting point is a deep insight beyond mere understanding. It is where understanding is melded into you and ideas and discoveries are accessible intuitively.

Tangents are the scraping, poking, and carving of the écorché. Spending time with tangents is a multi-layered examination; it is experimental research that is motivated by the journaler's needs with an unknown ending, (if any).

This intrinsically motivated study places individual authenticity behind clear class for the journaler to watch, listen, learn, and absorb.