INTELLECTUAL ARENA:  Focus on your mind, intelligence and left-brain skills.

SPIRITUAL ARENA: Focus on what is unseen, what isnt easily sensed or clear in the other areas and on the basic routines of life. Spirituality can be very down to earth and very ethereal at the same time. Remember to include your intuition in the spiritual arena.
EMOTIONAL ARENA: Focus on the state of your heart, your feelings, how your feelings impact  your creativity.

PHYSICAL ARENA:   Focus on information gathered from your five senses.  

Remember that these arenas  are artificial distinctions, because everything overlaps In our personalities. As you emphasize each area in your journal entry, notice how your awareness increases both about the specific arena and  the ways that this arena interact with the other three arenas. Look for new information about yourself, your journal practice and any related subject that you are questioning.

Here are some exercises that you can use when you journal in each arena:

INTELLECTUAL:
Read and take note of general information about creativity. Find three authors whose ideas intrigue you. Compare and contrast their philosophies and practice about creativity. (Write a descriptive entry about each author. Follow it up with an entry identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each author. Then write one more entry detailing new information that you learned about creativity.

SPIRITUAL:
Pray. Use stream of consciousness writing, use left-handed writing, write journal entries in the past and the future to represent how you have changed and stayed the same in your exploration of spirituality and creativity and finally create a visual journal entry of you and your spirituality.

EMOTIONAL:
Describe what emotions you feel and dont feel when you are in a creative mode. Describe the types of music, color, texture, taste, odor or movement that increase your creative expression. Describe the types of music, color, texture, taste, odor or movement that decrease your creative expression. What do your emotions look, feel (use word images), sound or act like? (indicate a specific physical action such as  a gesture or dance movement) When you focus on the word creativity, describe the strongest feeling you feel. (Initially work with just one feeling. Later on, you can work with multiple feelings)

PHYSICAL:
Observe children, students and adults of all ages as they play, preferably outside so that you wont bother anyone. Observe what they do and say when they play and vice versa. Play is an easily recognizable way to show creativity, whether someone is playing alone, with a small group or in a team. After some initial observations choose one person who responds most like you think you do and write a descriptive entry about them, using these four arenas as guidelines. Then choose someone who is your exact opposite and write another descriptive journal entry, using the same guidelines.

After you finish both entries, read both of them.  Write any similarities between yourself and the two people that you observed on another page. Write any differences between yourself and the two people observed  on an additional page. Combine the similarities and differences into another entry. Answer these two questions in this new entry:

--How accurately does this new entry describe you?

--How inaccurate is this entry in describing you?

Keep this set of entries in a safe place for two weeks. Be sure to date the entry for two weeks  from now. In two weeks, open the entries and see what has changed or stayed the same, as well as what is new and surprising about you.

Remember no peeking before the two weeks are over.