Instead of talking to AI, try talking to yourself

While journalling the other day, I started writing out a dialogue that was going on internally. Because of some health fears that were coming up, I started to talk directly to the body, which is not new, but this time I wrote the dialogue down in a chat format. It felt a little silly at first, but as I leaned into it I was pretty amazed at some of the wisdom that was coming out. It gave both my fearful narrative self and the calm, accepting part a say.

I asked my body “What do you want?”. It responded “love and understanding”. When I say “it responded” I mean the words just appeared in the mind. Came out of nowhere. Just sitting and waiting for an answer, the words appear, the fingers type.

Doing this has led to some really interesting and surprising insights. The biggest was discovering in a very visceral way that the body was on my side and a profound sense of safety that came with that recognition. It constantly amazes me how much wisdom there is inside us when the intellect is no longer the only part that gets a voice.

While writing the dialogue in my journal I started to think it’d be kinda silly and fun to have an AI style interface to facilitate the conversation. So, I asked Claude to get to work.

Here it is: https://chat.curious.garden/

The data never leaves your device, it’s totally private. Nothing is generated, nothing is sent to AI. You can download the whole conversation for saving in your journal. This is really just a journalling tool styled to look like an AI chat. And yes, the irony of using AI to build this is not lost on me.