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Free writing is a very powerful technique I have used a great deal since discovering it in 2016 during my time in Australia.

Good for:

-Decluttering the mind
-Tapping into inspiration
-Learning more about ourselves
-Channeling higher vibes

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Free writing came into my reality back in 2016 when I was traveling in Australia. I will never forget the moment I was relayed the technique. I was on the beach with my host’s I was staying with who were accommodating me at a Meditation centre via the website helpx.net. A classic beautiful Australian day. Towards the end of the trip, we were walking back to the car and I noticed this attractive woman not too far off in the distance. We briefly catch each other’s eye and I begin to walk towards her.

Kind of annoyingly to me at the time, the man of the couple of my hosts, this old English Expat, then hurriedly caught up with me seemingly eager to speak to me. To be honest I wanted to just brush him off and say hey look I want to go talk to this girl up ahead. I was a little more polite back then, now I would have quickly relayed what I am doing and to leave me alone to speak to the girl.

However, my politeness actually may have paid off in this instance. For some reason he had chosen this very moment to begin to speak to me about a writing technique he had used a lot throughout his life and found benefit from it. The technique was free writing. I don’t know why he chose this moment, of all moments, right when I was going to talk to the pretty girl!

Half of me was saying to myself, look old man, your timing sucks, leave me alone! However, the other half could feel he was actually relaying something important, something I should pay attention to.

And although I did miss the opportunity to speak to the woman, I did pick up a technique that has served me tremendously well at different points in my life. A handy literary tool to have in the toolbox. At the time I wish he had just waited till perhaps we were in the car on the way home to tell me about it! Never mind, I guess the universe had other plans.

What is free writing?

The technique itself is incredibly simple, get a piece of paper and just write. Write whatever comes to your mind and don’t stop until the page is done. You can push yourself and do multiple pages but I often find one A4 page is enough to get whatever is circulating in my mind out on paper.

When I was first taught this technique there was a method to accompany it where you do multiple pages every day for 2-3 weeks. The trick is to not look back at what you have written until the end of the last day, so not to trigger your mind into repeating what it was thinking about yesterday. Then once you have got to the end of the last day, re read everything you have written and contemplate it, look for any patterns, anything that gives you a clue for better understanding yourself.

Because you don’t stop writing this is a really good way of tapping into parts of yourself beyond your conscious mind. Whether that be your subconscious mind, or higher mind. Repeating patterns can help you to better know yourself and you can psychologically analyse what’s going on with your mind with this technique. Intention can play a part with this as well, setting the intention before writing and seeing what you can channel. Can also be a great way to defrag or brainstorm, depending on where you are at with your state of mind/being.

It’s been years since I have learnt this technique and many an a4 page has been filled as a result. Perhaps it was worth missing out on meeting the pretty girl, who knows. Part of me still thinks both could have happened! Now you don’t have to miss out on the opportunity of meeting someone to learn this technique, my sacrifice was not in vain.

When is the best time to do free writing?

Free writing is effective when just waking up, to bypass the conscious mind even more. Having done this technique a lot, this is something I have discovered through experimentation. When one has developed spiritually and knows their mind and thoughts quite well, you can see for yourself how doing this technique in the morning is better in some ways as opposed to being fully switched on and alert.

The idea is to tap into higher parts of our self, or parts of our self that are hiding away and want to be expressed in some way. When used effectively this technique helps to ground and steer the ship, so to speak. If we consistently do the right things every day we will eventually reach our goals, whatever they may be!

We are up against a lifetime of conditioning, even if by age 18 you wake up, like me, that’s already 18 years of programming to rectify and we are very impressionable when younger. Also recently humanity in the west as a whole has watched huge amounts of TV by this point with all the negative subtle programming that goes into TV programs.

To counter this, every day we can take action to realign our self and reprogram our self. Affirmations can also help. We may not have the advantage of superior plasticity that children’s minds have but we have the advantage of greater free will and if we can match this with a burning desire to improve, with the right knowledge there is nothing stopping us from reprogramming our self in a positive way and getting reality on our side by having a subconscious that doesn’t believe bad luck to be a way of life. We can create our own luck, by hard work, consistency but also a light, even magical, divine touch invoked by a positively programmed subconscious mind doing the manifesting in the background. I have a 30 day program dedicated to ‘aligning the ship’.

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