Automatic writing

 This activity consists in writing letters, poems or stories without really being aware of what it is you are producing. In other words, without allowing the conscious mind to intervene in the creative process.

This is a form of writing similar to inspiration. You can precede this exercise by your usual relaxation and meditation, which helps to trigger the automatic writing. How do you do it?

The principle is a simple one. Automatic writing causes on one hand the emergence of dreams which you cannot remember, along with suppressed dreams, and on the other hand, it brings solutions and intuitions to problems that are bothering you.

With automatic writing, it is as if you were entering new dimensions that are usually out of reach to your senses when under the control of your conscious mind.

My personal experience has taught me that automatic writing is a way of establishing intimate and authentic contact with your own subconscious…and of having direct access to this vast reservoir of knowledge that is the ‘universal memory’ or ‘collective subconscious’.

I will give you a brief explanation: the famous psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Jung – who had a passion for esotericism and mystical philosophy – discovered in the course of his work that each individual or more or less consciously linked to what he defines as the ‘collective subconscious’. It is in a way a kind of ‘spiritual heritage’ of the evolution of the human race and the accumulation of the experiences of humanity through the ages.

In other words, the collective subconscious is the sum of all knowledge, past, present and future; it belongs, as its name indicates, to everyone, and automatic writing, just like intuition, is one of the methods we can use to access it.

Practising automatic writing regularly will enable you to unblock the gates of knowledge and act as a powerful tool in developing the intuition and making inspiration flow. Numerous poets, musicians, writers and playwrights have declared that they wrote their works practising this technique. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart himself said that he merely transcribed his compositions, which he received from outside himself, and William Shakespeare said that his works were dictated by angels.

Moreover, properly practised, it will enable you to look within yourself, understand your actions, your reactions, your motivations, your emotions. It is an excellent tool to help you to solve your problems in absolutely all areas of your life, because it gives you access to all the information you hope for.

Of course this information is initially transmitted ‘live’, in other words, as pure intuition, but more often than not you let it to pass you by, because you don’t know how to decipher it. The advantage of automatic writing is that your intuitive perceptions become more ‘concrete’ because it’s all there, in black and white.