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2. Relax your mind
Learning how to relax (https://lonerwolf.com/how-to-relax/) your mind is
the most important part of automatic writing. When your mind is still and
empty of thoughts, writing spontaneously becomes much easier.
Examples of possible ways you can relax your mind include:
Meditation

Deep breathing

Mindfulness (https://lonerwolf.com/mindfulness-practices/) Visualisation

Yoga
Do whatever suits you and relaxes you the most.
3. Enter a gentle trance
As humans, we have the capacity to enter trance-like states very easily. The
most popular trance state we enter into is while watching TV!
A trance-like state is a form of altered consciousness in which your normal
thinking brain relaxes. For automatic writing, entering a trance is very
useful because it facilitates the spontaneous flow of information.
Common ways to enter into a gentle trance include listening to music,
yogic/holotropic breathing, mantras repetitive tasks, guided meditations,
self-hypnosis, and many others.
Choose whatever works best for you, and don’t be shy with experimenting. I
personally like listening to calming music and blending that with
mindfulness or meditation.
4. Allow the fIow of information
Once you feel ready you can begin to write. Don’t worry if at first the words
are gobbledygook or if you can’t follow the stream of information. In fact, if
you’re completely unaware of what you’re writing, that’s actually a very good
thing! It means that you’re tapping into something that is far greater than
your thinking mind.