Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume - 4, issue 12, 1 June 2020 | Page 31

It’s also very common during this stage to find yourself judging what you
write and analysing it. This is quite normal. If you find your mind getting
involved, gently bring yourself back towards whatever practice you used
before to enter a trance- like state. For example, if you were rhythmically
breathing, go back to that. You’ll likely have to repeat this step a number of
times.
I prefer to look away when I’m writing so that I’m not easily drawn into
judging what I’m writing. But other people prefer looking. Experiment and
see what suits you.
If you’re not used to writing, you’ll probably carry a bit of inhibition at first,
which is natural. With practice, you’ll get into “the flow” of it, meaning that
you’ll find automatic writing increasingly easier and easier to do without
thought.
Before starting an automatic writing session, it’s important that you give
yourself as much time as needed to express what needs to be expressed. One
surefire way to hinder the flow of information is time pressure and the
expectation that it should take a certain amount of time. In my experience,
automatic writing can take a couple of minutes anywhere up to half an hour
or more.
Basically, create a space in which you can relax as much as possible
mentally. Remember, you can always interpret what is written afterward.
5. Interpret the information
At a certain point, you’ll intuitively sense that your automatic writing
session is coming to an end. Other times, you might abruptly stop writing
and no more information comes.
Example of automatic writing in my own notebook. The clear metaphysical
message written here is (although my handwriting is messy because I wasn’t
looking!): “God is you, you are what you have been searching for your whole
life. It is you, you alone.”