Psychic Automatic Writing

by Apollo
 

Many people have a fear of the spirit world and the spirits that reside there. Automatic Writing is a great, non-scary way of channeling your Higher Self or Spirit Guides through writing. Automatic Writing, also known as Psychography, is writing performed without conscious thought or deliberation as a medium for spirit to communicate with a channeler. The person who is channeling the Spirit Guide goes into a meditative state, places pen on paper allowing spirit to transcribe a message to the person.

Automatic writing first became popular during the golden age of Spiritualism (late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) by mediums attempting to contact the spirit world. According to spiritualistic beliefs, the medium would channel the spirit, allowing it to guide the pencil thereby producing a message that the spirit wanted to communicate to the world of the living. During the Surrealist movement, automatic writing was one of many games played by artists to stimulate creativity and produce original works of art. Automatic writing has also been used as a therapeutic technique in Freudian psychoanalysis

In many ways, doing automatic writing is like being ‘in the flow’ while writing. If you’re a writer then you will know what I’m talking about when I say ‘in the flow’. It’s the state when you have many creative ideas and they all seem to fit together quite nicely, and you can transcribe them coherently and quickly—and often it feels quite exciting. Yet at the same time, your conscious mind is not laboring away – it feels effortless and light. You can also be in that state when you do automatic writing—not so much in a creative writing sense, but in an intuitive sense.

Even if you feel you are not very intuitive, Automatic Writing is a great way to develop your psychic abilities. Automatic writing is actually very easy. But remember that you are not consulting your thinking mind. In order to do it successfully, you have to put your mind to one side. Many people who have trouble hearing their inner voice have had success with automatic writing.

When you want to get your Higher Self’s perspective on something that is bothering you just tune into you higher self and start writing. The Higher Self always has some very comforting and insightful things to say about any situation. If you want, you can also see your Higher Self or Spirit Guides as parts or extensions of you that you can access whenever you want, like your subconscious.


Some tips for producing Automatic Writings:

1. Start each automatic writing session with ‘My Spirit Guides or My Higher Self’ or ‘My Angels’ as the first line. Be clear about whose input you want, as it sets an intention to hear from that being.  
2. Just start writing and don’t worry about what you’re writing at first. The more you’re used to writing, the easier it is to get into that ‘flow’ state when writing, where you can channel your inner sage.
3. Setting a timer while you do it can be helpful. This is so that you don’t have time to think about what you’re writing. Setting a time limit can help focus the mind on the task at hand as well as your energy.
4. Create the right conditions so that you can lose your inhibitions about what you’re writing. Light a candle, burn some incense and put on some beautiful music to set the proper mood.
5. Don’t allow your mind to interpret the information while you’re getting it. Write down whatever comes through, you can interpret it afterwards. You’re trying to create a flowing writing energy with spirit but if you are to focus on the content then you may lose that flow.
6. How do you know if you’re really channeling spiritual guidance? In my experience, channeled information tends to be high vibrational in nature. It will often comfort you, provide clarity or will raise your mood in some way. If it feels negative or feels heavy, you’re probably not channeling a source that you want to tap into or you may just be channeling your own emotions. Intuitive guidance tends to be very clear, usually feels light and is often simply expressed. Having said that, I have read automatic writing that is poetic and metaphorical in nature. But don’t be hung up on how yours should sound or be. If you do it often enough, you will soon get a sense for what your automatic writing ‘feels’ like.

I have had some amazing Automatic Writing sessions! With just a little practice, you too can begin to enter into the world of spirit in a fun and joyous way! Join us in a workshop designed to get you in contact with your Higher Self, Spirit Guides and Angels. “Automatic Writing- A Workshop in Psychography” will give you the tools and techniques you will need to get messages directly from Spirit!