I know we are trying to get out of our heads and writing may seem like an intellectual task but trust me, ‘stream of consciousness’ writing is all about release and it comes from your heart.

For me, the great thing about this kind of writing is the OUTFLOW of information. You are letting it go. Rather than have thoughts run round and round in your head, you are opening a door and letting them move out. It is incredibly liberating.

There is not meant to be any point to your writing. No subject matter. No deadline. No-one will read it. Infact, you don’t even need to read it if you don’t want to! The idea is to allow every single thought and feeling which is locked in your head to flow out onto paper. It is incredibly creative, taking you out of your left brain and ego, back into your spirit and heart. It’s a way to get back in touch with the real you and how you are really feeling. No judgement. Just let it flow.

They say, and I agree, that it’s best to write like this first thing in the morning. Set your alarm 30 minutes early and before you do anything else at all, sit down to write. Take some deep breaths into your stomach and mentally connect with your true seIf. Create an intention to connect with your spirit – give it permission to take over from your intellect. When you feel connected, start writing. I find pen and paper works best but type if that suits you better. If you are so locked in your head that you literally can’t put pen to paper because you don’t know where to start then allow your intellect to get you going. Choose a topic – say, your plans for the day or what you watched on TV last night or what a friend said to you recently that bothered you. Or, ask yourself how you are feeling about certain areas of your life – say, career, money, friends, family, kids etc. Write for as long as you can. At least 3 pages. It doesn’t matter if you have typos or if the handwriting is illegible. Scrawl away. If I am mad I will do a big scribble on the page and swear. A lot! It feels great to express every single thing that is going on in my head. It doesn’t need to make sense. It needs no reason. It is uninhibited, pure, unadulterated emotion and it is completely harmless. Brilliant!

I find that when I write like this I come to all sorts of deeper understandings about myself and decisions that felt hard before, become so simple. New ideas and projects are born. Things that no longer work for me are discovered and let go. I feel so liberated and unburdened.

Wow, writing about this has got me all fired up. I plan to get up early tomorrow and write from the heart again. It has been a while and this has reminded me just how much I used to get out of doing it. Join me!