Lyn McPherson

I would like to share with you an exercise that helps me access free flow writing. 

This may work beautifully for you as it does for me; however you may have your own means of access, your own rituals and entry points.  My way may be just that…my way.  It also may be your way.

Exercise:  Entering free flow writing

Take yourself somewhere where you feel at peace.  It could be a special room in your house, a special corner in your garden or in the park down the street.  It could be a rock on the cliff front.  It could be your bed. 

Do whatever it is that relaxes you deeply.  You could pat your dog, breath in the multi-sensory sensuality of the ocean or sit under your favourite tree.  

You could also simply close your eyes and focus on your breathing alone: your in breath filling you with love, compassion and positivity and your out breath releasing you of thoughts, stress and negativity.  Feel yourself filling up with love: from deep inside you, from your core, from the part of you that existed in your mother's womb…the part of you that grew you.

Come from that place of pure love, universal love, love of everyone and everything.  See yourself as part of the entire universal flow system, a minuscule but crucial part.  See yourself as a vital cell in the body of human kind, the one cell that can choose to synergize with all surrounding cells spreading health and healing, inspiration and exhilaration. 

Imagine you could be the entry point of some miraculous cure-all.  You could be the conduit, the catalyst for change that is bigger than any of us.  Now, think of something big.  Something much bigger than you and your world, that your are passionate about, and that if you could wave a magic wand to change, you would.  Think of something that you feel would make the world a profoundly better place.

Just think freely and passionately about this topic.  Let yourself see the images that disturb you.  Allow yourself to freely feel what goes with that vision.  Sit with your feelings and let them be.  Try not to judge them or analyse them, and if you find yourself doing so, just let the judgment come and then gently let it move on by.  Try to let it go by re-focusing on your feelings again and feeling them.  Do this for as long as it takes to create that fire in your belly, where you feel yourself wanting to just pack your bags and leave your life to change what you're seeing.  This may take five minutes or half an hour.  Don't time yourself, though.

Once you're feeling deeply passionate and moved, try to see if you can gently allow your mind to change the image that disturbs you into an image that inspires you.  Imagine what would need to change without assessing it or considering how possible it is.  Just imagine, like John Lennon did, without realism.  Imagine naively.  Imagine idealistically. See and feel this imagined reality.  Embrace what you are now feeling and let the associated joy or comfort fill your soul.  Let yourself go and let your feelings flow.  Enjoy what has occurred for you and enjoy the experience.  Bathe in it.

Finally, when you're ready, wake yourself into your more everyday thinking and get on with your day.  In a sense, forget about this exercise and continue life as usual, but whenever your mind wanders back to the subject, write down what it thinks.  In those brief milliseconds when you get something pop in your head later the same day, the next morning or one week later, be prepared to write down what comes to you.  Don't expect anything to come, and if it doesn't, don't worry.  Just keep going on with your day-to-day life. 

If, after a week, nothing has come to you at all, repeat the initial exercise.  In fact, if you want to, you can repeat the exercise daily or twice daily.  The more you repeat it, the more connected you will become to passion and the greater processes of life.  And the more likely you are to receive free flow writing.

I hope this simple exercise will allow you to grow on your journey of free flow, inspiring and enlightening you beyond your wildest dreams!

© Copyright Lyn McPherson 2009