Flow Writing For Deep Self-Listening

Flow writing is a simple, powerful practice for self-intimacy and deep listening. In this session, you’ll be guided into a gentle, accepting way of writing that helps you hear what’s really happening inside you, without judgment. Come as you are, and bring a notebook and pen.

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It so flow writing is I learned it by my writing teacher called and her name is Natalie Goldberg and flow writing means you write without stopping so I usually do about three pages or more three to four pages back-to-back it amounts to about ten minutes but you can choose to write for as long or as little as you want but usually ten minutes is the sweet spot where you actually start to hear yourself a little more clearly but you're never stopping the pen you're never stopping it so even if you have to write blah blah blah I have no idea what to say blah blah blah just make sure you're never stopping the pen and the reason for that is we're trying to get to the uncensored mind we're trying to get the perfectionist out of the way we're trying to get the overly precious part of us that you know is very methodical we're trying to get to the part where we're just acknowledging what lives in us and that's often not always that comfortable but always always liberating so I begin often with a prompt so I'll give myself some sort of direction or other times I just write what is so let's just do it together for a little bit and keep in mind you do not have to write anything good wonderful or perfect this is just for you to come to know you this is for no one else other than you so you have complete permission to write nothing good so let's today do a prompt just so we can get our juices flowing a little easier and I have several prompts that I love and today I think we'll do I'm not thinking about so you say I'm not thinking about and then you just flow for for ten minutes or three pages I'm gonna do three pages so I'm not thinking about and often the beautiful thing about writing what I'm not thinking about actually points me in the direction of what I am thinking so let's see if you can enjoy this with me so let's begin I am NOT thinking about never lift your pen never stop your pen begin okay I'm just gonna call time now how was that did you find it was clunky or fluid were you surprised by anything that came up I'm not thinking about if you want to try the opposite to that prompt on your own time I am thinking about it's really interesting to play with the two different perspectives again flow writing has been my main line to greater awareness and acceptance and love for who I am and often there's a purging that takes place or I use it to purge the inner turmoils of my life I I let it all come out onto the page and the gift of that is that once things are seen and laid flat in front of us they're no longer where they're no longer inside of us causing a bunch of ruckus most often what we need is to hear ourselves and to listen to ourselves and to have a way to express the sometimes overwhelming mostly overwhelming inner dialogues and you know this we've always thought that we needed and we do need other people don't get me wrong but we often put too much emphasis on meeting other people when really I think the secret is we need to hear ourselves calling out to ourselves and there's this natural healing that takes place once we hear what is real and what is true for us in the moment and that creates a spaciousness right there's a gap between our mental neuroses now and the page there's space and in that space we find ourselves being able to breathe more voices are only repetitive most often because they're trying to get through to us in some way and it doesn't have to be this this radical transformative exchange it just has to be an honest looking and expressing what is from this moment and this moment and this moment and often that space is all we need to continue to move forward with less stress in our bodies and our minds and our beings so that's a great tool for you to try and strengthen if you would like if it felt comfortable to you and if it felt clunky and slow and hard that's okay too that's how beginnings always look like you know if I asked you to learn to play Mozart you wouldn't press one key and say I give up you would learn to hone the craft and make that music slowly but surely that's exactly what my writing practice has been like for me now I just get to the gold and my heart opens and I and it's really really invaluable

Reviews

Thank you! What a meaningful practice!

So valuable in my life since i discovered flow writing a couple of years ago listening to Sarah A way to be honest with myself and feeling what I need instead of tuning in all the time what others need.🙏

I suffered a small stroke two years ago and two reprocussions are my handwriting and speech so I might try this and see if my brain can relearn to write, thank you Sarah . It’s 3 am and I search on your name for a teaching 🙏🏻