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Originally Posted by WakingLife  wow great input guys! Do you remember the first time you tried it? How did you realize it was automatic writing or from an outside source? |
I remember when I first started doing it. I was writing forum posts for this forum.
Usually writing forum posts was a very conscious process. One of the first thing I noticed when I realised I was doing something different from what I usually did when I wrote was that I'd get things flowing through me and sort of write without really know where I was going with what I was saying--it was like the words were being "given" to me, and the more I went with that flow that I could feel, the more it would continue to flow. The more I allowed it to happen, the more naturally it unfolded and eventually, I'd end up with a post that, at least from my perspective, was pretty good. My posts became different to the posts I used to write, and then I knew something was happening, and I continued to experiment with it as I wrote more posts.
It wasn't until many months later that I came to understand what I was actually doing. Looking back, it was a very natural unfolding, and I get the feeling that, even if it didn't happen in that context, it would have happened anyway. Inspiration tends to find, as Abraham-Hicks puts it, path of most allowing--in other words, the crack of least resistance.
To be honest, I don't make the differentiation between it coming from me or "outside of me." I don't really feel such a division exists. I know that might be frustrating to hear, heh, but in my experience, you're an extension of that which you channel, or translate, or get through, or get inspired by or with. This process is sort of a blending of perspectives, but they're all your perspective (i.e. "eyes" you can look through)--you're just usually focused on one more than the other so when you do start "seeing" from it--i.e. when you're automatic writing, or translating, and it feels like it's coming from a different perspective--since you haven't looked through that perspective before (or at least, consciously), it feels like it's from "outside of you" because all you're used to feeling is "you." (And I'm not saying that you lose your awareness or focus of your perspective, but I will say that at least in relation to my experience with this, eventually I become more accustomed to different perspectives flowing through me.)