If you've read Writing Down Your Soul, you know that deep soul writing is not journaling. It is a unique but easy writing process that moves you quickly out of high-stress beta brain waves into slower, calmer theta brain waves. It is in theta that we have access to true creativity, breakthrough thinking, and divine guidance. Three things happen when you write at the soul level: You exit the conscious mind. You get in touch with your authentic self, your soul. And you connect with and activate the divine Voice of wisdom within.
There are seven simple steps to transforming your writing
practice and get into the theta brain-wave state:
1. Set your intention to connect with your divine Voice.
2. Address the Voice by name. If you have a special name, as many deep soul writers do, use that. If not, simply write, "Dear Voice."
3. Write by hand. It's possible to get into theta while writing on the computer, but looking at a screen pulls most of us back into our conscious mind. If you can, write with a pen so you feel the presence of the Voice in your hand.
4. Activate all five senses:
- Vision is automatically engaged.
- The parts of your brain responsible for hearing are firing even if you write in total silence, but if you want to add sound, you can play sacred chants, the Theta Music CD (available at my website), or anything else that appeals to you.
- Touch is automatically engaged.
- Activate the sense of smell with essential oils, flowers, candles—anything that feels right.
- Drink pure water after you write to bring your wisdom and insights into your body at the cellular level.
5. Ask lots of open-ended questions. In Writing Down Your Soul, there is extensive information on questions that work and questions that don't.
6. Write fast without editing or judging.
7. Be grateful. Say thank you, because you were heard.
One of the amazing discoveries of deep soul writing is that the more time we spend in theta while writing, the more easily we slip into theta throughout the day. A particularly rich opportunity to experience a natural state of theta is during the semidrowsy moments before you are fully awake. Lie still on the pillow and notice what's happening inside. You can also slip into theta while meditating, praying, driving, walking, and taking a shower—a.k.a., the phone booth to God. (Don't laugh. I get so much information in the shower, I had to find waterproof paper.) For more information on deep soul writing and theta, please visit janetconner.com.
Foundational Truths
I'm not your teacher. I don't have your answers. My saying this may surprise you, but think about it—how could I, when I don't know your soul's purpose? It's possible that the very thing you are wrestling with—and trying so hard to make go away—is exactly what you're here to unravel. So I don't have your answers, and I don't think anyone else does either.
What I do have are powerful processes that help you activate your own innate spiritual intelligence, communicate at the soul level, and find the answers only you can find. Those are the answers that will change your life.
So who are your teachers? Well, for starters, they are you, your soul, and life itself. And then there are our master teachers, the Buddha and Jesus, and the many saints and mystics who reached the highest state of consciousness, called perfection or divine union or Christ consciousness. In the Lotus and the Lily process, we step back in time and stand in their holy footprints for a moment. From there, we can glimpse life as they saw it and allow their profound teachings to enter us—body, mind, and soul.
Here are a few foundational truths of the Lotus and the Lily:
1. The Divine lives in paradox. When you stumble upon a paradox, pay attention. Wrestle with it, and you will learn something about the mysteries of life.
2. Modern science is catching up to what the ancient mystics knew: We are an inseparable whole. Everyone and everything is connected in a verdant sea of information, energy, and potential.
3. When the conscious mind is not operative, information can flow to you from anywhere in the universe.
4. The masters of all traditions perceived the truth and shared it. We are not discovering new truths; we are listening to ancient ones with fresh ears.
5. Answers fill us. Questions open us. We don't want answers; we want bigger questions.
6. Intention and gratitude are two essential inseparable waves. They bless everything they touch.
7. You have the power to create, and you have the power to discreate what you have made.
8. You build an abundant life by creating conditions for receptivity, not by wanting.
9. You don't actually want anything. What you want is the freedom the thing represents.
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