Three Styles of Writing to Feed Your Soul

I love to write.

I’ve been writing this blog for almost 5 years, which is wild. Alongside writing down my reflections here, I’ve had journals and diaries, notepads and lists, as well as scattered pieces of paper that I’ve been scribbling on along the way.

When I was younger I used to write in diaries and make up stories, and in my mid-twenties I started a fitness blog called Neon Trainers ‘A blog all about health, fitness, happiness and wellbeing!’, which I recently excavated from Wayback Machine that shows you archived webpages.

It was such a joy to rediscover my writing from 10 years ago, and I realised that my writing hasn’t really changed at all.

As someone who loves to write, I also love to read. Not consistently, but when I find something I love, I spend the majority of my day with a book in my hand - whether I’m walking, washing up or brushing my teeth - the book comes with.

I’ll be honest, these days my reading choices are normally a little smutty, a little magical and definitely involve an epic saga that spans several volumes (yes, it is ACOTAR). But, due to the nature of my work, with both myself and with my clients, this is the perfect reading material to carry me somewhere fantastical that really feeds my soul.

(And if you want to see 5 books I highly recommend that will transform your healing journey, here they are).

I know I’m not alone in my joy for words. We live in a world that is created, expressed and shared through the written word. It is a language that we can not only use to communicate with others, but to also communicate with ourselves.

How does writing help us express ourselves?

For many of us, we’re often stuck in our heads, on the mental level of thought, where we go round and round in circles of thinking, planning, remembering and analysing.

Which can feel exhausting.

Writing, on the other hand, allows us, in its most basic form, to put thought quite literally to paper, and to make sense of the tangles of the mind, so that we can find our way through.

I’m not talking about the everyday scribbles and to-do lists, I’m talking about needing to express our innermost selves in order to find peace, clarity and acceptance from within. Writing is an essential form of processing, that manages to make things tangible, so we can create new paths forward.

And for some of us with particular energies in our Soul Contract, writing is something that may feel even more important. If you have the 5-5 or 14-5 energy, or even the 3-3, 12-3 and 17-8 - communication and being able to express yourself is of vital importance.

With any number in the Soul Contract Reading work, we’re always wanting to move through the challenge of the number and into the positive attributes contained within it.

A good example of this is the 5 energy, which I have sitting in my own Soul Contract. This energy can be overly mental, meaning that they stay in their heads with all of their thoughts, ideas and dreams, but can rarely bring them out of abstract form and into tangible form.

This is the ongoing challenge of the 5 energy, which is why writing is so important for them. They need grounding to bring them out of the dreamy landscape of their overactive mind through the act of putting pen to paper.

They also need to express themselves, through the spoken or written work, as part of their challenge to assert themselves in this physical reality, which they may have found hard to do in the past.

The 5 energy is not quite of this world, which sometimes manifests as a feeling of not quite belonging, struggling to speak up for themselves, being a bit of a dreamer, and not being able to make their thoughts a reality - which is where writing comes in.

We’ve all heard the saying from Lao Tzu that goes ‘watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny’.

As he says, words are powerful, especially through the written form that can capture the thoughts swirling around our heads and make them real, tangible, understandable and, most importantly, manifest.

Which is why I wanted to share three styles of writing to feed your soul. Perhaps there’s one style of writing that might appeal to you, to help you on your emotional healing journey, or maybe you’re ready to try something a little different.

No. 1 Creative writing to feed your soul

Creative writing is probably something few of us have done since we were in school.

One of the sad realities of moving into adulthood is that we let go of the creative activities that give us fun - whether it’s the joyful childhood pursuits of making up games, writing exciting stories or building things from the objects around our house.

As a child I used to play with trolls (I had a whole family of them) and used to carry them around in a roller-skate, making temporary houses in plant pots around the garden.

Losing our creativity is part of the matrix’s job to keep us in line. Creativity, after all, is pure expression. It’s also about being in the moment. Both of which are incredibly freeing for the human soul.

If we’re lucky enough to have a career where we can create a living from our artistic expression, that’s wonderful, but how many of us actually create from a place of pure joy?

Writing is a wonderful place to start (that’s if you don’t have some trolls and a roller-skate to hand) and doesn’t require anything more than a little time, a pen and paper.

I’ll be honest, giving myself the space to practice my creative writing has been on my to-do list for a long time. As someone who has crazy, vivid dreams (and you can check them out here), my inspiration is definitely from the astral plane, but we are free to write about anything that fascinates us or inspires our curiosity.

And you never know, diving into the creative realms of your imagination could very well be the exact thing to unlock that long-lost childhood creativity and inner freedom, that might take you and your life in a whole new direction.

No. 2 Automatic writing to feed your soul

Automatic writing, or conscious writing as some people call it, is a really wonderful way of writing to explore whatever is going on deep within.

I first discovered the concept of automatic writing through the fantastic book ‘The Artist’s Way’ by Julia Cameron. In it, she uses the term ‘morning pages’ as the process of writing 3 pages of freestyle writing every morning.

This book is an absolute gem, incredibly well known, and rightly so. It is a portal for creativity for the ‘stuck artist’, or for anyone who wants to explore their hidden or squashed creative dreams.

If you have the 6-6 or 15-6 energy in your Soul Contract this could be a gamechanger. A lot of clients who I give readings to who have this energy often recognise they are creative, but sometimes feel disconnected from it.

The reason for this is that creativity doesn’t come from the mind, it comes from the soul.

When we try to create from the mental level, we can only go so far, leading to a stuck tangled knot that we can’t push through, causing anger, frustration and burnout.

We live in a world where it’s almost impossible to avoid comparison. We can see everything that’s been created, and there’s often a loud voice within us that says “there’s no point, it’s already been done, and even if you try and do it, it won’t be as good as them”.

Yet, imagine if the world stopped creating. Imagine if J. K. Rowling had read Lord of the Rings and decided her idea wasn’t as good, so didn’t bother writing Harry Potter. Unthinkable.

Automatic, or conscious writing, is a way to access the murmurings of the soul, not the mind. It allows free reign of your stream of consciousness, which is vast, unlimited and accessible.

The process involves putting a pen to paper and just writing, without any expectation, any thought, any necessity or any judgement, and seeing what flows out the other end.

One of the most dynamic ways to use this form of conscious writing is to ask yourself questions on the paper, and then just let yourself answer them as you write.

It sounds a strange but you will be wildly surprised what comes through then you ask yourself, and your Higher Self in particular, answers to your deepest questions.

If you want to explore this concept further, I recommend buying the book and starting from there. And who knows what may transpire once you unlock the creativity within you that has been burning to be unleashed?

No. 3 Journal writing to feed your soul

Many of us already know the benefits of writing in a journal or a diary, but for those who haven’t had the pleasure, let me share.

It’s easy to mock the ‘dear diary’ style of journal writing (even though I’m sure I’ve never written those words in my life) and the seemingly school-girl simplicity of writing in a diary, yet it’s so much more rewarding that it might appear on the surface.

My parents encouraged me from a young age to keep a diary, and I’m so grateful they did.

Every holiday I’d be handed a notebook and encouraged to keep a record of our the events of the holiday, which is a habit I continued when I went travelling before university, after university, and from there onwards.

And I am so glad I did.

Reading back on my diaries brings me incredible joy. I read the details that my mind has long forgotten and smile at the words of my younger self and the adventures I went on. It is a gift to our future selves to record the joyous moments of our lives, and something that can bring immense pleasure.

But journal writing doesn’t have to be all sunshine and rainbows.

I lost the habit in my twenties, as my life veered into different directions, but picked it up again as I started to discover myself and awaken on a more conscious level. These journals are profound for me, showcasing the extreme highs and lows that I navigated through in this time period.

If I ever forget how drastically I’ve grown, I only need to flip open to a page and read the desires of my younger self, and how they’ve all become true. It’s phenomenal how powerful writing can be to create our reality, and I am proof of that for myself.

When you write in a journal, you not only give yourself the chance to ground your ideas and dreams, you also have a safe place to express yourself and your innermost thoughts, which is so important for those of us who have struggled to understand and express our emotions.

Writing can feed your soul

Writing breaks things down helps us to find clarity in our lives - it is a form of processing that can pave the way for decisive action when we are lost or unsure of our path forwards.

If we’re having a tough time emotionally, writing eases the stress out with every word that is written. If you need to process something and feel trapped in your head, writing gently teases out the tangles.

You don’t need to write everyday, but you do need to follow that intuitive nudge that tells you when you need to. I spent years writing every week in my journals, and then a few years ago I stopped completely - I just didn’t need that outlet in the same way.

My new outlet is what you’re reading right now.

Writing in this blog has become the place for me to reflect on what’s going on in my life in a way that feels so incredibly inspiring and supportive for me. Yet, who knows when I’ll be called to write in my diary again.

Or perhaps I’ll dive into that creative writing that I’ve had my eye on for a while.

After all, all that magical smut and those crazy dreams may have stirred up some ideas, so watch this space.

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Carry on exploring