How to Hear Your Future Self (with a Pen and Five Minutes)

The overthinking mind has a backdoor. This episode hands you the key.

There is a version of you who already knows what to do. The only reason you can't hear her is that a louder voice is busy keeping you safe. In this episode, you'll learn automatic writing, one of the most accessible and underrated ways to slip past the overthinking mind and let your intuition land right there on the page.

No special gift required. Just you, a pen, and a few quiet minutes.

In this episode:

• Why automatic writing works, and how it gets underneath the noise of your analytical mind to reach the knowing that lives in a different dimension than data
• A simple five-step practice you can do today, including the grounding step most people skip and the reason your pen sometimes will not move
• The three moments to reach for it, from a real crossroads to a feeling you cannot name, plus what it actually builds over time: self-trust
  
  

Take the next step with 7 Days of Self-Trust, the short daily practice that settles your nervous system so your intuition can finally come through.

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There is a version of you who already knows what to do. She knows which door to walk through. She knows which message to send and which one to delete. She knows the thing you've been circling for weeks, the thing you keep almost deciding and then taking talking yourself out of. The only reason you can't hear her clearly is that there is a louder voice in the room. And that voice has a full-time job. And its full-time job is to keep you safe. And today I'm going to hand you a pen that gets you past this voice entirely. Welcome to an intuitive life. I'm Elena, your intuitive guide, coach, and mentor. And this is the podcast for women who have spent a lifetime being told to be reasonable, to be practical, practical, to be palatable, my favorite word, to wait for proof, and who is finally ready to trust what she knows on the inside. A little while ago, I shared a short video on automatic writing, and something about it clearly struck a nerve because the response was immediate. So I wanted to bring it here and give it room to breathe because this is one of the most powerful, most accessible, most underrated ways to tap into your intuition that I know of. No crystals required, no special psychic gift, just you, a pen, and a few quiet minutes. Before we go in, do me a favor, save this episode, tap the little save button because this is one you'll want to come back to the next time you're stuck, the next time you need an answer, and the noise is in your head and it will not quit. And if a woman you love comes to mind who loves to procrastinate or ask for too much advice, then please share this with them. The one who overthinks everything, and yeah, just send this to her. This is how this work travels, woman to woman. Okay, let's get into it. Automatic writing is simple. You sit down with a pen and paper, you ask a question or set an intention, and then you write without stopping and without editing. That's the that's the key right there. You do not pause to think, you do not lift the pen to decide whether something is good. You let your hand keep moving, and you let whatever wants to come through, come through. That's it. That is the whole practice. And here's why it works. Because I never want you to do something on faith alone, though that's lovely, because your thinking mind, the analytical planning, list making part of you is fast and it is loud and it is convinced it is in charge. So when you write quickly enough, continuously enough, you actually outrun that part of yourself. You move faster than it can edit or discern, or not necessarily discern, but let's say critique. And in that gap, a different kind of knowing slips onto the page. And this is what I really, really want you to focus on. Intuition lives in a different dimension than data. Your logical mind works with what has already happened, the evidence, the past, the spreadsheet. Your intuition perceives what has not yet happened, the potential. It knows things, it has no business knowing practically, and automatic writing is the doorway between those two parts of you. So, why this practice out of everything I'm teaching right now? There's three main reasons. The first reason is that it gets underneath the noise. Most of us do not have a wisdom problem, we have a volume problem. The guidance is there, but it's drowned out. Automatic writing turns the volume down on the analytical mind long enough for you to hear the quieter voice underneath. The second reason is that it gives your intuition a body. Intuition is not abstract, it moves through you, through your hand, through ink, into something you can actually see and hold. You stop wondering what your inner voice sounds like because suddenly it is right there in your own handwriting on the page. The third reason, the one I care about the most, is that it builds self-trust through repetition. Every time you sit down and ask or set an intention and watch something true from you, from your soul, land on the page, you gather evidence. Evidence that you can trust yourself. And after a lifetime of being taught to outsource that trust to everyone else, that is everything. Now, when do you actually use this? Let me give you three potential moments. The first is when you are standing at a crossroads, like you have a real decision and you have thought about it from every angle, and the thinking has stopped helping. Yeah, we know that intimately, right? You're in analysis paralysis. That's the moment to put the thinking down and pick up the pen. Ask the question on the page and let your hand answer. The second is when you're activated and you cannot name why. You're anxious, you're restless, something's off, and you just don't have the words for it. Besides dance, which you know I go to, automatic writing is how you find the words. You write the feeling out until it tells you what it is actually about. And most of the time it's not what you thought. And the third opportunity is when you are creating something: a launch, a project, a next chapter, a decision in your life or your business, when you need direction and not just data. Like the data is not doing enough for you to give you a decision. Ask your work what it wants to become and let it tell you. Now, I promised you the benefits, so let me give you the three big ones. And I want to show you both layers each time because this work is always practical and spiritual at once. Like it's not just one or the other. The first benefit is clarity. We all want clarity. Just like, I just need clarity. I just wish someone would tell us what to do. Well, this is it. On a practical level, you make cleaner decisions and you make them faster because you stop spinning. On a spiritual level, you reconnect to your inner knowing, to the part of you that is plugged into something larger than your own logic. The second benefit is regulation. On a practical level, you move the feeling out of your body and onto the page, and you come back to yourself calmer and with more clarity. On a spiritual level, and this is the part most people miss, you create the safety that your intuition requires. Your inner voice does not shout. It never ever shouts. And it won't shout over a panicking nervous system. It waits for quiet. And automatic writing gives it that quiet. Like I love to just light a candle. I used to do it with music. I actually prefer the silence now because when I hear music, like I just start to analyze the music and think about it and think about it. I don't know. I just, you're gonna have to find the right thing for yourself. The third benefit is self-trust. On a practical level, you stop asking everyone else what you should do, and you start acting with conviction based on what you know. On a spiritual level, you build an actual relationship, like an ongoing conversation with your inner compass. You begin to know the sound of your own wisdom, the way you know the voice of someone you love. Now, this does not delete the process of having a connection with God and divine. You can actually do this process and set the intention of connecting with divine. It's it's not separate. All right. So let's make this real because I do not want you to close this episode with just an idea. I want you to close it with a practice. So you can listen through it the first time, or you can pause it and grab a pen and paper, whatever works. And I will say, do not do this on your phone in a note or on your on your laptop. It's very, very important. There's there's a direct connection between your heart and your hand energetically and physically. There are there's blood, there's energy moving from your heart to your hand that is going to make this a full-on experience. When you do it on the laptop, it's not the same. Have I done sort of automatic type of writing on a laptop? Absolutely. Because sometimes my fingers and my mind move very fast, but this is different. This is very much a requirement to have a physical pen and physical paper. So, step one, set yourself up, pen and paper. If you can do it right now, awesome. Because the hand moving slows the thinking mind in exactly the right way. I love to set a timer, and you can start with five minutes. I've done up to 35 minutes or 40 minutes. You can always do more. You can start with a little bit, but do at least five minutes. Okay, step two is you want to ground yourself first. And this is the part that matters. How do you ground yourself? Simple, simple way to do it is put one hand on your heart, feel your feet on the floor, and take three slow breaths. What you're doing in this moment is you're telling your nervous system we are safe, we are here, and this becomes the doorway opening. Step three is ask. Write one clear question or intention at the top of the page. What do I need to know right now? Is a great question if you don't know exactly, you know, more specific than that. Or you can say, is what is this feeling trying to tell me? Or just simply what wants to come through today. You can use this as part of your morning pages process as well. Now, step four, it's very important. So listen up. When you start writing, do not stop. Like, do not stop. Nope, do not stop at all. Don't ask me if you can stop for three seconds. Do not stop. Let your hand keep moving. Do not edit, do not fix spelling. Sometimes I stop dotting eyes. Like I just keep going if I'm really in flow. Do not decide if it's good. That's not the point. And if your mind goes blank, you just write it. I have nothing to write. Nothing's coming through. Oh my God, this is so frustrating. This is crazy. Like literally just write that. You can write, I do not know what to write. I do not know what to write until something else arrives because it will, I promise. I haven't, I have not had any client yet tell me that nothing happened. I promise you. I mean, some of mine are like really funny in the beginning. Like I would think of ducks, I would think of clouds, like I would just write whatever, and then something would inevitably just like pop through because you're just being playful. Okay. You could be playful with this. It's not that serious. All right, step five. Do not read it while you're writing. I beg you, do not. Do not edit or read it. Keep going until the timer runs out. Then and only then put the pen down, take a breath, and read it back like a letter from someone who loves you. Because in a way it is. It's a letter from the woman who already knows. Like it's that future version of you, even if it's five minutes in the future. Okay. That is the whole practice. Five simple steps, five minutes. You already have everything you need. Now, I want to name something because it's the real reason this can feel hard. So many women sit down to do this and come up against a wall. Like the pen will not move, or the analytical voice will not quiet down, or you'll decide it's time to do the laundry, or they read it back and immediately decide they made it all up. It's not real. And here's what I want you to understand that is not a failure of your intuition. Your intuition is fine, it's fully intact. Intuition is a natural capacity you were born with and were simply taught by the world to distrust over other people, over other things. What is happening is that your nervous system is busy keeping you safe. It is doing its job, its first and only job. And a nervous system braced for threat cannot relax enough to let you hear the quiet direction coming from your future self, the version of you who already knows. So that's why somatic practices, um, physical movement practices are so good. Meditation practices are really good. And that's exactly what I built the seven days of self-trust for. I've you've heard me talk about this before. I just totally redid it. It's brand new. It's so good. It's seven modules, short and doable. You can do them all in one day. You can binge them, or you can do them over seven days. It's up to you. It walks you through settling your nervous system so that your intuition has the safety it needs to actually come through. It's not more information. You will not need to take notes. It's not more thinking. It's just you learning to trust the voice that's been there the whole time. It's the natural step after a practice like this one or before. And the link is in the show notes, so go ahead and check it out. Okay. So here is what I want you to do today. Find your pen, set your timer, ask your question, and let your hand, your heart, your soul, your future self show you what you already know. You are always the one holding the compass, and you always have been. So save this episode, share it with the woman who needs it, and I will see you in the next episode. And as always, if you are interested in going deeper in a one-on-one coaching situation where we go through and we really do an audit of what is happening in your past and your present, and we help you get super clear and aligned on your next steps. That is my jam. You can find me at Elena underscore lipson and just send me a message. Say, hey, I'm interested in coaching. Tell me more about it, and we will have a full-on conversation in there. We'll see if it's a good time, if you're ready, if it's a good match, if my vibe, energy, and techniques and just the way I work as a coach is right for you. We have one-on-one one-off sessions. I have three-month programs. I also have longer ones if you want an ongoing regular support, which it does include things that I do, like intuitive readings and tarot readings and all the psychic juicy stuff that I add into when I start working with clients. And yes, it can be focused on your life, it can be focused on your wellness, it can be focused on your business as well. I've been in digital marketing for about 20 years now. So, and before that, I was in the corporate world as a trainer and a coach. So I've got a lot of experience to pull from. I have hosted retreats, I have had a membership for seven and a half years, I have made multiple six figures from programs, I have hosted co-hosted events, lots of experience to pull from. And most importantly, I am highly intuitive. And so we do work that is specifically focused on you, your line next steps and actions. All right, thanks so much for being here today. I'd love to hear once you try this. Please tag me in a post. If you're snapping a picture of yourself doing it, or afterwards, please tag me at Elena underscore lipson or just send me a message and let me know how it went. All right, I'll see you on the next episode of An Intuitive Life.