I choose to write.

I choose a topic and play with it in my mind. Then I listen to my inner voice and just let the words fall on the page.

And while this torrent of words flows from that inner stream through my arm, through the pen and onto the page, I feel that all of my experiences are in play as they translate into words.

As I have mentioned before, it is a word association game that I play. This word game program runs automatically.

As I often do, if I select different a different word in the association, the flow goes in a totally different direction.

In fact, I wrote this article longhand first, but what I  typed on this page is quite different from the handwritten version.

If the flow slows or seems to stop I look at what I wrote longhand for inspiration.  I am writing this as I actually do these various steps. Tomorrow, who knows, the steps may all be different again.

Often I wait until I get a message from my inner voice. It is my own voice and it relies very heavily on those memories that are not currently in my immediate conscious. They bubble up from somewhere as  some process accesses my unconscious mind.

Some times I picture my face mouthing the words. Physically I am also whispering them. That allows my typing to keep up with my inner voice. It slows my inner voice to allow me to keep pace and not lose any ideas.

I type or write as fast as I can. I correct as I go when I type, but not when I write long hand.

There is truly a magic to words. Because if I do my job well, the reader will hear my voice in their mind casting my spell in words.

I truly believe in hypnosis. I am certainly hypnotized by my chosen topic and if my writing is engaging enough, it is  has the same effect on the reader.

What I write becomes a little mind program that leaves traces in the mind of the reader. Like hypnosis, the reader focuses inward to find meaning in the words I put on the page.

Not only is the reader making meaning from those words but also they are adding to and changing the meaning in their mind.

You can choose to resist the programming if you wish. The only way to do that is to put down this book. But if you are truly interested in writing you will continue.

Once you have read it all the way through though, it becomes a part of your experience, adding to the mental programs you already run without ever being aware.

To heighten the effects of the the program, I can ask a question to pique your curiosity. 

For example, here is a question that certainly holds my interest and is the basis of my blog.

"When you see, hear or touch something how do you know what to think or do about it?"

Here are a few more questions.

"What is the process that you use in your mind from sensing something to thinking about it then responding with feelings and action?"

"What effect does language have on how you think?

"If I can choose to write my mind and express my thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and habits, emotions and feelings, can I not also choose how I feel?"

If these questions make you curious then the magic of my pen has reached its target. You will find answers to all of these on my blog.

You need to work though. And you need to read enough to arrive at your own personal mind model, your map of the world.

Writing is magic, hypnotic, fascinating and satisfying.

The worst kept secret about the writing's magic spell is that anyone can pick up the pen to do the same.