Reclaim Your Visionary Author Identity

A Practice for Visionary Writers

If you read my recent article about the many fears and blocks that Visionary Authors can face when reclaiming their Visionary Author Identity, you might be wondering what practices you could do to help you.

So, what can you do to reclaim your creative power in this world?

Partly, it is about making new decisions and setting your intentions in every moment, then being present with the outcomes. Witnessing and noticing when those shifts are happening in your life, and where creative space is opening up for you - because you have created it at a deep internal level. You have set the intention for it, and you have taken action to move into it. So it’s a good practice to acknowledge it when it arrives: giving gratitude for those small moments of creative opportunity, or increasing patterns of prioritising your creativity.

It’s also important to acknowledge that habits and patterns don’t just disappear overnight - everything you are now is based on the decisions you’ve made in the past and that have led you up to this point.

So it’s always in this moment that we can choose new decisions.

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We can align ourselves with new timelines; and you can call in the future version of yourself as the Visionary Author that you already are. On the other side of this timeline, you stand as an author already in existence, already on your path, in your power. When you realign your habits and make new intentions, you align yourself with the author that you already are, reclaiming the power that is already yours, and you take responsibility for who you are becoming.

We call into reality in this timeline all that we are yet to become. We do that through our words as Visionary Writers: we do that through our books. We do it first for ourselves and then for others, as we guide them on this journey we have taken. The journey of the soul is a journey of alchemy, it’s a journey of possibility. And it’s a journey of responsibility. It’s a great responsibility to step onto your path and fulfil the Soul Vision that you came here to create.

Here are some steps you can take:

1) Change Your Habits.

Do something you don’t usually do, that you have been yearning to do for a long time and that you had not given yourself permission to do. For this first step, it doesn’t even have to be writing or creating. For me, it was joining the gym. I knew that I needed to move my body in order to be in my vibrancy: to be in that vibrant creative energy where I’m at my best as a writer. I needed to move my body because I was stuck in a pattern of not moving my body and not believing that I had enough time to get out and go to the gym.

I could see that the people I was looking up to had different habits than me: they would get up and move their body. I had been wanting to move my body to for a long time, but I didn’t allow myself to do it. Yet, once I joined the gym and started moving my body, I also started writing again!

So, if you could give yourself permission to do just one thing that you’ve been wanting to do and that you haven’t done, what would it be? It doesn’t have to be your creative practice. Simply shifting your patterns can help you to start creating new habits, because that’s when new possibilities begin to enter in. When you start to do things differently, you may also start to see things differently than you did before.

2) Break the Habit that Says You Can’t Do It.

Once you’ve taken the first step (above) you’ll already have an embodied experience of what it feels like to break the pattern and do something different. In step 2, the pattern we are interested in breaking is the pattern of not creating, the pattern of not writing. This pattern becomes a habit over time, and that habit is formed by repeated choices and repeated decisions to prioritise something other than writing.

To break this habit, you have to keep setting the intention to make a different choice, a different decision; to take a new path, a new action; and get the words on the page. Whether you start by typing, dictating, or any other method that’s available to you - you can break that habit by getting your words onto the page. It’s important to do this without judgement, without any particular goal, or any pressure that it has to be something specific or it has to be “good”. Just allow yourself the permission to break the habit and get your words onto the page, where they belong.

3) Create an Affirmation.

The simplest one, and the most to the point, is this: I Am a Visionary Author.

Write this affirmation - or one that you create for yourself - onto a piece of paper, decorate it how you wish, and place it where you will see it every day. Perhaps on an altar, where you can give it your energy, attention, awareness and intention. As you place it there, you can call in your Visionary Writing Guides to help you to charge that intention. Maybe your altar is close to the place where you write, and - as you see that affirmation every day - you become that affirmation.

In Joanna Penn’s book, Writing the Shadow, she says that the cognitive dissonance that we experience between the affirmation and the reality means that our brains and the universe must conspire to make the affirmation reality. Unless, that is, we have such a profound block that our subconscious will prevent us from creating that reality by self-sabotaging behaviours, because of a deep sense of fear present with the affirmation.

To help with this, Kelly Notaras, in The Book You Were Born to Write, dives into the ways that our resistances can show up through self-sabotaging behaviours - and what we can do about it.

So, once you have created your affirmation, start to notice and witness the small, subtle, and powerful ways that your reality begins to shift. As you set the intention, I Am a Visionary Author, notice what shows up. Notice the confirmations and the synchronicities that appear in your life, which are helping you to align more fully with your affirmation statement. And notice also any fears or resistances, the blocks and the challenges, that may also come to the surface as you create the intention and work with the power of affirmation. Those belong to the parts of us that can slip into failure when we start to believe the old stories. The hidden stories that have lived in our bones for so long - perhaps generations, perhaps lifetimes - are the old stories that this affirmation is helping to shake out and reconfigure.

By using this new affirmation, we have the power to decide whether we want to stuff those old stories back down and keep them held in place, or whether we want to shake them loose to witness them with compassion - which we can do in our journal or on the page. Giving ourselves time to realign and recalibrate with an affirmation practice is powerful.

It doesn’t fail when the opposite results manifest.

Rather, that means we have material to work with - that we can become the witness to ourselves and our hidden stories through our journaling. And the more that we can integrate those parts of ourselves with compassion, the more we can come into realignment with our Visionary Author path.

4) Meet yourself on the page.

Always be writing, always be getting words on the page. Always be the compassionate witness to yourself, and always be prepared to show up to your practice on the page. As a visionary author, your practice is on the page. Your process is on the page. The page is where you will meet your shadows. You will find those hidden stories and you will also discover the gold within you. The page is where you need to be showing up every day, to move through the alchemy and become the Visionary Author that you are.

These are just a few simple daily practices you can try, to help you to reclaim your creative power as the Visionary Author that you are. I teach these practices, and more, in my Visionary Author Activation - and I’m writing about them for a forthcoming book.

If you are a Visionary Writer and you know you want to (need to) write, but your words are getting stuck before they get onto the page, you can subscribe to the stack for regular updates, or get the book, to find out how to break this cycle and Find Your Visionary Writing Voice.