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Manifestation · writing practice

Scripting and intention journaling with Lexa

Scripting means writing the life you are calling in as if it has already happened: in the present tense and in your own words. On Lexa's retreats the script is written after practice, from the state breath and sound open up, and kept in a journal you return to every day. Here is how to begin at home, and where to go deeper with her.

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What it is

The script and the intention journal

A script is a page from a day you want to live. "I wake up in a house where the kitchen is full of light. I am in no hurry. I answer the message I was afraid of, and my voice is calm." The tense is present and the details are bodily: what you see, hear and feel, rather than what you own.

The intention journal is wider. It holds the script and everything that gathers around it: last night's dream, a sentence that surfaced in meditation, the resistance you noticed when you wrote the word money. Over a few weeks it shows you where the wish is yours and where someone else's voice is speaking.

Both practices are old in form, and journals of intention exist in many traditions. The words decide less than the state you write them from.

How to write

Writing a script at home, step by step

Choose one area of life rather than all of it. Write in the morning, before the phone, or in the evening after a short practice: 3 minutes of long breath through the nose, or one of Lexa's meditations on this site. Then write for 10 minutes without stopping and without correcting.

Stay in the present tense and the first person. Describe one ordinary moment rather than a grand result. Notice where your hand slows down, which sentence you want to cross out, which word makes you flinch. Mark those places. They are the material.

Read the script aloud once a day for a week, then rewrite it from scratch without looking at the old one. Compare the two. What stayed is yours. What fell away was most likely borrowed.

With Lexa

How the journal lives on her retreats

On Lexa's retreats the journal goes everywhere with you. The intention is written at the start, and after each practice there is time to add to it: after kundalini, after a sound meditation, after a hypnomeditation where an answer arrived as an image rather than a word.

In Sedona the pages fill up differently. The red rock, early light at Airport Mesa, the Sweat Lodge with M.H. Black Wolf on one of the days. People come back to the house with sentences they could not have written at home, and by the end of the retreat the first page reads as if someone else wrote it.

The journal is yours, and whatever goes into it stays with you. Lexa gives the state and the order of the days, so that what you write comes from deeper than habit.

Questions

About scripting

How long before a script works?

There is no timetable, and nobody here will give you one. A script helps you hear what you want and get used to it. What shifts, and when, is yours to notice.

Can I write a script about another person?

Write about yourself: how you feel, how you speak, what you allow. A script that tries to move someone else's will usually turns into anxiety on paper.

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