3 Ways to Communicate With Your Unconscious Mind
No hypnotist required!
If I didn’t have access to a hypnotist, here are three things I would do every day to connect with my unconscious mind.
Because your unconscious is speaking to you every day, and every hour. It’s shaping how you move, how you feel, what you notice, and what you fear. And if you’re not consciously learning how to listen, it can feel like you’re just drifting through life - or worse, like you’re stuck.
So if I couldn’t guide myself in hypnosis, here’s what I’d do instead:
1. Freeform Writing
Every morning, I’d write 1–3 pages of whatever is floating around in my head. Not structured. Not edited. Not logical. I’d grab a pen, open my notebook, and just let my stream of consciousness out onto the pages.
This kind of freeform writing, popularized by Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, and known in her book as the morning pages, is more than journaling. It’s a direct line to your unconscious. It bypasses the overthinking, analytical part of you and lets the deeper voice come through. It’s not supposed to “make sense.” You’re just letting your unconscious speak.
You might find dreams, fears, unresolved emotions, or old stories making their way to the page. You might write something weird or beautiful or angry or brilliant. You might feel like it’s nonsense. But eventually, themes start to emerge. Patterns show up. Truth slips through.
If you're ever truly stuck in life, you’ll notice where and why as you write in this freeform style. That’s where the work begins.
And no, you’re not supposed to let anyone else read this, or even go back and read it yourself.
2. Hemi-Sync Meditations
If I couldn’t access trance work through a hypnotist, I’d go for my next favorite method, a kind of binaural beats in the Meta Music/Hemi-Sync meditations.
These are audio tracks that work by synchronizing the two hemispheres of your brain. With headphones on, tones are played in each ear, and your brain naturally begins to harmonize them, creating a bridge between your conscious and unconscious states.
Think of it as gentle, brainwave entrainment. No pushing. No force. Just flow.
You can set an intention before you begin, or simply trust your unconscious to guide the journey. The imagery that comes through might surprise you. Sometimes I choose forest or ocean themes. Sometimes I go galactic and cosmic. It all depends on what I need that day.
I will also highlight the genre of Sufi music, if you’re the mood for something different than Meta Music. Another excellent choice for syncing the brain and letting it flow.
3. Limit Media Intake
This one might be the hardest: Limit your media.
Yes, I’m including social media. Yes, I’m including books. Yes, I’m including news and podcasts and helpful self-development content.
Because if every moment of silence is filled with someone else’s thoughts, you’ll never hear your own.
I’ve done this before, a complete media detox for a week at a time, and let me tell you, it was hard. Really hard.
But after the initial discomfort faded, I realized something important: Silence is not empty. It’s full of memory, desire, intuition, creativity, and all the parts of yourself you’ve accidentally muted over the years.
When you give yourself space to be bored, you get to meet the self that lives beneath the noise. And that self always knows what to do next.
Final Thoughts
These three tools, writing, trance meditations, and silence, are how I’d build a connection to my unconscious if I didn’t have access to hypnosis. They are simple but not always easy. They require intention. They require stillness. And they work.
If you’ve been feeling out of touch with yourself, unclear on what you want, or unsure why your patterns keep repeating, I’d gently encourage you to try one of them today.
Because your unconscious is always speaking.
The real question is: are you listening?
And if would like access to a hypnotist to go even deeper, and much faster, please consider joining us at The Lucid Hour, or I’d be honored to craft a custom hypnotic audio just for you.
