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Lesson #39 - 42 Days of Writing Passionately
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Architecture of Passion Point #8 (Clarity)
1. I know clarity right now in this moment.
2. I continue to expand in this knowing daily.
3. Specificity leads me back to the writer in me.
I know clarity intimately through continued
practice. I open to the expansiveness of the
universe and see a joyousness reflected
back to me that rings like a crystal bell, is
clearer visually than a laser beam and
smells so richly I can taste it at the back
of my throat. I allow the energy of passion
to move through me onto the page with
absolute purity. Being specific with words
brings increased clarity. My heart expands
to recognize the purity within me.
I am a writer.
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Quote of the Day:
"That's the way things come clear. All
of a sudden. And then you realize how
obvious they've been all along."
Madeleine L'Engle
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We begin today's lesson with a story from my life:
Two sentences from 1977.
The one single, specific memory I have from the ninth grade was
during a math class. We were being introduced to Geometry for the
first time.
The teacher asked "What is intuition?"
I raised my hand (an unusual act for me at 15 years old) and
said, "It is having a hunch: sort of knowing or having an idea of
something out of the blue, like without really knowing you somehow
know."
In my mind's eye the picture is crystal clear. How the teacher was
poised, what his sport coat looked like, where in the room he was
standing, how his head was turned just so. I think his name might
have been Mr. Tennaro. I was in his class for one week.
Yet that question and answer still calls out to me almost twenty
five years later. Forever caught in freeze frame across three
thousand miles and countless other classrooms and a huge number of
hours and moments and conversations. Intuition. An inkling.
Sharon Franquemont, former professor of Intuition at John F. Kennedy
University and author of "You Already Know What to Do" makes an
important distinction. Rather than using intuition as one of many
tools for living, she suggests that one choose to make the practice
of intuition a way of life.
Some think, "That is all well and good and I know for a fact I have
no clue how to apply this to my writing life. I don't even know for
sure if I believe in intuition in the first place." Before we
discuss that, let's point to some very interesting illustrations.
It may be surprising to learn that some of history's greatest
thinkers believed an intuitive lifestyle was very beneficial. Albert
Einstein said, "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
For centuries inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers, parents, children
and yes, artists, have all experienced
intuitive flashes. These inklings sometimes lead to something big
which reaches into positive growth situation beyond our usual way of
thinking or being.
An inkling may lead to a new invention or an improvement upon an
already existing product. Ralph Waldo Emerson described it this
way: "Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new
machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own
anatomy in iron,
wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the
world."
Remember a breakthrough moment in your life.
An "A-ha" or an "Epiphany" moment.
Arthur Koestler, Hungarian born writer, wrote "The moment of truth,
the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of
intuition". Akin to a "sixth sense", intuition brings pieces
together. It gives the gift of heightened awareness.
It also helps to listen to your body. In Malcolm Gladwell's
breakthrough book, "Blink", a study of the ability to make rapid
decisions based on the adaptive unconscious wrote about listening to
your body when you have an intuitive inkling. When something
doesn't "feel right" and you get a strange feeling in the pit of
your stomach or the palms of your hands get sweaty – follow that
inkling.
So what does this have to do with writing?
Your intuition is one of your most important partners in the process
of taking your writing to your next level. Listening to its voice
will make a substantial, heart shifting, world changing difference
to both you and those people who are blessed enough to come in
contact with your words.
On the other hand, if you ignore the inklings you hear – nothing
will happen.
I know this first hand. My writing was put on the back burner
for years. My idea for my website was present in my mind for a
long time before I took action – and little didI know my
writing would be central to every aspect of my website and my
business.
The path wasn't clear at all. It was murky and filled with "Not
knowing" and "doubt" and "denial" and "I'll do what I THINK I want
to do" which was caused by her unwillingness to listen.
The messages to focus on writing were being divinely sent as early
as college when my classmate in "Politics of Africa" said, "I
enjoyed your paper so much, I read it through completely – twice."
She read a ten page single spaced term paper on the Ivory Coast
twice? Once "just for fun?"
This particular message was memorable to just because it was so
outrageous. That was a densely written term paper.
It was also written with heart, with soul and with a strong love for
the words and the message.
More than ten years after that, I was working (and very unhappy
about it) for the County of Kern. The free-spirited, artistic soul
was busy being a Bureaucrat because it "seemed" the right thing to
do. I thought then I was following a divine course - yet she
seemed to stop getting messages the more miserable she became.
A co-worker said to her, "You pack more good information in a really
short memo than anyone else I know…. And they are so artfully
expressed, too."
She started writing on her lunch hour. It was at a crowded meeting
held at the library that the messages began to really make
themselves heard.
Your intuition will assist you to guide your characters, to nudge
you in a certain direction with your creative non-fiction.
Your intuition will hand you exactly the write word at exactly the
right time.
Your intuition has been your partner in all the free flow writing we
have created in this program. It is the energy which passes along
those first words, those next words, and opens up the flow.
Let's prepare to write:
We are getting to the end of our time together. It is bittersweet.
We have come a long way – and I know I will miss the daily
interactions both "live" and via email and also the energetic
connection with those we don't "hear" or "see" writing yet we know
you are writing.
Let's join our intuition intentionally today:
Here is your prompt:
The place I am meant to go with my words and my writing is:
Allow your words to float across the page.
The place I am meant to go with my words and my writing is:
Please write until I request you stop:
The place I am meant to go with my words and my writing is:
Further integration:
Remain open to the messages from your intuition today. Listen to
your body, listen to people who say things to you that seem
especially surprising. They have been sent to you, messengers of
your destiny.
Listen – and act – and listen some more.
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I am very excited to get started in this program
alongside you as each facilitator inspires,
encourages and provides an atmosphere to
nourish, applaud, energize and activate the writing
muse that is in each individual and thrives in the
group setting for 42 consecutive days which will,
in turn, cause a tangible, remarkable, miraculous
shift for each participant.
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Tools for You To Use:
A journey of this sort is best started on a
solid foundation, one of strong intent and with
the right tools - tools which will support the
growth that wants to take place.
our tools take several forms.
The physical tools I will ask you to use are
simple.
#1) A spiral notebook - something like a simple,
8 1/2 inch by 11 inch single subject notebook.
I prefer notebooks with 60 to 90 pages. Large
enough to be substantial but not so huge that
they "bulk up and overpower" the rest of your stuff.
#2) An adequate number of readily available
pencils and pens.
This is when people often stop and say "Can't
I use my computer and keyboard?"
I do most of my writing on my keyboard AND for
this course, my request is you write the "old fashioned
way" (pencil or pen and paper) whenever possible.
Writing by hand actually slows down the writing process-
and this is a good thing!
Please try it out during our free flow writing
moments. If it doesn't work for you - it is ok.
At least you gave it a try.
Our second type of tool is an energetic one -
I call them our Passion Points. We have ten of them,
based on our different specialty areas to study.
Passion Write Points: 1 - 10
Passion Write Point #1 - Authentic Emotion
I allow myself to be pure, raw and completely
myself as I give myself permission to grow
with each word I write. I trust myself as a
writer and as a person. I know my right readers
connect with my heart message no matter what
shape or direction my writing takes today.
Passion Write Point #2 - Sense of Sight
I expand my witness of the world through
my words. I see the ordinary as extraordinary
as I communicate with ease and grace. My
eyes – my vision – the sights that I see and
describe with my words – open to the light.
Passion Write Point #3 - Sense of Sound
Word music dances in my mind and heart, lifting
my energy so that the words float effortlessly
to my hands, my pencil, my pen, the keyboard.
I know my words contain chimes, drumbeats,
buzzing, popping and rhythm that brings me
profound contentment and peace when I allow
myself to listen. Gratifying passion is
shared with all who hear my words.
Passion Write Point #4 - Sense of Smell
Through practice and awareness, I awaken myself
and my readers to the ancient, highly connective
and my readers to the ancient, highly connective
and memory evoking sense of smell. I reach into
the depths through breathing scent into my words.
I grow as a writer each day.
Passion Write Point #5 - Sense of Touch
I notice how objects fill the palm of my hand. I
tune into the temperature, the smoothness, the
moisture, the weight. Each subtle nuance has its
unique impact upon me. I notice and fill my words
with awareness, connection and unity.
Passion Write Point #6 - Sense of Taste
My favored flavor echoes onto the page so that it
is held and experienced for an eternity. It connects,
impacts, opens up like none of my other senses.
Tastes say home, they say exotic, they say sensual,
they say MMMMM MMMMM and bring satisfied sighs and
deep breath. Through delicious words, I say yes
Passion Write Point # 7 - Place
I sit in the center of myself in the center of
another place: a setting which others can see and
feel and relate to, just like I can see and feel
and relate with my words. This place: the setting,
is like the canvas where my words are born – the
setting provides the breath and the heartbeat
and the frame for my work to take form.
Passion Write Point #8 - Clarity
I know clarity intimately through continued
practice. I open to the expansiveness of the
universe and see a joyousness reflected back
to me that rings like a crystal bell, is clearer
visually than a laser beam and smells so richly
I can taste it at the back of my throat. I allow
the energy of passion to move through me onto the
page with absolute purity. Being specific with
words brings increased clarity. My heart expands
to recognize the purity within me. I am a writer.
With Much Love and Anticipation.
Passion Write Point #9 - Deep Connection
I connect in each moment to deep honor, respect
and admiration for the greatest good that resides
in each member of the human community. I am
grounded and filled with this powerful element
which bridges-connects- spans of space which would
have been disconnected otherwise. I fill my words
with expansive gratitude and knowing passion.
Passion Write Point #10 - Loving Peace
I know the delight in the divine delivery of
emotions and presence into my heart-mind and onto
the page. I know this moment contains all I need
as will the next moment and the next moment and
the next. I am an active, inspired creator.
Everything is perfect, I am perfect, my world is
perfect.
© 2005, 2006
Julie Jordan Scott
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Julie Jordan Scott is a Writer, Speaker, Success Coach, Actor,
Workshop Facilitator and Mother Extraordinaire who created
the DreamActivation program to ignite your dreams.
Use the Power of DreamWitness, Focus and Intentional
Action to live your wildest dreams now....
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