Welcome to And Now You Write. We are grateful you are here today to write alongside us. Before you read the lesson, allow the prompt of the day to seep into your mind. Don't actively seek the words yet, instead allow it to just be there, settling into your mind, as you go through the lesson itself.
PLEASE NOTE: There are no live writing sessions this weekend. We will be back on Monday for more writing tele-sessions.
It was several years ago now when my heart and my vision expanded on a normal, ordinary, work-a-day moment. It has never been the same ever since.
I sat at my kitchen table, stunned into silence.
What an amazing privilege to partner with other human beings through my life work, through the powerful experience of life coaching.
I had just hung up the phone after a particularly poignant, life changing telephone coaching session that moved me so much, I had to move my body physically.
It was as if my breath needed space. I listened when the sun beckoned me outside.
I inhaled deeply as I stepped outside my front door. The sun rays completely washed over my face as I tilted it toward heaven.
My arms lifted towards the sky without any effort or thought.
Every cell of my body agreed and rang out, "Yes! Yes!"
My feet moved without my consent, taking me for a mid morning walk. I smiled contentedly as I followed, not concerned with where I was going or anything beyond each time my feet lifted off the ground and re-connected with the Earth.
Around the corner waited a magnificent tree whose friendship was new to me. From its appearance, it had been on the planet for several generations. I have been in residence less than a couple hundred yards from it for more than a decade yet it was only days ago that we had been "properly introduced".
It had called to me during a walk with my then eighteen-month-old-son, Samuel.
Since our "formal acquaintance", I would nod to the tree as I pulled out of my driveway in the mornings. It towered over all the other neighborhood trees. As I walked out my back door I looked to the North. There it was again in all its evergreen glory towering over the homes and other trees.
It is time to witness the tree - to bring it to vivid reality for each of us.
Listen to the words and bring them to vivid life in your vision. This is YOUR vision, remember - so it doesn't matter how close yours comes to "my" tree, what is important is that you tap into your vision deeply.
The tree has a massive trunk which splits into four separate sections. Each section is as large as any of the other neighborhood trees. It has one fork and then two smaller forks in its trunk branchings.
I was looking up at its majesty when I saw something new.
I stopped in my tracks right in the middle of the street.
Paused.
Halted.
The jaw dropping silence was so deep I could feel and hear the reverberations of my heart as it clattered in my chest.
I tilted my head to an angle when I saw it.
The tree took a sunbeam into its branching and made the light three dimensional. It held the light as surely as I have ever held anything in my hands.
I had seen this three dimensional light before though only in photographs. I had never seen or felt it in person. It was as if I was being introduced, intimately, to light.
In this moment my new friend, this magnificent tree, held the ray of light in place especially and only for me.
I moved to a different angle and the light disappeared.
I went backwards and it vaporized.
I crouched down and it was simply no more.
I stood still, in the pulse of the moment, and the ray of light held me.
With shaking arms, I lifted my hands so that they would mimic the "V" shape of the branching. I wanted to physically connect with the beam of light.
With my hands lifted and my head back, I felt a surge of love. A receiving of energy. An awareness of standing squarely in place where truth and love and wholeness is conceived.
One of my feet involuntarily moved back to maintain balance as I became unsteadied by the grandeur of the moment as I bowed my head in amazed humility. My hands came down from their V with my thumbs resting at a spot that pointed to my heart. My eyes closed as a silent tear leaked from my eye.
Standing in the middle of the street, my chin rested almost on the tips of my fingers as I held the ancient pose which proclaims as it whispers, "Namaste".
Prepare to Write:
In today's lesson, the vision of light in a tree beams through the words to touch your heart.
Consider for a moment a vision of light in your life.
Energetically speak "Light" into your heart space.
"Light"
"Light"
Breathe the light into your heartspace, feeling it fill your body.
"Light"
"Light"
Now begin to write, describing your light in careful everlasting detail.
If your writing begins to slow down, simply re-invoke the movement by speaking. "I see" once again and go a little bit deeper each time.
Throughout the weekend, remember our writing today opened our consciousness to see light - in doing so, we will automatically be more aware of light.
Write the light, being very specific. Allow it to fill your heart and soul.
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