Saturday, June 9, 2012

Method for clearing your mind


Keep a personal diary, write your autobiography, or write letters about yourself: these are all ways of communicating with yourself, of discovering the truth about yourself and other people, and the realities of your own life.

   It does you good to keep a diary and write down what you are, whether via poems, dreams, conversations, portraits, letters, memories, observations, thoughts, intuitions, confessions, drawings, quotations or whatever happens to "come into your head".

   (I am speaking from experience since I did this during my apprenticeship to become an Initiate, the only difference being, perhaps, that I had to write in a language other than my mother tongue. Don’t worry, I’m not going to ask you to do the same!)

   Keeping a personal diary means that you are taking your life seriously, that you care enough about it to consider it honestly and to establish and express the truth about it.

   Ideally, try and write each day for about fifteen minutes (longer if you want to) since this will enable you to discover yourself as you gradually find your own form of expression, your own truths and your own life history.

   Buy exercise books and pens that you particularly like and keep them specially for this purpose. At a time when real intimacy, even with our lovers, parents and children, is becoming increasingly difficult, letters provide an ideal opportunity to freely express your emotions and the truth about your life, and are consequently a means of truly intimate communication. Also write to those who live with you, expressing your feelings, experiences, memories and ideas on paper.

   You can also do this using family photographs. Gather photos of yourself, your parents, your brothers and sisters, your friends, teachers, school photos, wedding photos, etc. As you look at them, think about and write down your memories, emotions and the special feelings that they evoke in you.

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