Let’s face it, you are going to be reading more of me…until you don’t… I am getting in the swing of writing on my laptop without overthinking it. It is setting me up for when I start working on my forthcoming book, The Golden Mirror, again. Yay! I have pretty much the whole thing (at least the first book) written out in my head. It is a story that follows my main character Mohali on an epic adventure of embodiment
By reaching into fiction, I feel as though my imagination will truly have no cap. For The Golden Mirror series, I will be painting a completely new world. Which is very cool and fun, and also I am willingly walking towards the miraculous. Because even I cannot help but wonder, how will it be done?
Getting in the hang of just doing it is a great place to start. This is wisdom I have heard in many creative communities, writing just being one!
Plus, time has a funny way of speeding up and slowing down while personal deadlines get lost in translation. When it comes down to it, creation is all love. So, let’s just trust in the flow and timing of things, and use the present moment for constant material.
That is one of the things I love most about Oracle Delivery and my little home here on Substack. I first heard of this platform from other writers in my community. It was originally something that floated in my field when I wanted to create more visibility for my writing but I was craving solitude, quiet, and a blank space. I wanted a very large blank canvas where nothing else was needed beyond letters, punctuation marks and words.
In yoga, there is something called a Drishti, which directs a person where their eye gaze will focus on. As a person moves, twists, binds, stretches, and ultimately opens their body more and more throughout their yoga practice — it is quite common for this person’s sensorial experience to also turn up! For each individual pose, the Drishti will direct a person to focus upon maybe the tip of her nose or her navel. Ultimately, it is always a single point. In my experience, this feels like following an intention amongst a field of visions or looking up to a dark sky and knowing which star is mine. I would not necessarily compare it to tunnel vision, because with how open my body feels in the moment, the presence of infinite possibility is there!
Sometimes focus can come when we are in a dark spot or challenging moment. The light at the end of the tunnel will push us to move out. However, in this scenario, I am reminded of a story about a fig tree.
A young girl sits at the bottom of a fig tree and stares at all the voluptuous fruit. She craves them all and is frozen because she does not know which one to choose! The tree tells her she must choose one, and only one. And so, she waits until the obvious answer will come. Soon, one by one, figs drop to the Earth to be composted. And even still - the girl has not chosen one. Eventually, all the figs have dropped or were eaten by something else and the girl is left with none. (Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar).
Expression can bring abundance. Creativity is limitless. And, openness brings more fortuitous experience than any material thing can have done. But, unless the artist is in a space that they feel totally and completely free to do as they want - I do not think that the rest will come. There will always be this overarching sense that what that person is doing is being influenced by someone or something else. To refer back to the yogi, this person may be looking around instead of at their Drishti, which one hundred percent there is a place for that. Community and inspiration. But, my point is that while I am creating / practicing on my mat — I am finding myself leaning on my own experience vs everything else that is not that.
With all my love,
Patricia Alessandria Rose Levy