Clarity

I Keep Practicing

[Before you start reading this, the bold and italics parts below are from my guide Seth where I am channeling in the article.]

I strive for clarity of thought. I’m not sure how to get there, but I trust the efforts I take will eventually work or, at least help me to improve. I suppose nobody can have a complete clarity of thought, but you’ve read pieces where a writer can cut through the blather, the mists of confusion to the glowing heart of the matter. They might not do it all the time, but they do hit the heart every once in a while.

I want to be that writer. With an economy of words (People in Spirit started laughing. I believe there were a bunch of them.) Now, I’ve lost my train of thought. Quiet. Quiet. Wait for it. There.

There is it. I can tell because chills just ran over my scalp. Tears stung in my eyes. Just what that clarity of thought involves right now, I can’t say. I’m just having a moment.

You know what? It doesn’t matter. It’s like when you are weaving. You want to be aware that you aren’t pulling the weft, the yarn or thread that goes back and forth across the piece too tight, because then you get an hourglass shape where the middle is much tighter and smaller than the top where you started. Once begun with a too tight tension, it is difficult to form the piece back into its perfectly rectangular shape. So, that’s one thing you want to be aware of when you are weaving. You also want to be careful to tamp down the threads as you pass your shuttle loaded with thread back and forth. If you don’t do that with the same even tension, you’re going to be looking at holes in your place mat or whatever you are making.

I make my own shuttles out of paint sticks from the hardware store. You carve deep smiley faces into each end and sand it, so it is smooth. Cheaper than buying a new one to the tune of $15 or more.

I have a few looms. One was a child’s toy I got at a yard sale once. Another was a $500 loom I bought used. That one I never did get warped, and I ended up gifting it to a friend years later. It took up as much room as a living room chair in our house. It was also not in the direct sunlight which is something I discovered later on was necessary. That was when I decided to stay small with my smaller hobby. I never made many items, but weaving is something that has interested me, and I still feel the satisfaction from weaving in my mind pretty landscapes, with hills that rise and fall, with clouds.

Hey, would you guys like to say something?

Why?

Well, you were laughing up there at the beginning of the article.

Yes, it was because you are not known for brevity.

Well, neither are you.

We are well met then.

Funny, anyway, I was figuring you might talk about clarity, because I have difficulty with it.

Yes, at times. So does pretty much anyone else. It is a difficult thing to be able to achieve clarity in everything you do. You need to be focused. To this end quieting your mind and actually focusing on something is beneficial.

It’s like a ballet dancer who is constantly stretching at the barre. That is the part that does not get seen by the public but is necessary for their own expression of dance. To that end a dancer will be able to know what the basics movements are without having to concentrate on them unduly. These become the almost automatic movements that need not be consciously thought about. The dancer will actually be drawing upon how to interpret the line or pose he or she is presenting on stage to their partner or to the idea or thought, the focus of the dance. Heartfelt, but not consciously so.

Your writing would then have the automated rules of spelling and grammar in place, that you need not be so totally aware of them that the effort takes away from your writing, and you can focus more totally on the material rather than the construction. Afterwards, of course, you go back over it with spell checker in hand to help tidy things up.

A writer also benefits from reading other writers, to see what they like and what makes them cringe. All is useful. Does not the art student sit in the museum or gallery to copy the works of the masters until they have acquired the necessary skills to paint in a similar vein? Then, with time and practicing of their art they will slowly move into their own, moving toward their own individual style. This is a life’s work, for not one person in the world ever gets to the pinnacle. Many are acclaimed as successful or famous, but it is the striving that shows a life well lived.

We would say there is nothing worse than to be speaking to someone who in their heartfelt fervor of the moment also sprays their audience with spittle. That is the attention to the rules of spelling and grammar or in the case of an artist to a proper understanding of symmetry and of perspective.

I have to breathe.

Hey, that was a nice spot of channeling. Thank you.

Thank you, to you, for allowing us this moment on stage, so to speak. Our blessings to you and all who might come upon this piece.

Okay, here is some clarity of thought. If you spend all your time hammering on the same nail your arm is going to get tired. Best to move from the hammering to something not immediately related, like weaving to help tie the whole thing together.

I am a weaver of words. There, now, right now? To me that is clarity.

🌸°•°🌸 Pauline 🌸°•°🌸

P.S. The bold-faced type is the part where I was channeling my guide Seth. I’ve been channeling since 1993, so it has been a long association. If you are interested in learning how, I’m working on two books with the intention of teaching others to channel, because I believe everybody can do it. So, subscribe to my emails and that way I’ll have your email address and will let you know when the books will be coming out.

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