{"id":7496,"date":"2016-03-21T13:32:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T20:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7496"},"modified":"2020-04-08T10:41:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:41:01","slug":"where-do-you-go-in-your-mind-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7496","title":{"rendered":"Where do you go in your mind to write?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Using inquiry to allow time and space to open knowing&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_7502\" style=\"width: 744px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Into-The-Mist-by-Mikko-Lagerstedt.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7502\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7502\" src=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Into-The-Mist-by-Mikko-Lagerstedt.png\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of: &#039;Into The Mist&#039; by Mikko Lagerstedt http:\/\/www.mikkolagerstedt.com\/alone \" width=\"734\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Into-The-Mist-by-Mikko-Lagerstedt.png 734w, https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Into-The-Mist-by-Mikko-Lagerstedt-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of: &#8216;Into The Mist&#8217; by Mikko Lagerstedt<br \/>http:\/\/www.mikkolagerstedt.com\/alone<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I compose (in part) in my head, an activity I do best over time, not that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m that great at it. When I do this, it allows my heartfelt intent to call forth aspects from depths that discursive thinking usually skims over. When an insight seems to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>dawn<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on me, it is usually associated with an inquiry I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been considering. In that dawning there may be great clarity and openness. If I decide to write it down, I must contextualize it, and that begins the series of choices and decisions that narrow and particularize how to approach what I want to say, as well as the manner in which I think will best express the meaning of that insight. The great challenge in particularizing any open insight is to try and maintain as much of the openness and clarity of its original dawning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Trying to look deeper\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 What does it mean to write something?  What is involved with creating the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>said<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122?  In either case there may be an intent to convey something felt with words, but how does the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc<em>specific<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 come to the conscious surface?  Where does the felt connect to the expression?  I watch this intently.  Somehow emptiness begets form, feeling earns content, the not-relevant is discounted and the fitting becomes worthy\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6  Entering into open <em>mindspace <\/em>with anticipation, a trusting and growing confidence that the sense of self will not be irretrievably lost, as habitual benchmarks of identity and location are relinquished, which allows nanoseconds of limpidity, of being the knowing, of loving the exquisite awareness of this aliveness\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6  Writing is the manifestation of the continuum of the open question\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6as words rise to the occasion\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6love of their embodied origin expands fullness as I inquire, even with nothing particular to say, only to peek into that knowing&#8230;which is not so much a &#8216;look&#8217; as it is BEING the openness&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using inquiry to allow time and space to open knowing&#8230; I compose (in part) in my head, an activity I do best over time, not that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m that great at it. 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