By: Sheenam Dhingra Tagged Atman, Begintowrite, Connectingwithyourself, Connection
It is not always external prompts and outside resources that could inspire and enable our creative juices to flow but writing can also be used as an empowering tool to turn inwards. Meditation before writing could help us connect with ourselves while we subsequently join these dots through writing. The following composition is an account of unwinding through meditation.
Eyes wide shut – penned by Kanish Jindal
I close my eyes and see darkness. Then a voice guides me and shows the way.
There is a room, pitch black, shrouded in darkness. I see two men standing in that room. Both are emanating white light. One of the two men is me. I see myself shaking hands and acknowledging the presence of another man. The other guy is my thought personified. We both shake hands and talk. As the conversation proceeds, I feel my body beginning to tense up. There is an apprehension that the man, my thought will hurt me, not physically but mentally and I will forever or for a considerable period of time be imprisoned in that tiny dark room with that thought. I feel my heart throbbing, my fist tightening, and teeth clenching. Respite now abandoning me.
Now I am scared for the reason that the man will not leave me or even if he leaves, there is no assurance that he will not return. Nevertheless, I realize that the man is a product of my creation, he draws energy from me. He just yearns for an acceptance from me.
I accept the man, my thought for who he is. I bid adieu to him, I let free, him from his misery and me from mine. I now notice that it was not him who held me imprisoned but it was me who held that man captive. I am the one who can assure him of his freedom. I LET GO!
I see a knot in my brain unfurling. This knot is my neurons forming a clot in my brain, that was secured tightly and now loosening. A drop of tear in my right eye trickles down and the man vanishes.