The Power of Writing

The Power of Writing
by Robert Cosmar

I was riding in my car the other day when a whisper broke into my awareness. It was about the importance of writing. It's so simple, yet millions ignore it because they don't realize how important it can be. There is also a fear that writing might reveal things too personal and painful to face.

Creative and diary writing are healing and can be therapeutic. Both help you get in touch with your "self" on a deeper level. It's a door to unlock your feelings and unconscious, giving you an opportunity to explore something hidden, perhaps buried for years.

Take any event in your life, and start to write and explore it. Feel the emotions as you relive the experience. Remember, you are in control. You can back away or avoid the feelings, if you must, but I encourage you to explore them. If you need to cry, then cry. If you feel angry, be angry, but explore the roots of that anger or sorrow. See how the emotion affects you, and realize that you, alone, own those feelings. They are showing you the power your thoughts and feelings have had over your life.

Thoughts and feelings can hobble us in our development as a total person. When we believe something about our self, and it isn't bridged by an awareness of truth, we can cripple, even kill ourselves. By not facing our self and the deep emotion, we prevent healing it's rightful passage into our awareness which gives answers and provides the healing balm of truth. Don't push the painful memories away. Embrace and face them with the same energy you would use to face enemy artillery or bullets. Realize your life and happiness are important to you and others. Understand, in the realm of your higher awareness, there's no medal, no badge for having suffered. The scars you carry are your choices and the healing is yours, if you embrace the past and release the fear that was repressed and not fully embraced when tragedy occurred.

Fear is a natural reaction when the mind feels it's losing control. It's shocked, seeing it can't be in charge of everything. The mind judges and holds many contradictions and you have a recipe for a mental train wreck. Sudden trauma, combined by intense fear, makes us fear we'll lose our life. This realization, if not recognized as normal, is often pushed aside and buried because the mind is proud. It believes it can achieve infinity, but it cannot.

The question of life can't be answered unless death is faced. Death is what gives meaning to life and brings it into our consciousness. If you've ever faced death, you know that fear is like a cold steel rod being shoved into the brain. It paralyzes and shocks you into denial and can also push you over the edge, from mind into reality. Men often go into battle with pride and confidence, only to be humbled and confused by the fear of death. "The price of glory is the wages of fear."

The universe doesn't judge us for the choices we make. It allows us to experience what we choose; however, there's a price for unconscious choices not based on truth about the higher nature of existence. We feel pain when we make a lower choice. We hurt when we realize we made an ill-advised decision. Sometimes, we're too proud to admit our naivete and need to face it. You'll never be able to explore the meaning of life, until you've faced the reality of death. Death brings the question of life into immediate attention.

Soldiers often suffer for decades over unresolved memories and buried experiences. Guilt is often an issue, if they feel they should've done more to save a life or prevent a tragedy. So much is out of our control in combat, and it's a burden too great for some. Death is life on steroids.

A few years ago, I saw a movie called The Thin Red Line. It was about WWII and a group of soldiers facing a life or death situation. The men were facing death, fear, confusion and anger. However, one soldier was different and the movie was from his point of view. He saw his experience in combat from a transcended place. He wasn't afraid, just aware of everything going on. He saw war, not as a horrible, terrifying experience, but a drama he had no control over. So rather than give in to fear and try to control his fate, he surrendered to whatever happened.

Death strips us of pride, our manliness, our goals. It wipes out the hopes and dreams of a man and renders him helpless. It shocks the mind, because the mind can't comprehend death. It sees death and fears it, but has no control over it. Death is in a realm beyond the mind's ability to grasp. The soldier was able to transcend his fear and see war and combat as a stage where men faced their "self" and it revealed who they were. In the end, he was led to make a choice between saving himself or another soldier. He gave his life, because he knew that was where life had brought him, and fear had no hold over his choice.

When we can die freely because we are aware life has brought us to our destination, fear loses its grip on us and we surrender to it willingly. We don't question why or ask who we are. We don't doubt or criticize ourself for our choice. We simply surrender to what is, and accept our fate. It's time to let go of the past. For those who suffer, they have not let go. Still they hold on tightly because the answers are deep inside. What you dread is a gift to explore yourself and the meaning of life, without judgement or condemnation. All it takes is courage and a willingness to learn.

Namaste.
Bob Cosmar