Soul, Nurturing Words

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I recently received a lovely message from a workshop participant who attended a workshop I ran on Journal writing in 2011 at the Brahma Kumaris. She has given me permission to share some of her message about the impact that the journal writing workshop had on her.

“It was also on that day and during a workshop with you that I made a decision to write at least two A4 pages every day.  Soon after, and a year and a half later the most beautiful soul nurturing words have been flowing from a deeper place and onto to paper.

Usually, after a meditation, my mind steps aside and Joy comes through.  Below is an excerpt that came through around the same time as the workshop with you in Willesden. “ – Jiro Jo

Below is an excerpt she shared with me:

Gradually know this, today is yours.  Depend on no-one.  There is love here for you.  Deepen experience of me.  Deny this not.  By my name you will realise love in droves. 

Forget nothing in you today. 

My name is Joy. 

Ask me. 

Your questions are well.

  i.     What sort of books would you like me to write?

Plain.  Simple.  Instructive.  Honest.  Books with depth and matter.  Tell not truth but remain in it for it will seep through in droves.

1. ii.     How will they be written?By my name in sequence and colour.  They are tales of Joy and fortune, memory and fortitude.  Pleasant and simple.

Ask another.

1. iii.     Will they be words I hear from you or will my mind make them up?No matter what, you are safe.  Mind works for you.  I am intent in categorizing subject matter for you.  Use me as tool.  Each tale will tell love and soul and be forever read.  There is light and surety in them.  They will illuminate and prosper all.  Forever told.
2. iv.     Will they be written for children?They are medicine for the soul.  All souls.

 v.     Will they be in the form of fiction or fact?

They will commence soon.  Stories will be well written and construed in scriptures.  Parables of the soul.  They will play with joy and sorrow and fulfil all hearts.

1. vi.     What will the first one be called?Matters not.  It will surprise you in time.
2. vii.     When will writing start?Today in your heart.  Scriptures will illuminate all starting now.

In a time not long passed lived sorrow.

Courageous was she.

Small was she.

Known was she.

Felt was she.

She consumed all souls plighting their life with menace, woe and resent.

My name is money, and I helped.

I changed time for all and conjured nothing well.

I stepped on toes and crushed and devoured mountains.

I did well. 

Then there’s me, fever.

I love Joy.  I love to play with her and make her wet and cold.

I make all wince and beg.

What pleasure I get furnishing all.

 Then there is worry, not to mention jealousy and tarnish, brother and thief.

We work well together, borrowing not to return.

We get up to maya and remain consistent wherever we go.

We charge all, and face none.

There is war in this place and we love it.

Delicious is here.

Morrow is thine.

Sanguine is coming.

Fruitless is formed.

Neglect, mischief, fancy without care for others, and greed all love to stay.

What can I say?  It has begun.  Express me in you.  You will gain recognition in style and voice, in gesture and faith. 

Be bold not. 

Cover not. 

Change not.

Testify to my name always.

Your Beloved,

                 Joy.

 Nothing matters any more.  We are one.  We have won.  Dedicate life to storytelling.  This is your way.

There is a force that is here that will remain forevermore.  This is so.  Continue in my name.

My love,

                  enable this foothold.

Words by JOY.

Written by JIRO JO.

Writing can be a deeply intimate process that allows us to express ourselves from the inside out. When I was training as an Interfaith Minister I made a vow to establish a writing ministry as part of my work and I am slowly realising how deeply writing is now becoming a major part of my work. Jiro Jo’s words flow across the page and take her into a dialogue and inquiry about her writing and I love that she has found her writing practice through the process of meditation.

Many writers meditate before they write. It is a powerful way to access the rich terrain of your imagination and connect with the deeper interior world inside of you. Of course meditation also connects you to the breath and the breath is the way we can allow our writing to take us to the words, stories and images that we would not find through a normal, rational constricted way of thinking. So often words, images and stories can be so fragile and fleeting and lost in a moment if we are not grounded and present.  By mindful breathing you are allowing yourself to be more concentrated. Mediation is like the spiders web that catches it all and brings it to the page. It will shift you from busy mind to quiet mind to a state where you are connected to the alpha brain waves which connects us to the state of flow.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone despite the pithy weather.