Coffee Novelist

                          The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state that makes art inevitable.

 

Finding my voice

This morning I am reviewing my 5^th Chakra. You heard me right. It is snowing and cold. I just wrote in my journal that the wind is literally rattling the windowpanes of this 112 year old house. So, why not brew some coffee and see how I’m doing in good ol’ Chakra number five?

If you don’t know how balanced or imbalanced you are in your 5th or any of your six other Chakras, I’m afraid you won’t’ be able to find out by asking Siri. Save her for ego gratification and disconnection from the effort required to actually enjoy the outcome of what you are asking her to do for you.

The Fifth Chakra is the throat, the voice Chakra which impels you to express yourself in a creative way. It can be helpful for me at least, to view the Chakras as a type of ladder with seven rungs in various states of repair or disrepair. All steps need to be working before you get to a state of detached, self-awareness in which one doesn’t have anything to defend, be the smartest guy in the room, and in which you understand that you are in the materialistic rat race world but not of it. The Fifth Chakra is the throat and voice Chakra which impels you to express yourself in a creative way.

In good voice today

I am feeling fairly sure of my footing on the 5^th Chakra this morning as I write this post. I may be struggling in the 2^nd or 3rd Chakras tomorrow so I’m writing this post while I’m here. It’s a new ladder every day.

A balanced 5^th Chakra allows one to speak their personal truth. Of course, one doesn’t just spin the Chakra dial and end up with a balanced 5^th Chakra, writing your personal truth. You have to find it first. I have had my path and it ain’t pretty nor is it recommended. It wouldn’t’ work to do what I did anyway. Your own personal truth can only be discovered by you. Makes sense to me.

I was into chakras for years and years before I read the Robert Henri quote in the Rubin book. But it was during my 5th chakra review earlier this morning that I saw the connection between a balanced 5th chakra and the “wonderful state.” The 5th chakra is knowing your tendencies and traits well enough to get out of the way and allow the liberated pure light to shine through.

Found it

Not sure where to go from here. Maybe that there is nothing new under the sun, certainly not my warped, wooden windowpanes.  Henri and Rubin aint’ breaking news here. Maybe simply feeling like I wanted to write about something I believe in (and I definitely do), like the existence of the energy centers in our bodies that the Chakras are, confirms that I am balanced in my 5th chakra, and freeing my personal truth, sharing it without any other agenda to fulfill.

Yea, that must have been the reason.