Welcome to this heart and healing invitation to use word. In the beginning there was the word, and word is theatre, poetry, one word. What are words? Words are language. Animals have words. Bees have words, the buzzing. They're the earth speaking to you. In my life, the first big teaching of word took place with my wife, who had breast cancer and was in the hospital for a bone marrow transplant. And I brought a laptop and sat in a room and thought I would chronicle what was happening. And what I thought would happen was that all the horrible things that were happening, her 50/50 chance of dying, the side effects of cancer on her body would be, I'd complain on the laptop. So I took the laptop and I put it down on a table in front of the window and I could see the eucalyptus trees blowing. And she was in bed, in the way she was in a bone marrow transplant, and I wrote, thank you for this beautiful day, and I went, what is that? Where is, what's speaking? And then I'm typing because I can type really well, and it said, thank you for the eucalyptus trees. Thank for this beautiful woman who's my wife. Thank you for the people healing her. And each day for 20 minutes something happened and what I learned then, I can see it now in retrospect more, was that when you write a word, maybe with intent to heal or maybe inside of great suffering, the word doesn't come from you. Carl Jung, the psychologist, would always say, where do images come from? Do they come from a part of your brain, the unconscious, aliens, outer space? because, in fact, no one knows where healing images of art come from. So when I was writing these words, it was almost like they were coming to me from somewhere and I began to recognize that. I began to understand that I was channeling something or receiving something. I didn't care, in fact, where it was coming from. But it was extremely beautiful and, Like from God or something like that, so the next time in my life I fell in love and for some reason I decided to write a love poem. And I sat down and the love poem came through. I wrote three a day or four a day for five years, thousands of them. And I couldn't stop writing them and I thought they were describing what was happening. So one of the things that word does, is you receive words to fill you with power and spirit. And you produce words to make something happen, to describe something that's already happened. In all art, there's two ways to make art. One is receptive where there's a blank screen, where something comes. And the other is where you put something on the screen like a picture of a mandala. So, in word, you always do both. You say, I'm going to write a love poem. So that's your subject, to my love who I love more than the sky and more than my breath. But then what comes out as you move your hand if you're hand writing or as you type comes from spirit. It comes from inside you and you never know what it's going to be. And you say something more than what happened in the situation because using word to heal lets you see more deeply than you saw in the moment when you were involved because when you see it's huge. It's when you're in a moment, there's information coming and you're concentrating on maybe a billionth of the information. Word let's you get from any art, but word is special. It lets you get the information beyond what you were aware of in the moment, so suddenly you can see the spirits that were there. Suddenly you can see the grandmothers, grandfathers. Suddenly, you can see your lover in all their lifetimes. Suddenly, you can see their pain and suffering. And as you write, Each word becomes the speaking of the spirit deep inside you to manifest this beauty. Lately in my life, I'm having these events of love and oneness. I'll be walking down the street, and suddenly, time and space will slow, and everything will become a syrup, and the light will come in. And then I have this experience but I also go home and I take my laptop out and I try to remember these moments of spirit that have occurred to me during the day. They're like gifts from the beyond and if i write them down, I can both see deeper and remember them. So where it also is a way that you can find out in your life, How to remember, highlight, and own the moment spirit is taking you into sacred space to heal you. So write a poem, no rhyme. Or write a story or write a journal. Before you write it say, I invite spirit to come. I invite the grandmothers and grandfathers for directions. You can use that vocabulary to come and take up your pen or take up your hand and you can draw pictures. With thanks, see what happens. Trust it completely and it's a wonderful experience. So this is the week of word. Thank you.
