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You know, writing is a directional thing. It is a flow. It is an interpretation of a flow of energy. Let's look at it like it's a river since rivers are famous for flowing. You, the writer, are sitting on the riverbank at the very edge of the water. What you are going to do is embrace a snippet of river as it flows by and in so doing, you imprint your vibrations upon that snippet of river flowing by.

And then it's gone. That snippet of river is downriver and out of sight before you know it. So what you do is focus on another embracement and imprinting. Of course, it's gone pretty fast, too; being swept away by the river. But that river carries your imprinting far, far downstream and a lot of people sitting on the riverbanks downstream will see your embracement go by and they will feel the joy and love that was imprinted in it and it will help awaken the joy and love in their own hearts. Your embracement floating by may influence a lot of other peoples' embracements. People may end up sitting by the river and waiting for one of your embracements to come floating by.

The important thing to remember is that everything that you write is an embracement of the life-giving energy that flows through you. But once you embrace something it is no longer yours! Once it's embraced and imprinted then it's flowing away down the river. It's gone. It is a tendency for us to try to hold onto those embracements because they're "ours" and we don't want to see them float down the river away from us. This is both damming and damning. What are you doing when you don't let a river flow naturally; when you try to hold back the water? You're damming it. This, in turn, damns your creative efforts, so instead of having a constant flow of new river to embrace you've just got a pool of the same water. And stagnation sets in.

We don't own our writing creations. I'm not talking about copyright or anything like that but rather I'm speaking in universal terms. Of course, in universal terms we really don't own anything (yet everything). Anyway, our writings are our "creations" but once created they are no longer ours. It's like childbirth. Yeah, the kid might be ours but once it shoots out of the mother's body it is its own divine being and is not "owned" by anyone. But like with kids, we tend to hold on to our creations because of this perception of ownership we are stuck in. Ownership dams the flow. Some parents never let go of their children and some writers never let go of their creations.

So put yourself back at that riverbank. You're watching the river flow by. You've got pen and paper handy and you do an embracement and that embracement produces a poem. Once the poem is fully embraced, throw it in the river. Just throw it. You no longer own it. Just toss it in the river. Now you're free to enjoy your next embracement.

What will happen as you send embracements, one after another, down the river is that other people sitting on the riverbanks downstream will pull your poem out of the river and "read" it. If the poem sparks love, joy, or beauty within the reader then that reader's embracement of love, joy, or beauty is fed into another flow of energy that flows in the opposite direction of the river. This one flows through the air over the river and is a collection of energy from the accumulated embracements of all the readers downstream.

So there you are still sitting by the river. You are making lots of embracements and sending them on down the river. Meanwhile, as you breath in the air you are filled with that other flow of energy that includes all the energy of those downstream. So you've got a double flow going. But if you dam one flow then the other one stops, too. So embrace and release. Embrace/release. Don't hold on to anything. Just feel....and release.

You see the more appropriate way of "owning" something is to feel it; to embrace it. But we tend to view "owning" something as holding it within our grasp. We can't own anything until we've felt and embraced it and released it.

When we hold onto something and don't throw it in the river, so to speak, because we're worried about what people downstream might think then we're damming the double energy flow that we need to further "create." But this is why we won't let go of our stuff and throw it in the river because we have fear of that energy flow coming back towards us. It's a tough fear to walk through but it's also as easy as throwing a piece of paper into a river. The important thing to remember is that we cannot fully embrace our creations if we are judging them. That's not feeling. That's mental dam-building.

So perhaps you've already thrown a few pieces of paper in the river but you are not yet accustomed to the double flow of energy and your fears and judgments are all that are preventing an unimpeded flow. But you're new at this and your beginner's apprehension will evaporate further with each new piece of paper thrown in the river. So relax and enjoy the river. Keep your focus on the river in front of you and don't let your mind wander to those downstream. The river directly in front of you (the NOW) is the only place in the river where you can embrace/release/create.