The Light Side: Unleash Your Writing Potential (Swadhisthana)

Swadhisthana chakra is shown as having six petals, bearing the Sanskrit letters ba, bha, ma, ya, ra, and la. The seed sound in the centre is vam. The tattwa for the element of Water is shown as a silver crescent. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Swadhisthana is located inside the tailbone. The word means “one's own abode”, where your dormant potentials and karmas sleep. Emotions can be tamed or freed here. It is a place of choices.

• Potential: What do you think limits your potential? There are many areas of writing potential. A few are voice, style, skill, professionalism, morality, quality, and how prolific you are.
• Tamed: What needs to be tamed for you to unleash your potential? I think everyone has emotions and behaviors that hold us back from our full potential. Some are situational and some are part of our personalities. Negative emotions and destructive behaviors can be easy to recognize but difficult to fix. When I tackle one of these, I find it helpful to make a plan and be accountable to someone for it. Yes, it may be embarrassing to admit these weaknesses but a cheerleader and someone you are accountable to can make the attempt more likely to succeed.
• Freed: What needs to be freed for you to unleash your potential? These are inhibitions on positive aspects such as creativity, joy, and being true to yourself. I personally find this the more difficult change to make in my life. There is so little concrete advice out there and a great deal of abstracts. It requires a very different mind-set to nurture instead of attack and relax instead of be on guard. Personally, I find the Tao te Ching helpful but it is very abstract.
  
  

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