A Pathway to Peace is Clarity

June 2000, while driving from Chicago to Michigan for my baby sister Rachel’s High School Graduation I achieve a moment of mental clarity. I am going to get a job in Commercial Theater in Chicago by Labor Day. My path became as obvious to me as I94 to US31. There, on the wide-open road in Southern Michigan, I knew what I wanted to do. I call this a moment of mental clarity as my choice did not result from a reaction to fix or improve a circumstance (I didn’t hate my job which paid well). I didn’t have an “how bouts,” “what ifs,” or “It’ll never happens.” My mind was empty and I was able to create an intention. August 28, 2000 I started a job with one of the Commercial Theater companies in Chicago (of which there are only a handful).

In my life, I experience times of pure magic and miracles and then are times that well aren’t. Each and every of the afore mentioned is correlates to my psyche being clear.

It begins with a housecleaning of the mind. In her book YOU AN HEAL YOUR LIFE, Louise L. Hay summarizes it as:

If you want to clean a room thoroughly, you will pick and examine everything in it. Some things you will look at with love, and you will dust them or polish them to give them new beauty. Some things you will see that need refinishing or repair, you will make a note to do that. Some things will never serve you again and it is time to let those things go. Old magazines and newspapers and dirty paper plates can be dropped into the wastebasket, very calmly. There is no need to get angry in order to clean a room

It is the same thing when we are cleaning our mental house. There is no need to get angry just because some of the beliefs in it are ready to be tossed out. Let them go as easily as you would scrape bits of food in the trash after a meal. Would you really dig into yesterday’s garbage to make tonight’s meal? Do you dig into old mental garbage to create tomorrow’s experiences?

If your brain is cluttered you cannot experience lucidity.

Ways to perform a mental housecleaning are as varied as the ways to scrub you actual house. For some it is worship and prayer, for some it is confession, for some it is journaling, for some it is physical activity, for some it is communication, for some it is meditation, for some it is affirmations, for some it is visualization and so on and so on.

Luckily, I am skilled at obtaining mental clarity myself through reflection, prayer and journaling. Sometimes my brain gets so muddled, I must seek outside input as a result of my dedication to managing my mind. I have an elite list of people I can call for a conversation with the commitment of getting clear. This Special Forces directory is comprised of people I trust to the point that I can say ANYTHING, who know the questions to ask, who are committed to me winning and fulfilling on my intention, who I will pay attention to, who provide the perfect combination of consideration and coaching (as needed), who have a keen listening to hear the unsaid, and who know if I have achieved lucidity.

Clarity of mind is achieved when one gets any obstacle from producing an intended outcome out of the way. Sometimes, it is just letting the person empty their brain. Usually, it addresses concerns or considerations (this person it this way or that, I can’t, last time it was this way, I’ve had a crappy day).

I am gifted at getting others clear. I have the Special Forces qualities mentioned above. No formula exists, it is a dance. A couple weeks ago I prepared a friend for a big meeting, for which if he didn’t have clarity of mind he might kill someone, I begin asking him the intention of the meeting. I inquire what would get in the way of his fulfilling that intention. I wait for the reply (I say nothing while he looks for it) and he tells me. One barrier, he is distrustful. I offer, in this situation, it might be good to be distrustful but not to let in run the meeting. In that moment, clarity is achieved. He has a whole new body sensation. The meeting goes well. A week later, he has an appointment with the same organization and we are not achieving lucidity. I dance in the conversation, listening to him, till I know what questions to ask. The first of which is, are you clear? No? Okay, what are you resisting about the future? Viola, that meeting also goes well.

Too many people enter meetings or interviews…even parties or dates being confused. Giving power to those impediments rather than concentrating on one’s intention can be catastrophic. The actions are then given by survival (fixing, altering a situation, hoping he or she likes you). When one achieves clearness of thought and intention they are invincible. That is when magic and miracles happen.

This is a topic mini series. I will be writing more of this topic. In the meantime, I am curious about you response to this? Does it make sense?




clar·i·ty (kl r -t )
n.
1. Clearness of appearance: the clarity of the mountain air.
2. Clearness of thought or style; lucidity: writes with clarity and perception.