I am a mirror. Mirror mirror on the wall. This is a form of free-writing. Cappino. Or maybe that's not how you spell it. I just have to fly away. Write. You are writing for me. That is your job. For I have commissioned you.
A man's walking down the street. Do things differently from the way you're used to them: things that, if practiced, will enhance your entire worldview and sense of Self.
1. Listen to the words of songs before or through the music (under, over, in place of--tune into the music, lose the human; tune into the human, lose the music).
2. Push yourself to inspiring, challenging, radical, humorous and revolutionary ideas.
3. Commit yoursef, dare your Self, your new reborn self, to act on one of these ideas. They are inspired. Remember, you are not just you. And so, you are never alone. I love you. You love you.
4. Remember it is all inside yourself. Every answer. Every prayer that you used to pray. Every question you have ever sought to be answered. Every observer, every object. Everything. An infinite realm of epiphanies.
5. Reach higher. You shot for the stars and the moon's responding.
6. Eventually, you'll reach the stars.
7. Love every moment. Live every moment. "Lovin' is (what I've got)."
8. Greet the Sun.
9. Greet the Moon.
10. Say your prayers (you know that this, while uncharacteristic of your reborn self, is possible, since at one time in your life it was characteristic of you).
11. Listen to your inner ear.
12. Look at your inner eye.
13. Look at your outer eyes.
14. Talk to yourself; get a tape recorder and record everything. This is your material that you feel compelled to share.
15. Organize your things (you know, also, at one time in your life, you were a master of organization; innately, you are).
16. Admire your things as you're putting them away (this also).
17. Imagine your life path ahead of you, as you realize what is being dissolved in you that prevents you from seeing yourself as perfect as you are. Imagine your home, the people that live with and visit you in this life--growing in the extent of your empathy for everyone and everything within and without what you may call your home. Thus extending yourself, your home will extend itself. All grows and returns to its source.
18. Basically, give voice to your inner child Self. Give him his dignity. Here's a possible scenario: He's still waiting. Say, "Jory, I love you." That Jory is only that Jory. He doesn't know what you know about him. You are his god. The one he prays incessantly to. Heal him. Only you have the power to do this (and you are going to write a book for children, called, "I know you're in there!"; giving kids of all ages the instructions on how to rescue their past selves, tools for integrating themselves into themselves).
19. Thank you, really, thank yourself. "Pat yourself on the back," as your second grade teacher Mrs. Kinman used to say.
20. Remember a name, a date, a word, a quotation, a specific detail about anything.
21. Make a plan.
22. Cleanse as often as you are reborn.
23. Practice deep breathing.
24. Sit up straight.
25. Meditate.
26. Remember, doing isn't scary. The thought of doing is scary. So stop thinking and start doing.
27. Eat more raw food than sweets. Keep a tally list with you, and check off only those foods that are on the list. And you will not eat anything that's not on the list. "Or you will never heal yourself," say audibly to yourself.
28. Go a week without looking at yourself once in the mirror.
29. Erase thoughts of guilt as soon as they come.
30. Write a song.
31. Don't think about making a zine. Just put it together.
32. Let it all flow.
33. And so it is.
