Writing Through Your Body
Discipline bends into flexibility, not force.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
When you write from your body, you translate states of being into words.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
Writing that is not yours will feel flat
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
All of this is a practice and act of fine-tuning the feeling instrument. Re-sensitizing the body, giving permission to feel and discern.
Permission to feel and discern .
Permission to feel and discern .
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
You reach the final turn and end up at the central point—the eye of the labyrinth. Here runs a basin of an underground stream. No one has ever found out where this water comes from. The sound of this stream pierces through your heart. Your palm penetrates the current and you pull up your hand to your mouth to taste the spring water. Another time... See more
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
But rarely do we feel safe while telling the truth that comes from our bodies. Especially, when truth is not allowed in our families, households, work, schools, societies. Today, people get arrested, sentenced, and killed for telling, writing, and publishing truth. And with them, dies a larger body of humanity. There is no future without people who... See more
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
To write is to walk a labyrinth. To make art is to walk a labyrinth.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
Your readers will also sense the same flatness when you write something that does not stir a bone in your own home.
Rūta Žemčugovaitė • Writing Through Your Body
To write is to acclimatize your body to a continuous sensation of truth and move deeper into it. It strengthens, it supports, it gusts flexibility. Something turns in your stomach. Your heart opens to a potential new stream of thought. A valve decalcifies.