Chapter 10- Language: Exercise 1

Exercise 1 “Getting to know you”

Tools required:

• Pen
• Paper
• Pocket

Take a full week to find one particular word that holds great significance and appeal to you. Just the one. It maybe for unrecognised reasons that this word comes more strongly than all of the rest; it may prompt curiosity or simply peace. It is not to be the name of a person, but can be the name of a deity.

This is a word now chosen to teach you of its properties. Write the word onto a piece of paper and place in the pocket for another week. It is not necessary to think about the word, or its meanings, just to carry it around. At the end of the week though, make a review of what has come to you and if it bears relation to this befriended word.

On the last week of the exercise, early morning, take a pen and write same word upon an unseen part of the body. Renew this writing every day for seven days. Take care on this week to consider the wisdom of this piece of language you now bear upon yourself and reflect nightly on every new meaning discovered and found.