One purpose of self-mastery is going into the blood pulse. This means to evoke our creative soul, our guiding spirit, and go into a way of being in which an ongoing exchange of giving and receiving creative impulses are constantly available.
One mission of self-mastery is finding eloquence with which to give a gift. As Lewis Hyde says of Walt Whitman, "Those who can express themselves in speech have been given that mysterious something, like the mouthpiece of a trumpet or the reed of a wind instrument, through which experience is transmuted into sound." With self-mastery we begin by taking in the gifts of deep experience and then bestow these gifts outward in a flow of gratitude.
One strategy of self-mastery is really seeing something. When a fully lived experience passes deeply into us, it increases in both inner and outer meaning.
One gift of self-mastery is self-confidence. This is the state of climbing out and up into a clear space. Not into haughtiness but to a way of being that is active, autonomous, self-contained.
Great experiences fracture the acceptable truths of how we imagine our lives. When our imagination is awakened--as it will be by learning these qualities of artistic self-mastery--revelation will emerge.
