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The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal: A Companion Volume to the Artist's Way - Softcover

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Cameron, Julia

 
9780874778861: The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal: A Companion Volume to the Artist's Way
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0874778867 ISBN 13: 9780874778861
Verlag: TarcherPerigee, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Julia Cameron keeps row after row of journals on the wooden bookcase in her writing room, all containing Morning Pages from more than twelve years of her life. The journals, she says, listen to her. They have been company on travels, and she is indebted to them for consolation, advice, humor, sanity. Now the bestselling author of The Artist's Way offers readers the same companion, in which we may discover ourselves, our fears and aspirations, and our life's daily flow. Readers will find privacy, a portable writing room, where our opinions are for our own eyes. Morning Pages prioritize the day, providing clarity and comfort.With an introduction and instructions on how to use this journal, by Julia Cameron, readers will uncover the history of their spirits as they move their hands across the universe of their lives.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Julia Cameron has been an active artist for four decades. She is the author of more than forty books, fiction and nonfiction, including such bestselling works on the creative process as The Artist’s Way, Walking in this World, and Finding Water. A novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet, she has multiple credits in theater, film, and television. She divides her time between Manhattan and the high desert of New Mexico.

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Week One

Recovering a Sense of Safety

Creativity flourishes in an atmosphere of safety and acceptance. That is the atmosphere you will be building for yourself through the morning pages. The sense of this safety may not be immediate. In fact, undertaking morning pages may feel both exciting and scary. Will I really find the time? What if I have nothing to say? You will have "something" to say-even if that something is merely griping at committing to the pages.

It is the artist date that many of you may find more tricky. It sounds so frivolous. What good could that do?

Exactly this. Artist dates reinforce your sense of safety. They strengthen your contact with a source of benevolence in the world at large. When you write morning pages you are like a person in a life raft sending out a signal: "Here. Here I am. This is what I want." But until you take your artist date, it is as if you have your receive channel shut off. In other words, you may SOS, but when the call comes back, "Tell us again, exactly," you don't hear it. You leave yourself marooned and feeling frightened. Please practice both tools together.

We speak of practicing the morning pages and practicing the artist date. You do not need to use either tool perfectly. Be gentle but persistent in your attempts. Here are the answers to some often-asked questions:

Yes, morning pages should be done in the morning. Yes, it's better to do pages "late" than not at all. (And yes, everyone is tempted to cheat a little.)

As for the artist dates, they are easily sabotaged. A friend may ask to come along. A deadline may suddenly rear its head. Be vigilant about protecting your artist date. Plan it ahead of time, execute it, and consider it a major victory no matter how frivolous it may seem at the time.

Your sense of safety will grow, along with your sense of mastery over these basic tools.

1. There is no wrong way to do morning pages. These daily morning meanderings are not meant to be art.

2. Morning pages map our own interior. Without them our dreams may remain terra incognita.

3. The morning pages move us into artist brain. Artist brain is our inventor, our child, our very own personal absent-minded professor. Artist brain says, "Hey! That is so neat!" It puts odd things together. . . .

4. The morning pages miniaturize our Censor. The Censor is part of our leftover survival brain. Any original thought can look pretty dangerous to our Censor.

5. Morning pages will allow you to detach from your negative Censor. It may even begin to seem like a grumpy cartoon character.

6. Doing your artist date, you are receiving-opening yourself to insight, inspiration, guidance.

7. When we work at our art, we dip into the well of our experience and scoop out images. Because we do this, we need to learn how to put images back. How do we fill the well? By the artist date.

8. Unfortunately, many artists never receive critical early encouragement. As a result, they may not know they are artists at all.

9. Too intimidated to become artists themselves, very often too low in self-worth to even recognize that they have an artistic dream, many people become shadow artists instead. Artists themselves but ignorant of their true identity, shadow artists are to be found shadowing declared artists.

10. Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright.

11. In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly. What we are after here is the healing of old wounds-not the creation of new ones.

12. Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

13. Most of the time when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that way.

Negative beliefs are exactly that: beliefs, not facts. Artists need not be drunk, crazy, broke, alone-or any of a number of our culture's negative beliefs about them.

14. It is possible, quite possible, to be both an artist and romantically fulfilled. It is quite possible to be an artist and financially successful.

15. Affirmations help achieve a sense of safety and hope: I am a channel for God's creativity, and my work comes to good.

16. My dreams come from God and God has the power to accomplish them.

17. My creativity heals myself and others.

18. There is a divine plan of goodness for my work.

19. I am willing to let God create through me.

20. It is important to remember that at first flush, going sane feels exactly like going crazy.

21. As we gain strength, so will some of the attacks of self-doubt. This is normal, and we can deal with these stronger attacks when we see them as symptoms of recovery.

Week Two

Recovering a Sense of Identity

One of the first fruits of morning pages is a clearer sense of personal identity. You are starting to look with clearer eyes at how you see yourself and how you see the world around you. You may feel a sense of wonder as your true self is slowly revealed. Skepticism may be starting to give way to curiosity. Who exactly are you? As your identity gets clearer, you will find your relationships shifting. You may be starting to know and speak your mind, which makes you less easy to take advantage of, more capable of saying no. Your more poisonous playmates will not appreciate this shift in your self-worth.

Many creative people surround themselves with "crazymakers," those who discount their realities, abuse their schedules, expect special treatment, break their agreements, and generally, create chaos, which siphons off creative energy. As you recover your identity, these crazymakers may feel threatened. "You're getting selfish," they may tell you.

In the very best sense, they are right. Your self is beginning to be more visible, less embedded in the expectations of others. This can be threatening, not only to others but to you as well. Treat yourself carefully. Remember that "treating yourself like a precious object will make you strong."

It may take strength to execute your pages this week-strength in the face of your crazymakers, strength in the face of your own possible temptation to return to the person who was blocked. "Better safe than sorry," part of you may say.

I remind you: you were both safe and sorry. That is the identity you are in the process of shedding. Now that you are no longer who you were but not yet who you are becoming, you may find yourself feeling awkward, like a hatchling. Hatchlings are awkward, but they are also becoming free.

22. Remember, the morning pages are private and are not intended for the scrutiny of well-meaning friends.

23. Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance.

24. Not surprisingly, the most poisonous playmates for us as recovering creatives are people whose creativity is still blocked. Do not expect your blocked friends to applaud your recovery.

25. Be very careful to safeguard your newly recovering artist. A related thing creatives do to avoid being creative is to involve themselves with crazymakers. Crazymakers are those personalities that create storm centers.

26. The crazymakers in your life share certain destructive patterns that make them poisonous for any sustained creative work. Crazymakers break deals and destroy schedules. Crazymakers expect special treatment. Crazymakers discount your reality. Crazymakers pretend you're crazy.

27. Crazymakers spend your time and money. Crazymakers are expert blamers. Crazymakers create dramas-but seldom where they belong.

28. Crazymakers hate schedules-except their own.

29. As frightening and abusive as life with a crazymaker is, we find it far less threatening than the challenge of a creative life of our own.

30. Perhaps...

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Verlag
TarcherPerigee
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0874778867
ISBN 13 
9780874778861
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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