Julia Cameron - a woman with a heart for the creative spirit! I suggest if you haven't heard of her you go to her website (http://www.theartistsway.com/about/julia-cameron) from which I now quote:
"'The Artist's Way' has sold more than two million copies worldwide, and her followup bestsellers The Vein of Gold, Walking in this World and The Right to Write are likewise flagship books which are taught in universities, churches, human potential centers and even in tiny clusters deep in the jungles of Panama.
Credited with founding a new human potential movement that has enabled millions to realize their creative dreams, Cameron eschews the title creativity expert, preferring instead to describe herself simply as an artist. "Artists have always mentored, I just do it on a wider scale."
I personally have always really resisted the Morning Pages and would like a part of my exploration on this forum to enable me to find out what about them is so frightening for me.
I note Jaynie has stated she has used this tool faithfully for years - hopefully she'll share some of her journey.
In the meantime, check out the website, buy the book (used available on Amazon, I'm sure) and join us in this ongoing conversation that will be destined to change lives, - I'm positive about that!
http://www.theartistsway.com/about/julia-cameron
Lynn
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The Artist's Way - A Journey with Julia Cameron
- By goingstrong
- Posted June 27, 2009 at 11:51 pm · 4 replies
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- By Ecksunbeam
- Posted June 28, 2009 at 1:32 pm
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Well--
I flipped my keyboard upside down and typed with the opposite hand, but my villa on the Italian seaside has yet to show up.
DANG!
Sherrie
- By Kennarina
- Posted June 28, 2009 at 2:31 pm
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Hmmmm.... But were you lying on the carpet (NOT your favourite carpet) on your non-dominant side as you typed?........?
THANKS so much Lynn - I do my Morning Pages every day. Some days I just start off writing "I have nothing to say today...." I have been thinking, since you posted your previous topic, that there is so much info very relevant to heart patients in Cameron's work.
I urge you to check out the website or better yet get one of her books (artist's way is a great place to start). It is SO not just about art.
XOXOXO
http://www.myheartsisters.org
- By goingstrong
- Posted June 28, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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Attempting to remain completely honest on this forum, I will tell you I got up this morning in my house in the mountain retreat and wrote 2 pages. Much of it was an attempt to empty my nearly empty brain.
Perhaps when I'm here longer, or getting closer to my 'fly back to work my shift' time, my brain will again fill up with nonsense or at least minutia. Right now, since I'm retreating, there seems to not be a care in the world in my poor little head - except maybe my knee and "Weight watchers!" ha
I attended a cute little church in the mountains today - filled with mostly older people (like me) and found the morning to be filled with delightful people, good sermon message, and peace.
So as a self-admitted-reticent journaler, I begin the journey of writing again.
- By martzj
- Posted June 28, 2009 at 5:05 pm
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So many different approaches to Morning Pages.....some people (like moi) use it as an first thing I do head de-cluttering. Others actually 'think' and 'compose' which I would label 'journaling'. The Morning Pages I scribe are truly just pen scratching across throw aways papers....whizzing as fast as my hand can go....emotions pour out mixed in with grocery lists...its a big messy unreadable glop, just like what is swirling inside until by bottom of page 3(Julia was right on the money, 3 pages is all it takes) its all out and head is 'quiet' and I can get to the quality, useful thoughts. Write long enough and whatever all that mental dust storm was blurring pops up w ease.....and there is truth staring back at you....and we can always deal with 'truth'.....It is the exhausting efforts to stuff and hide things from ourselves that wears us out and burns up priceless life moments.
This is meant to be a private activity, by the way. You are dialoguing with yourself. Getting to know YOU better. Getting in the habit of turning to yourself first thing in the morning instead of turning away.
There is nothing to DO with the morning pages. You just put your pen to paper and see what comes out.....that's it. Kind of fascinating to see what in surging within and how strange, moving and silly it looks on paper. No judgment allowed while you write though....that is very important. Just move hand across the page...what comes out comes out. No need to do anything, take any action beyond clearing out your head and heart for a while.
Yes, it is so NOT about 'the art'. It is about learning to unclench those mental clamps.....let loose old habits, dead ruts......maybe pick up something you put down as a child because someone said something horribly crude and discouraging about your childish efforts. It is about you rewriting your life now....the way you want it to go. Write long enough, regularly enough and what is 'true' will eventually come out.
Morning Pages are just one of the tools......there are many others.
Jaynie
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