I have been slow moving with the Artist Way but have been working on my writing pages everyday.  Julia challenges us to each morning wake up and write 3 pages in a journal to release all things from our mind that may be blocking our creativity. At first I was like I already write in a  journal everyday so how is this differnent from that?

Well, when I was writing in my journal I didn’t always allow myself to be free and open minded, to release everything that was in my head.  When I started writing the pages everyday and making them at least 3 pages I was able to release things in my mind that I had kept hidden…because I didn’t want to deal with them.

Then I started to read about artist dates-this was a new concept in the form of actually scheduling one day a week a few hours to go out and do something I enjoy. I love to go to bookstores, even if I cannot purchase a book but of course I usually do as I love learning and the feeling of a good book in my hands, the smell of the paper and the atmosphere in the bookstore.  But I started to explore other areas of things I like to do, one of them is going to the museum I love museums but no one every wants to go with me.  I never thought about me going all by myself. So that is my plan to go out one afternoon to our local art museum take my pad of paper and pen and walk around the museum and enjoy the art and let my own creativity flow through.

 By doing the daily writing pages and looking ahead and scheduling a couple hours to do something for me has really opened me up and has helped me with my own creativity.  I have been able to discover things about myself that I thought either I had already dealt with or didn’t realize I needed to deal with.  I have a closer connection with myself….something I have been searching for awhile.

Being a mom, a wife, a daughter in law and a business owner sometimes I lose myself in all that I do each day.  I have rediscovered who I am and I am only just in the beginning of my studies for The Artist’s Way.  I can’t wait to see where else this book takes me in my search for me.

So if you could schedule a date just with yourself once a week for a couple hours what would you do?

I was introduced to this book through a yahoo group and with all the postings about it and the new spiritual path that so many people are looking for I decided this would be a great book to purchase and read more about.

This book is about discovering and recovering your creative self and has been around for 10 years but many people are just now discovering it as we all are starting to awaken to the fact that we are all creative people. 

As the earth grows more violent and more terror is around us each and everyday people are searching for ways to escape and to become more creative.

I will be reading and commenting on chapters and what doing the course that is outlined in the book has meant to me and the changes I have seen in the course.

Come back often, feel free to post your comments if you have read the book and done the course.

Description from back of book:

The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity.  An international bestseller, it’s an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life.  Perhaps even more vital in today’s cultural climate then when it was first published a decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work. 

I look forward to reading and learning more from this book.  I used to draw a lot and loved it then for odd reasons really, I stopped drawing…I let others tell me my work was not good, I wasn’t drawing and doodling as some called it for sale or for other’s pleasure I was doing this for my own pleasure.  I hope to rediscover this as I start reading and studying Julia Cameron’s book “The Artist’s Way”.

Please join me, post your comments about the book and how this book has helped you.