I bet hardly any of you can believe that we're only two chapters away from completing TAW. I certainly can't. It seems like such a mammoth task at the beginning and yet if you just stick at it and silence the perfectionist in you it really can be done!
So a huge WELL DONE to all of you for getting this far! Yay!!!
So what does week 10 bring us? Ah yes, those wonderful "blocking devices" need to be looked at. Gulp. They can be such seemingly ordinary things, a bowl of ice cream, an hour in front of the TV, constantly finding something that "needs doing". I am especially good at this one.. "I can't possibly do my morning pages, this morning, I have shopping to get, appointments to get to, phone calls to make..." the list is endless. And they seem such a valid excuses! Yet I know deep down, that it's avoidance behaviour.. I know that I'm not doing my MPs because on that day I don't have the courage to face myself and see what's there: the demons, the insecurities, the fears.. And yet by avoiding this, I'm also avoiding: the lightbulb moments, the insights, the soul part of me that is only love.
However, remember that even just knowing that we're doing it is already halfway there.. Now, we just have to recognise it, send it love, and try turning the other way instead. So next time I feel the same pattern of "I can't possibly do the MPs this morning because....." I shall stop, take a breath and think actually, yes I can.. and face my demons and receive my delights.
So have courage fellow artsit's wayers, and use this chapter to really conquer your demons!
Good luck!
Fxxx
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I'm in week 5... and struggling terribly. I started a blog The Nectar of Nightfall to help but... still stuck. Any words of comfort?
Well first of all Amber, you need to know that we have ALL felt like that. And one of the reasons we are all still here is because of that fact. You are not alone!!! The best piece of advice I can give you is to take TAW easy and don't be unkind to yourself. If you can only do one task a week, so be it, if you miss a couple of artist's dates so be it. Just stay with the process. This is a great community so have a look around other people's blogs and read about their triumphs and struggles and you will realise that you are just the same as us. Take a deep breath, and tell yourself you CAN do this, because you can.
Fxxx
Number One...Two Chapters!!!???
I was on chapter nine...I'm now on chapter ten, but somehow feel as though I just jumped from the middle of the course to the end.
Very Strange.
Number Two...what is with Julia Cameron and her magic psychic book??? Just when I suddenly feel I've lost the plot completely in my life, that there will never be any lasting peace because I'm such a terrible half-wit of a human being, I pick up the TAW, read the next chapter and she hits the damn nail straight on the head.
I'm really beginning to wonder why I bother turning anywhere else at all.
Big hugs to everyone, whatever chapter you're on.
I think it's quite an ironic chapter for me to be hit with massive self-blocks. Or maybe less irony and more a panicked attempt by my censor and ego to get me to stop my creative journey.
I've been finding it impossible to get anything done lately, then reading this chapter (at last) today I was stunned by how exactly it matches my past week or so in the stupid little things I manage to "have" to do. Right now. This second. Before doing anything creative, or that I want to do.
As of now I'm going to fight through these blocks and get my Pages and artist dates back on track, along with the rest of my creative life..
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