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Re: difficulty
Tue, February 3, 2004 - 11:19 PMYep, it is. I have yet to do daily pages. By the time I'm coherent and awake enough to move, it's time for me to get out of the house.
I have been doing my dream job, and reading about fish.
I'm also going to send a thank you letter to my mentor. I'm working on a piece of art to send with it.
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Re: difficulty
Wed, February 4, 2004 - 10:01 AMYeah, I have been meaning to start this for over a year now. It is actually my new years resolution. I am excited about it, now I just need to get started.
Hopefully we can help to motivate each other through this process.
Thanks for putting this tribe out here.
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Re: difficulty
Wed, February 4, 2004 - 5:24 PMIt IS hard but it doesn't have to be done all at once or perfectly. I think that is the whole point of Artist's Way. I have put much less pressure on myself this time, and feel more motivated to do it. I haven't done the morning pages yet either, but the paper is waiting, and I have read over most of the first chapters.
How about some ideas for artist dates? What are you guys gonna do? I am feeling like doing something way out of the realm of my comfort zone like taking myself to a gallery or museum. (All by my little old self)
There is no doubt this is some very very hard stuff to do if done sincerely and with depth. It means really connecting to yourself and bringing up emotional issues that would love to just stay hidden and never be brought to the surface.
I have lots of anger and a deep sense of loss I carry with me all the time. It has taken me over two years to be clear enough and ready enough to deal with it, and honor myself. If there is anything I would encourage you to do, it is to look deep within yourself, find all that junk that bogs you down, and love ALL OF IT with everything you've got. When you do get to it, you will also find that you have more love in your heart than you ever imagined or could fathom. Way enough for infinite Universes. That would surely be enough to unblock and heal one little finite self! (Or selves as we are here in our Artist's Way group)
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Re: difficulty
Wed, February 4, 2004 - 5:49 PMHey Tara! Was it you I heard about TAW (The Artist's Way) from? How strange. I just happened to see it at Half Price books for, like, 3 bucks, and picked it up without even really looking at it. If I believed in fate I'd say it was fate. Maybe it's "syncronicity." Heh heh. -
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Re: difficulty
Thu, February 5, 2004 - 10:50 AMYes Ego, I am the one that told you about it initially, glad to see that you found your way to it in such a kismit way though my friend!
Cool, now we can compare notes, eh?
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Re: difficulty
Thu, February 5, 2004 - 10:54 AMLaura- thank you so much for sharing your insights. What you are talking about is exactly parrallel to what I am most trying to do in this process as well. Dig deep and release the pains, hurts and angers that I have carried for far toolong, and that have held me back from so many things in my life.
I feel good about this, it is not and will not be easy, but I know that I am ready for this.
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Re: difficulty
Thu, February 5, 2004 - 5:59 PMI'm right there, too...
wonder what I'm afraid of? -
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Re: difficulty
Thu, February 5, 2004 - 7:15 PMDifficult, yeah.
I haven't had any trouble with the writing, really. But this whole artist date thing is tough for me. It's so hard to carve any time out of my life. But I guess that's the whole point. It teaches how to stand up to the people around you and take the time you need for yourself. Or something...
Anyway, I think that where people go and what they do on an artist date is a pretty personal thing. Not too much generalizing to be done about it. Maybe I'm wrong. I dunno.
One of mine I did was to just go to a book store and peruse and buy books and go to a coffee shop and read. This sounds pretty boring for most people, I imagine, but for me, to have all that much time to myself without any responsibilities and without having to do anything but sit around and read was just delicious.
This Sunday I have the whole day free with no one around, so I think I may do something pretty strange for an atheist. I think I may go to a catholic mass. I mean, when else will I get to see the whole ritual and all that. I think it would be really interesting.
So, anyway, right, my point being that it seems like it would be an individual thing. I think for my "graduation" I may have to go to a club and go dancing. This being a big deal for me, having never danced before (yes, I know, I'm from another planet). Well, anyway, I'd be interested to know what other people did. I am thinking of going to a big cemetery sometime. Not out of morbidity. Just... curiosity. I'd like to see how it makes me feel. So, anyone else...? Anyone...?
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Re: difficulty
Thu, July 8, 2004 - 10:56 PMLet me jump in Lynn...I know you posted this months ago...but I feel we resist the next step to our growth quite a bit...smiles*
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Re: difficulty
Sat, February 7, 2004 - 11:00 AMOk, check in for Week 1 - How did I do?
The above word says it all-difficult! I did the morning pages OK, if you don't count that I cheat, I usually do the pages at night...actually, I've done the stream-of-consciousness thing for most of my life, so writing is easy for me.
But the artist date? I agree with everyone that it's very hard to even remember to do it...commitments and work consume so much time...I managed to read some about Coco the gorilla...I'd love to do work with animals, researching and caring for them-don't know if that's considered "artistic",but, oh well... it's only week 1.
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Re: difficulty
Sun, February 8, 2004 - 9:21 PMI started out with you guys a little late I guess (sorry).. spent the last week frantically enrolling in class and dealing with fin. aid. bla blah bla (I study MRI for music producing and engineering now.. yay!) but today I tore into week one and spent all day blasting through it.. it was very magical!! I went to a large cathedral downtown San Francisco and 'coincidentally' walked in right at the begining of a free organ concert. I sat on the pew (however you spell that) and wrote for over an hour. When I set my pen down the concert ended and everyone applauded. Knocked my socks off! Plus being in this enormous cathedral surrounded by sacred geometry was most inspiring. I filled a couple pages of my poetry notebook which I havent touched in almost a year. Well I hope the inspiration holds up. I know how hard this gets.. -
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Re: difficulty
Sun, February 8, 2004 - 10:32 PMah! that's truly inspiring! thanks for sharing this with us, i think we all needed to hear something good!
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Re: difficulty
Tue, February 10, 2004 - 7:35 AMInterestingly I have been experiencing a health condition which saps my energy and is extremely painful. In healing, something like this would be looked at as an "energy block." I am seeing a clear correlation here with health issues and artist's block. The thing is I have been blocked for so long that I don't remember what it is like to be unblocked! -
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Re: difficulty
Tue, February 10, 2004 - 9:35 AMi have a feeling you will know when it happens!
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