The Artist’s Way: Week Twelve

Overview:

Welcome to the final week of The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. This chapter was very short. Julia Cameron touched on having faith to know yourself as a creative and to understand that we are meant to enjoy life and be bountiful.

She says our society teaches us that if we don’t make money, our contribution isn't good enough. We need to break past that and to trust your intuition to know that what you’re doing is good enough. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks.

Thoughts:

My favourite quote from this chapter is “the Universe will always support affirmative action”.

I will always believe this. We can’t just sit back and request things from the universe to be handed to us. We need to know what we want and start the beginning process of going out and working hard for it. When the Universe sees you working towards your goals, new and unexpected doors seem to magically open for you. It takes a gracious, positive and open mind to see those doors.

Morning Pages

My experience:

I switched books this week, and the pages are a bit smaller and the lines bigger. So, I notice that I complete my three pages a bit faster. It doesn’t really matter though. I thoroughly enjoy the writing process first thing in the morning.

I think my problem is that I don’t always get time to do my morning pages first thing. I have a lot of other time sensitive tasks during the week, and since I have three young children, it makes morning pages very difficult sometimes.

However, this is one habit that I will not be giving up anytime soon. I still haven’t seen the light in my morning pages yet, I think practice makes perfect. The more I do it, the more I’ll start to see patterns and answers in my writing.

Artist Date

My experience:

No artist date completed this week. I didn't feel guilty about it, but I did feel sad. I feel sad because I see the Artist date as doing something for myself and I rarely ever get time for that. By the end of day, all I want to do is crawl into bed because I’m so exhausted.

So, I’m going to start saying no more often. I’m going to start turning down commitments and re-evaluate my work schedule and maybe cut out some non-essential tasks in order to make more personal time for myself.

I want to be able to paint and draw again. I feel like I’m missing a little part of me.

Tasks

My Experience:

I did five of the tasks this week. I did them straight away because I was so excited to be all done.

Conclusion

We’re finished! Please be on the lookout for a complete video on my YouTube channel on this book.

Thanks for sticking through these blogs with me from week to week. I hope you enjoyed them and got something valuable from my experience with The Artist’s Way.

❤️Sandra