The Artist's Way A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Julia Cameron is the person who did the to die list and she's an author who wrote the artists way which Lizzie is obsessed with.

I just remembered my mom gave me the artist way when I moved to LA.

It's just one of those books that's always in the thing and I've never read it and I'm going to do it.

Julia Cameron is the person who did the to die list and she's an author who wrote the artists way which Lizzie is obsessed with.

Yeah, the artist way.

I just remembered my mom gave me the artist way when I moved to LA.

It's just one of those books that's always in the thing and I've never read it and I'm going to do it.

And then there's a really beautiful book that I think is one of the most important books that I've read in my life called The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. And that book taught me a lot about bringing spiritual practice into my creativity and into my life as creative practice, but prayer through journaling.

There's this, have you ever read The Artist's Way?

Yes.

Julia Cameron.

So she has this quote, which I'm going to butcher right now, but like basically that the quality of your life is the quality of your ability to pay attention, to pay attention to the details.

There's a famous book called The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and this practice of morning pages is something that many people have found a lot of, yeah, just incredible experiences from.

And I really love artists way, Julia Cameron's book for anyone that's approaching a creative writing project.

And I really love Artists Way, Julia Cameron's book for anyone that's approaching a creative writing project.

Yeah. So like for me, I was like, oh my gosh, I gotta go take myself on an artist date.

Yeah, highly recommend it.

I highly recommend it.

I highly recommend it.

I did it twice because the first time I didn't finish and it bothered me so deeply because I realized that one of my challenges in my early artistic life was having great, tons of great ideas of which I finished none.

I thought, I need to get over this finishing things problem. Right. Why don't I start by finishing The Artist's Way?

You know, one of the things is once a week you have to go on an artist's date alone, by yourself, just you. That could be going to a symphony. That could be sitting in a park and watching people. That could be taking yourself bowling alone.

It's a 12 week self-led creativity seminar in a book.

It requires you to journal three pages every single morning, first thing.

It's all about creative growth and self reflection and growth and you're bringing up some of these buzzwords that I am uncomfortable about how much they resonate with me.

There's certain phrases that are like shortcuts to tricking people into taking extreme action.

And it's why I worry about the use of certain very specific words and growth is one of them.

Yeah, it just always like, it doesn't mean don't listen to anything that like has that phrase in it or like talks about it, but like be really careful when people start talking about that.

It's attached to a lot of things.

It's all about creative growth and self reflection and growth and you're bringing up some of these buzzwords that I am uncomfortable about how much they resonate with me.

There's certain phrases that are like shortcuts to tricking people into taking extreme action.

And it's why I worry about the use of certain very specific words and growth is one of them.

Yeah, it's just today I've said it 16 times trying to pitch someone on the book.

It just always like, it doesn't mean don't listen to anything that like has that phrase in it or like talks about it, but like be really careful when people start talking about that.

It's all about creative growth and self reflection and growth and you're bringing up some of these buzzwords that I am uncomfortable about how much they resonate with me.

Yeah, it just always like, it doesn't mean don't listen to anything that like has that phrase in it or like talks about it, but like be really careful when people start talking about that.

Yeah, it's just today I've said it 16 times trying to pitch someone on the book.

It's all about creative growth and self reflection and growth and you're bringing up some of these buzzwords that I am uncomfortable about how much they resonate with me.

Yeah, it's just today I've said it 16 times trying to pitch someone on the book.

doing morning pages, all of the artist's way

She's reading The Artist's Way, which I thought was a funny book.

So he has this podcast, and he was telling me about this famous self-help book called The Artist's Way. I, of course, had never heard of it. And he said, wait, what?

And the advice that he was passing along to me from the author of this apparently extremely famous self-help book, which was written by and for artists.

And if you're an artist, what you do is you grab a hard copy journal and you write, I think it's four pages. And that's the rule.

It's not about time. It's not about what you write about. But it's just that you write four pages in the morning.

I read the Artist's Way and like, in that book the author tells you to really think about the people who've traumatized you creatively and I was like first one, first person I thought of Miss Wood.

And then I read the artist's way and I did those exercises and that is what broke me through by doing the morning pages almost instantly upon starting the morning pages I was able to write every day.

It's a very specific exercise. It's three long-hand pages. You're not allowed to lift the pen. You're not allowed to go back and reread it. You're not allowed to censor yourself. You have to fill three pages.

It taps into the subconscious somehow. It's sort of like dipping the pen and ink. It's like a way that before you're able to activate your critical, you know we all have like this critic inside us that might try to shut us down or tell us we're not good enough.

It's really great for anyone who wants to do anything tap into the most creative version of themselves.

and I recently interviewed Julia Cameron from my podcast who wrote this awesome book called The Artistway which a lot of people have cited as being you know this thing that they did they talk about this book as something they did because it gives you work stuff to workshop

And Dave was like well you have to do the artist's way.

Then I just was talking to Dave my life on Best Friend and I was like I'm really frustrated. I know I have to unblock myself. I'm finally willing to say I need to be a writer. All my friends are writers. All I want to do is read and watch movies. How am I not doing this?

It's a very specific exercise. It's three long-hand pages. You're not allowed to lift the pen. You're not allowed to go back and reread it. You're not allowed to censor yourself. You have to fill three pages.

And what happens when you do that every day is you just get in the habit of dumping your stuff out. Whatever you've been saying, do it early in the morning and you dump your stuff out and it just has this result of getting you firing and ready and active for the day.

We'll link to that book, of course, in the show notes, the book by Julia Cameron, the artist's way.

and I recently interviewed Julia Cameron from my podcast who wrote this awesome book called The Artistway which a lot of people have cited as being you know this thing that they did they talk about this book as something they did because it gives you work stuff to workshop

It was easy to then find the artist's way, right?

Dave was like well you have to do the artist's way.

It's three long-hand pages that you write free right in the morning.

It's a very specific exercise. It's three long-hand pages. You're not allowed to lift the pen. You're not allowed to go back and reread it. You're not allowed to censor yourself. You have to fill three pages.

What happens when you do that every day is you just get in the habit of dumping your stuff out. Whatever you've been saying, do it early in the morning and you dump your stuff out and it just has this result of getting you firing and ready and active for the day.

We'll link to that book, of course, in the show notes, the book by Julia Cameron, 'The Artist's Way'.

I recently interviewed Julia Cameron from my podcast who wrote this awesome book called The Artist's Way which a lot of people have cited as being you know this thing that they did they talk about this book as something they did because it gives you work stuff to workshop