The Complete Artist's Way: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice (41 page)
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Authors: Julia Cameron
Tags: #Creative Ability, #Creative Ability - Religious Aspects, #Etc.), #Psychology, #Creation (Literary, #Religious aspects, #Creativity, #Etc.) - Religious Aspects, #Spirituality, #Religion, #Self-Help, #Spiritual Life, #Artistic
Parents
attempts to gain approval of
negative beliefs and
perfectionistic
Parker, Charlie
Pasteur, Louis
Pauling, Linus
Pearce, Joseph Chilton
Perceptions
changes in
clarifying
Perfectionism
Permission, to be bad artist
Phillips, Mike
Picasso, Pablo
Plans
for action
synchronicity and
Plato
Play
creativity born from
enthusiasm and
reading deprivation and
work and
workaholics and
working at learning
Play spaces
Pollock, Jackson
Possibility, recovering sense of
Postcards, to self
Power, and crazymakers
Power, inner
and insight
as pathway to self
recovering sense of
Powerlessness, sense of, and blockage
Praise, self-
Prayer(s)
answered
Process, art as
denial of
focus on
fun of
Process addiction, workaholism as
Procrastination
Product, artistic, focus on
Psychosomatic illnesses
Puccini, Giacomo
Pulling focus
Quiet, need for
Radio
Raging Bull
(La Motta)
Reading
addiction to
deprivation of
Reality
discounting of, by crazymakers
morning pages and
Reassurance, freedom from need for
Recovery, creative
barriers to
basic principles of
basic tools of
and commitment to health
as healing process
rules of the road
slow movement of
of sense of abundance
of sense of autonomy
of sense of compassion
of sense of connection
of sense of faith
of sense of identity
of sense of integrity
of sense of possibility
of sense of power
of sense of safety
of sense of strength
as threatening
time commitment to
U-turn from
weekly schedule
what to expect
Relationships, human
Repetitive action
Resiliency
Resistance
to artist date
to creativity
Responsibility, fear of
Rhythm, and brain activity
Rich, Adrienne
Richards, M. C.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Risk-taking
and self-definition
Rite of passage, mourning as
Ritt, Martin
Rituals
Roethke, Theodore
Roman, Sanaya
Rothenberg, Susan
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rules of the road
for creative recovery
for dealing with criticism
Rumi, Jalai ud-Din
Sabotage
by crazymakers
from friends
through shame
self-
Sacred Circle
rules
Safety
atmosphere of
as expensive illusion
recovering sense of
Saraha
Sarton, May
Scent
Schaef, Anne-Wilson
Schedules
crazymakers and
weekly
Schubert, Franz
Scorsese, Martin
Scottish Himalayan Expedition, The
Secret-telling
Self, true
boundaries of, discovering
gaining/regaining
loss of
new sense of
uncovering buried parts of
Self-acceptance
Self-definition, and risk-taking
Self-destruction
Self-disclosure
Self-discovery, detective work (exercise)
Self-doubt
stopping
Self-honesty
Self-intimacy, fear of
Self-love
Self-nurturance
Self-praise
Self-protection, sense of
recovering
Self-respect
exercise and
Self-sabotage
Self-talk, positive.
See also
Affirmations
Selfishness, suggestions from friends about
Seneca
Serendipity.
See also
Synchronicity
Sex, as block to creativity
Shadow artists
recovery of
Shahn, Ben
Shame
antidotes for
childhood
Shea, Michele
Showering, as artist-brain activity
Silliness
Skepticism
about own creativity
of Wet Blanket friends
Small steps, taking
Snap judgments
Social support
Society, and art
Solitude
freedom of
need for
Sophocles
Space
for artist’s altar
invasion of
need for
play spaces
sacred
Speedwriting
Spielberg, Steven
Spinoza, Baruch
Spiral path of recovery
Spiritual chiropractic
Spiritual electricity
Spiritual practice,
morning pages as
Spiritual principles
Spontaneity
exercise in
spiritual dependency and
Sports.
See
Exercise
Sprint mentality
Starhawk
Stendhal
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stream-of-consciousness writing. See Morning pages
Strength
through cherishing ourselves
recovering sense of
Students. See Academia
Style, shift in
Style Search (task)
Success
demand for
versus fame
Support, social
Survival, artistic
Symbols, in art
Synchronicity
commitment and
examples of
God and
triggering
Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert
Talmu
Tasks
week 1,
week 2,
week 3,
week 4,
week 5,
week 6,
week 7,
week 8,
week 9,
week 10,
week 11,
week 12,
Teachers, artistic
as parent figures
untrustworthy
Television bingeing
Ten Tiny Changes
Thomas, Dylan
Thoreau, Henry David
Time
autonomy with
to do nothing
expenditure of, achieving clarity about
importance of luxury of
structuring
using, as block to creativity
Timelog
Time Travel (task)
Tolstoy, Leo
Tooker, George
Touchstones (task)
Triangulation, by crazymakers
Tribal experience, creativity as
Truffaut, Francois
Trust
atmosphere of
between student and teacher
Ueland, Brenda
U-turns, creative
admitting existence of
dealing with
exercise
Values, realignment of, through morning pages
Virtue, difficulty equated with
Virtue Trap
avoiding
and destruction of true self
quiz
Visualization, of goal
Weekly schedule
Welty Eudora
West, Mae
Wet Blanket friends
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
White, Minor
Wickes, Frances
Wilde, Oscar
Wisdom, inner, morning pages as connection to
Wish list (exercise)
Withdrawal, and creative recovery
Work
point of
treating as play
Work of the Chariot, The
Workaholism
as addiction
as block to creativity
quiz
treadmill quality of
Worrying
Young, Margaret
Zen paradigm
About the Author
Julia Cameron has been an active artist for more than thirty years. She is the author of seventeen books, fiction and nonfiction, including
The Artist’s Way, The Vein of Gold
and
The Right to Write,
her bestselling works on the creative process. A novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet, she has multiple credits in theater, film, and television. She divides her time between Manhattan and the high desert of New Mexico.
Table of Contents
WEEK 1 - Recovering a Sense of Safety
WEEK 2 - Recovering a Sense of Identity
WEEK 3 - Recovering a Sense of Power
WEEK 4 - Recovering a Sense of Integrity
WEEK 5 - Recovering a Sense of Possibility
WEEK 6 - Recovering a Sense of Abundance
WEEK 7 - Recovering a Sense of Connection
WEEK 8 - Recovering a Sense of Strength
WEEK 9 - Recovering a Sense of Compassion