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Authors: Julia Cameron

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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

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Introduction

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

WEEK 10 - Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection

WEEK 11 - Recovering a Sense of Autonomy

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