Photo Credit: http://www.myclassroomcommunity.com/?p=28
Now that my life is pretty much free from drama, I became a ‘I write when I feel like it’ type of person, granted, I grab my voice recorder and notebook throughout the day to record partial thoughts, or lyrics to expand on at a later time, I am not currently writing a book, and so I cannot to relate to the pressure that many of you go through. I am failing big time with the morning pages challenge from Julia Cameron‘s book ‘The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity‘. I am to write three pages (it doesn’t help that I started out using a huge journal with single spaced lines) each morning before getting up out of the bed (did I mention I am not a morning person), it is my alone time with God. I am all about morning meditation, but there’s just something about the pen that draws out my vulnerableness. The mornings I show up to write, I am crying before I even reach the third page. I don’t mind crying, I used to cry all the time (always in private). But I think it has led to my resistance as well. I write to God all the time, so I think there’s definitely a connection with my just coming out of the delta state (brainwave frequency associated with deep sleep) and the openness of my emotions. I have read several writing challenge blogs here at wordpress, you’ve inspired me to evaluate my own progress, or lack thereof. I just started the morning pages challenge last weekend (after having bought a new journal for the challenge a month prior), skipped Monday through Friday (though I did reach for the pen a couple of mornings, held it, while going back to sleep), started back up on Saturday, and then when I woke up this morning. I resisted.
Photo taken of me in South Padre Island, TX 2011
Related articles
- Journaling my Journey number 2 (heavenhappens.wordpress.com)
- Book Club – The Artist’s Way – First Meeting (bluetwigstudio.wordpress.com)
- *Journaling* Morning Pages @ 750 Words. com (mybyeworld.com)
- Favorite Writing Books (nhwn.wordpress.com)
I’m doing the Artist’s Way too
I love the morning pages but it can be hard to find the time! Cheers!!
Yeah!! I actually finished the book but i decided to keep the morning pages and artist’s date since they worked so well for me
thanks! I’ll take that as encouragement to keep with it:)
Pingback: Journaling my Journey number 2 « heavenhappens
thank you for posting!
Pingback: Using Journals for Memoir Writing and More | Writing Your Destiny
Thanks for reading my journaling journey. Why not write when YOU feel like it – no law says it hasd to be morning. I know in my case I sometimes (often) have trouble sleeping and some of my most profound journal entries were written in the middle off the night! Good luck
thank you, i did get up to write this morning (the weekends are easier). but i agree that the evening is best for me. the author seems so adamant about it being in the morning so when I miss out in the morning time, I don’t even write in that particular journal.
I love the Artist Way, and have been doing my morning pages for about 6 months now. I still find it hard to do every morning, but I do it most mornings. It really dose help to get my day off to the best start.Was so good to come across this challenge and here your thoughts on doing Morning Pages.
thank you for reading. I have been praying to let go of the resistance, and also to be more disciplined as far as going to bed earlier so that I can get up on time to do my pages.