Act – Gratitude List
Exercise #4 in Stage 7 of the Creativity Journey – Trust Your Voice After you have finished cursing your obstacles (and curse them you should!) and looking at them in a new way to discover what those darn things have been sent to teach you, shift your focus to the …
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Create Daily Joy
Exercise #3 in Stage Seven of the Creativity Journey – Trust Your Voice When I walked back into the jungle on this stage of my journey, I saw the journey itself differently. Instead of spending all of my energy focused on the obstacle on my path, I accepted that my …
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Explore – A New Light
Exercise #2 in Stage Seven of the Creativity Journey – Trust Your Voice What is your “Money Mountain”? What is the major obstacle that you face in your journey? Take the time to rail about it to the heavens. Curse it. Scream about it (on paper if you’re worried that …
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Imagine – Face the Mountain
Exercise #1 in Stage Seven of the Creativity Journey – Trust Your Voice Close your eyes and imagine yourself facing the great obstacle of your journey. Enter the clearing and look up at the mountain that looms before you. Come to an edge where the land drops off below you …
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Trusting Your Creative Voice
Stage Seven of the Creativity Journey – Trust Your Voice I wish I could tell you that once you begin to hear your authentic voice and start to walk the path that has been laid specifically for you, the hard part is over and the journey becomes easy. In some …
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Act – Daily Quiet
Exercise #4 in Stage Six of the Creativity Journey – Rest and Listen In this second half of your creativity journey, it’s time to begin developing your creative practice. First step? Add some daily quiet. This is your practice so think about what form you want your quiet to take. …
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Create – Art from the Muse
Exercise #3 in Stage Six of the Creativity Journey – Rest and Listen There’s been a lot of quiet and stillness during this stage. It’s a stage of rejuvenation to restore your soul in order to prepare for the creative flood that is about to take place. During this calm, …
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Explore – Do Nothing
Exercise #2 of Stage 6 in the Creativity Journey – Rest and Listen In the previous exercise, you got a taste of stillness, of being quiet and opening your mind to hear the voice of the Muse. Now it’s time to do it in earnest, but you can do this …
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Imagine – The Voice of the Muse
Exercise #1 of Stage Six of the Creativity Journey – Rest and Listen The best description of what it’s like to be inspired by the Muse was in Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Big Magic. She relays the story of a poet who described receiving inspiration as if on a wind and …
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Arlington Open Studios Next Saturday!
You’ll find me next Saturday, November 12th upstairs in the Arlington Town Hall for Arlington Open Studios. I’ll be sharing my cyanotypes series for the first time so I hope you’ll stop by to check it out. For more information about the event, see: https://www.acarts.org/arlington-open-studios
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