Sunset at Oceanside by surfcrs
The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart (Companion to The Artist’s Way)
Julia Cameron
ISBN 0-87477-836-0
This journey to your creative heart begins with a chapter about setting out on your journey. The basic tools of morning pages, weekly artist date, cluster list, walking daily, walking an hour-long walk weekly, walking prayerfully, manifesting, and your creativity commitment.
The main chapters of the book take us to the kingdoms of: 1) story, 2) sight, 3) sound, 4) attitude, 5) relationship, 6) spirituality, and 7) possibility.
The last chapter deals with breaking camp. In this chapter, the artist’s tribal rules are given.
The tribal rules are:
Survival rule number 1 is acceptance. “I seem to want to be an artist.” Accept the fact that you’re an artist and stop second guessing yourself. Just do it.
Survival rule number 2: Don’t Judge It. Focus on process, not product.
Survival rule number 3: Defend your process. Sooner or later, you’re going to run into somebody who won’t want you to do it, or will want you to do it only a certain way. Consider the source. Are the making your art? Do what you need to do.
Survival rule number 4: Never Let Anybody Tell You What To Create. Create for you. Create something every day.
Survival rule number 5: Maintain Your Creative Health. Artists are athletes. Creativity is like distance running. Log ten slow miles for every one fast mile. Consistency—process—builds stamina, what horse people call “bottom”, what we may call the bottom line. This brings us to:
Survival rule number 6: Grieve Your Losses. In any creative life there are losses. Some of them are grievous. Only one thing makes them go away—more creativity.
Survival rule number 7: Create for Revenge. Be a spiritual midget. Skewer the bastards. Create right at them.
Survival rule number 8: Remember That the Part of Us That Creates is An Inner Youngster. Allow your creative child to have playmates and playthings.
Survival rule number 9: Find Your Believing Mirrors and Stick Close to Them. You deserve a cheering section.
Survival rule number 10: Ignore the Odds. We are all equally sourced in an abundant Universe. Our dreams come from the God within, and that God has the power to fulfill them. Trust yourself. Accept divine help from whatever human source offers it, remembering always that God is the Great Creator—and artists love other artists.
Tags: acceptance, creativity, God, grieve, journey, manifesting, play, process, walking
this one sounds really good. will check it out!