Week 7- Recovering a Sense of Connection

The Artist’s Way --

A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Recovering a Sense of connection


We turn this week to the practice of right attitudes for creativity. The emphasis is on your receptive as well as active skills. The essays, exercises, and tasks aim at excavating areas of genuine creative interest as you connect with your personal dreams.


KEY IDEAS:

Listening

Art is about getting something down – being engaged in the listening.
We are the instrument more than the author of our work.
Learn to accept that the universe is helping you.
Perfectionism

Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead.
The perfectionist creates with one eye on the audience, grading the results.
A normal part of creativity is the ability to let go.
Risk

In order to do something, we must first be willing to do it badly.
Safety is a very expensive illusion.
“So do it – if you win, you win; if you lose, you win.”
Jealousy

Jealousy is always a mask for fear.
Jealousy strips us of our will to act when action holds the key to our freedom.
The Jealousy Map: An Exercise Page 124

Even the biggest changes begin with small ones.
Archeology: An Exercise Page 125


Read Chapter Seven
Do Tasks at end of chapter
Read “Basic Principles” daily
Read Affirmations daily
Write Morning Pages daily
Go on an Artist’s Date this week