Julia was really onto something.
In the 1990s The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron, called upon anyone who wanted to create to get in touch with their inner artist.
One of her most valuable tools was The Morning Pages, designed to be done as soon as one wakes up in order to connect with our waking thoughts.
I’ve recently started doing them again and I’ve found that although they are not easy, they are incredibly freeing and help me make sense of whatever is behind all those swirling thoughts.
I can’t always do them first thing in the morning but I’ve noticed that when I can my day goes better. Somehow that first coffee, pen and paper ground me for whatever may lay ahead.
The rules: three pages, handwritten, no stopping. The reasons: three pages is sufficient; we process information better when we hand write; when we stop we edit.
Times are tough and there’s a lot of chaos out there. The Morning Pages are the perfect space to place all that mind chatter.
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