Week 5 Artists Way...Possibility
Recovering a Sense of
Possibility- this week you are being asked to examine your payoffs in
remaining stuck. You will explore how you curtail your own possibilities by
placing limits on the good you can receive. You will examine the coat of
settling for appearing good instead of being authentic. You may find yourself thinking about radical
changes, no longer ruling out your growth by making others the cause of your
constriction.
Limits
Cooperating with God’s plan to manifest goodness in our
lives- we can begin to let go of having to sabotage ourselves. And start to
understand that tapping into our creative power is a source of Good Orderly
Direction and energy flow. By listening to the creator within, we are led to our
right path. On that path, we find friends, lovers, money and meaningful work.
We learn to let the flow manifest itself where it will not where we will
it.
Gods will and our will….Which is it?
The Virtue Trap
Are you self-destruction again this question is
asked? And most definitely not…Are you
nice to other people?
I wish…
Limits
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Are we hearing a message and discounting it as
crazy or impossible?
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Have we forgotten our source is unlimited?
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Do we send back a gift, because it’s beyond our
imagination?
Experiment with
this two-step process: Ask for answers in the evening; listen for answers
in the morning. Be open to all help.
Finding the River
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Have we begun to hope or have we begun to fear
that hope?
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Spiritual Dependency is a gradual one, Read page
94-95
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Recovery is the process of finding the river and
saying yes to its flow, rapids and all.
Have you notice if your life is taking on a rounder
shape? Do you feel like your living fuller?
Are you leaning into more creative expansion? Replace no
way with Maybe.
A new positive attitude is the beginning of trust. No
more confusion anymore about who we are trusting, our dependency is on the
source itself. The source meets our needs through people, places and things.
We still need to do our footwork and in doing this and
taking a few steps in the direction of the dream we might find the universe
fling open an unsuspected door. Learn to accept this generosity.
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Down time may be taken as a withdrawal from
family and friends but it’s something all artists must do.
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If artist don’t take down time they can become
sullen, depressed and hostile… not good to put yourself in a deprivation like
this. “The Good Wife Syndrome or the “Good Artists Syndrome”
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An Artist requires the upkeep of creative
solitude or as Julia likes to call it healing time alone.
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If we don’t take this time we can become kind of
nasty to our family and friends. In short, we are on the treadmill of virtuous
productions and we are caught. We are caught in the virtue trap.
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Many recovering creative sabotage themselves
most frequently by making nice. But what they really need is to be left alone.
When we can’t get others to leave us alone, we eventually abandon ourselves.
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What can happen is our artist can check out… or
leaving the scene of the crime as Julia puts it. Our creative self no longer
trust us.
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Afraid to appear selfish, we lose our self. We
become self-destructive. Because this self-murder is something we seek
passively rather than consciously act out, we are often blind to its poisonous
grip on us.
Question is, “are you self-destructive? Are you
destructive of your true nature?
Creatives who are caught in the virtue trap still cannot
let themselves approve of this true self. They can’t show it to the world
without dreading the world’s continued disapproval.
We listen to other people’s ideas of what is
self-destructive without ever looking at whether their self and our
Self-have similar needs. Caught in the Virtue Trap, we
refuse to ask ourselves, “What are my needs?
What would I do if it weren’t too selfish?
At least 10 times, fill in the blank…let it rip and see
what happens when you wish.
I wish… I could feel more secure
I wish… I could pick up a sketch book and draw quickie
I wish… I could walk my big dog better
I wish… some family members would stand on their own feet, in stead of sapping off the elders
I wish… the elders didn't have to work so hard at surviving
I wish… their was least drama at my husband work and more old school ways of working where people really care for one another
I wish… my children to be happy and find good people to continue their lives with.
I wish… inner peace
I wish… outer peace
I wish… I would allow myself to go to life drawing classes again and just draw.
This can be a very powerful exercise that can come back
to you some time in the future without you even realizing it.
Good wishes!
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