10 Principles of The Artist's Way
कलाकार का तौर
-जूलिया कैमरन (3 दिसंबर, 2012)
एक कलाकार और शिक्षक होने के नाते मेरा यह अनुभव है कि जब हम विश्वास के साथ कोई रचनात्मक कदम उठाते हैं, तो यह संसार भी आगे की ओर बढ़ता है। यह कुछ -2 ऐसा ही है जैसे खेत में सिंचाई व्यवस्था का पहला रास्ता खोलते ही, पानी का प्रवाह पूरे खेत में चल पड़ता है।
लेकिन मैं आपसे यह नहीं कहती कि आप इस बात पर विश्वास करें। जगत में हो रही सृष्टि का उद्भव होने के लिए आपको ईश्वर पर विश्वास करने की ज़रुरत नहीं है। मैं सिर्फ यह चाहती हूँ कि आप बस ध्यान दें और देखें कैसे ये प्रक्रिया प्रकट रूप लेती है। वास्तव में आप खुद अपने रचनात्मक विकास को अपने हाथ से जन्म लेते देखेंगे।
सृजनात्मकता एक अनुभव है - मेरी दृष्टि में एक आध्यात्मिक अनुभव। इससे कुछ फर्क नहीं पड़ता कि आप इस बारे में क्या सोचते हैं: आध्यात्मिकता की ओर बढ़ती हुई सृजनात्मकता या सृजनात्मकता की ओर बढ़ती हुई आध्यात्मिकता। सच तो यह है कि मैं इन दोनों में कोई फर्क नहीं समझती। जब यह अनुभव हो रहा होता है तो आपको इस प्रक्रिया पर विश्वास है या नहीं, यह प्रश्न ही ख़त्म हो जाता है। जैसा कि कार्ल जंग ने अपने जीवन के आख़िरी वर्षों में कहा, "मैं विश्वास ही नहीं करता, मैं जानता हूँ।"
नीचे लिखे आध्यात्मिक सिद्धांत ऐसे मूल सिद्धांत हैं जिनके आधार पर रचनात्मक शक्ति की पुनः प्राप्ति और खोज संभव है। इन्हें हर रोज़ पढ़ें और अपने बदलते हुए रुख और विचारों पर ध्यान दें।
मूल सिद्धांत:
1. रचनात्मकता जीवन का एक प्राकृतिक नियम है। जीवन एक शक्ति है: शुद्ध रचनात्मक शक्ति।
2. हर जीवन की सतह के नीचे चलती नसों में एक रचनात्मक शक्ति बहती है और यह बात हम पर भी लागू होती है।
3. जब हम अपनी रचनात्मकता को उभरने का मौका देते हैं, तो हमारा ध्यान उस सृष्टि के जन्मदाता की सृजनात्मक की तरफ भी जाता है, जो हमारे अन्दर और हमारे जीवन में मौजूद है।
4. हम खुद ही किसी की रचना हैं, और इसलिए हमारे जीवन का मकसद है कि हम रचनात्मक रह कर संसार की रचनात्मकता को बढ़ने का मौका दें।
5. रचनात्मक शक्ति हमें ईश्वर की देन है। इस शक्ति का इस्तेमाल करना ईश्वर को वापिस हमारी भेंट होगा।
6. अपनी रचनात्मकता को अस्वीकार करना हमारी हठ है और यह हमारे असली स्वाभाव से बिलकुल विरुद्ध है।
7. जब हम खुद को अपनी रचनात्मकता की खोज करने के लिए तैयार कर लेते हैं, तो हम ईश्वर को पाने के लिए भी तैयार हो जाते है: यही ठीक क्रम भी है।
8. जैसे-2 हम उस विधाता की ओर अपनी सृजन शक्ति का मार्ग खोलेंगे, वैसे-2 हमें हल्के, पर प्रभावशाली बदलाव ज़रूर दिखाई देंगे।
9. हमें अपनी रचनात्मकता को अधिक से अधिक बढ़ने से डरने की ज़रुरत नहीं है।
10. हमारी रचनात्मक इच्छाएँ और आकांक्षाएं एक ईश्वरीय स्थान से उत्पन्न होती हैं। जब हम अपने इन सपनों को साकार करने चल पड़ते है, हमारे कदम खुद ही हमें ईश्वर की ओर ले जाते हैं।
SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: How do you relate to the notion that creativity is a spiritual experience? Can you share a story from your life that illustrates this? What does "midwiving and witnessing your own creative progression" mean to you?
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16 Past Reflections
On Jul 30, 2017 Nel wrote :
I have a silly question... Are the morning pages supposed to be single or double space? Thanks
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On Jun 8, 2017 Veronica Verduzco wrote :
I started my 12 weeks but for many reasons I stop, I was almost in week 9 and I really felt the difference, is it possible to continue where I left of or should I start again on week one?
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On Dec 27, 2014 rdokoye wrote :
We're not all creators in this world, so I like to look at creativity as more of a skill set bestowed upon us, by a Higher Power, like my ability to navigate through complex computer issues, such as Shdoclc.dll problems, all of which fit into the same category.
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On Feb 9, 2013 Bonnie O Neill wrote :
When we create, we are the embodiment of the Creator. It is as simple and glorious as that.
With gratitude to Julia Cameron who creates simply and gloriously.
With gratitude to Julia Cameron who creates simply and gloriously.
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On Dec 10, 2012 Pancho wrote :
My family calls me Pancho and I'd like you to know that I love you all.
Such a beautiful thread of the visible and invisible ripples of Wednesdays! :-)
Thank you all, beloved family, for sharing your heartfelt experiences. They fill my heart with joy to see how we are responding to this critical time in the history of the Earth.
Last Wednesday, I don't think I was able to completely articulate what I wanted to share during the closing gratitude at the Kindness Temple in Santa Clara. So Today, during silent Monday, I'm going to give it another try:
As many of you know, love for Astrobiology --the understanding of the origin and evolution of life in the Universe as we know it and as we don't know it-- has been the seed of my wish for truth and the sense of awe and wonder in front of the vastness of this multiverse and the wholeness and the livingness of reality. Every time I look at the Milky Way it evokes a profound sense of the sa... [View Full Comment]
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On Dec 9, 2012 Narendra wrote :
How do you relate to the notion that creativity is a spiritual experience? There are several stages of creativity 1) Imitation or copying 2) Re-creation or creatively reorganizing known objects/patterns and 3) Creation of a new patterns/objects. Nature creates new patterns through mutation within the local limits of the environment. Chaos, randomness or freedom, appear to be the platform for this new ‘original creation’. When this new creation is in harmony with the environment it becomes a stable pattern for reproduction. If it is not, it is discarded. These creations are like the notes in the music of nature. All life forms exhibit this process of ‘natural creation, mutation and selection’. These stages can be related to the three layers of brain-mind. For example, what appears to be creativity for survival is preprogrammed by nature as the operating system. This is also the creativity expressed through copying, 2) emotional creativity as in arts i... [View Full Comment]
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On Dec 5, 2012 David Fetyko wrote :
Midwifing the creative process means that the inspiration and source of the creative process is beyond us and comes from our higher power. We simply help the creative inspiration to be born into reality
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On Dec 4, 2012 a wrote :
Creativity is very much a spiritual experience. Creative gifts are unseen to the naked, human eye. Unless spoken or demonstrated, creativity remains hidden (spiritually "packaged"). Something we experience, creativity is a personal gift. Example: Taking a class room of children, given identical time and supplies for a project . . . each will "create" something uniquely magnificent (just as God did with our finger prints)! We have no idea what their little "mind eyes" are seeing or thinking, but God does. When God told us to be fruitful and to multiply, He meant for us "to create". In union with the Him, we think, act . . . and create. Allowing the creativity of the Heavens and earth to flow in and through us, heightens/maximizes our personal creative potential.
Finally, in creating us, God had a specific plan and purpose. We need to be "midwife" . . . step asi... [View Full Comment]
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On Dec 4, 2012 david doane wrote :
All is one, and creativity begins with living that. Each being is an expression of Being, or Spirit. Being is the ground or source of all life and all creativity, and as I am in touch with Being, open to it and allowing of it, I am open to and allow creativity to flow, to pass through me, like opening that gate at the top of a field irrigation system that the author speaks of. The key to that gate is to recognize that I am in union with Being, and to be open and allow, which opens and allows all channels, right brain and left brain, beyond rational and rational, unconscious and conscious, seen and unseen, to flow. That experience of union with Being or Spirit is a spiritual experience. I've learned in my life that I am most creative, in writing and living, when I think minimally, let my writing and behavior flow, hang loose, trust the process, give myself leeway, and not double-think which stops my flow. In writing, I am most creative when I let ... [View Full Comment]
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On Dec 4, 2012 Gretchen wrote :
I have "done" The Artist's Way as either a group experience or on my own - and I can't tell you how powerful Julia's lessons are. Get the book and don't just read it, but DO it. It has profoundly changed me in ways I can't begin to explain.
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On Dec 4, 2012 Syd wrote :
Your creative flow in your writing is beautiful Julia. Your ten principles awaken important qualities within the soul and your ten principles express the highest form of creativity, self-creation. You appear to have discovered yourself in creativity. You also appear to not be merely an artist and teacher but a creative life-enhancing individual. This to me is the highest form of creativity. It appears your creativity is maintained by the act itself and allows you to continue to transcend self-consciousness. I just want to simply say thank you for bringing your good and beautiful soul into the world, for being an exceptional teacher, and bringing your richness to the light of day.
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On Dec 4, 2012 Ricky wrote :
For my whole life my mom has been the driving force behind how I have viewed creativity. She on many occasions uses what I do on a regular basis as an opportunity to praise my efforts, yet at the same time minimize her own. This has always left me feeling uncomfortable, and frustrated, because I have seen her efforts toward living a tough life with brilliant creativity. It has been a struggle for the past few years to remain upbeat at each encounter with her while she consistently denegrates herself in an effort to build me up. And, this toxic interchange has helped me be focused and think outside the box she has placed the definition of creativity in with my own children, who live with incredible creativity. Recently I have helped her redefine her personal definition of creativity to drop the implied societal focus on 'artsiness' to how eloquently she writes down her passionate pleas when advocating for community matters, how wonderful her traditi... [View Full Comment]
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On Nov 30, 2012 .Conrad P Pritscher wrote :
Midwiving and witnessing my own creative experience is what I would like to do all the time. It is paying attention to my present experience. It is noticing what I notice.. This is facilitated by Sharon Begley and a psychiatrist named Schwartz when they stated: "Through mindfulness you can stand outside your own mind as if you are watching what is happening to another person rather than experiencing it yourself… Mindfulness requires direct willful effort, and the ability to forge those practicing it to observe their sensations and thoughts with the calm clarity of an external witness… One views his thoughts, feelings, and expectations much as a scientist views experimental data – – that is, as a natural phenomena to be noted, investigated, reflected on, and learn from. Viewing one's own inner experience as data allows one to become, in essence, his own experimental subject." When we are open, we can call that experie... [View Full Comment]