Every year for the past 5 years I've started off my year working through a Julia Cameron 12week workshop books and this year is no different - I have started this year off with Finding Water.
So far the prologue has been incredible! Hard to believe I've been writing for 5 years and that I can still be surprised. I've read Julia's notes about Morning Pages plenty times before but this time, it blew me away! I think I just had complete understanding of the power of Morning Pages, more than ever before.
The most incredible thing happened before I started this week - I read my very first journal with one of my first exercises from The Artists Way. It was a list of dreams and guess what was on the top of my list... "One day I would like to do a painting holiday in France".... I was like "WHAAAAT"... Okay... so I didn't end up going to France... but I did end up going to Italy to paint last year! The funny thing is I don't recall writing that and it was the first time I had read that since I wrote it 5 years ago... it literally took my breath away!!
As I read through more of my dream lists and exercises that I had worked through the years - most of the things I had written there have come to pass. As I flicked through that last 5 years of private writings, I realized one most profound thing... I have changed. I always believed it was my time in Jhb that had changed me but I now realize it was my journey through my Morning Pages and these workshops that had changed me, adjusted me and led me. And I do believe, continue to do so! The other thing I realized was how many answers I got through the years, to my many struggles and questions... I know it sounds magical! But I guess it's something you will have to experience to truly understand! It's taken me 5 years and many journals to fully grasp the concept.
If I ever doubted the power of Morning Pages or this beautiful gentle quiet time, first thing in the morning - I am no longer in doubt. Here's to the next 5 years of writing, dreaming and to forever changing and adjusting who I am and what I'm doing, to line me up to be who I was always called to be!
Powerful, indeed. Cheers.
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