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The artist's way : a spiritual path to higher creativity / Julia Cameron.

By: Cameron, Julia [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : MacMillan, 2016Copyright date: ©1993Description: xvi, 223 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509829477 (paperback).Subject(s): Creative ability | Self-actualization (Psychology) | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)DDC classification: 153.35
Contents:
Preface-- Introduction -- Spiritual electricity: the basic principles -- The basic tools -- Week 1: Recovering a sense of safety -- Shadow artists -- Your enemy within: core -- Negative beliefs -- Your ally within: affirmative -- Weapons -- Creative affirmations -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 2: Recovering a sense of identity -- Going sane -- Poisonous playmates -- Crazymakers -- Skepticism -- Attention -- Rules of the road -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 3: Recovering a sense of power -- Anger -- Synchronicity -- Shame -- Dealing with criticism -- Detective work, an exercise -- Growth -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 4: Recovering a sense of integrity -- Honest changes -- Buried dreams, an exercise -- Reading deprivation -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 5: Recovering a sense of possibility -- Limits -- Finding the river -- The virtue -- Trap -- The virtue-trap quiz -- Forbidden -- Joys, an exercise -- Wish list, an exercise -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 6: Recovering a sense of abundance -- The great creator -- Luxury -- Counting, an exercise -- Money madness, an exercise -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 7: Recovering a sense of connection -- Listening -- Perfectionism -- Risk -- Jealousy -- The jealousy map, an exercise -- Archeology, an exercise -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 8: Recovering a sense of strength -- Survival -- The ivory power -- Gain disguised as loss - Age and time: product and process -- Filling the form -- Early patterning, an exercise -- Affirmations -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 9: Recovering a sense of compassion -- Fear -- Enthusiasm -- Creative U-turn -- Blasting through blocks -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 10: Recovering a sense of self-protection-- Dangers of the trail -- Workaholism -- Drought -- Fame -- Competition -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 11: Recovering a sense of autonomy -- Acceptance -- Success -- The Zen of sports -- Building your artist's altar -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 12: Recovering a sense of faith: Trusting -- Mystery -- The imagination at play -- Escape velocity -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Epilogue: The artist's way -- Words for it -- Appendix: Trail mix -- Forming a sacred circle -- An artist's prayer.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Artist's Way provides a twelve-week course that guides you through the process of recovering your creative self. It aims to dispel the 'I'm not talented enough' conditioning that holds many people back and helps you to unleash your own inner artist. Its step-by-step approach enables you to transform your life, overcome any artistic blocks you may suffer from, including limiting beliefs, fear, sabotage, jealousy and guilt, and replace them with self-confidence and productivity. The Artist's Way will demystify the creative process by making it a part of your daily life. From Alicia Keys to Elizabeth Gilbert, Patricia Cornwell to Pete Townshend, The Artist's Way has helped thousands of people around the world to discover their inner artist. Whatever your artistic leanings, this book will give you the tools you need to enable you to fulfil your dreams.

Preface-- Introduction -- Spiritual electricity: the basic principles -- The basic tools -- Week 1: Recovering a sense of safety -- Shadow artists -- Your enemy within: core -- Negative beliefs -- Your ally within: affirmative -- Weapons -- Creative affirmations -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 2: Recovering a sense of identity -- Going sane -- Poisonous playmates -- Crazymakers -- Skepticism -- Attention -- Rules of the road -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 3: Recovering a sense of power -- Anger -- Synchronicity -- Shame -- Dealing with criticism -- Detective work, an exercise -- Growth -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 4: Recovering a sense of integrity -- Honest changes -- Buried dreams, an exercise -- Reading deprivation -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 5: Recovering a sense of possibility -- Limits -- Finding the river -- The virtue -- Trap -- The virtue-trap quiz -- Forbidden -- Joys, an exercise -- Wish list, an exercise -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 6: Recovering a sense of abundance -- The great creator -- Luxury -- Counting, an exercise -- Money madness, an exercise -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 7: Recovering a sense of connection -- Listening -- Perfectionism -- Risk -- Jealousy -- The jealousy map, an exercise -- Archeology, an exercise -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 8: Recovering a sense of strength -- Survival -- The ivory power -- Gain disguised as loss - Age and time: product and process -- Filling the form -- Early patterning, an exercise -- Affirmations -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 9: Recovering a sense of compassion -- Fear -- Enthusiasm -- Creative U-turn -- Blasting through blocks -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 10: Recovering a sense of self-protection-- Dangers of the trail -- Workaholism -- Drought -- Fame -- Competition -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 11: Recovering a sense of autonomy -- Acceptance -- Success -- The Zen of sports -- Building your artist's altar -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Week 12: Recovering a sense of faith: Trusting -- Mystery -- The imagination at play -- Escape velocity -- Tasks -- Check-in -- Epilogue: The artist's way -- Words for it -- Appendix: Trail mix -- Forming a sacred circle -- An artist's prayer.

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Julia Cameron is an active artist who teaches internationally. A poet, playwright, fiction writer and essayist, she has extensive credits in film, television and theatre, and is an award-winning journalist. Her groundbreaking books on creativity have become international bestsellers.