The Complete Artist's Way: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice (41 page)

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Authors: Julia Cameron

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Parents

attempts to gain approval of

negative beliefs and

perfectionistic

Parker, Charlie

Pasteur, Louis

Pauling, Linus

Pearce, Joseph Chilton

Perceptions

changes in

clarifying

Perfectionism

Permission, to be bad artist

Phillips, Mike

Picasso, Pablo

Plans

for action

synchronicity and

Plato

Play

creativity born from

enthusiasm and

reading deprivation and

work and

workaholics and

working at learning

Play spaces

Pollock, Jackson

Possibility, recovering sense of

Postcards, to self

Power, and crazymakers

Power, inner

and insight

as pathway to self

recovering sense of

Powerlessness, sense of, and blockage

Praise, self-

Prayer(s)

answered

Process, art as

denial of

focus on

fun of

Process addiction, workaholism as

Procrastination

Product, artistic, focus on

Psychosomatic illnesses

Puccini, Giacomo

Pulling focus

Quiet, need for

Radio

Raging Bull
(La Motta)

Reading

addiction to

deprivation of

Reality

discounting of, by crazymakers

morning pages and

Reassurance, freedom from need for

Recovery, creative

barriers to

basic principles of

basic tools of

and commitment to health

as healing process

rules of the road

slow movement of

of sense of abundance

of sense of autonomy

of sense of compassion

of sense of connection

of sense of faith

of sense of identity

of sense of integrity

of sense of possibility

of sense of power

of sense of safety

of sense of strength

as threatening

time commitment to

U-turn from

weekly schedule

what to expect

Relationships, human

Repetitive action

Resiliency

Resistance

to artist date

to creativity

Responsibility, fear of

Rhythm, and brain activity

Rich, Adrienne

Richards, M. C.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Risk-taking

and self-definition

Rite of passage, mourning as

Ritt, Martin

Rituals

Roethke, Theodore

Roman, Sanaya

Rothenberg, Susan

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Rules of the road

for creative recovery

for dealing with criticism

Rumi, Jalai ud-Din

Sabotage

by crazymakers

from friends

through shame

self-

Sacred Circle

rules

Safety

atmosphere of

as expensive illusion

recovering sense of

Saraha

Sarton, May

Scent

Schaef, Anne-Wilson

Schedules

crazymakers and

weekly

Schubert, Franz

Scorsese, Martin

Scottish Himalayan Expedition, The

Secret-telling

Self, true

boundaries of, discovering

gaining/regaining

loss of

new sense of

uncovering buried parts of

Self-acceptance

Self-definition, and risk-taking

Self-destruction

Self-disclosure

Self-discovery, detective work (exercise)

Self-doubt

stopping

Self-honesty

Self-intimacy, fear of

Self-love

Self-nurturance

Self-praise

Self-protection, sense of

recovering

Self-respect

exercise and

Self-sabotage

Self-talk, positive.
See also
Affirmations

Selfishness, suggestions from friends about

Seneca

Serendipity.
See also
Synchronicity

Sex, as block to creativity

Shadow artists

recovery of

Shahn, Ben

Shame

antidotes for

childhood

Shea, Michele

Showering, as artist-brain activity

Silliness

Skepticism

about own creativity

of Wet Blanket friends

Small steps, taking

Snap judgments

Social support

Society, and art

Solitude

freedom of

need for

Sophocles

Space

for artist’s altar

invasion of

need for

play spaces

sacred

Speedwriting

Spielberg, Steven

Spinoza, Baruch

Spiral path of recovery

Spiritual chiropractic

Spiritual electricity

Spiritual practice,

morning pages as

Spiritual principles

Spontaneity

exercise in

spiritual dependency and

Sports.
See
Exercise

Sprint mentality

Starhawk

Stendhal

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Stream-of-consciousness writing. See Morning pages

Strength

through cherishing ourselves

recovering sense of

Students. See Academia

Style, shift in

Style Search (task)

Success

demand for

versus fame

Support, social

Survival, artistic

Symbols, in art

Synchronicity

commitment and

examples of

God and

triggering

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert

Talmu

Tasks

week 1,

week 2,

week 3,

week 4,

week 5,

week 6,

week 7,

week 8,

week 9,

week 10,

week 11,

week 12,

Teachers, artistic

as parent figures

untrustworthy

Television bingeing

Ten Tiny Changes

Thomas, Dylan

Thoreau, Henry David

Time

autonomy with

to do nothing

expenditure of, achieving clarity about

importance of luxury of

structuring

using, as block to creativity

Timelog

Time Travel (task)

Tolstoy, Leo

Tooker, George

Touchstones (task)

Triangulation, by crazymakers

Tribal experience, creativity as

Truffaut, Francois

Trust

atmosphere of

between student and teacher

Ueland, Brenda

U-turns, creative

admitting existence of

dealing with

exercise

Values, realignment of, through morning pages

Virtue, difficulty equated with

Virtue Trap

avoiding

and destruction of true self

quiz

Visualization, of goal

Weekly schedule

Welty Eudora

West, Mae

Wet Blanket friends

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill

White, Minor

Wickes, Frances

Wilde, Oscar

Wisdom, inner, morning pages as connection to

Wish list (exercise)

Withdrawal, and creative recovery

Work

point of

treating as play

Work of the Chariot, The

Workaholism

as addiction

as block to creativity

quiz

treadmill quality of

Worrying

Young, Margaret

Zen paradigm

About the Author

Julia Cameron has been an active artist for more than thirty years. She is the author of seventeen books, fiction and nonfiction, including
The Artist’s Way, The Vein of Gold
and
The Right to Write,
her bestselling works on the creative process. A novelist, playwright, songwriter, and poet, she has multiple credits in theater, film, and television. She divides her time between Manhattan and the high desert of New Mexico.