Today, let's listen to our impulse to release what is no longer serving us to make way for new shifts in identity. Watch today's video here » https://youtu.be/L52aFJBr7o4 Create space for your creative expansion with our daily 10-minute sessions for free at https://intentioninspired.com/artist __________ TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON: Shifts in taste and perception frequently accompany shifts in identity. One of the clearest signals that something healthy is afoot is the impulse to weed...
Jun 30, 2021•5 min
Today, let's lose our vagueness about our self and our life situation to become available to the moment. Watch today's video here » https://youtu.be/dli_zDhkuEY Rediscover your beautiful, creative self with our fun, loving community of intentional seekers: https://intentioninspired.com/artist _________ TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON: People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, t...
Jun 29, 2021•5 min
Today, let's find the clarity we need for constructive change by letting go of ambiguity, illusion, and misconceptions. Watch today's video here » https://youtu.be/bxerUbytNlk Start The Artist's Way journey from the beginning: https://intentioninspired.com/artist ________ TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON: The process of identifying a self inevitably involves loss as well as gain. We discover our boundaries, and those boundaries by definition separate us from our fellows. As we clarify our ...
Jun 28, 2021•5 min
Today, let's begin sorting through the differences between our real feelings and our official feeling. Watch today's video here » https://youtu.be/QoehX5z1l1I Access the full journey for free and join our supportive community of intentional seekers: https://intentioninspired.com/artist _________ TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON: Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the...
Jun 27, 2021•9 min
Today, let's honor the rest required for sustainable growth. Access the full online journey for free: https://intentioninspired.com/artist Watch today's video » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kQPns4ysTM _________ TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON: Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. A creative recovery is a healing process. You are capable of great things on Tuesday, but on Wednesday you may slide backwar...
Jun 26, 2021•5 min
Today, let's restore those parts of ourselves that we've abandoned for fear of hurting others. Explore the full Artist's Way online community journey for freeeeeee at https://intentioninspired.com/artist Watch today's video » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2LY4Ugw6Hg _________ INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON: Many blocked people are actually very powerful and creative personalities who have been made to feel guilty about their own strengths and gifts. Without being acknowledged, They are often ...
Jun 25, 2021•4 min
Today, let's explore some rules that are useful in dealing with any form of criticism. Join the Intention Inspired fam on this journey: https://intentioninspired.com/artist Watch today's video » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfegasX38bA _________ INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON: It is important to be able to sort useful criticism from the other kind. Often we need to do the sorting out for ourselves, without the benefit of a public vindication. As artists, we are far more able to do this sortin...
Jun 24, 2021•3 min
Today, let's learn when and where to seek out the "right" type of criticism. Join our supportive community of recovering creatives: https://intentioninspired.com/artist Watch today's video » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U2Jh6HR9H0 __________________ INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON: We don't make art with its eventual criticism foremost in mind, but criticism that asks a question like "how could you?" Can make an artist feel like a shamed child. A well-meaning friend who constructively critici...
Jun 23, 2021•5 min
Today, let's recognize how we've been wrongly shamed and how that affects our creative process. View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/artist Watch today's video » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7LW4rENLTI __________ INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON: Those of us who get bogged down by fear before action are usually being sabotaged by an older enemy, shame. Shame is a controlling device. Shaming someone is an attempt to prevent the person from behaving in a way that embarrasses ...
Jun 22, 2021•4 min
Today, let's take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors fly open. Start The Artist's Way journey from the beginning: https://intentioninspired.com/artist Watch today's video » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-UZlfgiEUA __________ INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON: Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or another, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does. Is it any wonder we discount answered prayers? We call it a coinc...
Jun 21, 2021•5 min
Today, let's listen to our anger to better understand where we have betrayed ourselves. View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/artist Watch today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZeuW26U5d8 ______________ INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON: Anger is fuel. We feel it and want to do something. Hit someone, break something, throw a fit, smash a fist into the wall, tell those bastards. But we are nice people, and what we do with our anger is stuff it, deny it, bury it, block it, hid...
Jun 20, 2021•5 min
Today, let's notice that each moment is not without its beauty. Explore The Artist's Way online community journey: https://intentioninspired.com/artist Watch today's video here » https://youtu.be/Q-qcJ99IQDA __________ INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON Writing about attention, I see that I have written a good deal about pain. This is no coincidence. It may be different for others, but pain is what it took to teach me to pay attention. In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and...
Jun 19, 2021•2 min
Today, let's find delight through our capacity to pay attention. Explore The Artist's Way online community journey: https://intentioninspired.com/artist Watch today's video here » https://youtu.be/fF1BtHvP-Po __________ INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON Very often, a creative block manifests itself as an addiction to fantasy. Rather than working or living in now, we spin our wheels and indulge in daydreams of could have, would have, should have. One of the greatest misconceptions about the artistic life ...
Jun 18, 2021•3 min
Today, let's set skepticism aside to further examine beliefs that keep us stuck and imbalanced. Get the daily 10-min sessions for The Artist's Way online course for free: https://intentioninspired.com/artist Watch today's video » https://youtu.be/vNSgDVbgWVI __________ One of the things most worth noting in a creative recovery is our reluctance to take seriously the possibility that the universe just might be cooperating with our new and expanded plans. We've gotten brave enough to try recovery,...
Jun 17, 2021•2 min
Today, let's look at the inner enemy we harbor ourselves. Start The Artist's Way online journey from the beginning: https://intentioninspired.com/artist Watch today's video » https://youtu.be/EHpf4hcl9ZM __________ TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON: Perhaps the greatest barrier for any of us as we look for an expanded life is our own deeply held skepticism. This might be called the secret doubt. It does not seem to matter whether we are officially believers or agnostics. We have our own dou...
Jun 16, 2021•3 min
Today, let's acknowledge how others can be a destructive block to our creative work. Journey through The Artist's Way with our fun, loving community: https://intentioninspired.com/artist Watch today's video here » https://youtu.be/PinNIYVTZPo __________ INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON "Crazymakers are the kind of people who can take over your whole life. Whether they appear as you're overbearing mother, your manic boss, your needy friend, or your stubborn spouse, the crazymakers in your life share cert...
Jun 15, 2021•3 min
Today, let's nurture a space of safety and self-acceptance that will allow our creativity to flourish. View today's full session & connect with healthy playmates: https://intentioninspired.com/artist Watch today's video here » https://youtu.be/YENqIQ7Wxpk __________ TODAY'S INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON: Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance. You're artist, like a small child, is happiest when feeling a sense of security. As our artists protective parent, we mus...
Jun 14, 2021•3 min
Today, let's neutralize self-doubt before it turns into self-sabotage. View today's full session (free): https://intentioninspired.com/artist Watch today's video here » https://youtu.be/7MGC6p6Xtt8 __________ TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON: Trusting our creativity is new behavior for many of us. It may feel quite threatening initially, not only to us but also to our intimates. We may feel—and look—erratic. This erraticism is a normal part of getting unstuck, pulling free from the muck th...
Jun 13, 2021•2 min
Today, let's turn negative blurts into affirmative allies. Watch today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBd9NR7jtG4 View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/artist __________ INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON: Affirmations help achieve a sense of safety and hope. When we first start working with affirmations, they may feel dumb. Hockey. Embarrassing. Isn't this interesting? We can easily, and without embarrassment, bludgeon ourselves with negative affirmations: "I'm not gifted eno...
Jun 12, 2021•2 min
Today, let's acknowledge jealously as a stalling technique that reinforces our staying stuck. Watch today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itDma3VjLSo View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/artist __________ INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON: Your Ally Within: Affirmative Weapons All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage. As blocked creators, we tend to regard these bogus spotlight grabbers with animosity. We may be able to defer to true g...
Jun 11, 2021•2 min
Today, let's reveal the central negative belief that all other negative beliefs stem from. Watch today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zim2XbMlXGU View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/artist __________ INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON: "Stripped to their essence, our multiple negative beliefs reveal a central negative belief: we must trade one good, beloved dream for another. In other words, if being an artist seems too good to be true to you, you will devise a price tag for...
Jun 09, 2021•4 min
Today, let's uncover false negative beliefs that inhibit our creativity. Watch today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL9xifzGMzQ View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/artist __________ INSPO FROM JULIA: Core Negative Beliefs "Here is a list of commonly held negative beliefs: I can't be a successful, prolific, creative artist because: Everyone will hate me. I will hurt my friends and family. I will go crazy. I will abandon my friends and family. I can't spell. I don't ...
Jun 08, 2021•3 min
Today, let's find ease from the fear of the unknown. Watch today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W9iHAaZ9NM Join the conversation with the Intention Inspired fam: https://intentioninspired.com/artist __________ INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON "Most of the time when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that way. We may not be happy, but at least we know what we are—unhappy. Much fear of our own creativity is the fear of the unknown. If I am fully creative, w...
Jun 07, 2021•2 min
Today, let's find and protect our artist child by gently acknowledging enemies of our creative self-worth. Watch today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3H_wOdfem0 Join The Artist's Way online community journey: https://intentioninspired.com/artist __________ INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON: "The artist child must begin by crawling. Baby steps will follow and there will be falls. Typically the recovering shadow artist will use these early efforts to discourage continued exploration. In recoveri...
Jun 06, 2021•3 min
Today, let's accept our Critic within and begin to nurture our artist child. Watch today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84B9VqId3os View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/artist _____________________ TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE: Take a moment to tune in to your Critic. If you need help, go ahead and start writing your morning pages ... your Critic will soon chime in to question the validity of this, badger you for that, it will do whatever it can to prevent you from put...
Jun 05, 2021•3 min
The Artist's Way is a journey of discovery. You are the terra incognita (unexplored territory) that you will be exploring. Expect to fall in love with both yourself and the world around you. 🙌 Join The Artist's Way Online Community Journey for FREE: https://intentioninspired.com/artist 💞 Invite a friend on the journey! We journey better when we journey together. The Artist's Way is a distillate from forty years of Julia Cameron's artistic practice intended to teach people to process and transf...
May 14, 2021•5 min
Today, let's use our creative journaling session to uncover patterns and conditionings that want our healing attention. 🙌 Join us in the Art Room (free): https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend 👁 Learn more about Intention Inspired: https://intentioninspired.com/ 🔔 Subscribe to the Intention Inspired podcast at https://intentioninspired.com/podcast 💞 Who do you know that would be inspired by today's intentional sessional? Sharing is caring. Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and at...
May 06, 2021•6 min
Today, let's embark on a curious adventure that will make a clear division between our 'self' and our creative expression so that we can better carry out the wishes of our creative muses. 🙌 Join us in the Art Room (free): https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend 👁 Learn more about Intention Inspired: https://intentioninspired.com/ 🔔 Subscribe to the Intention Inspired podcast at https://intentioninspired.com/podcast 💞 Who do you know that would be inspired by today's intentional sessional? S...
May 04, 2021•5 min
Let's dance with the moon's energetic glory as we embrace her illuminated pull and connect to her power with balance and grace. 🙌 Join us in the Art Room (free): https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend 👁 Learn more about Intention Inspired: https://intentioninspired.com/ 🔔 Subscribe to the Intention Inspired podcast at https://intentioninspired.com/podcast 💞 Who do you know that would be inspired by today's intentional sessional? Sharing is caring. All things on Earth have a natural cycle. ...
May 02, 2021•6 min
Today, let's explore a few creative exercises to access our magical, creative child. 🙌 Join us in the Art Room (free): https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend 👁 Learn more about Intention Inspired: https://intentioninspired.com/ 🔔 Subscribe to the Intention Inspired podcast at https://intentioninspired.com/podcast 💞 Who do you know that would be inspired by today's intentional sessional? Sharing is caring. "It took me four years to paint like Rembrandt, but a lifetime to paint like a child....
May 01, 2021•6 min
