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I am subscribed to a few different newsletters about spirituality and doing your own thing out there in the world. I am inspired often. I really like what they have to say and think hmmm maybe I should do a blog post or vlog about that? I've been doing Julia Cameron's " the Artist's Way". I am almost to Week 10 of morning pages, artist dates, exercises and reflections. The cover says it is a Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self. It has been a beyond words type of experience for me. It is MAJOR I can say that. I highly recommend it!!
I believe we came here with creative gifts and talents to be mined and shared. I have gotten so much out of TAW, I am thinking about creating a group that goes through this course together. Going through this process couldn't have come at a better time as I struggled to take care of business having to do with the flood and recover from it.
You know I've been struggling with this. You also know amazing miracles happened too. It's caused me to really look at what I spend my time on, and what is important to me. I've gotten really clear that I have a message to bring through words and songs. As of late, I see that it's also about creating a space for people to be taken away to a higher place...to joy...to bliss...to freedom. My message is about FREEDOM, doing what you love and taking great care of yourself. You can transcend your present circumstances and issues... money drama, people drama, work drama. You are free to live life on your own terms, even if you have other people to look out for and take care of.
Through Cameron's TAW Course, I've discovered my message and music are one. I don't just want to teach and write, I want to combine it with music. I love giving audience mini-readings, and sharing what I've learned during a music performance. A concert Mark and I did for Livonia Unity recently opened my eyes on an even deeper level, to what I'm here to do. I believe life is magical and that it is there... as the quote says patiently waiting for our eyes to see. You get to create your environment and what you see. You get to say how you want to feel...in the face of problems and when things are going well. How easy it is to get into struggle, strain and the daily grind when things are good. We don't get how amazing it is to get to work safely and on-time, so we can make it back home to family. We can easily take for granted mediocre and mundane drama-free days.
I'm learning to fiercely embrace and love drama-free mundane days. As a Virgo Sun-Gemini Rising my brain always says I must be doing something...getting somewhere. As a young child who believed from her upbringing that she would never be good enough, this is a recipe for disaster and unhappiness of the worst kind. Not only do you believe you have to be doing something to be somewhere and be worthy...you have to create it and make it happen. If you don't you have failed immeasurably, beyond redemption.
I was raised joyless and loveless like many, even maybe you. A lyric in my song "Tin Man" from my first album Mrs. Blue says "I've always known sorrow but I'm learning about happiness." We can be free and feel great love, when we give it to ourselves and commit to working on being the kind of person we want to be. That doesn't mean being perfect. It means regarding ourselves with love, care, honor and respect.
Let yourself off the hook. Embrace laziness if you're body is screaming for you to slow down. You won't be there forever...just enough to heal and figure things out. Then a funny thing happens...what you want starts coming to you because you got out of your own way. Life is full of magic seen and still unseen. You are LOVED beyond what you could imagine by your Creator.and you don't have to earn that EVER!
Here are a few ways to come back to yourself and what is important to you.
How often to you say to yourself I'd like to do this but... Where are your buts? What are they standing in the way of?
Schedule creative time or doing nothing time at least once a week.
What did you use to do that you really enjoyed, but say I just don't have time for that now?
Ask for help and use resources available to you.
Sometimes we don't even have a reason why we put off what makes us happy. Maybe you were raised like I was that life is hard and joyless, and being happy is being lazy. Either way schedule YOU time right away!
Would you be interested in joining an Artist's Way group?
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Much Love & Joy
Tatiana
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