“Morning Pages are about action. Unlike conventional meditation, which may lull you out of taking action, the pages magnify our discontent, pointing out actions we could take. The pages tend to point out our many choice points. We are egged on to increase honesty and candor. Our lives become our own. We no longer sell ourselves out, giving our time and energy to others’ agenda. We have a choice whether to invest in other or ourselves. Investing in ourselves is novel for many of us.”
When it comes to which one to do first, according to Julia Cameron… “Pages should come first. They tell you your concerns and point you towards actions you can take. Meditation by contrast, tends to talk you out of action. If you have a problem, you take it into Morning Pages, you will be given a sense of a possible next step. If you take the same problem into meditation, you may find yourself so spiritually “high” that no action seems necessary.”
This was a lightbulb moment for me!
Morning Pages = Action
Meditation = Balance
Both are important and both are needed as we strive to ever improve our lives, reaching higher and higher into what we are put here on this earth to do in this lifetime.
So, for me I have now moved Morning Pages as the first thing I do every day as part of my daily routine. It’s back as part of my solid foundation for checking in and building up a stronger drive and direction on where I am going and what I want to accomplish. I am even happier because of it.
Meditation has moved to the evening so that I am able to integrate my day and balance it all out. This also helps with having a tremendous night’s sleep.
Morning Pages have also been referred to as an active meditation, so for me, this combination works wonders and I feel I am getting the best of both worlds packed into one day.
Have you ever done Morning Pages or Meditation? How do you incorporate them into your daily life?
Hugs!
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Part One - 30 Days of Inspired Creativity
Healing Your Emotional Pain
Unprocessed emotional pain creates a resistance to moving forward. As you slow down to listen within, your old emotional pain will rise up to be healed first. We often avoid our authentic progression because the hard emotions come up to be healed first and they are painful!
But, on the other side of the hard stuff is more mental clarity, emotional freedom, and the peace of finally allowing yourself to feel what you likely have been avoiding for a long time. As you begin to daily map out your inner world and ask yourself good questions, all of your feelings will point the way to how to heal and move forward with your life.
Your unique direction in life will only become clear after you feel, understand, and integrate the layers of your stored emotional pain. Small changes can begin immediately if you take regular time to allow your difficult feelings a little bit more expression each day.
Step by step you can begin to become familiar with the landscape of your own emotional contractions and fears and learn what is needed for you to live a consciously rich and intentionally authentic life.
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Anyone familiar with Julia Cameron and the artist's way will be aware of the beneficial practice of clean-sweeping the deep and arriving at the pearls of the psyche through the practice of "Morning pages". I had stopped doing it, getting caught up creatively in other things, but after my recent wobble, I started again, and I'm so glad I did. One of the insights that came is that we are threads of the earth, the living fibres of her nervous system; sensors and detectors cracking with the pain of an untenable way of life. Feeling the strain of the earth crying through us. This is our scream for all life. We the deep rooted and real connected feel, that is why we feel this way. I have no answers except to say hold on brothers and sisters. This is noble pain. MB
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Spiritual fitness is like physical fitness. We are not automatically physically fit. We have the necessary muscles but we must exercise them regularly, in the right way, to become fit. Different levels of fitness allow us to achieve different goals.
HU can help each individual find the next best step for their spiritual growth, whether it is a more meaningful way of living life, or finding the best guide to assist them along the next stage of their spiritual journey so they can be helped to find their own true mantra from within
The Supreme Being has been called by various names in different languages but the mystics have known him as HU, the natural name, not the man-made, the only name of the Nameless, which all nature constantly proclaims. "
http://www.innerself.com.au/archive/articles/sa/sa006/asa006-gift_of_hu.html
