Yoga & The Artist’s Way week 6
Morning Pages have been a struggle for me for several days now - I’m getting into the resistance phase where it feels like a meaningless chore. After I write about what a meaningless chore it is, and complain for half a page or so, I’ve been able to shift the conversation in my head to something a lot more positive, and carry on, even though I know I am faking-it-til-I-make-it the whole time.
Why does this happen? Is it really about the Morning Pages, or am I trying not to look at something that might be easy to shift and change if I just look at it? Am I too tired, or too busy to let myself dive in? Maybe the problem is that I don’t have enough to complain about. Or maybe it’s the large cat sitting on my notebook while I try to write.
The truth is, Morning Pages flow like life does - with ups and downs. Some days we are ripe for transformative insight, some days we are slow and reluctant. Easy - hard, exciting - dull. Life is all of these things, and Morning Pages are too.
So if you are struggling and feeling stuck, here are some ideas to get you through the moment:
Continue working on your list of accomplishments for 2011 so far.
Pick one accomplishment and write about that.
Work on that letter from your 80 year old self.
Write 3 things you are grateful for, and why.
Fantasize about yourself on a great adventure.
Pick up any one of the cards we’ve chosen so far and write about whatever comes up.
Try to answer one of the great mysteries of the universe, like… why do cats have itchy faces?
