This blog keeps me accountable. So, in that spirit, I'm announcing on here that I'm embarking on the 12 week journey following Julia Cameron's The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of Enough. Again. I have never finished the full course. I think the furthest I've gotten is to chapter 7. On forgiveness. Hhhmmmm...but you'll all keep me on track, right? This in response to my new moon vow of the 6 areas in my life that I've chosen to specifically focus on which I mentioned in an earlier May blog:
I LOVE Julia Cameron, her writing and her 12 week guided programmes. The Artist's Way transformed my life. I highly recommend it for anyone at any time in their life. I've worked through it fully at least three, possibly four times. It grounds me and points me in the right direction every time. I have the same faith with The Prosperous Heart and trust that this time I'll make it to the end. For this course, she has an interesting selection of tools:
Today I started my Morning Pages practice--3 handwritten pages each morning as soon as I wake up (on days that I work, I will work around this as best as i can...pages at work ASAP for the 7am-5pm shift and on my midnight shifts in the morning before starting the scheduled routines if possible otherwise when I get home). Refreshing though these pages are (I call them my AM pages as they are so grounding and self-illuminating and i love the play on a.m.) they can be difficult to justify at times if I feel I'm neglecting something else to get them done. But they only take 20 mins and add such clarity to my day. They are SO worth it. I still have to decorate the front of my present AM book (an 80 page Hilroy notebook) and design a playlist on Spotify. In the past I've used a mixed tape of Enya's music. I may return to that. So there you have it. This is where I'm at right now. Where are YOU at? What is going on for you in your life right now? What are you choosing to focus on? What are you showing up for? Showing up can be the hardest part. Do it anyway. Much love. (Please note that weebly (my blog site/host) is having trouble with a bug preventing comments at the moment. They assure me they're working on it so please check in at different times and persevere. Thank you!)
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maggie p
5/30/2018 03:36:40 pm
are the comments back yet?
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Sue Blott
6/3/2018 09:13:27 am
Yay! They are!
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Linda
6/3/2018 12:18:59 am
Maybe I missed it, but can you expand on 'clearing'? Is this more a spiritual cleaning or a physical one?
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Sue Blott
6/3/2018 09:17:59 am
Linda! Hello! Maybe I'll expand on clearing or at least on the book in my next blog. I could do that today. You know me...it's physical clearing. I like the term clearing rather than declutter but that's basically what it is. Some interesting concepts which make sense to me in the book. Book is A Year yo Clear by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.
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Sue Blott
6/3/2018 09:20:14 am
Lol. TO Clear not Yo Clear although Yo Clear! would be a brilliant battle cry. I think I'll use that! :-) Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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