wisewords Julia Cameron Speaks from Her Heart
CREATING A LIFE BEYOND NEED AND WORRY
by Linda Sechrist
ulia Cameron is an award-winning author, poet, play- wright and filmmaker, perhaps best known for her precedent-set- ting works on creativ- ity, including The Art- ist’s Way, The Vein of Gold, Walking in this World and The Right to Write. In her latest book, The Prosperous Heart, she presents a 10-week program that guides readers in developing a life that
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is as full and satisfying as they ever imagined possible.
How is unblocking creativity linked to having a prosperous heart and a life of enough? I have taught creative unblocking for 35 years. When I’ve asked my stu- dents about money, inevitably their responses are emotional exclamations: “Money is the biggest block to my creativity,” or “I feel like I can handle anything but money,” or “Do we have to talk about money?”
I believe that every person is cre- ative, and can use his or her creativity to create a life of “enough”. I have worried about money and found that having money does not end this worry. I have also discovered practical tools that have lifted my students and me out of money worries into a prosper- ous heart. Prospering is something we can do today, no matter how much money we have.
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Prosperity is not just about money, although our relationship to mon- ey must be brought out into the light, and we must be brave enough to look at it candidly. Having enough is hav- ing a life beyond need and worry. It’s about finding satisfaction in our lives, improving the lives we have, straight- ening out our finances and creating a life that is enough for us.
What led you to conclude that a prosperous heart is about a spiritual bottom line, rather than a financial one? My experience of this principle has been cumulative. When teaching The Artist’s Way through the years, I have sometimes been moved to give away memberships in a class in order to help creatively stymied individuals that felt they couldn’t afford the 12-week course. While this didn’t add to my bank account, I felt rewarded on a spiri- tual level as I watched those students blossom over the course of the class.
What tools do you offer readers in The Prosperous Heart?
Morning Pages remain the primary tool of a creative recovery and for estab- lishing prosperity. Three daily pages of longhand writing—strictly stream of consciousness—work to provoke, clarify, comfort, cajole, prioritize and
photo by Mark Kornbluth
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