The Artist’s Way, while it is inspiring for Art, it is also bringing forth an artful self. It is finding the dark spots where we lost the art of living, the art of being, the art of individuality, where we conformed into roles that are in direct competition to being a creation from self.
A self that lives behind the roles.
A self we set aside years ago for a variety of reasons.
This is the self we will find if we continue on The Artist’s Way…the path leads to self.
I have been disrobing from roles that made up most of who I was, and underneath was a girl who I didn’t know. It is this girl who has been struggling to come alive, against the adverse conditioned mind.
This conditioned mind puts fear, guilt and shame along my pathway, sprinkled with false claims of a gloomy future, IF I dare make a new choice, explore and discover a new way of living.
I have been jousting with this mind for 6 ½ years now, seeing which one of us will win at each turn. Even having the fight is a great improvement to the capitulations of the past, where I didn’t even to fight.
Now I have two separated ideals/beliefs/thoughts and desires vying for the chance to live as me.
I feel a huge percentage of me is now onboard with the self and just fragments and pieces of me are still tangled up with the mental mind.
The Artist’s Way is working to unhinge those parts as well as strengthen and ignite the ones already free!
I feel a huge part of me is flowing with the energy from the field of Art and pure potential, unlocked from the constraints of the mind.
Like a butterfly almost cleared from the cocoon!
