The Artist's Way

(Axel Boer) #1
The more    we  learn   to  operate in  the world   based   on
trust in our intuition, the stronger our channel will be
and the more money we will have.
SHAKTI GAWAIN

Money   will    come    when    you are doing   the right   thing.
MIKE PHILLIPS

We are awfully sure about that. Most of us harbor a secret
belief that work has to be work and not play, and that
anything we really want to do—like write, act, dance—must
be considered frivolous and be placed a distant second. This
is not true.
We are operating out of the toxic old idea that God’s will
for us and our will for us are at opposite ends of the table. “I
want to be an actress, but God wants me to wait tables in
hash joints,” the scenario goes. “So if I try to be an actress, I
will end up slinging hash.”
Thinking like this is grounded in the idea that God is a
stern parent with very rigid ideas about what’s appropriate
for us. And you’d better believe we won’t like them. This
stunted god concept needs alteration.
This week, in your morning pages, write about the god
you do believe in and the god you would like to believe in.
For some of us, this means, “What if God’s a woman and
she’s on my side?” For others, it is a god of energy. For still

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