The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity [10th Anniversary Edition]

By Julia Cameron

 

Product Description

The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today-or perhaps even more so-than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work. In a new introduction to the book, Julia Cameron reflects upon the impact of The Artist’s Way and describes the work she has done during the last decade and the new insights into the creative process that she has gained. Updated and expanded, this anniversary edition reframes The Artist’s Way for a new century.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1027 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-04
• Released on: 2002-02-28
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 237 pages

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.

This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains.

 

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Customer Reviews

Life changing book
This book got into my hands at a crucial moment in my life and has been a life changing experience. I would recommend it to anyone struggling with self doubt about your capacity to create art.
Do the 12 weeks and you will discover a new you.

A manual for artistic recovery
My boyfriend and I have an ongoing argument about whether fear or laziness is more likely to keep someone from action. He claims it’s laziness, but my answer is fear.

Julia Cameron would seem to agree with me. Her book, a classic for “blocked” artists, outlines a 12-week program for “creative recovery.” Week one is devoted to the tension between “the dream of action and the fear of failure.”

I discovered The Artist’s Way nearly two years ago, and it became I lifeline for me as I recommitted myself to singing.

The book’s numerous exercises helped me discover and confront the fears that held me back from fully pursuing my dream.

Self-acceptance and the freedom to fail have been essential to me as I’ve taken new artistic risks, and they are woven throughout Cameron’s recipe for success.

The spiritual overtones in The Artist’s Way might not appeal to all readers. However, I found it easy to “translate” these into my own words, and I highly recommend the book to anyone who has fallen into a creative rut.

The Artist’s Way
If you are looking for validation for the talents you think might be lurking around inside you somewhere, you need to read this. It will remind you that there’s more to who you are than just a work-producing-robot! With The Artist’s Way as my workbook, I am now reading Cameron’s Right to Write and am looking forward to Vein of Gold. Just get the book. If she wrote the phone book I think I’d read it

The Artist’s Way Workbook

The Artist’s Way Workbook
By Julia Cameron

For the millions of people who have uncovered their creative selves through the Artist’s Way program-a workbook and companion to the international bestseller.

Alife-changing twelve-week program, The Artist’s Way has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. Now, for the first time, fans will have this elegantly designed and user-friendly volume for use in tandem with the book. The Artist’s Way Workbook includes:

– more than 110 Artist’s Way tasks;
– more than 50 Artist’s Way check-ins;
– a fascinating introduction to the workbook in which Cameron shares new insights into the creative process that she has culled in the decade since The Artist’s Way was originally published;
– new and original writings on Morning Page Journaling and the Artist’s Date-two of the most vital tools set forth by Cameron in The Artist’s Way.

The Artist’s Way Workbook is an indispensable book for anyone following the spiritual path to higher creativity laid out in The Artist’s Way.

The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

    

The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size
By Julia Cameron

From the bestselling author of The Artist’s Way, a revolutionary diet plan: Use art to take off the pounds!

Over the course of the past twenty-five years, Julia Cameron has taught thousands of artists and aspiring artists how to unblock wellsprings of creativity. And time and again she has noticed an interesting thing: Often, in uncovering their creative selves her students also undergo a surprising physical transformation-invigorated by their work, they slim down. In The Writing Diet, Cameron illuminates the relationship between creativity and eating to reveal a crucial equation: creativity can block overeating.

This inspiring weight-loss program, which can be used in conjunction with Cameron’s groundbreaking book on the creative process, The Artist’s Way, directs readers to count words instead of calories, to substitute their writing’s “food for thought” for actual food. Using journaling to examine their relationship with food-and to ward off unhealthy overeating -readers will learn to treat food cravings as invitations to evaluate what they are truly craving in their emotional lives.

The Writing Diet presents a brilliant plan for using one of the soul’s deepest and most abiding appetites-the desire to be creative-to lose weight and keep it off forever.

I’m a creativity expert, not a diet expert. So why am I writing a book about weight loss? Because I have accidentally stumbled upon a weight-loss secret that works. For twenty-five years I’ve taught creative unblocking, a twelve-week process based on my book The Artist’s Way. From the front of the classroom I’ve seen lives transformed-and, to my astonishment, bodies transformed as well. It took me a while to recognize what was going on, but sure enough, students who began the course on the plump side ended up visibly leaner and more fit. What’s going on here? I asked myself. Was it my imagination, or was there truly a “before” and an “after”? There was!

-from The Writing Diet