A Daily Habit to Break Through to Your Creativity
January 31, 2024 | Supreeya S
Have you heard about Morning Pages? It’s a tool to reintroduce creativity into your life. Julia Cameron, author of “The Artist’s Way, invented the process. It’s helped people realize their dreams, change their lives, and take risks.
Want to learn more about what morning pages does?
The Why
Although morning pages seem like a simple practice, it serves a deeper purpose. It brings clarity, connection, and action.
- Clarity
There’s stuff that’s standing between you and your creativity. It’s stuff in your head. It’s what your inner critic is saying. All the negativity, fear, and judgment. It seeps out through the day and interferes with what we want to do.
Morning pages give it a place to go. It goes on paper. The inner critic gets to shine for a moment. Find a place to dump out all the trash in your head. By giving your brain room for the rest of your thoughts to live, your creativity gets to come through.
Morning pages bring clarity. It’s a form of meditation.
- Connection
Writing everyday will bring connection to yourself. You will learn what you want, what you’re worried about, what’s occupying your mind. The more you write, the more you will see what comes up most often. You’ll see what’s important. What drives you. Or what’s bothering you.
It’s a form of self-exploration and self-connection.
- Action
Once you clear out the noise, you’ll learn what’s important to you. Once you see what’s important to you, you’ll subconsciously think of what you can do to get there. If it’s a problem, you’ll think of solutions. Eventually, you will take action.
You can’t complain about the same things every day and not do anything about it.
If it’s something small and you could live with it, you will eventually choose to turn your attention away. If it’s something important, and your brain is now aware of it, it will work to find solutions and pathways.
It will lead you to taking action. Because your brain will present with all the different actions you could take.
The What, the When, the How
What you will need to do is write out three pages of stream-of-consciousness. It is essentially a brain dump. Whatever’s in there and what to come out, you write onto the page.
When you will be doing the morning pages is once a day, at the start of your day. Hence, why it’s called morning pages.
The how is less complicated than you might think. You write whatever comes to mind. Don’t think about writing well, just write. Don’t judge what you’re writing. If you can’t think of anything to write, keep writing “I can’t think of anything to write…” until it fills up 3 pages.
Do You Fit the Who?
Yes, it’s for everyone.
It was originally intended for creatives. But it’s proven to work with anyone and everyone, even lawyers or businesspeople.
The point of it is that everyone has things that worry or frustrate them. There are things that run through their mind throughout the day. Much like emptying the bin everyday, take the time to empty your mind everyday. It will do wonders for every other the part of your life that you need to focus on. – you work, your career, even your family time.
And if you have no worries at all, you can’t deny that you have an inner critic.
Are You Convinced?
I’m adding Morning Pages to my daily morning routine. Will you join me?