The Complete Artist's Way: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice (40 page)

Competition

snap judgments and

Conditioning, early

Connection, recovering sense of

Contract

for artist date

creativity

Control, relinquishing

Cooking

Copland, Aaron

Counting (exercise)

Crazymakers

defined

techniques of

Creative blockage. See Blockage, creative

Creative clusters

Creative living

Creative recovery.
See
Recovery, creative

Creative U-turn

Creative-writing programs

Creativity

as gift of God

as God-energy

perfectionism and

recovery of (see Recovery, creative)

as spiritual issue

as tribal experience

Creativity contract

Creator.
See
God

Credit, desire for

Criticism

controlling

damaging

dealing with

perfectionism and

rules of the road for dealing with

shaming by

timing of

useful

Daly, Mary

Davis, Miles

De Palma, Brian

Deadlies, The (task)

Degas, Edgar

Delacroix, Eugene

Delight(s).
See also joy

capacity for

of past, excavating

De Mille, Agnes

Denial

of crazymakers

of real feelings

Dependence upon others

freedom from

for recognition

Dependency, spiritual

freedom from fears of abandonment and

versus money as source of security

shift to

Depression

Desires, clarifying vision of

Destructiveness, self-

Detail, in art

Detective work (exercise)

Disappointments.
See also
Loss(es) unmourned

Disassociation

Discarding old things

Disclosure, self-

Discouragement.
See also
U-turns, creative

Doing the footwork

Dostoyevski, Fyodor

Doubts.
See
Self-doubt; Skepticism about creative recovery

Dramaticism

crazymakers and

Dreams

remembering

Dropping down the well

Drought, period of

purpose to

Drought, periods of

morning pages during

Drucker, Peter

Drugs

Duncan, Isadora

Duvall, Shelley

Early patternings (exercise)

Eckhart, Meister

Edwards, Blake

Ego strength

Egotism, of perfectionists

Einstein, Albert

Ellington, Duke

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Encouragement, lack of

Endorphins

Energy

change in patterns of

crazymakers and

Enthusiasm

Environment

Escape velocity, achieving

Excuses

Exercise

and creativity

endorphins produced by

goal of

Expectations, unrealistic

Exploration

Faith

leaps of

recovering sense of

Fame

as addictive

Fantasy

Fear

admission of

jealousy as mask for

negative beliefs and

Feelings, real versus official

Ferguson, Amos

Ferrucci, Piero

Filling the form

defined

Filling the well

defined

through eliminating distractions

Flexibility

Flow of life, sense of

Food

blocking creativity with

Forbidden joys (exercise)

Frankhauser, Jerry

Friends

blocked

skeptical

supportive

Fromm, Erich

Gains, disguised as loss

Gardner, Paul

Gass, Robbie

Gauguin, Paul

Gawain, Shakti

Gide, Andre

Goal Search

Goals, creative, visualizing

God

affirming help of

anthropomorphizing

beliefs about

faith in

forging alliance with

inner connection to

learning to accept generosity of

looking at beliefs about

power of

as source, dependence on

and sychronicity

toxic versus nontoxic

willingness to hear

Goethe, Johann von

Goldman, Emma

Goldsmith, Joel S.

Graham, Martha

Grappelli, Stephane

Grief.
See also
Mourning

droughts and

over lost years

Growth

peaks and valleys of

as spiral process

Growth process

lack of awareness of

Guilt

Habits

of work

Harris, Norma Jean

Hart, Mickey

Hartigan, Grace

Hawken, Paul

Hayes, Jody

Healing

creative recovery as

paying attention and

Help, admitting need for

Hobbies

benefits of

necessity for

Holistic thinking

Holt, John

Hope

Hopper, Edward

Houston Jean

“How am I doing?” syndrome

Hughston, J.P.

Ideal Day (task)

Ideal Ideal Day (task)

Identity, sense of

discovery of

emergence of

recovering

Illusion(s)

loss of

of safety

Image File

Images

filling well with

as language of art

linking of

Imaginary Lives tasks

Inner child. See Artist child within

Inner Compass

Inner guide, trusting

Insight(s)

Inspiration

Integrity, recovering sense of

Intellectuals, versus artists

Jealousy

antidotes for

as mask for fear

Jealousy map (exercise)

Jeffers, Susan

Jong, Erica

Journal of a Solitude, A
(Sarton)

Joy.
See also
Delight(s)

capacity for

mystery of

Judgment of work.
See also
Censor, internal

too quick or too early

Jung, Carl G.

Kahn, Hazrat Inayat

Kandinsky, Wassily

Kazan, Elia

Koestenbaum, Peter

Kottlisky, Marge

Krishnamurti, J.

Kriyas

defined

Kiibler-Ross, Elisabeth

La Motta, Jake

Lao-Tzu

Lessing, Doris

Letting go

as part of creativity

Life Pie

Limits, unconscious setting of

Listening skills

Living, creative

Logicbrain

Censor as part of

Loss(es), artistic

acknowledging and sharing

admitting and mourning

droughts and

gain disguised as

moving ahead after

self-discovery and

sense of

Love Addicts Anonymous

Love obsession

Lucky breaks. See Synchronicity

Luxury.
See also
Self-nurturance

creativity in relation to

permitting oneself

of space

of time

McCarthy, Julianna

McIntyre, Leslie M.

Magic

Magical Work of the Soul, The

Magritte, René-François-Ghislain

Mahoney, John

Mamet, David

Mann, Stella Terrill

Mantra

Mariechild, Diane

Marketplace

demands of, and creativity

focusing creative concerns on

Martyrdom

Masochism

Meditation

brain hemispheres and

and dysfunction

and inner power source

and insight

morning pages as

ways of thinking about

withdrawal and

Meigs, Walter

Miller, Henry

Moment, living in

Money

beliefs about

blockage unrelated to

crazymakers and

use of

Money madness (exercise)

Morning pages

attitude toward doing

avoiding

change and

commitment to

defined

during droughts

and inner wisdom

internal Censor and

as meditation

as nonnegotiabile

as primary tool of creative recovery

reading

realignment of values through

reality and

as spiritual practice

written affirmations of progress in

Morrison, Toni

Mourning.
See also
Grief

of artistic losses

as rite of passage

of wounding

Mulling

Murphy, Joseph

Murray, W H.

Music

Mystery

opening door to

Nachmanovitch, Stephen

Nair, Keshavan

Natural Abundance (task)

Needlework

Negativity

Nevelson, Louise

New Childhood (task)

Nin, Anaïs

Norwood, Robin

Novelty

Nurturance

need for

self-

Obsessions

O’Keeffe, Georgia

Oldenburg, Claes

Olsen, Tillie

Open-mindedness

Options, widening

Order, crazymakers’ hate of

Originality

ego’s demand for

as remaining true to oneself

Overview

Ovid

Pain

admission of

of aloneness

and gain

Pampering. See Self-nurturance

Parent figures