✔ I want to do what I love, but I’m constantly distracted by a spinning ball of thoughts in my head✔ Self-flagellation, criticism are my friend from the very morning✔ It’s like I’m not here, a heap of thoughts carries me away and doesn’t allow me to be in the moment✔ All day I have background anxiety, doubts... About things that happened yesterday, they wait in the evening, in a week...✔ I have a bright, rich life, but I don’t feel it in the moment. So, I look at the photo later and think: “that happened to me, it’s cool.” In all these and “near that” cases, the “brain sewer”, or, more beautifully, the “Morning Pages” exercise, helps us. Its main purpose is to clear your head of useless/distracting/unnecessary/negative/miscellaneous thoughts.☀ Start a new day with a clean, clear head! Try writing Morning Pages for at least a week and see that this statement becomes a pattern in your life, and not a happy accident. So, the instructions: Morning pages are three A4 sheets, which are written immediately after waking up (!) in a spontaneous flow of text (we write what is in our head, without any censorship). Put everything that is in your head right now there, without worrying whether it’s beautiful, competent, embarrassing or boring. Just write everything that flashes through your head, the task is to write three sheets of anything, one condition: from your head and without adjustments. 🖇 The original exercise is in the book “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron. Surprise: the author has an even higher goal with this exercise! And this will be a great side effect for us. The book “The Artist’s Way” is a training on reviving creativity and finding inspiration. Julia offers Pages as more than just a drain for the brain. And also an effective way to make friends with the inner critic, and to revive the ability to create. But she considers every(!) person to be a creator, although first of all her book is addressed to people in creative professions who are experiencing stagnation. But Julia reminds us every now and then: that everyone is a creator, and I translate her “create” for myself simply as “live.” So, our wonderful side effect is the inspiration to create your life (and not just spend it) and the absence of the itch of the inner critic. In the words of the author: All this nonsense, consisting of anger and despondency, which you write down in the morning, is what prevents you from creating (my note: = live ☝🏼). Worries about work, dirty laundry, a dent on the car, a strange look from your beloved - all this swirls somewhere at the subconscious level and spoils your mood all day long. 🖇 As usual, I only share what I tried myself, and not what I read and just liked 🙂 But what prompted me to write about Morning Pages was how positively clients who tried to write them responded to them :) Someone - my prompt, and with someone it was like this: Client: “Today I wrote morning pages..”, Me: “Oh, you also know morning pages?” )))Whoever tries to write Pages - please share your effect!) More of my materials and information about me on my website: maria-venger.ru