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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is
to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius
Before we will start discovering what Morning Art Journaling is and why it’s important, let’s find out what is just normal morning journaling and why is it trend nowadays?
Morning
Pages are one of these things that sound so simple that you don’t think they
could ever work for you. One of the things that I have realized in life is that
many of the best things are really simple but our complicated minds want to
tell us they won’t work for us.
What is
Morning Journaling?
Morning Journaling
is a process of creating three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness
writing, ideally done first thing in the morning.
There is no
wrong way to do Morning Journaling– they are not high art. They aren’t even
“writing.” They are about anything and everything that crosses your mind– and
they are for your eyes only.
Morning
Journaling provoke, clarify, comfort, cajole, prioritize and synchronize the
day at hand.
Do not over-think Morning Pages: just put three pages of anything
on the page…and then do three more pages tomorrow.
Basically
you must create new morning routine. Or maybe just to put inside your morning
schedule just a little time for yourself where you will sit and write 3 pages
of just anything what’s happening in your mind. You are clearing your mind and
leave everything out on the paper.
This is new
relaxing and therapeutical practice for normal people. But we are artists or at
least art related humans (I hope so as long as you are reading now my blog). So
we don’t write much, because we love to visualize. And as part of therapy it’s
totally okay not to write 3 pages every morning, but to
draw/paint/collage/craft. And even if some doodling will not make sense in the
first several mornings it’s totally fine as long as you are letting your
emotions and feeling and demons let go.
Morning Art
Pages have become an integral part of my Daily Routine and ultimately have made
me a better person.
Here are
some of the benefits:
- They center you and clear your mind.
We wake up
with a ton of stuff floating around in our minds. We need to channel that
energy and get it out. Morning Pages act as a ‘brain dump’ that will clear your
mind to focus on other things. Whether it’s the small distracting thoughts that
can take our attention or bigger, more challenging issues that can at times
hijack our thoughts, Morning Pages allow us to “dump” all the “stuff”, making
way for more constructive and creative thinking.
- They help you discover your creativity.
In order to
retrieve your creativity, you need to find it. And it’s through this seemingly
pointless process that you are able to find it. You discover things that have
been hidden inside you and stuffed down in the business of life.
- They help to silence your biggest enemy. Your inner critic.
- They make you less anxious.
Painting helps
sweep away anxiety. Envy, anger, fear,
vulnerability, procrastination…all those emotions can be put on paper and seen
for what they are. By getting this stuff
out and looking at it, you realize it’s not so bad and it helps to ground you.
- They will help you become a better idea generator.
I’ve talked
a lot about the power of generating ideas on a daily basis. Your Morning Art Pages
practice will help you take this to a new level.
One of
important exercise in my art school was daily painting of the most remembering
or important thing that happened today. And we was suppose draw picture of it.
You can work this way as well. For example if you are not ready to paint in the
morning then you can make it your evening Art Journaling.
Evening painting can
bring same positive therapeutic changes as morning one.
As artist I
will suggest not to limit yourself to album and pencils, but rather
experimenting and explore materials. Maybe sometimes small doodling can inspire
you to create big morning art work.
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I hadn't heard about this trend (morning journaling or morning art) before. But it's very interesting and it sounds very good. I can image how this can help a lot and it has a lot of benefits. Even if your not a morning person :)
ReplyDeleteThe couple of hours in the early morning just before twilight are the hours when one is at their creative best. In fact this is the time I love as everything is quite and I am fully charged and the mind alert.
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard about this before! So cool!
ReplyDelete♥: Jasmin N
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I'll have to try this sometime, sounds like a cool idea :)
ReplyDeleteInteresting article, I'd never heard of morning journalism before reading this.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the great work with these posts.
Jay from http://EclecticElite.com
This is interesting!! Never heard about these facts before!! Thanks for sharing!! :)
ReplyDeleteI do this once a week to reflect my life the whole week. I work with people with learning disabilities and completely agree that art and journaling are good therapy.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I am not an arty person but I admire other peoples art. I loved this post because I can introduce morning journaling to my routine because I love to write and find it very therapeutic (hence i took up blogging). I feel like exploding all my first thoughts onto a page first thing in the morning will help my brain sort the information floating around in their much more efficiently. xx
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