本周我们需要努力跟上不断变化的自我认知。本周的各项内容（文章、任务和经验），其目的都是为了帮助你进入更有效的自省，帮助你整合出新的自我认知。你可能会遇到点困难，但也会感到兴奋不已。注意：千万不要省去“reading deprivation”这个环节。

####坦然接受改变

WORKING WITH THE MORNING pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display. Official feelings are often indicated by the phrase, “I feel okay about that
In my years of watching people work with morning pages, I have noticed that many tend to neglect or abandon the pages whenever an unpleasant piece of clarity is about to emerge. If we are, for example, very, very angry but not admitting it, then we will be tempted to say we feel “okay about that.”
通常我们都用公式化——表现给别人看的——的感觉来掩盖真实。公式化的感觉的标志就是“我觉得还行”。坚持写Morining pages，我们会逐渐明白自己的真实感受是怎样的。
多年来，我一直在观察写 Morning page 的人们，我发现，很多人无论何时，一旦出现任何令人不悦的清晰，他们就否定或放弃写 Morning page。例如，如果我们非常愤怒，但不去承认，那我们就会倾向于说，我们觉得“还可以”。

That’s another way of saying that in order to have self-expression, we must first have a self to express. That is the business of the morning pages: “I, myself, feel this way … and that way … and this way…. No one else need agree with me, but this is what I feel.”
也就是说，如果你想表达自己，首先你得具备要表达的“自我”。这就是 Morinig pages 的作用：“我，自己，觉得……这样……那样……不需要别人认同，只是我自己的感觉。”

The process of identifying a self inevitably involves loss as well as gain. We discover our boundaries, and those boundaries by definition separate us from our fellows. As we clarify our perceptions, we lose our misconceptions. As we eliminate ambiguity, we lose illusion as well. We arrive at clarity, and clarity creates change.
有得必有失，我们认清自己的过程中，难免要付出代价。我们会找到自己的上限，这些边界将我们跟同辈人区分开来。一旦我们澄清了自己的想法，我们就不再有错误的观念。一旦我们澄清了不确定性，我们也就不再对其抱有幻想。当我们达到清楚的境地，你的生活也会随之发生改变。

The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.
As we lose our vagueness about our self, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically.
Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression. We become original because we become something specific: an origin from which work flows.
事实上，更令人难以接受的是，创新源自脚踏实地面对现实，尤其是我们专注过的、仔细观察过或者具体形象的现实。
一旦我们抛弃模糊不清的自我、价值观以及生活状态，我们就随时有可能遭遇灵光一现的瞬间，与创造性自我不期而遇。只有我们从独处中感受到自由，我们才能真正与那个创造性的自我联通。
艺术存在于邂逅的那个时刻：我们遇见真理于是遇见自我；我们遇见自我，于是遇见自我表达。我们因为变得特殊，而变得有独创性：所有的一切也就由此开始。

####尘封的梦想

As recovering creatives, we often have to excavate our own pasts for the shards of buried dreams and delights. Do a little digging, please. Be fast and frivolous. This is an exercise in spontaneity, so be sure to write your answers out quickly. Speed kills the Censor.
在回复创造力的过程中，我们得经常“挖掘”被我们尘封的梦想和快乐，快而敏捷地。本项主要是要锻炼你的自发性，所以务必迅速写出答案，用速度击败内部的 Censor。

1. List five hobbies that sound fun. 列出5个你觉得有趣的爱好。
2. List five classes that sound fun. 列出5个你觉得有趣的类别。
3. List five things you personally would never do that sound fun. 列出5个你觉得有趣，但你自己绝不会去做的5件事。
4. List five skills that would be fun to have. 列出5个你觉得如果掌握了会很好玩的技能。
5. List five things you used to enjoy doing. 列出5个你一贯很喜欢做的事情。
6. List five silly things you would like to try once. 列出5个你想尝试一次的傻事。

####Reading deprivation

Reading deprivation casts us into our inner silence, a space some of us begin to immediately fill with new words—long, gossipy conversations, television bingeing, the radio as a constant, chatty companion. We often cannot hear our own inner voice, the voice of our artist’s inspiration, above the static.
Reading deprivation 将我们置身于内心的寂静空间，我们有可能很快就用新的言语将其充满——冗长、八卦的对话、无节制地看电视、听广播、跟朋友闲聊。我们经常听不到自己内心的声音，听不到悬于静止之上的、内心艺术性灵感的声音。

For most artists, words are like tiny tranquilizers. We have a daily quota of media chat that we swallow up. Like greasy food, it clogs our system. Too much of it and we feel, yes, fried.
It is a paradox that by emptying our lives of distractions we are actually filling the well. Without distractions, we are once again thrust into the sensory world.
对于大多数艺术家来说，文字就如同镇定剂。我们每天都得消化一定量的媒介新闻。它就像油腻的食物一样，会堵塞我们的思维。读太多我们会让自己感到煎熬。
如果我们在生活中排除干扰，那么我们实际上是在丰富自己的内心。没有了这些干扰，我们将重新相信感官世界。

####Task

1. Environment: Describe your ideal environment. Town? Country? Swank? Cozy? One paragraph. One image, drawn or clipped, that conveys this. What’s your favorite season? Why? Go through some magazines and find an image of this. Or draw it. Place it near your working area.
   环境：用一段话来描述一下你理想的环境。城镇？乡村？奢华的？舒适的？也可以用一张图，自己画的还是剪贴的都行，只要能表达你的想法就可以。你最喜欢季节是哪个？为什么？浏览一些杂志，然后找出能代表你喜欢的季节的图片。
2. Time Travel: Describe yourself at eighty. What did you do after fifty that you enjoyed? Be very specific. Now, write a letter from you at eighty to you at your current age. What would you tell yourself? What interests would you urge yourself to pursue? What dreams would you encourage?
   时间旅行：描述80岁的你自己是什么样子。50岁后你都做了哪些自己喜欢的事情？具体写出来。然后用80岁的你的口气给现在的自己写封信。你会给自己写些什么呢？你会告诉自己去追求什么？会鼓励现在的你实现哪些梦想？
3. Time Travel: Remember yourself at eight. What did you like to do? What were your favorite things? Now, write a letter from you at eight to you at your current age. What would you tell yourself?
   时间旅行：回忆8岁时的你自己。那时你喜欢做什么？最喜欢的东西是什么？以8岁的自己的口气给现在的你写一封信。你会对自己说什么？
4. Environment: Look at your house. Is there any room that you could make into a secret, private space for yourself? Convert the TV room? Buy a screen or hang a sheet and cordon off a section of some other room? This is your dream area. It should be decorated for fun and not as an office. All you really need is a chair or pillow, something to write on, some kind of little altar area for flowers and candles. This is to help you center on the fact that creativity is a spiritual, not an ego, issue.
   环境：环顾下自己的家。你有没有私密的、属于自己的空间？如果没有，也许可以考虑给自己开辟一个这样的空间。这是一个你专属的追梦空间。按自己的喜好布置这个房间，风格尽量有趣，别弄得像办公室。放把椅子或枕头，弄块儿可以写字的地方、放花和蜡烛的空间。在这个空间里，你会专注于，心灵层面的创造，而非考虑自尊、面临的问题等等。
5. Use your life pic (from Week One) to review your growth. Has that nasty tarantula changed shape yet? Haven’t you been more active, less rigid, more expressive? Be careful not to expect too much too soon. That’s raising the jumps. Growth must have time to solidify into health. One day at a time, you are building the habit patterns of a healthy artist. Easy does do it. List ongoing self-nurturing toys you could buy your artist: books on tape, magazine subscriptions, theater tickets, a bowling ball.
   翻翻第一周的 life pic，看看自己的成长。蜘蛛网状的指示图有变化了么？你是否变得更积极、变通、善于表达？别期望会很快改变很多。我们得慢慢提高，扎实地成长。总有一天，我们会形成健康的习惯，慢慢来。列出你可以为内心的艺术家买的提供滋养的玩物：书、音乐、杂志、演出或者舞会。
6. Write your own Artist’s Prayer. (See pages 207-208.) Use it every day for a week.
   写下你自己的 Artist prayer（第207到208页），每天诵读。
7. An Extended Artist Date: Plan a small vacation for yourself. (One weekend day. Get ready to execute it.)
   Artist Date 升级版： 为自己安排一个短暂的休假（比如周末游）。
8. pen your closet. Throw out—or hand on, or donate—one low-self-worth outfit. (You know the outfit.) Make space for the new.
   整理杂物，扔掉、送出或捐赠对自己来说不重要的衣服。为新衣物腾出空间。
9. Look at one situation in your life that you feel you should change but haven’t yet. What is the payoff for you in staying stuck?
   看看是否你是否有哪些方面觉得自己应该改进，但还没有实行。你没有采取行动，所造成的后果是怎样的。
10. If you break your reading deprivation, write about how you did it. In a tantrum? A slipup? A binge? How do you feel about it? Why?
    如果你打破了 reading deprivation，那写下你都怎么做的。发脾气？犯错？放纵？你对此怎么看？为什么？

#####Checkout
跟上周一样，本周结束的时候，请核对你完成了哪些任务，完成结果如何。

1. How many days this week did you do your morning pages? Seven out of seven, we always hope. How was the experience for you?

   本周你写了多少天的 Moring pages？
   

2. Did you do your artist date this week? Yes, of course, we always hope. And yet artist dates can be remarkably difficult to allow yourself. What did you do? How did it feel?

本周你给自己安排 Artist Date 了么？一般挺难按自己的心意安排想要的Artist date 。
你是怎么安排的呢？感觉如何？

3. Did you experience any synchronicity this week? What was it?

   这周你有没有经历任何同步性的时刻？具体是怎样的情况？
   

4. Were there any other issues this week that you consider significant for your recovery? Describe them.

   除此之外，这周你发现什么对你恢复创造力影响重大的问题么？如果有，就在 checkin 中描述
   具体的情况。
   

摘录来自: Julia Cameron. “The Artist’s Way”。 iBooks.

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