The Miracle of Morning Pages: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Most Important Artist's Way Tool: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin

“I’ve come to believe there is a divine plan of goodness for my work,” Daniel says. Gifted as a writer, photographer, actor, and director, he no longer demands of himself that he choose one skill over another. Morning Pages have helped him to inhabit each skill by turn. “I listen for what wants to come next,” Daniel explains.

Trust the prescription of three pages a day. The Artist’s Way has worked for nearly four million readers. Let it work for you just as it is designed.

dawdle. The success of Morning Pages hinges on our doing them as close to awakening as we can.

Whether partnered or single, students report that they have fallen in love—with themselves. Morning Pages invite intimacy. Intimacy invites tenderness. We catch ourselves heeding ourselves like lovers. Like lovers, we pay rapt attention. Listening to our hearts, perhaps for the first time, we begin to be our own loving companion. The pages are simp

wiser persona will do. Now, here are the four questions: “What do I need to know?” “What do I need to try?” “What do I need to accept?” “What do I need to do?”

For example, “I have twenty minutes. Should I grab some time at the piano?”

Take good care of yourself. Remember that “treating yourself like a precious object will make you strong.”

Oftentimes, the Censor is a recognizable person—a parent, for example. An unflattering picture helps to downsize the Censor’s power. The point is to stop buying what the Censor is selling. Learn to hear it not as truth, but as a blocking device. Morning Pages teach you to do this.

One of the first fruits of our newfound security is an ability to take risks. We dare to broach a delicate subject with our partner. We dare to go back to college. We dare to submit an entry to a juried show. We dare, period, and as we do, our self-image shifts. Instead of procrastinating and beating ourselves up for our lack of courage, we risk an