Mindfulness: a journal by Catherine Price

The Mindfulness journal is a wonderful method of paying deliberate attention to your life and the living in the present moment without judgment.  It is a helpful method to slow the mind and really pay deliberate attention to life being lived.  The journal gives prompts that can help you start the writing process.  You can go through the book in a linear fashion or skip around if desired.  This slowing down of the mind opens up new avenues of thought that I find helpful in artistic practice.  How does this relate to a practicing artist?

Creating art is a combination of many aspects of a person's mind, body and soul.  There are the technical skills developed through practice and time.  There is the careful observation of other artist's works.  There is the inspiration that comes from creative ideas and insights and the incorporation of them into artwork currently being worked on or those of future projects.  The Mindfulness journal has been helpful in allowing ideas that are floating in mindspace to be captured in print and then reflected on later.  For me, personally, it has been as valuable as a sketchbook in guiding ideas and thoughts related to artistic practice.