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The book The Artist Way by Julia Cameron https://amzn.to/32JKrH3
Blog post mentioned in episode. how music affects your workouts: https://www.kathieowen.com/blog/music
Build Strong Lungs today with Kathie https://www.kathieowen.com/lung
About this episode:
Today we discuss:
Links mentioned in today's episode
The book The Artist Way by Julia Cameron https://amzn.to/32JKrH3
Blog post mentioned in episode. how music affects your workouts: https://www.kathieowen.com/blog/music
Build Strong Lungs today with Kathie https://www.kathieowen.com/lung
You're listening to the Stop the Mind Screw Podcast. I'm your host, Kathie Owen Certified Fitness Trainer and Mindset Coach since 2002 transforming lives and magic fashion teaching. Stop the mind screw process. And today we're talking about one of the most popular topics in my course that really transforms people's fitness and wellness.
To the next level, like almost on steroids. What is called wellness states? Where did I get that from? And today we're going to come up with 28 ideas for you to do wellness dates, starting. Uh, wellness date is like a fit an artist date from the book, the artist way, and the artist's way is by Julia Cameron.
And I've got a link to the book in the show notes, but what is an artist date? Well, an artists. Is a weekly commitment to take yourself out and do something that interests and intrigues you. They are a window for inspiration, rejuvenation, and remembering how to play something. Most of us forget to do as.
An artist's date might involve taking a trip to the local art gallery to pursue at your leisure for a couple of hours. It might involve setting aside an afternoon to cut interesting words and phrases and pictures out of magazines and create a collage for the fun of it. And artists dates do not have to involve created dev endeavors.
In fact, it's better if they don't. As Julia Cameron creator of the artist's way. And the concept of artists dates explains the artist's date is a once-weekly festive, solo expedition to explore something that interests you. The artists date need not be overly artistic. They mischief more than mastery when choosing an artist date is good to ask yourself what sounds fun and then allow yourself to try.
Why and how artists dates work, artists dates are fun and a great opportunity to explore your career or a city, but I found other ways to make them useful. I incorporate them into perfectly fit with Kathy as fitness states or wellness states. They are a great for getting clarity on sticky situations and.
This happens because this is a window of time in which we are not obsessively thinking about whatever happens to be troubling us at the time. Also known as a mind screw artists dates can and will keep you out of your head and help foster the connection between you and your intention. Psychologists have a name for those times when we step back from a project and.
Problem and focus on something else unrelated for a while. It's called the incubation period. And this way artists dates also deepen our creativity. One definition of creativity is that it's making connections where per Perryville, honestly, there were none and certain contexts. This is also called problem solving.
Also known as unscrew your mind, how to create your own artists dates. Julia Cameron offers a few guidelines for artists dates. Number one, an artist date is a solo activity. A date with yourself, not an opportunity to hang out with friends, something fun to do with the kids or quality time with the significant other number two, an artist date last for at least two hours.
This might require advanced. Put an invisible wall around your artist's dates and treat them as you would an important meeting with yourself. Please note that many times for fitness, it will be less time than two hours. Number three, an artist date is a standalone activity, not something to combine with running errands, popping into the supermarket or other things on your to-do list.
Number four, an artist's date is most effective when done once per week, when life gets busy, this kind of activity can be the first to slide to the bottom of the priorities pile, but that does us more harm than good for maximum benefit. Make time for one artist state each week. How can we incorporate this into our wellness?
Also known as our fitness dates, our wellness dates. Well, I got 28 ideas to use as a guide to get you started today. Number one, create a vision board. Oh my gosh. Pinterest is great for this. And you could create a board just to come up with new exercises, new fitness routines. You might want to try new recipes.
You might want to try and just come up with a board and have this on there as your vision board for things you want to do on your artist. Number two, organize your wa wardrobe. Now, how is this related to your wellness? Well, you can organize it in such a way with clothes that give you confidence, body confidence at the front.
And keep them easily accessible. Cause a lot of times, as we're losing weight or gaining weight, even our clothes may be an, an issue. It may be something, oh my gosh, I have nothing to do. You'd be surprised if you organize your closet to help you along the way and help you stay motivated. So put the clothes that fit loosely.
If you're trying to lose weight and that way you'll feel better about yourself. Number three, turn an area in your home. Into a yoga or exercise corner, just a small area. That's all you need. And you could just have that as your area to do yoga or stretching foam rolling, or a corner where you might do some weightlifting.
If you want to number four, create a mini herb garden in your kitchen. Number five, visit a fitness or wellness. A shop you wouldn't usually go into maybe a bike shop or try an essential oil store or a health food store. Check these places out for inspiration. Number six, make your own self-care kit bonus points for adding self-care into your daily routines.
A self-care kit can exist of, of maybe, um, How you get ready in the mornings or how you get ready for bed at night or a way you might, um, go into meditation, things like that. Number seven, make your own wellness journal or notebook, get creative. Maybe you want to spend your artist's date, time making this little journal and even writing in it as well.
It can. Number eight, make a healthy meal with choices with courses from different countries. Number nine, spend some time taking self portraits bonus points for using them as inspiration on your wellness. Prayeth you could use them as progress photos and look back and, and understand where you're going on.
Your fitness. Number 10 by a couple of plants for your home research on how to take care of them and make sure they are suitable to survive in your environment. Number 11, create an upbeat playlist and hold your own solo dance party. Spotify is great for this. I have a link in the show notes on a blog post on how music affects your workouts.
Be sure to check that out. Number 12, baked something ambitious and healthy. Push your cooking skills to the max. Number 13, spin an afternoon window shopping. Stop its doors. You usually walk straight past and take the time to browse and notice what these stores are offering. Number 14. Visit a local part exercise, but also sit and relax.
Do some people watching birdwatching reading just to enjoy nature and see what's going on around you. Number 15, spin an afternoon in the countryside. If you're a city dweller or your nearest town, if you're a country, dweller, change your scene for half day. Number 16, visit a local farmer's market. Taken the sites since and seasons.
Number 17, research, self guided walks in your area and go do one number 18, go to a local Y YMCA or gym that offers exercise classes. Most offer a free week trial. Anyways, try a class. You never would have thought of trying before. Number nine 19, take your camera for a wanderer, especially if you don't consider yourself to be much of a photographer, look out for interesting views, angles and subjects.
Now this can apply to your wellness because it also applies to mindset. Take pictures of things that can pertain to health and wellness as well. You can add that. Number 20, take a trip down. Memory lane returned to one of your favorite places from childhood walk around exercise. Notice the changes that may or may not have taken place.
Let me tell you something about doing this little, little trip right here. You may find something or have a memory that gets triggered into something that you used to enjoy doing as a child. And that is where creativity comes up. That's where you may come up with. Oh yeah. I used to like riding bicycles with my friends and, uh, and you may start riding a bicycle or something.
Just keep that in mind. Number 21, look up top rated attractions on TripAdvisor in your local area. Pick one or two to visit number 20 to go on a shopping trip, try all kinds of clothes. He never would have thought to try. What did you notice and how did you feel wearing these clothes? Number 23, focus on learning or relearning a new fiscal year.
Like I just talked about such as riding a bike or swimming in the pool. I especially prefer swimming as it is a great exercise for older adults. Number 24, write down 10 healthy things you'd like to have experienced before your next birthday planned to do the first thing. Now, mindful activities is what we're going to talk about.
Number 25, write a gratitude letter to someone who has impacted you. You don't have to send it, but you can. If you want to number 26, create a written vision and picture board, vision of your dream, healthy life at your next, whatever. Five, 10. Years from now, this can be especially helpful. If you're trying to co overcome a health struggle like cancer or an injury, even weight loss heck create one for the next 12 months.
For that matter. Number 27, visit your nearest shoreline and spend a couple of hours watching the waves. Noticing what thoughts, dance through your mind and even exercise while you're. Number 28, make a love list of activities you'd like to try in the future, creating a bucket list of ideas for wellness dates, good ideas, rarely arrive at opportune times, even when they do, we need to have a system in place to capture them.
Otherwise, all we're left with later is vague sense of, I know there was something I wanted to remember. For quick inspiration. I recommend having one place to store all your ideas and making that place as easy to access as possible. I usually have my phone and our computer with me. So having a single way to collect ideas that syncs book between both of these places keeps me.
I use an app called notion to manage my to-dos and projects. It's kind of complicated, but I do keep most of my ideas about anything and everything here. And here's a bonus tip. Learn how to use notion as one of your artists dates. There are two tour tutorials on Pinterest and of course, YouTube. If you don't use to do or organization software, you can use something for free, like Evernote or carry around a few index cards if you'd rather stay offline.
Yeah. That might be a good idea. The more artists and wellness dates you do the more open to artists date ideas will become. And the more you honor your creativity, the more you'll notice what you're drawn to and curious to try, create a place now to keep those ideas for inspiration. In closing. I can say that the clients have friends who have tried wellness dates have truly broadened their horizons and found new and motivational ways to stay fit and healthy.
The human mind can play more towards the lines of comfort. And so once we step out of that comfort zone, we stopped the mind screw and find more joy, confidence, creativity, and so much more than. Ever could've dreamed Deb. Here's two wellness dates. All right. That's my episode for today. I hope you liked it.
Be sure to share it with somebody who can benefit from this. And until next time, I'll see you next time. Peace out and Namaste