Pam Grout - Art & Soul, Reloaded

ALSO BY PAM GROUT

BOOKS

Thank & Grow Rich: A 30-day Experiment in Shameless Gratitude and Unabashed Joy
(also available as an audiobook)*

E-Cubed: Nine More Energy Experiments That Prove Manifesting Magic and Miracles Is Your Full-Time Gig
(also available as an audiobook)*

E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality
(also available as an audiobook)*

Jumpstart Your Metabolism: How to Lose Weight by Changing the Way You Breathe

Living Big: Embrace Your Passion and Leap into an Extraordinary Life
(also available as an audiobook)

Kansas Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

Colorado Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

Girlfriend Getaways: You Go Girl! And Ill Go, Too

You Know Youre in Kansas When... : 101 Quintessential Places, People, Events, Customs, Lingo, and Eats of the Sunflower State

Recycle This Book: And 72 1/2 Even Better Ways to Save Yo Momma Earth

God Doesnt Have Bad Hair Days: Ten Spiritual Experiments That Will Bring More Abundance, Joy, and Love to Your Life

The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life

The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life

The 100 Best Volunteer Vacations to Enrich Your Life

CARD DECK

The Oracle of E: A 52-Card Deck and Guidebook to Manifest Your Dreams
(with Colette Baron-Reid)*

* Available from Hay House
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Copyright 2017 by Pam Grout

What Matters Most by Virginia Petzold, copyright Virginia Petzold, and used with permission

The Shootout at the Im OK, Youre OK Corral by Greg Tamblyn, copyright Greg Tamblyn, and used with permission

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Cover design: Karla Baker Interior design: Pamela Homan

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private useother than for fair use as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviewswithout prior written permission of the publisher.

The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

First edition published as Art and Soul: 156 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit, ISBN: 978-0-7407-0482-6

Cataloging-in-Publication Data on file with the Library of Congress

Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-4019-4986-0

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

1st Hay House edition, August 2017

Printed in the United States of America

This ones for Taz, the most creative person I know

CONTENTS

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

ROLLO MAY, EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOLOGIST

Say yes if youre an artist. Say yes if youve known it from the beginning of time.

RUMI, 13TH-CENTURY PERSIAN POET

I wrote this book 18 years ago. Until E-Squared, the international bestseller that changed my life, it was by far my personal favorite. It sprang out of my own creative questions, my own artistic struggle. It was driven by my desire to connect to the bigger thing that, as far as I could tell, had somehow appointed me to be a writer, had for some reason gifted me with the skill set to do this job.

I discovered in my career as a writer that when I asked for help from the muses, from the universe, from God, my writing flowed more smoothly. I found my creativity worked best when I set aside my own crazy voices and agreed to show up and act as a satellite dish.

Creativity, it seems, has much in common with spirituality and may, in fact, be the same thing.

When I surrendered to the bigger thing, all sorts of unexpected miracles were orchestrated on my behalf. New writing gigs, the perfect quote, the exact resource I needed showed up in surprising and mysterious ways.

Even so, the first incarnation of E-Squared (it originally debuted as God Doesnt Have Bad Hair Days) and the 18-year-old version of this book met the same fate. They went out of print not long after making their respective debuts. Ironically, these personal favorites were the only 2 of my 18 books to do so.

I revived Hair Days four years ago, turned it into E-Squared, and, well, it finally found its audience. I trust this book will, too.

I guess what Im trying to say is: I still love this book. I believe it has a timeless message. I hope youll agree.

I used to be dangerous. I dont know what happened.

JUDITH MOORE, FROM THE MOVIE LIVING OUT LOUD

All my life, Ive been a closet bohemian. Even though I grew up in a small Kansas town, was a ministers daughter, a straight-A student, and a Goody Two-shoes, I always longed to live big, be outrageous.

Outside, I was Pam Grout, junior achiever. But inside, I have always been Isadora Duncan.

Glimpses of this alter ego frequently snuck out. In junior high, I wore Roy Rogers pajamas to a church bake sale, telling customers our youth group was raising money to send me to a special home. This was done, I might add, without the approval of my minister father.

I roller-skated through the halls of my high school wearing a clown suit and a mask of Richard Nixon. Again in college, I donned a mask and roller skates, only this time I wore a bikini and a signboard that read, Follow me to Hooves-A-Go-Go.