What is Passion?
What
is living with passion? Forget the dictionary meanings -- what does it
mean to you personally? How is living with passion like a mountain
stream in the spring, alive, tumbling, full of life-force?
For me, passion is a deep inner-driven expression of who I am that makes me feel alive. Expression -- that is the key word! Unexpressed, passion becomes stifled and so submerged that it becomes more a pain, a throbbing with release. For most of us, it becomes a remembrance of more passionate times rather than an expression of the passion of the moment -- resulting in withering into a depressed state of nostalgic living. Certainly without passion there is no personal development, no spiritual growth.
People sometimes equate the Fire Element with passion. So what lights your fire? What makes you glow like a brilliant sun? How do you fan the subtle embers of your inner self to awaken that flame of passion? Where in your life are you denying or avoiding the fire of passion for fear of being scorched?
Other elements hold a potential for this power and energy we describe as passion. You may be an "Air" person -- think of the power of the wind in the trees, subtly softening and moving everything it touches, or the power of tornadoes and hurricane winds sweeping away all before it. A Water person can imagine the powerful waves of the ocean or invigorating drenching from a sudden downpour of rain and the surge of swollen streams. How is this like passion within? An Earth-based person can perhaps connect with exploding volcanic eruptions and the flow of lava -- now there's an image of passion! -- Or more subtly, the erupting growth from a bulb's first emergence from the ground in spring.
Living with passion begins with being aware of your own inner feelings, what really gets your blood moving, what gets you up each morning excited about life. What perspective are you holding about yourself that is keeping you from feeling your passion? What self-talk are you indulging in that convinces you that passion isn't something you aspire to? How does shifting perspective on the things you need to do, changing your outlook on the mundane, lead you to the positive outcomes you desire?
Passion -- that inner drive to express what makes me who I am -- we all have it, and we all deserve to experience it, every day!
For me, passion is a deep inner-driven expression of who I am that makes me feel alive. Expression -- that is the key word! Unexpressed, passion becomes stifled and so submerged that it becomes more a pain, a throbbing with release. For most of us, it becomes a remembrance of more passionate times rather than an expression of the passion of the moment -- resulting in withering into a depressed state of nostalgic living. Certainly without passion there is no personal development, no spiritual growth.
People sometimes equate the Fire Element with passion. So what lights your fire? What makes you glow like a brilliant sun? How do you fan the subtle embers of your inner self to awaken that flame of passion? Where in your life are you denying or avoiding the fire of passion for fear of being scorched?
Other elements hold a potential for this power and energy we describe as passion. You may be an "Air" person -- think of the power of the wind in the trees, subtly softening and moving everything it touches, or the power of tornadoes and hurricane winds sweeping away all before it. A Water person can imagine the powerful waves of the ocean or invigorating drenching from a sudden downpour of rain and the surge of swollen streams. How is this like passion within? An Earth-based person can perhaps connect with exploding volcanic eruptions and the flow of lava -- now there's an image of passion! -- Or more subtly, the erupting growth from a bulb's first emergence from the ground in spring.
Living with passion begins with being aware of your own inner feelings, what really gets your blood moving, what gets you up each morning excited about life. What perspective are you holding about yourself that is keeping you from feeling your passion? What self-talk are you indulging in that convinces you that passion isn't something you aspire to? How does shifting perspective on the things you need to do, changing your outlook on the mundane, lead you to the positive outcomes you desire?
Passion -- that inner drive to express what makes me who I am -- we all have it, and we all deserve to experience it, every day!
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