For some people, they are their passion. It isn't an external something that they wait for the arrival of, like the great wave to ride in to the shore. Rather, it is an internal energy that they have and are. It lights them up. It moves them forward. It surges and grows...
Some call that fervor. Or zealotism. We don't always honor that level of passion, whether in ourselves, or others. An abundant burning seems to be something we shun, something we try to cap or stifle. Or medicate! It isn't acceptable. The religious zealot...how is that different than the perceived saint? is it the quietness of the delivery perhaps? The burning of the kundalini, for instance. Some might call it mission.
We've been talking about passion and motivation. I heard myself saying "I need to feel passionate about what I do, inorder to do it". So for me, it's a kinesthetic knowing, a body feeling. It's that tingle, or energy that comes through me.
Is passion then, the same as creative inspiration? Could be. When I get that passionate engagement, I am inspired.
Inspiration seems to be like that wave we wait for too, isn't it? We wake with inspiration. We are struck with inspiration. When it hits, we burn with it, must do it now, and then it leaves us. When we are without inspiration, the world is grey, and we are left waiting for it to arrive again.
Isn't this similar to cycles that are hormonal? Couldn't this be our biorhythms? Nutritional? Isn't this something we can regulate with our thoughts, and desires, and theta? Can we train ourselves to reach up at any time-on our timetable instead of waiting for its whimsical return?
Can we allow ourselves the new beliefs that we can call on our passion to fill us, rather than waiting for it to be bestowed upon us? Can we ask for our passion, and then allow it in, rather than having it overtake us?
Where in our lives do we wait to be "taken over"? Love? Relationships?
What are the unconscious markers that we have, that lay the boundaries and frame for what we can and can't allow in to our lives?
1 comment:
I think we can reach up or reach in and find it on command. I still think is thoughts of exhale and inhale, is that a natural rhythm.
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