Do you find yourself rolling out of bed with a groan many mornings, feeling overwhelmed by the mundane tasks that lie ahead of you as you prepare to navigate another day of "busy-ness"?
Do you ever feel stuck in a sort of flat-land where everything is "fine" but deep down you know that something is painfully missing. Where the bright spark and vibrant energy of your life has cooled down to more of an ember?
If so, then you're not alone! In a culture where we rush around meeting deadlines, checking cell phone messages, deleting emails in full inboxes and catching up on shows we don't have time for on TiVo, it can be all too easy to lose lose our zest for life, get in a rut, feel stuck, frustrated or bored. It can be all too easy to lose touch with our passion!
So in the midst of all these demands, how do you
find your passion?
The secret to finding and sustaining passion lies in
first understanding your body's formula for creating
a passionate experience and what gets in the way
of that.
When you're overwhelmed and stressed, your body
mobilizes itself for survival by initiating a fight or flight
response that consists of over 1,400 biological changes.
These changes include a contraction of the muscle system,
shallow rapid breathing, and a decrease in blood flow to
the part of the brain (the frontal cortex) that helps you observe
yourself from a "higher" perspective and make responsive
rather than reactive choices.
In this state you're not accessing the part of your brain that
helps you be creative, find new and useful meaning during
interactions and experience transcendent states of consciousness.
In this state, you're operating off of learned and inherited habitual
survival patterns -- you're just getting through the day -- hardly
a recipe for passion!
To move from survival to passion, you've got to do more than just
understand what's happening within your body. You've actually
got to do something about it!
Join me for a multi-part series of posts on How To Find
Your Passion in the upcoming weeks! Until the next time,
consider this:
Brain researcher Dr. Candace Pert in her book Molecules
of Emotion, wrote that:
Do you think emotions have something to do with passion?"emotions are the nexus between
mind and matter, going back and
forth between the two and influencing
both."
Dr. John
3 comments:
Great article, can't wait for the rest !
Very good, emotion and passion are closly related. Maybe that is the string that connects the body and the mind. Is emotion in the body or in the mind? So where is passion?
Can't wait for more.
The American Century Dictionary’s primary definition of passion is: Strong emotion or enthusiasm. So, accordingly passion has everything to do with emotion. I would like to focus a bit on the word “Enthusiasm” it is derived from the Greek “entheos” that can mean either a god within, or inspired by a god. This opens up some very interesting possibilities. (Unless one subscribes to an absolute materialistic view of human existence; “sack of goo controlled by neurotransmitters and all that.”) If this definition of enthusiasm holds true it means that we as humans have the capacity to carry within ourselves, access and manifest the infinite. Who or what is this “god”? To a certain degree the god is one’s self (soul, mind, spirit, etc.) inhabiting this mortal shell like a hand in a sock puppet.
I would say that emotion is in the mind manifesting itself throughout the body whereas passion dwells in the soul. What is the difference between mind and soul? Mind and the soul are essentially the same, the difference being one of application. Mind is soul interfacing with a physical body; soul is mind interfacing beyond linear physical existence with other souls in concentric spheres on up to the infinite Wheels within wheels.
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