Setting Positive Intention
by Cynthia Morin
What is living with passion? Interesting, isn’t it, how life’s really big questions always lead to more questions? What is living anyway? What is passion? Forget dictionary meanings, what does it mean to you personally?
For me, passion is a deep inner-driven expression that makes me feel alive. The expression is important because unexpressed, the passion becomes stifled and so submerged that it becomes more a pain, a throbbing without release. Resulting in a withering into a depressed type of nostalgia – a remembrance of more passionate times rather than an expression of the passion of the moment.
So how to get in touch with the passion of life and express it through one’s personal and unique qualities? Again, you need to go deeper into the meaning and find the essence of passion. One way is through metaphors. My favorite is the four elements – fire, air, water and earth.
The fire element naturally has a sense of passion for most people. What lights your fire? What makes you glow like the 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?
The other elements also hold a potential for this power and energy we describe as passion. You may be an ‘air’ person. So think of the power of the winds in the trees, subtly softening and moving everything it touches, or the power of tornados and hurricane winds sweeping away all before it. A ‘water’ person can image the powerful waves of the ocean or the invigorating drenching from a sudden downpour of rain and the surge of swollen streams. How is this like the 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 bulbs first emergence from the ground in spring.
Living with passion begins with being awakened to the miracles around you and within you — and continues as you learn to translate your passion into the real world of work, family and mundane daily activities.
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