Passion

PASSION… noun 1. strong emotion, especially anger or love 2. great enthusiasm for something

 

I woke up this morning and there it was, this noun of all nouns, sitting in my heart like a bow to an arrow, bursting to make its mark, to hit the target of its desire. Unbridled passion is a fierce power. Where should we direct it, plant its seed, re-create the uncreated? When it is not directed in a loving and creatively fulfilling way it turns into its shadow side and that is when we use it indiscriminately and in dangerous ways, such as anger and rage.

 

How was your morning? Did you wake up with passion? What did you do with it? Shout at the mail boy? Yank the shirt on your uncooperative child? Did you knock your coffee all over the table and then curse all the way to the office? Or was there no passion, only a numbness of having to go through the motions of the day without enthusiasm or direction. What happened to that arrow, did it break and fall and lose its power? Where is the passion in your life? Did you lose it somewhere in your rush to create the life that others expected of you?

 

Passion is a gift that we are all born with. It is not something we can learn or acquire. It is something we feel. We all know it is there, but often life has a way of squashing it, and in that act of suppression and denial we become very sad. Prolonged sadness turns to anger as that is the only way we can handle the pain. When there is no passion in our lives, we are not really living. We are merely shadows of our true selves, holograms of existence.

 

Pick up your bow, and as you pull back the arrow, feel the power of your intentions like a force field of love in your entire being; slowly turn and look around at the vista of life in front of you. Where would you like to make your mark? With whom or what would you like to share your power, your passion, your drive? Point that arrow, set the mark, then let it go. Let it soar into the world with freedom and intent. Intend that wherever it lands, wherever it makes its mark the target of your desire will be awakened and in that awakening will inspire you with new life, new thoughts, new energy, new being. You see, the energy you send out will always come back. We attract what we require. The more focused you are on what you want, and the more passionate you are about it, the more powerfully will you manifest.

 

The secret to utilizing that passion, that driving force is to know where to direct that arrow. Once you have figured that one out, the rest is just quantum physics. You let it fly, now let it go. Cut the cords of your kite, let that blue bird of paradise soar into the light blue yonder. Know that your passion, your energy, your power to creatively manifest is now on its way, set free. Be empowered by this act, and smile, knowing that you have made your mark on this world and it is only a matter of time before it sends an arrow back to you.

 

Live your life today with Passion and you will find yourself energized with the joy and enthusiasm for life that you truly deserve.