I don’t really know what to call it. It’s an exercise in getting to know our desires. And our Passions. What usually happens is we only get to know our passions after we have fulfilled our desires. Because a lot of our daily desires are related to our fears and, not out of love for ourselves.
So here’s something that helps to identify our passions.
Start a journal. On Day 1, pay yourself $30,000.00 and continue to do this for every day afterward. As your account starts building, start imagine spending, buying and doing everything you’ve ever imagined. Imagine…Pay off bills. Buy new car. Buy new house. Buy a new wardrobe. Take a trip around the world. Do any and all of it. Whatever.
It won’t take long before you’ll discover that you’re passion has nothing to do with money. But it takes getting everything out of the way that can be bought with money to realize it.
Blessings
S.E.
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February 11th, 2008 - 4:16 pm
This is a great game and one that is very similar I played a few years back called The Prosperity Game.
http://www.choosingprosperity.com/game/
The goal was to raise our vibrations where money is concerned. So we’d get daily ‘checks’ in the mail from The Universe – starting at $1000 (if I remember right) and working up to $1M.) We could use the money any way we wanted…and it helped to see where our resistance lie
Hope you are feeling well, Sue Ann, after your trip to the hospital. Many blessings of wellbeing and peace to you…
February 12th, 2008 - 6:57 am
If we just relax and realize that what we already have is plenty, only then will be completely satisfied.
February 12th, 2008 - 7:53 am
Hmmmm, fascinating! I think I just might GET this, thanks!
February 12th, 2008 - 9:02 am
I believe this Sue Ann, passions are something that money cannot buy. like love. They are felt.
February 12th, 2008 - 9:45 am
How delightful!
February 13th, 2008 - 9:53 am
I was thinking about what my passion was a little after reading this, and I realize I don’t really know! do you think it possible to have many? or many a lot of little ones?
February 13th, 2008 - 1:35 pm
Greetings {{Zach}} I was speaking of the energy of Passion, which relates to Creativity and the Power of Creation. What you share is that ‘having’ is different then ‘getting’, which is True. But this does not relate to Passion, which is our Creativity, which relates to expression of what we ‘have’.
February 13th, 2008 - 2:03 pm
Hi {{CuriousC}} !
Hugs. I apologize for being difficult or a hard read. But I know you know how hard I’m trying and I thank you for your Patience.
I’m not saying to neglect our needs, which is usually why we choose our pursuits. “I owe, I owe, so off to work I go.” And we end up down the road years later wondering where our love for our own life went.
“How did I end up living my mom’s life which I always said I hated?” sort of thing.
We end up living the same life whenever we base our choices on the same standards. That’s why I suggest we might try something different. Basing our choices when it comes to the pursuit of our survival needs, TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION what serves our own personal Joy and Passion.
Whatever pursuit serves these, will be the thing we can ‘do’, that will bring the Powers of heaven to bear on providing solutions. Will use Spiritual Insight and Spiritual Power of Creativity in cooperation with supplying a physical need.
Maybe call it the Science of Spiritual Engineering?
February 13th, 2008 - 2:11 pm
This is interesting. I find I have very little passion in me for anything I don’t have at the moment – and rather more acceptance of what I *do* have. I mean this in the broadest sense, not just relating to ‘things’.
I don’t think that being like this makes me a ‘spiritual person’ – it’s rather more a stage I’m at in my spiritual development. I’m teaching myself acceptance at the moment, so that’s where my focus lies. When I’ve learned to really accept what is, then perhaps the creative passion will return.
On the other hand, perhaps I should just do your exercise and see what happens…
February 13th, 2008 - 2:15 pm
You bet {{tumel}}. Bright sunshine to you this day I Hope!
IT IS FELT.
It is Sensitivity that brings Awareness.
Our Passion is where we will find our Joy in Self Expression.
And Self Expression is what Life is all about. It’s the experience Spirit created matter in order to have.
Passion is the key to expressing and living heaven on earth. The challenging part, at least it was for me, is believing in it. And that’s only once we find it. It’s like we have it stored at the bottom of a closet under all our survival needs.
February 13th, 2008 - 2:24 pm
Hugs {{{SE}}} !
After we play with it for a while, we usually come to a recognition of what values we have been serving with our very lives.
What a lot of us notice is that we haven’t been serving nor even honoring our own joys and passions. We haven’t really been Loving us very well.
It’s like we travel a highway marked “survival fears” expecting to end up at a “secure” destination.
It just doesn’t make any sense and that’s why it’s not practical. It doesn’t work to accomplish our desired goal whenever we practice it.
Following a path of fear, never has led to feelings of secure.
February 13th, 2008 - 2:36 pm
{{tumel}} Our Passion is intimately connected with our Soul/Spirit’s purpose. And the ONLY purpose of Spirit is that of Self Expression.
In the shift from being outer directed to inner directed, our Passions often change, as we become Sensitive to the impressions of our Soul/Spirit.
Sometimes we may feel a bit of hesitance about our Passion. It may be surrounded by strong walls of Doubt. Like…”me?, oh no, that couldn’t be me, I’m not that grand, I’m not that magnificent.”
These will be negative fantasies meant to inspire us to stay small in our own recognition and appreciation.
But yes, they can change and they can vary but there will always be a common thread of Creative Self Expression.
That is the Third Aspect…the Holy Spirit…the Divine Mother…
Creative Self Expression
“Always Embraces All Ways”
Existence is a Womb with a view.
February 13th, 2008 - 5:17 pm
LOL You’re Adorable {{Simon}}
rofl…
What ’bout the journey of your own Enlightenment you’ve been creating? Your own journey of healing and at-one-ment? Your own Life?
What about your penchant for creative writing and sharing with others?
What about your journey of releasing yourself from restrictions and limitations of self expression?
If that’s not passion then what’s been your fuel?
February 15th, 2008 - 11:47 am
What a gem:
“Following a path of fear, never has led to feelings of secure.”
I will remember this!
February 15th, 2008 - 12:00 pm
{{{{GRACE}}} !!!!!!!!
Oh Heaven’s, I didn’t mean to neglect you of all people! I was especially delighted to have seen your post, since I know how active your life is with this new year!
You imagined you sought ‘enlightenment’ and you did, you just didn’t imagine that meant enjoying MORE out of Life, did you?
Sis, that’s the return wave for all your yearnings coming into your life now, with all its blessings. CONGRATULATIONS! And ENJOY!!!!
Like I said, I don’t remember what to call the exercise, it has many names. And most certainly yes, it helps in reprogramming our ideas of what ‘prosperity’ truly Is.
{{BIG HUGS to you and yours Momma}}
February 15th, 2008 - 12:10 pm
{{{Hugs SE}} It’s not Valor that gives me Courage but Sense! Whatever ingredients I use in my kitchen are going to predict the flavor of my creation. Whatever seed I water, is the kind of plant I’m going to end up with.
It’s like scrunching our eyes shut and choosing the unknown on pure Faith, simply in recognition of what we know, already, every time we’re coming from a place of fear. “Can’t get there from here”, basically, when the issue is Security. Secure is a state of mind.
SMILING.
Blessings to you this day!!!
February 17th, 2008 - 12:14 pm
Namaste.
February 17th, 2008 - 1:59 pm
Thanks for your encouragement, Sue Ann! I guess I was talking about some absence of creativity just at the moment – and certainly when it comes to visualizing my future. But like I say, I think it’s just a phase I’m in. It’s winter, after all…
I haven’t seen our squirrel the last few days, not since he pulled the bird feeder down from the tree and made off with all the nuts. I guess he’ll be curled up somewhere comfortable with his supply of food beside him. I think maybe he and I are in the same space at the moment!
February 17th, 2008 - 3:53 pm
Ohhhh Thank You, Thank You, Thank You {{simon}}.
You have provided me with the clue I needed to spot something. It’s the pea I’ve been sensing piled underneath the mattress. Now that I know what it is, I can do something about it.
But it deserves another post.
I love your squirrel.
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