Here are some great tips from Kathy Ryndak and Gord Riddell on how to tap into your passion. Ryndak and Gord also have a great website.
Identifying our Passions
It is important to recognize that unless we identify our passions, planning a vision or goal to work towards will be difficult to attain. To help identify our passions we must be willing to let go of our inner judgments, our list of ‘shoulds’, and our learned belief system of how life is supposed to be. We need to put aside what we think other people expect of us. This is a lot to put aside, but these are all the things that stand in the way of getting in touch with some of our passions.
Here are some tips on how to tap into your passion:
1) In a calm state remember some of your childhood interests. What about your childhood dreams? As you remember them perhaps you have already done some of them and are living them. Some dreams may have been discouraged by others as impractical. Remember those ones as well. They were other people’s beliefs about you and may not be true in the least.
2) On a sheet of paper write down these old memories and see if they are still things that excite you. These may form the basis for some of your passions today as an adult.
3) On another page let your imagination run wild and list all the things that make you feel excited, energized, and creative. Do not edit yourself, simply let everything flow through your mind onto paper. Do this in your own handwriting rather than on a computer. It can be much more powerful to see things this way.
4) When you are finished, go over your list and see what you wrote. How do you experience this list of things that excite you? You may feel excited or you may have an inner critical voice poking at the silliness of this exercise as well your list. Ignore the critical voice!
5) What things from this list are in your life today? Perhaps you are one of the few who are living their passion. From your list, what would you like to see happen in your life? Have you tried to bring your passions into your life without success?
Gord Riddell and Kathy Ryndak are therapists and co-founders of the Transformational Arts College. The College offers both full- and part-time professional and personal growth programs in Spiritual Psychotherapy, Holistic Health, and Coaching. “Discovering the Total Self” program begins its next rotation. For a calendar call the College at 416-484-0454 or toll free 1-800-TAC-SELF or online at www.transformationalarts.com
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