Comments on: Finding Your Passion…Or Just Passionettes http://www.menopausegoddessblog.com/2009/11/12/finding-your-passion-or-just-passionettes/ Mapping a course through menopause and midlife TOGETHER Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:55:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MoonSeazen http://www.menopausegoddessblog.com/2009/11/12/finding-your-passion-or-just-passionettes/comment-page-1/#comment-1000 MoonSeazen Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:57:52 +0000 http://www.menopausegoddessblog.com/?p=946#comment-1000 Loved this topic, my inner critic and I have been hashing this one out for days after reading it.... Your term "passionettes" is a very effective way of dealing with those nagging thoughts that keep us from enjoying the beauty and pleasure in our daily lives, the ones that scream "Why aren't you doing anything IMPORTANT?" Sadly, those of us who are over achievers by conditioning, not choice, really have issues with this. This business of "finding your passion" has been quite a topic of discussion in my circle for the past 5 years. Several of us have felt a sincere inner need to find a new path that will be a driving force for our lives. As we meandered along, seeking "IT" we've managed to learn a lot of new things, meet new people, and grow. Yet we continued to feel unfulfilled and kept grasping at one idea after another in search of THE THING, "Our Thing" as we called it. Alas, like a butterfly, chasing it causes it to become elusive, but while sitting still, it casually alights upon us. That's how I think about this entry you have written: Things take time, and as we are evolving, we need to be content with who we are, where we are, and what we are doing to experience the inner peace we need to be able to listen to the quiet voice within us that already knows the answers. We need to be patient as our personal "quilt" is stitched from our life experiences, making us the unique being that we are, with our very special gifts. We need to suspend judgement of ourselves, and accept that not all things need to feel hard to be an accomplishment. Things that feel too easy to us (because it is our gift, or feels fun) get discredited. We think we have to suffer, or we aren't making progress. In my case, after years of being in the healing sciences and living in the realm of academic accomplishments, I have followed my dream of being a full time artist. I now have a renewed sense of purpose: I create beautiful things that make others feel good in body and soul, and I try to make the world a more beautiful place. Somebody's gotta do it! Why not me? Just keep enjoying all those passionettes! If you are destined to have an "IT", IT will find YOU. Not the other way around, in my opinion. Love and blessings to all.... Loved this topic, my inner critic and I have been hashing this one out for days after reading it….
Your term “passionettes” is a very effective way of dealing with those nagging thoughts that keep us from enjoying the beauty and pleasure in our daily lives, the ones that scream “Why aren’t you doing anything IMPORTANT?” Sadly, those of us who are over achievers by conditioning, not choice, really have issues with this.
This business of “finding your passion” has been quite a topic of discussion in my circle for the past 5 years. Several of us have felt a sincere inner need to find a new path that will be a driving force for our lives.
As we meandered along, seeking “IT” we’ve managed to learn a lot of new things, meet new people, and grow. Yet we continued to feel unfulfilled and kept grasping at one idea after another in search of THE THING, “Our Thing” as we called it. Alas, like a butterfly, chasing it causes it to become elusive, but while sitting still, it casually alights upon us.
That’s how I think about this entry you have written: Things take time, and as we are evolving, we need to be content with who we are, where we are, and what we are doing to experience the inner peace we need to be able to listen to the quiet voice within us that already knows the answers.
We need to be patient as our personal “quilt” is stitched from our life experiences, making us the unique being that we are, with our very special gifts.
We need to suspend judgement of ourselves, and accept that not all things need to feel hard to be an accomplishment. Things that feel too easy to us (because it is our gift, or feels fun) get discredited. We think we have to suffer, or we aren’t making progress.
In my case, after years of being in the healing sciences and living in the realm of academic accomplishments, I have followed my dream of being a full time artist. I now have a renewed sense of purpose: I create beautiful things that make others feel good in body and soul, and I try to make the world a more beautiful place.
Somebody’s gotta do it! Why not me?
Just keep enjoying all those passionettes! If you are destined to have an “IT”, IT will find YOU. Not the other way around, in my opinion.
Love and blessings to all….

]]> By: Bill http://www.menopausegoddessblog.com/2009/11/12/finding-your-passion-or-just-passionettes/comment-page-1/#comment-994 Bill Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:02:22 +0000 http://www.menopausegoddessblog.com/?p=946#comment-994 Life then appears as the passion. Enjoying every *day*, following our intuition as to what we do for love. I recall a Spiritual Guide asking me the question: What is the first thing you see when you wake up? Hummm... The ceiling, the pillow, the color of the walls, the leaves, trees, birds... etc.. And he responds.. Don't you see life? When you went to sleep you closed your eyes and died. We are reborn every time we wake, he said. When we wake, we enter into a new life. So it is... perhaps.. a new life... a new passion... one awaiting a time to simply be. Life then appears as the passion. Enjoying every *day*, following our intuition as to what we do for love.

I recall a Spiritual Guide asking me the question: What is the first thing you see when you wake up?

Hummm… The ceiling, the pillow, the color of the walls, the leaves, trees, birds… etc..

And he responds.. Don’t you see life? When you went to sleep you closed your eyes and died. We are reborn every time we wake, he said. When we wake, we enter into a new life.

So it is… perhaps.. a new life… a new passion… one awaiting a time to simply be.

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