Higher Self of Carolyn Gervais                                                                                                                                                   awakeningyou.com

ON YOUR WAY TO YOUR ULTIMATE PASSION

Everyone is looking for what is called their passion on Earth.  What is passion?  What does it look like and feel like? 

When passion is experienced, it can encompass one’s total being.  Passion is experienced on physical, mental and emotional levels in some way.  True and deep passion opens one spiritually.  Another way of saying that would be that passion opens one to higher aspects of themselves.  Therefore it is understood that passion comes from the Creative Essence that is a part of everyone.  

Many think that having a passion in life means to do something artistic like singing, dancing; creating a piece of art, writing a book or doing some kind of spiritual work such as healing, channeling or teaching others about spirituality.   These are all wonderful ways to express and use passion, but there are so many other ways that are just as spiritual and artistic as these.  The problem is, that many who are reading this, have been programmed to believe that unless they are doing something that is overtly artistic and spiritual, they will not be able to give in an artistic and spiritual way, and therefore without passion.  Not true!

There are many reasons, depending on the person, as to why they do not know what their passion in life is yet.  One factor can be the age of the person.  For instance, when you were a school age child, do you remember the many adults that asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up?  If you were a male child, you probably said something like a “fireman, doctor or a cowboy.”   If you were a female child, you probably said you wanted to be a “nurse, mother, dancer or a model.”   But how many of you really knew what you wanted to do when you grew up?   Not many, but there have always been children who do know without a shadow of doubt, what they want to be once they are grown. 

The way someone is raised or educated to think, feel and believe, can be one reason some people do not consciously know what their true passion is in life.  In other words, what kind of work did their prominent role models do?  Did those role models serve as the epitome of success, mediocrity or failure?  Was the protégé programmed to believe that he or she must choose the kind of career their respected role model chose for them, or become a disappointment?

This doesn’t necessarily mean the role model was being selfish and unthinking, what it means is that he or she felt they knew what was best for the person seeking advice, and he or she used that opportunity to influence the person to their way of thinking.  And as many young protégés do, they take that advice to heart.  That doesn’t mean the seeker of advice could make a wrong choice.  It means whatever they chose would become a path of training that could eventually lead them to their authentic passion. 

There are no mistakes.  Why, because one chooses what appears to be the path of least resistance at that moment of decision.  This is especially so when one is young and impressionable.  Essence transforms all decisions into learning experiences that teach the novice how to navigate through life.

Often, humans use the phenomenon of time as an obstacle that prevents them from living their strongest passion in life.  Obstacles such as: “I can’t go after my dream career or passion.  I’ve put too much time, money and energy into doing what I’m doing…even though I don’t like it; I have to do it now.”   Or: “I don’t have time to be retrained and or to figure out what I need to learn in order to live my ultimate passion.” 

But in reality, when someone’s passion and will is strong enough, they are willing to use every spare minute they have to recreate themselves and their life, by following the steps that will lead them to living their ultimate passion.

It’s important to know that until one experiences their ultimate passion in life they won’t know the difference between it and the passion of now.  It’s like being in love.  You don’t know what real love is, until you experience it.  And most often, to experience real love, you need to know what real love is not.  The same is true with having children.  Until you have one of your own, you cannot truly understand how all consuming a parent’s love can be for their child, on a heart and soul level.

Yes, the kind of passion you can have towards life can feel somewhat like the passion of love you can have for a spouse or life partner.  Remember, that all passion comes with obstacles to be overcome; in order to live in it and with it to the degree that it is desired… what we are hoping to relay is a little more insight into the understanding of the kind of passion someone might have with life and how that might be enhanced and imparted through the way a person chooses to express their passion in the world.

Since living human life is a series of processes made up of experiences, based on human/soul choices and agreements…what you are open to and ready for at any given moment in time…greatly determines what kind of passion you are able to feel, attract or pull into your field of energy.  What this means, is:   You may not yet be prepared for what your ultimate passion in life will become.

If you are not yet sure of what your ultimate passion is, keep searching for it with the passions you feel at this time.  In doing so, whatever experiences come into play at this juncture of your life, use them as stepping stones to search out what it is you really want but can’t yet put your finger on.  By doing so,  you will be growing  and expanding in ways that will prepare you; open you and lead you to the kind of work or modality that will fill you and touch you in ways that nothing else ever has.  When that takes place you will know you are living your ultimate passion by the way it fills you up…by the way it makes you feel.  It’s as if you can relax into being more of who you really are and enjoy life to the degree you allow in each moment.  That’s when you will become acutely aware of all the training you received from your previous passions; in order to prepare you to live your ultimate passion.

It is normal to have physical passions, intellectual passions, emotional passions and spiritual passions throughout one’s life.   There comes a point in most people’s lives; usually somewhere between forty and eighty; when human needs begin to transform into heart and soul needs.  Of course, there are many exceptions.   Those exceptions have to do with the beloved humans who become trapped in the usage of artificial, physical and superficial ways of filling up their emptiness.  An emptiness that can come in the later years of life if one stagnates in the past of who they were and who they loved, but now find themselves alone.

As stated, there is always a learning purpose as to why one might choose to live the way they have chosen.  There isn’t any experience that cannot bring growth in some way.  One purpose for living alone, could be that the person has a soul contract with their spouse’s soul and their own… to live alone in later years… in the hope that the experience will bring about much wanted inner work and to experience the freedom to live the way one chooses.  Another purpose in living alone often has to do with the fact that the soul involved does not want to be distracted from their soul's purpose and what they came to bring to the world, such as that of a Yogi Master or a brilliant scientist.    

Of course all choices are personal choices that sometimes the person is not consciously aware of… but the Soul is.  This includes the choice to do nothing with the life one may still have left to do with.  

 There tends to be more men than women of significant age that live out a life of seclusion once their spouse or partner has passed.   The men in this group often become subdued and unconscious of the life they are giving up on, which is theirs.  The women, more so than the men in this group tend to be more outgoing if their health allows it.  If it doesn’t they too find ways to drop out of life.  But even in this kind of situation, there are still passions wanting to surface.  All the person needs, is to feel they are not alone; that there are so many like themselves who they can share their time and energy with, in fulfilling ways.  Passion never dies, but the desire to feel passion can.

 On the other hand, there are those men and women of significant age, that have the strength of will and faith to realize that life keeps changing and so must they, or parish.  These are the people that are willing to look more deeply inside themselves, to find a way to create a new passion to live for, and they usually do once they make the decision.  Creating passion in one’s life can take place regardless of what condition the physical body is experiencing.  Passion is something only the heart can create. 

None of this is to be judged, because the soul always has a backup plan for the first or the hundredth soul plan that might fall through.  The soul continually uses what is, based on a person’s human choices, to create and recreate a new strategy, so to speak, to bring a desired goal to fruition.  This is the true passion of each soul Essence who wears the unique costume, called the human body.

Let it be known that at any age in human life… some soul plans can and will run their course…fall through completely or never even begin for one reason or another.   When one soul plan has been aborted or has ended, big changes will occur on one or more levels of your life.  This means relationships will change; life careers will change, beliefs will change, some or all past resentments will melt away and your view of yourself and of your life will transform into a larger picture.  But you must want to see the larger picture, in order to see it.

You might also find yourself feeling out of place with some of the people you use to enjoy being around because of the sense of belonging those relationships gave you.   What is actually happening is that Essence is creating a new path; a new course of action and a more deeply fulfilling passion that will eventually become conscious.  This all has to do with your new awareness level; what your human and Essence goal is; what unused talents and abilities are ready to surface and what modality will be used to express your immediate passion, in order be more of who you are at the heart level.

Let’s take a look at basic talents and the parts they can play in one’s life.   Often times having a talent or ability gets confused with using that ability, because of your innate passion for it or using that ability because you were programmed to believe it is your passion.

 Let’s say your father and uncle are building contractors.  You grew up hearing your father and your uncle discuss the problems and the rewards of being in that kind of business.   From the time you were old enough to understand it your father began teaching you about the contracting business.  He even let you help him add a new room onto the house you grew up in.  That meant a lot to you. 

When you were grown you went to work as a building contractor with your uncle and father.  When they retired, you took over the business and it continued to flourish, with your new ideas and plans.  After twenty years of running the business, you were now forty-eight years of age.  For some reason you began to lose interest in your contracting business.   The work projects were no longer giving you the sense of satisfaction they use to and you reached a point where you were feeling unfulfilled and empty inside.  You didn’t know what to do to revive that old satisfying feeling of accomplishment.   So you decided maybe you needed to bid on bigger and more profitable projects and throw yourself into your work more.  But after doing that for two more years, you still could not revive the passion you use to feel.  

Since reaching outward to make things better wasn’t working, your only choice was to take a few months off and do some inner soul searching.  As you did so, you finally began to realize what you really wanted was to make a difference in the world.  You decided to use your contracting business in a way that would help those who really needed it; those who had lost their homes through a catastrophic event that the insurance companies weren’t willing to cover.   Once you realized that was how you wanted to use the rest of your working years…the old passion was back, but it was much more powerful than ever before.  

Our building contractor had been preparing his whole life, prior to that moment, to live his ultimate passion.  He didn’t even have to be aware of it consciously until all the training and preparation was completed.  And here he was now; ready to live his ultimate passion.

So you see dear ones, your loss of passion for something doesn’t always mean throwing away your life’s work.  It just means that maybe you need to transform your career and use those same abilities in a new, more profound and fulfilling way… a way that will revive your prior passion, of which will then be expressed in a much more passionate way.

If you can…build on what use to bring you passion; even if doing so requires more training, a new modality or experimentation.  In other words, use your creative powers to create a new way to use the talents you have.   If it is time to move into a totally different passion… do so, by putting at least an hour a day into finding and creating the modality you will be using to express your new passion.  This passion could very well become your Ultimate Passion.     

What you do in your life dear ones is not important.  It’s why you do it and how you do it that matters.  But the only true value in that is how it matters to you on a heart level.  As long as it gives you some kind of fulfilling satisfaction, it is something you can build passion on, by using your inner creativity and awareness.

You can see that without creativity dear friends, there is no passion.  Creativity is a form of art, art comes from the heart and the heart is the doorway to one’s spiritual Essence and true passion.  Therefore any form of work or modality is creative and spiritual; it just depends on how you define it.  If all is spiritual energy and that is the creative source of everything in existence, how can anything not be spiritual or an artistic endeavor?

Much love to all and blessings in your search for your Ultimate Passion.

Higher Self of Carolyn Gervais                                                                                                                                                                                                         awakeningyou.com