Breaking out of a Rut by Finding your Spiritual Passion...7 ways to do it

So much heart and passion has gone into this article. I can feel it.

There's no need to look for outcome. There's no need to restrict, manage or manipulate universal manifestation. I'd much rather be filled with awe and wonder at its unfolding.

Thank you Open for this very inspiring and uplifting work.

Heyas!

I agree!

Several years ago, I was doing the daily grind as most do. But I was not happy, I was so far from happy its not funny. I got an accounting degree because my Father wanted me to, and he just had my best interests at heart so how could he be wrong?! Well he was not wrong, but accounting and sitting all day in an office just was not my thing. Then I did websites and java coding, some cutesy web art but still that was not my true interest. I always had this idea in the back of my head from as far back as I can remember that if all else fails.. I could just do hair. Get that degree. Not that I ever needed the degree to do so. I had been doing that already on most everyone I knew anyways. Yet I did do that, I got a cosmetology degree and had a position waiting for me before I graduated and everything was perfect. That was until I was more or less backed into a corner of having to be a Manager to everyone in the salon. I could feel too back then how the whole corporate ladder looked more like a descension into hell instead of an uplift. I didn't mind the whole being “the manager” part. I love people in general, love helping them and especially love hair. But I did not and just could not force product onto people, heck half the ingredient list can only be understood by researching what is this and what is that. We all have our own sort of products (in whatever form that may be) why change what works unless a change is really exceptionally helpful or absolutely needed. Besides, pushing the company product to me was like – OK this stuff does not smell good, therefore it just cant be all that great, I'm just saying. Plus the corporation just didn't appreciate my – Be Free, have fun, play! Corporations tend to appreciate the cookie cutter procedures and rightly so.

I would probably still be at the same job today, doing the same thing except for the fact my Daughter had a child and wild horses could not of dragged me away from tending to that little boy five days a week. Being a Grandparent for me is just phenomenal and I learned so much from him as he learned from me. By the time he was in kindergarten, he could read children's books and do a great deal of math as well as paint and draw. If I had not gone running towards caring for that little boy I probably would not be doing what I'm doing today, which is painting acrylic abstracts every chance I get. I lost my state license to practice hair. I didn't even think about maintaining my yearly fee, such was the fun I was having and to get that license back means going back to school and I had to ask myself.. Is that really worth it?! I still have some clients that come to me when needed and eventually everything will work out anyways.. It always does. Because your right, when you follow your passion, when you follow what makes your heart sing, how can that ever go wrong :)

Wyndè

Yes, yes, yes!

(I'm getting passionate about this article can you tell?)

As someone who has had many passions but not always the confidence or trust to fully explore them, I have learnt in the last couple of years how important it is to just go for it!

For those who might be restricting themselves with conditioning or fear - I understand. I have suffered with the belief that I couldn't make my passions work for me, or that I just wasn't good enough to put myself out there. And there's always the question of how to get resources from such living. As Open said, an engagement on the physical, earthly level is absolutely needed - a bit like saying 'if I want to express my passion, what platforms are best to do this? How am I going to get seen?' 

A big step comes if you can dive in just one time, give it some patience and persistence and suddenly something comes back to you - someone will get in touch and offer you something.  And, over time trust in this process of expressing builds. No-ones saying you need to go from fear to no-fear in a day.  It happens over time (for me many years and still going) but each time you go further into your passion you'll build up more energy and beautifully suprising things will come back to you out of nowhere. 

And each time you feel more alive!

I have to confess though, it has sometimes been hard not to let the passion be led by outcome orientated thinking - for me it has often been about getting enough Money to live on while only expressing my passions. I guess it's a delicate Balance between engaging with the world and bringing in resources but not making it about the outcome. I'm also observing that it can take years to make this kind of transition. Patience indeed.

Thanks Open!

Richard (Openhand Facilitator)

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Does passion needs to be one thing or the other? I find that i continuously shift focus to something new and i can get committed to it and find the necessary satisfaction (with varying degrees )like singing, teaching, managing a business and now fixing an organic garden. Doing these are particularly interesting when I'm not trying to follow any passion of any kind or desperately needing any outcome. I had this interesting talk with my brother. He was trying to associate passion with some external outcome or goal and i was putting it forward as something to find in the simplest of the things like even cleaning or digging. But I'm not sure how much of what i preach i believe. With all this said i would always associate my passion with playing music since i get appreciation and joy with it . But that's the tricky part as soon as i label it as something as passion i suck the juice out of it . I want to do something else because it would never be upto my expectation, sometimes it does and now that's my bar and i would get disappointed with anything less than that. Its also where most of my jealousy lies which is the biggest downfall. I know there isnt any easy way forwards and im not looking for any but is there someway to use the negativity as fuel to propel me forwards since im in no shortage of fuel.

What a fine start to the morning, to find this beautiful thread here. Thank you Open, Tigger, Cathy and friends. Here's to a day of unfettered flow!

Tigger, I relate to how you follow your heart in your career path. It's a joy to read about your passion. I started out with a well paid, solid career in an administrative position in hospitals, with excellent pay and a great pension plan, but it didn't fire up my soul, so I walked away and pursued what did several times in my life. Some of those so-not-easy changes involved returning to school at the most hectic of times when I was raising small children with a husband who was away much of the time. In short, I eventually ended up working in several social service sectors where I supported those with psycho-social, physical, and mental health challenges. It truly was a path with heart especially since I could relate to their challenges and draw on so many of my own personal experiences. I may not have ended up with a huge pension, but I am managing just fine. Modest is good. The Universe does indeed support us when we have the courage to step out and follow our hearts although that doesn't mean it's easy. Despite the hardships and challenges I faced, I wouldn't have done it any other way.

These days, I'm pursuing my interests in writing, astrology, and tarot card readings. Who knows where this will take me. I know nothing. Mostly, I feel immense joy in inspiring others as we journey together to higher ground. One of my favourite moments in a 2015 Openhand workshop in Victoria/Canada was being asked by Open to choose a character we resonate with. I chose Samwise Gamgee from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. What I came to realize not that long ago is that I've always felt passionate about cheering others on through thick and thin. Tolkien said that the character of Samwise Gamgee was drawn from his war experiences as an officer, fighting alongside the soldiers in the trenches, who he considered to be the unsung heroes of the war.

That's how I feel about all of us lightworkers around the world who have the courage and honesty to look within to dissolve our own darkness and the love and compassion to inspire others to do the same, so we can light the path between worlds to the Fifth Dimension.

Here's a short film clip featuring Samwise Gamgee that warms my heart to no end as tears stream down. It's for all the amazing, dedicated lightworkers everywhere, the unsung heroes who keep slogging through the 3D trenches.

Love to All,

Cathy

https://youtu.be/l1eLHoDxMNE

I missed the last four or five weeks of dancing. Basically, you are moving or you are going backwards. You can cut things that are useful out, but you need to take the plunge and keep taking it until it is almost effortless.

I'm planning on helping people with computers, and I'm fired up about that. I just need to get through the meantime, getting back into dancing, walking etc. It is really cold here in Australia, but as long as you wear warm clothes you are fine. :)

Open, this is a wonderful article.

Speaking from my own experience, when I climbed out of the box, stopped working for "the Man" in 1988, I started a small herbal company for horses. My friends, my family thought I was quite mad, reckless, naive. What did I know about herbs, starting a business, running a business?....yet I could not deny my heart passion for plants and animals, and the pull of the river to trust. As soon as I quit my job, synchronicities appeared like a meadow of wildflowers.

I sold the herbal company to a much bigger company ten years later, because I was feeling the pull of food, although I didn't know why at the time. The pull was to explore other passions that had been bubbling up. Then in 2006 the river flowed to start a whole food company for horses and dogs. And here I am ten years later doing what I love. Doing what I love has opened the door to new passions: photography, painting, growing hemp :-) The river doesn't stop moving.

I know it appears to be easier to stay in the box, but in my experience that is an illusion. It is easier to follow our passion because we become more alive, more tuned in, more aware and so the feedback loop brings energy, joy, laughter, creativity ---even in the obstacles that appear (my company running headlong into the push-back bureaucracy of the department of Agriculture), the river still flows, creates a new path. To deny the river is to deny who we are. Obstacles are opportunities waiting to unfold.

For me it wasn't courage I needed to get out of the box, it was trust. Trusting the passion, the river, my heart, my spirit.

love, tigger

Very motivating. Thank you!

Best wishes
Zero

I'm the one who has locked themselves in the box paralysed by fear wondering what it will take to have the courage to breakthrough...A very inspirational read and video. Thankyou.
Love, Shar.