So Stephanie and I, mostly Stephanie, spent most of last night with our little Lucy who woke at some crazy hour complaining of a sore tummy…still. This is the third night in a row and the poor little thing was moaning with pain, it just breaks your heart. After Stephanie gave her an essential oil massage, some homeopathics and a large serving of of love she is settled back to sleep.
I was in a deep sleep when her pain began and the coughing started and I can remember trying to fight it. ‘I have to go to work in the morning and I’m already tired how am I going to cope’ I fought with myself. ‘If only she would go back to sleep….I cant do this’ I cried under my breath. In the case of children you eventually learn to give into what ever is going on and go with the flow of what is happening. In this way the outcome is always better. She feels more love, I feel more love and the whole event seems to heal quicker than if I continued to fight it.
This experience may just hold some hidden secrets to the manifestation of the things we desire. I am reading an interesting book at the moment on living your passion called The Passion Test. it is funny how this has been the main theme coming across my desk this week. In the book they had an interesting take on the manifestation process of intention, attention and no-tension. The part that interested me the most was the no-tension. Last night was a great example of applying no-tension, rather just allowing what was at the time. I know when I have been trying to achieve something, living my passion, building a business or working for success, that I often get so busy trying to make it happen that I inadvertently exhaust myself in the desperate trying. Sometimes we just need to go with the flow and follow the energy as it presents.
The energy of passion, which is the theme of my week, is about following the passion and allowing it to happen with no-tension. In respect to last night it was about following the love and passion I have for my kids and letting go to the process. Life is about how we engage with situations that present. Sometimes stuff just happens, a sick child, a cancelled meeting or the death of a friend, all of which happened last week. In these moments if we let go and have no-tension it becomes less about what is happening and more about how we are engaging with what is happening. We are allowed to feel and experience the event at a deeper level. Now sometimes we just want to run away from the event, as the pain seems all too great, as in the death of a friend, however if we do not face and feel our experiences these experiences become trauma in our lives. This trauma is then imprinted on our physical being and allowed to manifest.
Success in life can be measured by the level of engagement we have with life. The deeper and more fully we engage with life the more we get out of it. The same is true for our businesses or our career or our relationships. When we don’t like what we do or find little inspiration from it we begin to disengage. Disengagement from our career has a detrimental affect on our health and wellbeing.
The Gallup organisation has been doing a lot of research into wellbeing, especially career wellbeing. The definition of wellbeing is the ability to be happier, healthier and more prosperous. Gallup found that only 20% of people like what they do each day. A landmark study published in The Economic Journal found that our wellbeing actually recovers more rapidly from the death of a spouse than it does from a sustained period of unemployment. Proving just how important career is to our identity and our overall wellbeing.
Gallup also ran a study to determine the effects of engagement or disengagement at work on heart rate, stress levels, and various emotions throughout the day. They examined the difference between those that were engaged and those that were not. Now if your not engaged in what you do at present you may not want to read any further.
As you can imagine those that were engaged in what they did had lower stress levels, more relaxed heart rate, and felt happier throughout the day rather than just at the end of the day. When we work in a job that we are not engaged in our cortisol, which is the stress hormone, levels rise. This then leads us into the flight-fight response and an increase in anxiety. In the long term this can lead to depression and other physical illnesses. They found that people who were not engaged in their career are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression. Stress is also the cause of many other illnesses and diseases. On a happier note if you become more engaged with your career stress levels are reversed. What this shows us is just how important our career is to our overall wellbeing.
So engagement in what we do not only determines our success but also our level of health and wellbeing. So be inspired about what you do and if you’re not or can’t then find what you are passionate about and learn how to make money from it.
Being passionate about something drives us to engage with that something. It inspires us, makes us feel excited, gives us hope and motivates us to do more of it. Imagine for a moment waking up to a job that you are passionate about. How would you get out of bed? How would you feel throughout the day? How would you cope with difficult situations or obstacles?
I am lucky in that I get to do my passion every day, however the interesting part of the last weeks theme is that I realised that I could refine my passion even further. This refining is a bit like a magnify glass trying to start a fire using the sun, the more focussed we are the more likely we are to start the fire. The same is true for our business or career, the more refined our passion the more likely we are going to start a fire within. Passion is that fire, it is a feeling that starts in the belly and moves up into the heart and mind.
We all are attracted to people who are passionate, take the late Steve Irwin, now there was a passionate human. His passion attracted millions around the world, which lead to his amazing success. Take Richard Branson as another shinning example, another passionate individual who has reach extreme success. Passion is not only good for our health and wellbeing it is good for others wellbeing. People want to be close to those that are passionate and hence will tend to engage with and buy more products from those types of people.
So the moral of this story is to find your passion, learn how to live it and then keep refining it until the external world shows you the success that living a passionate life brings.
Remember your health depends on it!
Next week I am going to let you into the secret of how to find your passion, engage deeper with your passion and live a passionate life. If you cant wait until then give me a call at www.intrinsicsuccess.com.
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