How to Increase Your Passions

Life is best when lived with passion.

A single or many passions can create that zest that makes life wonderful.

Some people say they don’t have a passion or wish they could find one. Some say they have too much on their plate to find something new and they don’t love much that is on their plate now.

The stress of the daily grind can wear down our enthusiasm to find life exciting. We have a few people we love to see, but they have their own lives even if it’s our kids. We often are left to the Friday night blow out or the frequent visits down the excess food or drug trail to elevate our serotonin.

We get high on food, alcohol, or drugs to relieve the tremendous stress as we watch our security erode or worry about our future security. Too much stress blocks our ability to get into flow. Anxiety and stress are the products of too much Beta waves in our brain.

Flow is the result of the correct amount of Beta that is followed by dopamine production and the feeling we call happiness. The resort to alcohol, food and drugs blocks out our beta waves and brings on the alpha of the right brain to settle us in to a more creative, intuitive, dream state.

To get dramatic change, we have to change up our structure. We generally have a passion for something at which we also have some talent. One of the fastest ways to create dramatic change is our lives is to take things off our plate. This leaves us room to find something new.

My first dramatic change was taking out bad foods and putting in good foods. Over a four year period, I have become very good at this and I continue. Having lost 45 pounds, I now have a passion for staying lean. It feels very good.

I had a passion for TV. I watched CNN every evening and too many football games. I took TV out of my life. It left a big hole. TV turns your brain to mush even though it feels like its giving you a rest. I still love the news but I get it on line. I read more. I stay outside longer or find new things to do in the evening. It makes a big difference.

Staying active feeds on itself. There are lots of ways to exercise. There is the gym, walks, hikes, bikes, stretching, and classes. It can be social if you join groups which then support your efforts and make it more fun.

There are the quiet hobbies like writing, reading, cooking, crafts or collecting. A little time each day makes you better. My day is filled with things I like to do. Luckily I have the opportunity at this point in my life.  I start the day with writing, then go to exercise, then reading and in the evenings cooking and socializing.

Even if you had a work schedule, you could feed these items in if you took other items off your plate. The more positive activities you have that are building your skills, the more enthusiastic you will be about the next day.

You might even get passionate as you see your skills improving.