The Life Affects of Having One or Two Passions
ByThere are not too many positive feelings better than passion. Even people who express anger or like being scared at the movies are getting high on the intense feelings that make you feel alive. We have a need to feel alive and if we don’t get it from positive engagement we often turn to negative behaviors.
Flow is the engagement in activities that we find challenging, but are within our capabilities. When engaged we bar distractions from our consciousness and get lost in the activity at hand. It is the supreme level of enjoyment. Our brain registers our contentment by producing dopamine, the happiness neurotransmitter.
Having a passion in which you can engage everyday starts setting up your emotional balance to a positive outlook. You look forward to it in advance and you revel in the feelings afterward. It creates a rest for your nervous system similar to sleep or a vacation. We need these breaks from the tension and stress of daily existence.
If you can string several passionate activities together in a day, your life starts looking more like flow and less like negativity. Passions that lead to flow require practiced activity, discipline, risk, and courage. To get better you have to leave your comfort zone. Risk is exciting, but this is controlled risk in many ways. The only real risk is whether your ego take set backs or failure to progress.
Better to adrenalize your system with risk of progress than negative behaviors that reinforce you are alive.
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