How To Get Career Clarity – Foundations – Part of Chapter II of the book ”Find Your Passion”

1. Give permission to yourself

To find and pursue your passion is and will stay an unattainable dream for you. Unless, you give permission to yourself to do so. No matter how obvious it might sound to you, remember this: Wanting something does not mean believing it. Wanting does not mean believing in you. You need to manifest to your mind your desire for having what you want or being who you want to be, as much as possible; both frequently and intensely. By intensely, I mean utilizing as many of your physical senses as possible; your hearing, taste, feeling, olfaction and vision. Why? Because our physical senses constitute learning paths for us. The more of them we use the better we process and learn the information we want to learn, including learning to truly and unapologetically believe in ourselves. By repetition and intensity, you’ll have a direct impact on your brain through passing and ”registering” in it the message ”I believe in me” and ”I can” – or any other message you want to pass to help you achieve your goals –

Be aware of this: Your brain does not absorb information and messages that you meant or wanted to have thought and said, but you didn’t. Like a recorder, it registers 2 crucial things:

1. What you actually say.
2. The emotions that accompany what you say.

For example, if you say ”I can’t do this”, even if you don’t actually mean it, your subconscious mind will register ” You can’t do this”. ”Let’s make sure that this will happen”, it’d continue by gathering all the info it needs and activating all the processes necessary for you to not be able to do this. That’s right. You start sabotaging yourself, without even being aware of it (but now you have no excuses). Your words matter, so pay attention to what you say, literally.

Besides your words, how you feel when you say your words is equally, if not more, significant. For example, if you say ”I believe in me”, or ”I can do this” while being sad, angry, resentful, stressed or afraid of – or feeling any other negative emotion – then your subconscious mind will remember and store exactly these feelings. On the other hand, if you manifest your passion, or any goals, aspirations and desires of yours, by feeling and communicating to your mind positive emotions (e.g. joy, exuberance, fulfillment, aliveness, happiness, excitement, enthusiasm, freedom, relaxation, fun, love, gratitude etc), then your subconscious will register exactly these. As a result, your words will ”stick” with these emotions and vice versa. This way you train your brain to generate positive emotions every time you make relevant statements and affirmations to manifest whatever you want.

And here’s the best part: The more often you experience positive emotions along with your words, the more often you feel them in your daily life, as your mind focuses on generating more of these. But why our brain does this? Why more positive emotions generate more positive ones?And why more negative emotions generate more negative ones?

Well, have you ever heard the Law of Attraction? The belief that positive or negative thoughts bring positive or negative experiences into a person’s life. Although it’s considered by many as a theory lacking scientific evidence and a pseudoscience, there’s actually a scientific explanation, which I haven’t come across so far.

Before this, it’s important to remind of you Dr David R. Hawkins’s groundbreaking work, ‘‘ Map of consciousness’’, introduced in his book ‘‘ Power Vs Force ’’, where he proved that emotions have measurable energy and can either foster or negate actual cell life. The more positive the emotion the higher the calibrated energy. For example, the energy of a loving thought is enormously more powerful than that of a negative one.

So, as long as it’s well proven that emotions are energy, then there are various energy fields, relevant to the calibration of specific emotions. Dr Hawkins calls these energy fields as ‘‘energy fields of consciousness’’. They are invisible, like X-rays, and you cannot observe them without a quite advanced technological equipment. Computer graphics clearly demonstrated the designs of these energy fields. These energy fields have identifiable patterns, regarding their form and function, from a seeming unmeaningful mass of data. These patterns are called ”attractors”.

Why you should now that? Because energy attractors of various strengths are in constant interaction with one another in the phenomenological universe. As a result, they evolve. That means that the energy fields that consist of high-energy patterns can dominate over weaker ones. That’s why you cannot feel both a positive and negative emotion at the very same time (positive emotions are more energetically powerful than negative ones). And that’s also the reason why a positive emotion is more powerful than a negative one. If you feel love and gratitude, you cannot feel fear or anger.

On the other hand, energy fields in the same calibration level evolve and reinforce each other. That means that a negative energy field often attracts a negative one. The larger and more powerful negative field will absorb the weaker negative field. The same applies to energy fields based on positive emotions.

Imagine that energy fields are like bubbles. A ‘‘small bubble’’ (weaker energy field) joins and is absorbed by a larger bubble (more powerful energy field). A larger ‘‘bad’’, ‘‘negative’’ bubble will attract and absorb a smaller ‘‘bad’’, ‘‘negative’’ bubble. And a larger ‘‘good’’, ‘‘positive’’ bubble will attract and absorb a smaller ‘‘good’’, ‘‘positive’’ bubble. That’s why when something upsets you in the day, it’s much easier to continue thinking and feeling in a negative way for the rest of the day! That’s also the reason why starting your day with positive news and by doing things that make you happy (e.g. meditation, exercise, enjoying your breakfast, spending quality time with your loved ones, playing with your pet, or just anything that generates to you strong positive emotions) has a highly positive emotional impact on your entire day.

‘‘But how the importance of how I feel on a daily basis is related to finding my passion?’’, you might be well wondering. Because passion is a powerful positive emotion that is generated by a specific activity that puts you in a state of flow, while serving something greater than yourself (a purpose). Therefore, the more positive emotions you experience in your life, the more you’ll attract in your individual energy field (every person generates their own energy field, based on the emotions that experience more frequently in their life) similar or even more powerful positive emotions, such as passion. In other words, you prepare yourself emotionally and mentally for experiencing your passion.

Here’s what else is cool about that: The more time you stay in a positive state, the more you boost and tap into your intrinsic creativity. When that happens, you get inspired. And what you need to discover work you truly love are new insights and inspiration.

And a great way for you to start experiencing more positive emotions to find your passion is to give yourself permission to experience them; to give permission to yourself to find your passion.