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Section 4
Lack of Passion
Lack of Passion
When I personally don’t feel passion, I’m not experiencing life. I have anesthetized my emotional being. Given that conclusion, it’s time to begin feeling my emotions.
This is a tough one for me. As a small child I was total emotion. I would either be laughing or crying. There was little in between. As I grew up in the culture of the ‘50s, emotions for a man were not acceptable. Given that excuse, I find myself many times and more often than I would like, dry of emotions.
As Spar Street (Chapter 5, Section 1) said: “I was in my twenties and realized that I couldn’t cry.” After hearing that I realized that I’m in my seventies with the same issue.
One thing that has helped enormously is to see that emotions are a compass for life. When you are feeling good, it is probably because things are going well. When you are feeling bad, it is probably indicating that something needs to change.
The following are exercises designed to help one get
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