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Originally Posted by eighteyes  Regardless, I find that finding the passion is easy for me, it's maintaining it, and continuing to build momentum, since it goes away so readily. |
The solution will come when you realize that emotions are not something you can maintain. You can't control the flow of emotions, all you can control is how you react to them and your attitude about them.
As such, you should realize that passion will come and go, wax and wane. Other emotions will water it down and flush it out, but it'll return.
So instead of focusing on maintaining passion, instead focus on experiencing the full range of your emotions and allowing yourself to enjoy each of them (even the painful ones). Don't allow any one emotions to become chronic, though, because that will throw you out of balance (even chronically GOOD emotions can be damaging to you).
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Originally Posted by eighteyes So two things I'd like your perspective on,
1) broadening emotional depth and range, and
2) maintaining, exploring and expressing these feelings
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Emotional depth is a matter of permission. You have to give yourself permission to experience the emotions that you are confronted with. Then, once you experience them, you gotta find ways to move past them and onto the next emotion...the next experience.
Stop focusing so much on one single emotion and start focusing on the experience. Once you learn that, you'll learn contentment. when you learn contentment and patience, you'll find growth and expansion will come naturally. I know that seems contrary to what you may think (or others will tell you), but the worlds most deepest truths are contrary to popular opinion.