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Inspiration
- Aspiration - Motivation - Dreams
Always
be Inspired !
The word inspire comes from
the Latin word for inspirare, which means to breath upon or
into. When we inspire others, we're living from our higher
selves. When we're being inspired, we expand beyond what we
previously were, or know our selves to be. Our lives have
new breath. Our soul and our actions are one.
Know what inspires you. Go
back to your memories and recall when you felt most inspired.
What was the common thread amongst the different times when
you've been inspired? Was it a quality about another person
or your self? Was there a theme to the times when you've been
inspired, or have been inspiring? Was it an action that a
person took - or that you took? Think about what's inspired
you in the past. Look to see what's missing now.
Learn to live with ambivalence
while striving for perfection. Inspiration lives between the
two spaces of ambivalence and perfection. Inspiration speaks
to the best within our selves - ambivalence is the messiness
of our lives, the life process. Perfection is the ideal, while
ambivalence is its application. Inspiration is what moves
us forward in life - through the ambivalence and towards the
ideal.
Take a break from your life.
Go to a movie or hike a mountain to its highest vista. Surround
yourself with the sound of the rhythm of water, while the
warmth of the sun energizes your body. Move your body so you
feel it's life. Keep your focus on nothing other than your
experience. Live in the present.
Inspiration isn't only what's
done TO you. Being inspired requires an openness of heart
and spirit. Create an environment that supports an open heart,
so that inspiration blossoms in your life. Just as a flower
needs soil and water, so too does inspiration need openness
of heart and spirit. Inspiration can't exist without this.
Sometimes we fall before we
stand. Don't beat yourself up when you fall from grace. Life
is a process and isn't static. When you fall, don't beat yourself
up for falling. Acknowledge the fall and it's impact on your
life. At some point, you'll take action and stand up. Don't
beat yourself up for falling. It happens.
Divert your attention. Forget
about the joys that inspiration brings, and live from another
domain. An inspired life isn't only about inspiration. It's
also about exhilaration, about passion and living life fully.
Do something completely different than you normally would.
Strike up a conversation with someone you typically wouldn't,
and approach the conversation with naiveté, openness
and depth. There's a good chance that inspiration will come
to you when you're least looking for it.
Surround yourself with what
inspires you. If a certain type of person inspires you, follow
and nurture the attraction. Trust what inspires you, and let
it guide your actions. If a Wagner opera inspires you, surround
yourself with it's music so you feel completely at one with
the music, and with what inspires you. Lose yourself in what
you love and be inspired.
Get outside of yourself. Though
you think you know what inspires you based on past experiences
- this doesn't mean that you can't be inspired by something
new that previously didn't effect you. Live in the present
and pay attention to what tugs at your heart. This will give
you a hint to newer sources of inspiration.
Grace + openness + life +
soul = inspiration. Create a formula consisting of the ingredients
that define inspiration for you. We all have different perceptions
and experiences of inspiration. Define what it is for you.
Inspiration is a quality and
a state of being. To be inspiring to others is to be self-generative
and inspiring to our selves. How can you be more self-generative?
One must live in a state of being that allows for inspiration
to take root. How can you cause and create your own source
of inspiration? Where are you self-generative in your life,
and how can you be more self-generative?
So, are you Inspired?
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