Why Passion Is So Important In Your Relationship And Life

Passion is intense feeling, strong excitement, strong affection, love, intense desire and enthusiasm. You can have passion for anything or anyone. We all have a basic need to feel passion. In other words, passion or being passionate is the fire in our eyes, in our bodies and in our lives that drives us forward--whether it's for our work, our hobbies, or for our relationships. When people lose passion or fire in their lives or in their relationships, you can sure tell it. They go through their lives as if they are on auto-pilot and the joy just seems to have leaked out of them. When people have passion for life or their relationships, you can also see it and feel it, even if they are quiet about it. Having passion is a way of living every moment of your life to its fullest. Whether you are waiting in line at the bank, helping your children with homework or talking with your partner, a co-worker or family member—when you have and are living your life with passion, your heart is open to experiencing the joys of connecting with others or even with yourself. To us, having passion means being truthful, being both powerful and vulnerable, having a willingness to stay and go deeper, taking responsibility for creating what we want in our lives, being open and allowing inner radiance to shine through--and of course being open to connecting with others, as well as with ourselves. Our list could go on and on and you would probably have other ways of defining what it means to you that would also work-- but you get the idea. What we have discovered is that when it comes to having and feeling passion, you know when you have it and you also know when you don't. We were just thinking about a time recently when the two of us had a misunderstanding that could have turned into an ugly situation but didn’t because neither one of us closed to the other. We kept our hearts open to each other and continued working out our differences while we went about our daily activities and work. That's having and keeping passion for each other and for keeping our relationship alive, growing, close and connected. Having passion can mean many things in your life and your relationship. We invite you to decide what you are passionate about having in your life and then be open to doing what you need to do to keeping it that way.