If you’re afraid to tap into your passion, you’ll never tap into your genius. And if you’re expressing passion from a place of anger and fear, you’ll never tap into your genius. So how do you use passion to tap into your genius?
Someone says something to you that you don’t like. You feel angry. Really angry. You spend the next hour imagining all the brilliant, witty things you’ll say back to them in your defense.
There’s a spiritual teacher I follow on Youtube, Matt Kahn, who said the most profound thing I’ve ever heard.
You wake up and…what’s that? A vaguely uncomfortable (or, perhaps, distinctly awful) feeling that you immediately want to get rid of.
No worries. You drown it with coffee, maybe even distract yourself with mantra meditations but, a few hours later, you notice it’s still there. You tell yourself you’re just bored, or restless. Maybe you need a “new” thing: a lover, job, hobby, TV series, iPhone.
