Friday, September 16, 2005
Put More Ra Ra Into Your Ya Ya
That means celebrate your talent and dreams. No matter what you have to go through to do it, put more ra-ra in your ya-ya. Because, who you are matters. What you do counts. Think of Life as a giant jigsaw puzzle and each of us born with a puzzle piece, our ya-ya, our passion. If you aren’t living your passion, putting ra-ra into your ya-ya, you’re not putting your piece on the table, and the puzzle will never be completed.
Putting more ra-ra in your ya-ya, what Joseph Campbell calls following your bliss, requires courage. Lot’s of it. Especially in the beginning. But once you’ve begun, it gets easier and easier. You’re in the Zone. Life flows so well and you become so attractive, you wonder why it took so long to get it.
Putting more ra-ra into your ya-ya is what we were born to do. Yet so much of life today is about fitting in, dressing right, being at the right places at the right times and not rocking the boat, that authenticity and passion seem out of place; even naïve and idealistic. It seems as if it’s all about chilly irony, not hot passion.
That’s where courage comes in. You were born to be the best you, you can be. Trying to be somebody else, who your family wanted you to be, for instance, dooms you to failure. You are a force of Nature, part of Evolution itself. If you don’t get in touch with your passion, find the courage to face your fears, and share your gift, you’re not only holding yourself back, you’re holding all of us back.
A colleague heard me say, “Put more ra-ra into your ya-ya!” at a meeting. She was fascinated and told me “ya-ya” meant hurt, cut or wound in Spanish. We talked and discovered a neat connection between wounding, courage and passion. It seems shamans, the priests, spiritual leaders and counsellors at the roots of nearly every culture, were called “wounded healers.”
A shaman’s initiation involved a wounding, a vision quest, a courageous journey into the wilderness inside and around them to discover their ya-ya, their vocation/passion, their puzzle piece, and bring it back to the tribe. The wounding enabled the shaman to assist members of the tribe to put more ra-ra into their ya-ya then assist the entire tribe to discover its passion and purpose.
When you find the courage, go through the inevitable wounding and celebrate your passion, you’re acting as a shaman. Your ability to go through the process empowers our ability. When you put more ra-ra into your ya-ya, it makes it easier for the rest of us to do that, too. We’re inspired, motivated and as Neil Armstrong said from the moon, that’s “one step for man, one giant step for mankind.” So put more ra-ra into your ya-ya!
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Putting more ra-ra in your ya-ya, what Joseph Campbell calls following your bliss, requires courage. Lot’s of it. Especially in the beginning. But once you’ve begun, it gets easier and easier. You’re in the Zone. Life flows so well and you become so attractive, you wonder why it took so long to get it.
Putting more ra-ra into your ya-ya is what we were born to do. Yet so much of life today is about fitting in, dressing right, being at the right places at the right times and not rocking the boat, that authenticity and passion seem out of place; even naïve and idealistic. It seems as if it’s all about chilly irony, not hot passion.
That’s where courage comes in. You were born to be the best you, you can be. Trying to be somebody else, who your family wanted you to be, for instance, dooms you to failure. You are a force of Nature, part of Evolution itself. If you don’t get in touch with your passion, find the courage to face your fears, and share your gift, you’re not only holding yourself back, you’re holding all of us back.
A colleague heard me say, “Put more ra-ra into your ya-ya!” at a meeting. She was fascinated and told me “ya-ya” meant hurt, cut or wound in Spanish. We talked and discovered a neat connection between wounding, courage and passion. It seems shamans, the priests, spiritual leaders and counsellors at the roots of nearly every culture, were called “wounded healers.”
A shaman’s initiation involved a wounding, a vision quest, a courageous journey into the wilderness inside and around them to discover their ya-ya, their vocation/passion, their puzzle piece, and bring it back to the tribe. The wounding enabled the shaman to assist members of the tribe to put more ra-ra into their ya-ya then assist the entire tribe to discover its passion and purpose.
When you find the courage, go through the inevitable wounding and celebrate your passion, you’re acting as a shaman. Your ability to go through the process empowers our ability. When you put more ra-ra into your ya-ya, it makes it easier for the rest of us to do that, too. We’re inspired, motivated and as Neil Armstrong said from the moon, that’s “one step for man, one giant step for mankind.” So put more ra-ra into your ya-ya!
Visit: WisdomAtWorkUSA.com
