How to create desire?

[Lento]

I specifically mean that gut feeling that burns inside. How to create it and maintain it?

[Elham]

Think of your childhood desires. Do you have any desire or passion from the time when you were a kid which you haven't peruse yet?

[Roy]

Vision.

Create it by imagining a future state or situation that you desire, and that matches your authentic values and attitudes about life.

Maintain it by imposing consistent, powerful, and motivational reminders of your vision - Every day.

The human mind is limited, and therefore forgetful. You need to constantly pound the message in over and over.

Edited February 25, 2020 by Roy

[mandyjw]

It's not something you want to maintain on that level ALL the time. 

Feel good here and now, find ways to feel good, daydream, appreciate what is around you and bigger desires just come. There's really no difference between finding something tiny to appreciate now and having a huge dream for the future. 

Edited February 25, 2020 by mandyjw

[Nahm]

That’s like asking “how do I instantly manifest something?”.

It’s uncovering what is already the actuality.

[Bill W]

3 hours ago, Lento said:

I specifically mean that gut feeling that burns inside. How to create it and maintain it?

People have had a stab at answering this but I would need to know a little bit more exactly what you mean. You have articulated it to a degree, but your idea of desire might be different to mine.

Are we looking at a standard dictionary definition of a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen.

I guess it starts from knowing what you want and believing it's truly worth having (that thing you want). 

I like this, and you don't need to be religious to benefit from this message from 5.12 to 7.30

 

 

Edited February 25, 2020 by Bill W

[Lento]

I'm not sure my point was clear enough. Let me elaborate a little bit; Last week, I got emotionally triggered by a traumatic event, and then the trauma gradually faded away. All the while, I felt a very intense feeling that it made me feel alive like I was dead my entire life. Right now, I feel like I'm dead once again. I feel more grounded, rational, and borderline indifferent rather than emotional and reflexive. But I don't want this! I want to ignite that feeling again. I want that strange burning desire! I want to feel alive! I feel like it's the only way I could honour living life. Life isn't meant to be lived rationally. Life is meant to be felt emotionally to its fullest. Some people equate thoughts with desire. Well, I don't. To me, desire is that raw sensation, whether it's accompanied by thoughts or not. It does not necessarily have to feel good. I just want to feel!

Edited February 26, 2020 by Lento

[mandyjw]

@LentoThat's the most beautiful, honest thing I've read in a while. That desire to feel IS desire. You already have it, you are it. Just feel, whatever it is that's here now, feel it with the core of your being. There's no voice to say that's not what I want. You're so close you're already there. 

Love is alive. Love is so magnificently, brilliantly alive that sometimes we even think it dull. If you can see it in the dullness and the gray, you'll see colors you've never seen before.