I mentioned in my last post how illness, stress, frustration and hormonal problems can be a call to step up, or begin an adventure. If you haven't read my last post, find it here

Could following a dream or passion be your prescription?

Or maybe allowing love back into your life could sort you out?

What if you did the things that bring your joy (instead of just the routine stuff), could it release the life force to move through you again, so you can feel truly ALIVE again?

Joy, Bliss or happiness reduces your stress response, making cortisol step aside (finally!) and leaving the other hormones to do their thing. This allows the relaxation response to switch back on, releasing beautiful healing hormones such as oxytocin (hello love hormone!), dopamine, endorphins and nitric oxide that turn on self-healing systems, telling your body…lets get to work and rebalance your hormones, boost digestive power, ramp up liver detox, dampen inflammation, boost metabolism, reduce your cravings, shed excess fat, balance your brain chemistry so you feel calm and peace…ahhh, sounds nice right?

Follow your bliss

Mythologist, Joseph Campbell, talked about the hero's journey and following your bliss. He described bliss as the wisdom within you, that welling up of energy from your spirit and when you don't feel it, when you don't feel bliss, then you're cut off from that energy, disconnected from your self and you need to find it again…pronto!

How do you follow your bliss?

What if it wasn't anything as dramatic as quitting your job, volunteering in Guatemala, or changing the world (but if it is one of those things…awesome!).

Maybe you need to open your heart to love, or allow more pleasure into your life, or do the work you love – even if on the side.

Do whatever makes you feel radiantly alive!

Whatever feels like bliss, do more of it. Wherever your joy lives, add more of it into your life. Keep following this feeling because will lead you to where you need to be.

Think the thoughts and be around the people who help you to feel vibrant and alive!

We know when we're connected to ourselves and source: we feel great when we're plugged in and not so great when we're not. It's our mojo!

When we're called on our hero's journey, when stressed, unhappy, unsatisfied or during life transitions –  this is our call to adventure. When the call isn't answered, you experience a kind of drying up, a sense of life lost and no matter how much you try to numb yourself (food, alcohol, sex, drugs, over-working, over-caring etc), the pain will not go away. It keeps nudging at you and it gets worse until you get the message.

What is a secret dream you wish to fulfil? What is something you've always wanted to do, but never told anyone?

Warning: Reality check below!!!

If your life was written into a novel and you were reading the story of your life. Would you keep reading it?

Would would want to keep turning the pages and finish it or would you be so bored by it that you'd just want to put it away? 

If you want to stop reading then it's a good sign that you're not doing what makes you feel most alive!

Life is always calling. Calling to the heroic within us. If we don’t answer that call, we suffer, feel pain and dis-ease.

We need to say Yes. YES to possibility.

“What will they think of me?… Must be put aside for bliss” Joseph Campbell

It's not until you step up and answer the call that you step back into alignment with yourself and the universal life force flows through you! Hell yeah!

This is not something to dilly-dally on either. This is an urgent call! Don't sit on it knowing what needs to be done – do it.

If you can't do it on your own and you need support – get it!

I can't think of one person who would want to continue to suppress life force and continue living with unexpressed potential….

What do you want to say yes to? And do you Dare….