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What is YOUR Life Force

We just spent a day and a half together for the first time as a company. All of the crayon employees got together to talk about a lot of different things, but one topic that kept seeming to come up is the concept of each person’s life force.

No one single definition of this phrase. I guess I’d say it’s whatever motivates you every day of your life. Perhaps it is what makes you get up in the morning. What you can say you are passionate about. What drives you.

So I thought it would make for an interesting post to find out not so much how you define it, but if someone were to ask you what your life force was what would you answer. I’m hoping some crayonistas will chip in as well.

C.C. Chapman C.c.

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  • pat
    I am fascinated. Life force? What drives you to go forward is your life force? WHY?
  • My life force is people and connection. I find that I am most happy when I am with people and experiencing a connection with them. It's what drove me to podcast. Now I am part of a community of people and when I podcast I create new connections with people around the world. It's no surprise my latest podcast/blog is called "The Connected World"
  • My life force is creation. I have a whole world stuck in my head and I just want to let it out. There are birds and animals and songs and people and stories and all kinds of crap upstairs. Finding ways to let it all out of there keeps me going. :)

    Pax,
    Matthew
  • Fascinating question, and one that even after thinking about it overnight, I still can't answer.

    Not to put a depressing spin to it, but maybe that's why I haven't been able to gain traction in any of my efforts -- I can't find a passion, or one that I feel comfortable with being part of.

    I begin to wonder if it's possible to have this passion at all for me - perhaps I'm just one of these people destined to follow instead of lead and I'm deluding myself trying to think otherwise.
  • Brian Federal
    The term “life force” defines the underlying subtle power that drives all life in the universe, much like the term “The Force” used in the Star Wars films. I guess the more important question is…what is my relationship to life force and what role does the awareness of life force play in my life. Life force is energy. When I eat good food rich in vitamins and minerals it increases the life force of my body. There is an exchange of this subtle energy from the food to my body. The food carries an energy just as my body and all living things do. The Indian term “Prana” is a Sanskrit word meaning “breath” and refers to the vital, life-sustaining force of all living things, and defines the vital energy in the natural processes of the universe. Prana is a term used in the study of Yoga in all its forms.
    One of the best examples that helps define this term in relation to our modern western society is the book “The way of the Peaceful Warrior’ by Dan Millman. This book was recently made into a film by Lionsgate entertainment. I spoke with Dan last year and did a video interview with him at his home in Mill Valley, California. You can see some excerpts of my conversation with Dan as part of a short film we produced at the following URL http://blip.tv/file/get/Hopi-LOHASNEWFINAL657.mov
  • I'll echo CANI, I'm also finding that it's important to continue to push out beyond the comfort zone. That's where the real gains are made.

    Life moves pretty fast, and I don't want to miss any of it.
  • The endless quest to be better. Each morning to find new and better ways of doing everything. Tony Robbins calls it CANI - consistent and never-ending improvement. Whether it's family, work, spirituality, money, power, love, passion - every day brings a little something extra, if only we're awake enough to realize it.

    In ninjutsu, there's actually an old, old saying about this - "shikin haramitsu daikomyo". Every experience contains the potential for the enlightenment we seek. Every day adds a little something if we let it, and one of these days, that last little bit will be the piece we need to push ourselves over the top, to reach that "enlightened" state where we are happy, free from delusion. But you have to wake up enough to see the opportunities every day. It's far too easy to miss them, and we're encouraged by a sleepwalking consumer society to unplug from reality often.

    Shikin haramitsu daikomyo - TODAY, right NOW, could be IT. That's what keeps me waking up every morning ready to go.
  • My life force is Family.
    I was up really late last night watching a movie. It was called Raising Cane with John Lithgow. Not a great movie. The one thing that movie has which keeps me watching it is my Mom and Dad as extras in the movie. My dad died around 6 years ago and it was great to see him alive again if only for a minute. I know its not exactly what you were asking for, but it made me think that my main life force is my family.
    (don babcock in SL)
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