What Do You Crave?

What do you crave? That is a powerful question. It is different than “What do you want?” or “What do you dream of?” I was going to write an article about this, but decided that instead I would post my journaling about that question instead. What do you crave? I crave connection with people. I want to have great conversations about Life. I want my mind and spirit engaged, stimulated, and challenged. I want to make a difference for people.

I love to connect people with things or ideas, to help them see that they are up to something. It’s exciting to feel that shift from a place of someone feeling “less than” to the space of “wow, I am up to something and I can claim it.”  I think the claiming it is what I yearn to see in others and actually for myself.

It was an eye-opener for me to realize that I viscerally need the things I crave. When I put it into that context it empowers me to claim my craving. It is not a whim or some little thing to me that I want to connect so deeply with people and with myself. When I don’t have that deep connection on a regular basis I shrink, I get small. I forget that I am up to something and I begin to tone down who I am at my core – I go into hiding. What a gift to recognize that visceral need to connect. I have also been asking other people what they crave and here are some of their responses.

  • To feel like I’m in charge of my own life
  • Acceptance
  • Acceptance and acknowledgment of who I am
  • I want my “0n-switch” on
  • Significance
  • Relationships – that’s what brings the fun and purpose back together
You can see that people crave different things. The gift you can give yourself is to recognize what you crave and then allow yourself to seek it out. We so often deny ourselves the very thing that we crave. We may not feel that we deserve it or we may not even recognize what a powerful craving we have for that piece of significance in our lives.
What do you crave?

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