If passion, discovery, creativity is missing in your life, is there a way to focus on events and people which create optimal experiences? Strangely enough the most despairing, crisis-ridden time of life does, by its nature, push and pull you, bringing your attention to goals and life visions that become clear and unchallenged the more you focus on them. You may be muddling along with vague aims, discontent activity, unvitalized projects and obsolete jobs, when suddenly, a severe crisis punctuates the path you must travel. The crisis forces you to your last bastion, yourself and your essential needs. Perhaps at the end of hope, you are forced to channel energy directly to your intuitive power.

There is nowhere else to go, nothing more to lose. Different dreams and ideals surface. You gain an awareness that your life must change and you are capable of changing it. You may feel a serious longing for new experiences and a desire for every small, creative step that will provide optimal experiences, your music. Creating change, accepting transitions, is almost impossible if you have not been in pain or experienced a crisis. It is surely an irony of life that when you are in pain, you create your music. In this sense, pain and the demons are gifts. Many of us would turn down this gift of pain if we could. At the time you are fired from your work, you say, "don't let this happen. I feel devastated." But being fired often opens new doors to creating work closer to your essence.