Your Power Is Waiting For You
Power is not something you must gain. It is not something that just exists out in the world for you to discover. You are born with power. It is an essential and inherent part of your being. The journey to power is not one of creation, but of remembering. If you do not feel powerful, it is not because the power does not exist, but because a part of you, conscious or not, is choosing to give it away. You may be giving it away to your family, to your friends, to the people you work with, to the people you take care of, or to the people who take care of you. You may give it away to those who judge you or to those whom you judge, to those who give unsolicited advice or to those who believe they know what is best. You may give power away to the media or to anonymous people on the internet. And if you have made it to this site, you are likely giving power to your Mind Body Experience, whether that be your pain symptoms, your thoughts, or your emotions. You may hand it out freely to any negative sensation or experience at all. There is no shortage of things you can give power, and to become aware of this is to remember that your power is yours to keep. By remembering this and by making the choice to take it back, you restore the driving force of your highest intention - to become the truth of who you are.
This does not mean you have to get aggressive or force your way through the world with intensity. It means you can set boundaries and you can choose to lead instead of letting others or other experiences lead for you. First you must believe that you do, in fact, have the power to live the life you want and to move toward that life. Your Mind Body Experience is a communication that you have been giving away your power for too long. Once you find your conviction, it does not matter what symptoms show up, it does not matter what other people say, nothing can stop you.
You may, like me, have had early life experiences that challenged your power and covered it with layers of shame and fear. Children are often forced to give away their power to parents, teachers, strangers, etc. They are not taught to recognize their power, but to control it. Control your emotions. Control your behavior. Control your self. You must learn, as I did, that systems will continue to control your power until you make the decision to take it back. As I stepped into my power, I often received the image of an enormous figure with limbs made of tree trunks. This figure was me. And as I rose up to feel the full weight of my power, I fantasized of my enormous tree trunk legs crushing innocent, microscopic people and cars and other things in my way. The path to one’s power is rarely pretty - in fact it is dam messy - and you may upset some people who have comfortably related to you in your learned disempowered state. However, my monster fantasy was a manifestation of my fear that by taking my power I was somehow monstrous and destructive. This is far from the truth. The truth is that the greatest gift you can give to the world is to take back your power. The more you breathe life into your highest intention and move toward it, the more people will come to see you for who you were meant to be. You are a great manifester, but first you must come to find that truth within yourself. Your power is not dangerous, it is not burdensome, it is not bad. It is precious and it is waiting for you.