Personal Power: Why We Fear It
On our Monday morning radio show we had a discussion about why we might fear owning our personal power. Three major areas emerged in that discussion:
1. Lack of awareness or clear definition about what personal power is
2. Lack of knowledge about HOW to claim it
3. Beliefs about power that keep us small, constricted or conflicted
Personal power from our perspective is having the ability to create and live your life from your best/whole self. It is not power over anybody or wielding great influence in the world. Our definition is really more about having self mastery and creating your life from the inside out. That can result in your having more presence, success or influence in the external world but that is not the driving force or primary goal.
Personal power from this viewpoint is “owning all your parts” and nurturing them so that your best self can find its best expression in your world. All else flows from there.
Understanding our energetic nature helps to simplify the task of owning our personal power. Our energy and the consciousness within it is our inherent power. When we know how to harness and manage it we are much better able to address personal power and all its manifestations.
We are of course mind, body and spirit and we could take any one of those aspects and see a myriad of ways that we either build or dissipate energy with and through them. A general rule of thumb is that when we add to our inner resources we are empowering ourselves and when we detract from those resources we dis-empower ourselves.
For now let’s just look at the mind and how we either contribute or detract from our energy resources through it in our daily lives.
Dis-empowering, energy draining mind habits
Criticizing self or others
Judgments
Blaming
Obsessive thinking, analyzing
Excessive ruminating on the past
Over preoccupation and anxiety about the future
Identifying with stories of being a victim of life/others/past
Emphasis on what is wrong—with self, other, situations
Empowering, energizing mind habits
Focus on maintaining an inner state of peace–an attitude of ease
Freely choosing to place thoughts on genuine positive thoughts
Present moment awareness ( fully present in the now without judgment)
Recognition that others have and are entitled to their perspective
Commitment to noticing beauty
Make it a game to become aware of happy moments
Make breathing deeply, fully and easily a habit–quiets the mind
Actively choose to release habitual negative thoughts
Mind Matters
How you use your mind affects your health and as we have seen through experiments in Quantum Physics—our mind affects matter, so it behooves us to master ourselves at this level so we can be at cause in our lives rather than suffering effects!
Check out our Energy Tips section (see tab on home page) for more hints on manging your energy to vitalize rather than drain your power. And of course all our recorded programs include a variety of information and techniques on managing and using your energy to become the best expression of you and create a life you love to live!
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