Oh
the ways we give it away so unaware. If only we knew the keys to prevent
ourselves from giving away our power at every turn, we might be better able to
address our human interactions in this life. You see, there will always
exist those who know no other way to exist than to intimidate and manipulate
others for their power not realizing they have it within. There too will
always be those of us who too willingly give it away without thinking.
Here are some ways to know when you have given your power away and I put them
in no particular order:
1. Victim thought processes or identification.
2. Blame thought processes or identification.
3. Dependency thought processes or identification.
4. Manipulating thought processes or identification.
5. Intimidating thought processes or identification.
6. Judgmental thought processes or identification.
7. Persecuting thought processes or identification.
8.
Negative self-thoughts and perceptions.
9.
Vengeful thoughts and identification.
Do
you begin to see where I am going maybe even just a little? The moment we
have given in to any of the above thought processes, beliefs, actions or
identification, we have diminished our own power and given it away either
through holding a false belief or a fear that we created in response to some
kind of external stimulus that it was actually we who created to begin
with. No, this is not a blame the victim thought process and if that is
what you take from this so far, I must ask you to go much deeper than the
superficial egoic mind to understand. Going deeper within to feel for
understanding will actually raise you above your ego that believes that it
always must be right, perfect, save face, be the most, the best, the whatever
anyone else may think of as cool and wonderful. We have to get beyond
these things in order for us to begin to dust off the emotional debris we’ve
collected inside of us through our lack of awareness that keeps our truth
hidden from view.
First
and foremost, we are powerful always in all ways all the time. It is only
when we choose not to be powerful that we sink into the dramas of the world
that we momentarily think have more significant meaning than they really
do. Going back a bit further to form a framework for you from which
you may begin to understand, you are here, believe it or not, to experience and
experience life in ways YOU choose. Yes, you choose and there is no room
in your choices really for judgment, blame, seeking perfection, to be right,
better, best, etc. You can give your power away through these things if
you want to but you don’t have to. It is a choice.
Some
things don’t seem like choices at all. Some things feel entirely thrust
upon us quite unexpectedly and it is way too easy to get caught up in
identifying with the victim or blaming activities in order to vent your way
through an experience. It wastes your precious energy to engage in such
thinking and sometimes acting. It takes less energy and promotes a greater
sense of balance for you to attempt to seek understanding for your own choices
(whether you realize you made them or not). Bad things happen to bad
people. Bad things happen to good people too. The judgment of “bad”
is just that, a judgment and it is a judgment most often based on a false
premise or belief. When you begin to understand that we are all part of
the whole of life, you start to think about things a little differently.
At some point you begin to disconnect from the world of victims and villains
and start to instead embrace the world as it is through compassion and seeking
understanding of what you really intended in your creation of this dramatic
experience or that one. You had an intent. You just can’t recall
it.
You
may have heard the term Maya as an attribute describing the superficial
consciousness of and happenings in this world as illusion. In the world
of Maya, ego rules supreme and merely battles and clashes with all it
encounters in the fight for better/best, etc. Ego judges, persecutes,
attempts to steal what it already has, competes for some superficial prize that
doesn’t take one anywhere or give anyone anything of lasting import.
Spoiler Alert: There is no prize for being better, best, right, stealing
energy, giving it away or striving to master illusions. What we get from
this life is the richness or value of our experiences rather than the
experiences solely. If we maintain a place of power, which is our right,
we do not have to choose the world of villains and victims whether or not
others wish to exist in those worlds and believe in those frameworks. You
can live your life in fear or worry or you can choose not to.
I’m
not saying any of this is easy. I can’t even say I’ve done it all the
time. I too am just a mere student of this life but I do know a surely as
I’m sitting here breathing and typing away that I can feel it when I give my
power away and I can feel it when others try to take it from me.
Psychology and lack of awareness runs rampant in our world. It has been
this way always. But some of us who care to look can catch glimpses of
the truth deep within us and take great comfort in the knowing that it is we
who choose to be energized or depleted, to become victorious or defeated as we face
each of the scenes of our lives we have created for the challenge of the
experience.
I
suggest to you that despite how you have lived and what you have experienced up
to this point in your life, you can make a choice to understand your beliefs,
their origins and whether or not you will continue to buy into them or
not. You too can choose whether or not you will stand in your power full
of love and light or hand it over to the very next person who demands it
through manipulation or fear generating villain-like postures. It’s all
up to you.
In
the midst of some of our darkest and most challenging experiences, these little
flashes of insight will come from your soul. Watch for these and expect
them to show up for the purpose of your truest and most reliable guidance.
Steer clear of energy robbing anger, frustration, fear, intimidation and all
the other negatives as much as you can. Do so through seeking
understanding and choosing how you wish to participate with such things in such
a way where you hold yourself accountable for neither doing yourself nor anyone
else any intentional harm and you can find and hold your power to you. If
you give it away in fear of worry, you cannot positively create. I can
attest to this fact. If you hold it with the knowing, trust or faith in
yourself as a Source-Connected miracle of energetic existence, you have half
the battle of dealing with the challenges you face won. You can then step
back a bit and observe what you might have wanted to glean from the experiences
you go through. The self-love you do hold in the heart of your soul knows
that you established experiences for much higher reasons than reinforcing your
weaknesses. The heart of your knows that you created experiences to
rediscover your strengths.
It’s
a huge leap sometimes to go from fearful to courageous. So, start with
one little step instead and that very simple step begins with curiosity.
Be curious rather than assumptive, judgmental or resorting to persecution,
blame or vengeance. You’ll feel much better about your experiences in the
end because then you are moving in tune with your soul that has a much
longer-lasting impact than the superficial pursuits of the ego.
Speaking from experience, when your heart stops and your consciousness goes on,
the things the ego thinks are important here on Earth do NOT come with
you. What does come with you is the love you held inside, the compassion
you experienced, the awe, wonder and beauty of your experiences comes with you
and nothing more. Okay, for some may be regret comes too but if you are
alive right now and reading this then there is plenty of time for you to shift
your thinking. Do it today. You have the power within you and all
the love in the universe behind you and to support you. ~Blessings of infinite
love and light.
(Photo,
fortunate random internet find)
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