As part of learning to become who we are, be it a change in our belief’s and walking a spiritual path or just a change in ourselves for self development, I feel that most of us give away our personal power. Having sat and thought about this, I decided to write up thoughts about personal power.
Personal Power
Each and everyone of us has our own personal power, so why is it many people do in fact give their personal power away? So much of what goes on in our mind/brain is on a subconscious level and we allow ourselves to become slaves to the mindless chatter of our unregulated thoughts. Lets take our home and fill it with a constant stream of strangers from dawn to dusk, how would you feel? probably you would get fed up and feel as if you had been invaded, but looking at this on a deeper level, most of these thoughts are like these strangers, they fill our heads with constant chatter from waking to sleeping everyday.
Many of our thoughts if we were to look deeper or within are from the foundations of our life these stem back to childhood, what we have learn’t at school and in the home, which comes a point or time in your life that you realise they are still influencing in the here and now, and how you perceive the events you are experiencing today. What do we carry subconsiously? When younger how often did you hear ‘big boys don’t cry?’ how deep has those words been embedded into the male? How deep does this go, if we sit and think of this an affirmation that has been printed into the male psyche, what is the outcome? holding in emotions. Whereas it is acceptable for the female to shed tears and be very emotional, yet man over the years has also been told to be strong for others, until recently, the ‘image’ of man is changing.
How often are we told as children you are stupid, you cannot do that, again this affirmation is buried deep, and we grow up believe that is who we are and cannot accomplish anything, hence we have given away our personal power.
Thoughts are energy and thoughts are the seat of our emotions, our emotions control and send messages that run throughout the whole of our body, and these messages send signals out to the rest of the body which releases chemicals into our system. Some of the chemicals are positive and others and not, consequently it has been scientifically proven that our thoughts have a direct relationship with and to the state of our health which is becoming more known as metaphysical illness. Once again we see the misuse of our personal power, mostly through ignorance, or the lack of knowledge that we have this power within ourselves.
What can make us change, more often, it will take a crisis that will awaken us to our personal potential, and the reality we have the right and ability to make changes, new choices, plans and become who we want to be, not what someone else wants us to be. It is not an easy task to follow but once on the road to recovery of personal power, more often than not, there is no going back, even when you feel it is your darkest hour. It means looking within, looking at life as a challenge and not a problem, taking those first steps towards attainment, there may be times when we think we have got so far forward only to realize that things have not been released, as well as things that are hidden within the subconscious mind. Take from the past only what is relevant to you now and in the future. Clear out the clutter and make room for the new ideas, new goals, and new dreams.. It is all very well and good to clear our unwanted and un-needed physical things. But what about the "mental", the "emotional" clutter? the cause of so much damage in our life. We do not even realise the consequences of holding on to such chains from the past!
We have to take into account was is free will to give over some personal power we certainly delegate power to some people and that is fine, provided that you do it willingly and happily. For example, wife, husband, children, parents, but that is a choice that we have and do not have to do.
Credit Cards are wonderful things, opening up our purchasing power beyond our wildest expectations, but when it comes to pay-off time so many people are not able to meet their commitments. They have allowed commercial promises beguile them to spend beyond their means.
Although we give over our personal power as in the instance of credit cards, is it not also a form of manipulation, that we are being manipulated into the wanting now, and not waiting until we have saved? that it is part of the material world we now live in. If we could wait and save, then we would not allow to be manipulated, and then have full control of our power? or are we too weak to say NO to having goods on credit who is to blame our weakness for not being able to say no.. our weakness for the must have now?
Deciding what your present day values are. Have you been living all this time by someone else’s values? Be it parents, teachers, partner’s or friends, peer pressure today is one of the most powerful subliminal thieves of your own personal power.
How do we live by another’s values? where does that stem from, does this go back to childhood, in as much, what we see within the family unit? how we are in many ways 'programmed' of this is how things should be, we grow up, and allow others to have control over us, as this is what we have expected or believe to be right, and given away personal power?
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