The Two Faces of Power

Sep 23, 2014 at 09:24

Esther Hicks puts it well in when she talks about each question really being two questions, what we want and what we do not want. Dr. John DeMartini also focusses on the duality of any issue. Power or that feeling of being in the driver seat of our lives is much the same. We are either in control and feeling in the flow or we are feeling powerless, out of control, being driven by the winds of life.

Could it be possible that our lives are a dance between feeling Powerful or feeling Powerless?

The pursuit for that promotion, the increased income, the great love of our lives could be more about reducing or suppressing a feeling of being powerless. Sometimes we need to look a little closer to understand our own actions and decisions.

Feeling Powerful is less common in our lives than we may imagine, many times the social parameters are geared to supporting the victim mentality, so keeping us stuck and we never see it happening to us.

The common supportive theme of our culture is to keep up the charade we are powerless, in need of help and incapable of doing it ourselves. Feeling powerless is an unpleasant space to be in and we can easily push it aside and pull the mask of deception and fake our feelings of being powerful. One way to pick this is the "Superiority" complex. This is a fallacy, all superiority is a mask for feeling inferior, for the secret feelings of being powerless. Whenever we think or act superior, under the covers is the pain of being powerless in some situation. The most common seeds for this start in childhood and over time we nurture and foster the hurt until it becomes a habit, a way of being that goes unrecognised.

Thinking we feel powerless keeps us stuck because we reach a point where we refuse to accept that we are acting the victim. We have bought the myth and nothing will sway our thinking. We have reached a point where we do not know that we not know that we are the power within our lives.

When we have the courage to honesty accept the times we feel powerless we have the opportunity to step back into our power. As uncomfortable as it seem we can be in a state of power all the time. Acting from a place of being powerless is an option, a choice, sometimes unknowingly that had it's gestation and birth somewhere in our history. Now appearing real the thought goes unchallenged, unnoticed, except for it's paw print written across our lives.

Recognising, owning and loving our feelings of being powerless can be the gift, the tool we need to step back into our power.

Sometimes all we need to do is love the negatives, allow ourselves to transverse the rocky slope that lead us away from our Power into the myth, the great lie that society is so eager to feed us.

Trying to feel powerful when all our energy is locked up in believing we are powerless is not the easiest way to cross back over. Loving, accepting and recognising where we are in a place of feeling powerless is the best way. Discover and uncover the lie we are telling ourselves helps to release the blocked energy and move us back to our rightful state of grace.

Recently i was struggling with not liking someone and i was feeling uncomfortable in their presence. Sitting quietly i began to explore the feelings behind the issue. A couple of emotions that were feeding my behaviour became obvious and the link to thinking i was powerless became apparent. The overlying issues were symptoms of my misguided belief that i was powerless in the situation.

Taking the time to dig a little deeper can help to unlock the lie and help us move back to the light of truth. We are powerful beyond measure, we simply do not acknowledge this truth.