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The Powerful Secret Your Mother Never Told You
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The Powerful Secret Your Mother Never Told You
Power.
Say that word out loud. Roll it around in your mouth. How does it feel?
Does it excite you? Or do you feel the “OW” in the middle?
Successful people know how to express personal power on a fairly consistent
basis. Yet for most of us, we fear power because we are at the mercy of someone
else’s power. This isn’t surprising: As children, we learned to submit to other
people’s rules. We were told to eat food that we didn’t like, to follow a
schedule not our own, and to override our individual sense of inner knowing and
self-determination. As children, our compliance was a matter of survival. We
may even have forgotten how to hold on to personal power because giving it away
was so automatic.
It is easy to find examples of giving away your power. Not speaking up when
someone tells an offensive joke; not offering to lead a group at work or in the
community; not voting; not expressing your preferences in your family. Finding
your power means listening to the inner voice that longs for freedom and light.
The current “Us against THEM” mindset, like a revolt that demands to be
heard, is what some people consider “taking Power.” Yet fighting against
something without vision or understanding is something else. Personal power
does not mean aggression. David Hawkins makes a clear distinction in his book
“Power vs. Force,” page 132:
“Because force automatically creates counter-force, its effect is limited by
definition. We could say that force is a movement—it goes from here to there (or
tries to) against opposition. Power, on the other hand, is still. It’s like a
standing field that doesn’t move. Gravity itself, for instance, doesn’t move
against anything. Its power moves all objects within its field, but the gravity
field itself does not move.
“Force always moves against something, whereas power doesn’t move against
anything at all. Force is incomplete and therefore has to be fed energy
constantly. Power is total and complete in itself and requires nothing from
outside. It makes no demands; it has no needs.”
To live in the world as a fully expressed human being requires personal power.
You grow your personal power when you listen to the voice of clarity, freedom
and love within you. Power comes from setting deliberate boundaries and
eliminating unconscious limitations.
INCREASING YOUR PERSONAL POWER
Practicing each of the following steps will increase your power:
- Open your heart to your dreams. Dare to picture what you REALLY want (whether you know how to get it or not). Your inner voice may have been smothered by years of neglect. It takes belief in your ability to dream to reawaken the authentic YOU.
- Imagine that all you want already exists. After all, the picture in your mind is the first step of actual creation. Because you can see it, you can believe it, and with belief, you can create it. Every great invention, every successful company, every piece of art, began with a thought. If you can see it and hear it and feel it in your imagination, you can create it.
- Be grateful for your life as it is today. If you focus on what you don’t have, you focus on lack. You surround yourself with the sense that everything is scarce. You become unhappy and often beat yourself up for being in a “predicament.” When you are grateful for what you have, you can sense the fullness of life in its giving you so very many wonderful things.
- Accept everything that happens as a gift that moves you forward. Become an inverse paranoid. No matter how things look in the moment, believe that the world conspires to make you successful. Losing a job may open you to get a much better job, or to go back to school or start a business. Traffic jams saved some people’s lives on Sept 11, 2001 because they did not get to work on time.
- Set boundaries to define your values. Continue to gain clarity on what is important to you. Set your priorities around your clarity. Expect excellence—and expect that your vision is supported by others.
- Think BIG. Sequential thinking is small. For quantum growth, you must be willing to think out 5 to 10 years and see a massive organization. Once this goal resonates with you, the steps to get there will become clearer.
- Listen and feel the resonance of YES. Success feels GOOD! If you find yourself miserable, overwhelmed and unhappy, you have fallen into an old pattern of giving up your power. Why is that? Well, if you don’t have power, you can blame someone else for the problem. The trouble is that you have to acknowledge responsibility for your life. What we don’t see when we take the easy way out is that we allow all our power to leak away, like water through a sieve.
Be willing to step up, over and over again. The path you really want is at the top of the heap. Keep stepping up.
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About the Author: Carole Hodges RSS for Carole's articles - Visit Carole's website The YES Connection is powered by business and executive coach Carole Hodges, whose driving passion is to create environments where people can live and work from the heart connection. She teaches businesspeople to market, manage, and prioritize based upon their life goals in order to make the greatest possible impact. Her proven results are consistently extraordinary. Many clients feel their achievements are almost magical. The YES Connection aligns heart, mind, body, and spirit for visible success. http://www.theYESconnection.com Carole is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and sponsors a monthly NLP educational program in the Los Angeles area. Additionally, she is a master DISC practitioner working in conjunction with Carol Dysart of PeopleSmart Solutions. Additional studies include gender communication and emotional release techniques. She studied Quantum Growth Coaching for business owners under Paul Lemberg.
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