Like many of you, I am working on claiming my voice and stepping into my power. But what does that mean? (tee hee) Personal power is freedom from dominance and control. Stepping into my power is taking conscious steps toward my goal.
According to last week’s whisper, saying no is part of effectively managing energy and time through better boundaries. A large part of boundary work comes from silencing that nasty roommate who occupies space in my mind and doesn’t pay rent. Self-doubt, insecurity, lack of trust, lack of faith, and lack of focus seem like issues that aren’t mine. Yet I notice they sometimes exist in my psyche.
To step into my power calls for greater awareness of outside influences that generate impulses. Easily stimulated by outside forces, they must place me under a spell. Spellbound zombies don’t seem powerful, so let’s wake up to a whisper about stepping into your power:
Personal power reflects dynamic qualities involving a combination of characteristics. Decisive actions that lead down the optimal path come from mental toughness, courage, focus, clarity, and perseverance. Accepting responsibility, acting with confidence, and expressing competence through a competitive spirit are hallmarks of personal power.
These strengths do not come naturally. They are gradually acquired through personal growth and spiritual development. Fears and negative beliefs undermine personal power. Limiting beliefs and issues of low self-esteem are obstacles to accepting the mantle of authority. Personal power means getting out of your way. Stepping into your power is more an attitude or state of mind than attempting to manipulate or control others. The way you deal with adversity will be an early indicator of your ultimate success or failure.
To express from a place of power depends on strategic positioning with competence and vision in life experiences. Personal power is the freedom to express. Freedom requires discipline and self-control in the overlapping areas of path versus purpose. True power is realized when influenced by acts of service, regardless of the form. Acts of service place your energy toward the higher vibration that empowers others, placing limits on self-sabotage.
Life rarely takes the form you imagined as a child. It’s important to accept this as a key to personal development in order to step outside your comfort zone. Seeing life through the eyes of your childhood is to view life through the lens of pain. This is not an accurate lens. Self-empowerment is self-realization of reality to know your place in the world. State of mind depends on your perception of life. Inner strength comes from living out of your heart. Love is the input that leads to stepping into your power of unbridled creative expression.
Bring joy, ease suffering and create beauty, then dance like you mean it!
Blessings, Russell
“Personal power is the ability to stand on your own two feet with a smile on your face in the middle of a universe that contains a million ways to crush you.”
J.Z. Colby, Journey
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