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- * This thread is geared to powerlessness & the power in it.
There is power in powerlessness, because once you realize what you alone cannot change…you lean on Creator..&/or enlist other individuals to assist, or simply stop trying to do something that is what it is. selfcare
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The Strength and Safety of Practicing Real Power by Guy Finley
More times a day than we want to acknowledge, we feel powerless. In such moments, for whatever reason, we see our situation as being without a solution. Confusion starts coloring our considerations. Frustration grows and surrounds us, and we find ourselves imprisoned behind a wall of fearful expectations. But we need not, and must not accept being sentenced to a life of such limitation. We can uncover the root of this powerless feeling — and release ourselves from it — by discovering the nature of the illusion that creates it. For most of us the show gets started like this:
“Why did he have to do that?” — or — “Life isn’t fair!” — or — “They took this away from me.” Whatever the trigger may be at the moment… feeling powerless has a thousand reasons but, as we are going to discover, the same cause.
Let’s set the record straight: whatever these “reasons,” they are not the source of our pressing stress! The first thing we have to see is that these moments are events, not powers. This means they are passing conditions, not prisons. With this fact in mind, the real question we must now ask ourselves isn’t how do we regain our lost power, but what is it about these kinds of events that causes us to feel powerless?
The feeling of being powerless has nothing to do with what someone else did or didn’t do. And the feeling of being powerless has nothing whatsoever to do with what you did or didn’t do at any point in your life — regardless of your present conditions.
What’s the first thing we see when we hear news that runs counter to what we want? The evidence suggests we don’t really “see” anything at all; instead our attention is seized, absorbed by a familiar negative reaction whose only wish is that the unwanted moment just go away. This resistance acts within and upon our consciousness as a “blinding” and binding force, so all we can “see” is our own negativity over what we wish wasn’t happening! In moments like these we are literally looking at what we don’t want to be there.
When expectations get dashed, we don’t see new possibilities unfolding; all we see is the way things should have gone. We don’t see what is with all of its positive possibilities; instead we see only the negative…what is not. What these discoveries reveal is as startling as it is promising: the only reason we feel powerless is because we have become the captive of a mind resisting itself, an involuntary prisoner of a mind struggling to escape its own negative images. And there is nothing but powerlessness in this resistance because by law whatever we resist… persists!
There is only one way to liberate ourselves from the confines of this unconscious relationship; we need a new awareness of what it costs us to remain in its captivity.
What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn’t happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No, it does not. Does our pain prove our position as being the right one? To the contrary: the more we don’t want the moment in which we find ourselves, the more we lend credibility to that moment as being overpowering. This false perception then strengthens our negative sense of self as the one being overpowered by it.
What is real power? Real power is knowing we already possess everything we need to succeed in the moment, as we would wish it. Real power lifts us above challenging circumstances; it shelters us from those fears that want to drag us down into troubled thoughts about tomorrow. In a word, real power is the quiet but certain understanding that everything that comes to us works for the good of us, no matter what it is.
We can practice this true, new power anytime we wish to have its strength and safety as our own. We start each time by remembering that ours is the power to choose what we will and will not give our power to.
Now we can do something radically new: rather than give ourselves over to the habitual reaction of resisting the moment, we remember the truth that sets us free; ours is the power to live from the power of our choosing. Said slightly differently, but equally true: we are created with the power to surrender our sense of powerlessness and, in exchange for this sacrifice, realize a life without stress and strife.
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- ** Louise Hay…complete CD I CAN DO IT - “As Louise discusses topics such as health, forgiveness, prosperity, creativity, relationships, job success, and self-esteem, you’ll see that affirmations are solutions that will replace whatever problem you might have in a particular area”
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On Co-creatorship
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This quote by Joel Osteen Remember, God has put in you everything you need to live a victorious life. Now, it’s up to you to draw it out….What does it mean to become a better you? First, you understand that God wants you to become all that He created you to be. Second, it is imperative that you realize that God will do His part, but you must do your part as well. To become a better you, you must:
1. Keep pressing forward.
2. Be positive toward yourself.
3. Develop better relationships.
4. Form better habits.
5. Embrace the place where you are.
6. Develop your inner life.
7. Stay passionate about life
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Another related thread exists entitled Powerlessness - * Older thread on same topic-from two and a half years ago Powerful or powerlessness
- Post from Anoushka on power “Power is within me….radiating outward, magnetically attracting like-minded forces and energies. United we get stronger, support one another and move closer to our goals….Just a thought…..perhaps a new affirmation too.”
- Post from Best78/pinkcupcake on power “Power comes from within. You dont necessarily need to be in a position of authority to be powerful, true power is about the way we handle life.”
- Post from Roxy on power “Power is the key element that keeps each of us moving. Power is energy. Energy is Everything, so Power is Everything and Nothing.To be powerful you will need to have an attitude of power,you will need to believe in yourself and the power you hold within.You can only be powerless, when your self-talk tells you that you can not do something. At that point you are powerless to change the results unless you can change your self-talk. Each of us holds within us the Power to be anything we want to be, we just have to learn how to harness that power to achieve our goals. Be Powerful within and you will be powerful.”
- Post from Jancydat on Power “We are powerful when we understand the power of our thoughts and words.We are powerful when we know that the universe already has all the answers.We are powerful when we live in a manner which demonstrates that we are mindful of these things. We reap what we sow.”
- Post from myself/selfcare power-powerlessness “Let’s not forget the power in powerlessness.When we find out ‘we’ cannot change everything..and there is something Greater than us at work..we respect when:we don’t always know something,when we make a mistake,when we fall short of what we thought we could do in any given moment.that we guide the plan, but not always the result..at least not on our time table.This allows for more joy, more freedom, and more Power. Hence, the Power of Powerlessness.You can go to bed, but you might not be able to will sleep.You can read a book, but you might not understand.You can have a relationship, but you cannot have/own the other person.Life is good. Life is abundant. We are powerful. And sometimes powerlessness isn’t a weakness”
- Another Post from Anoushka on power/powerlessness “Sometimes powerlessness isnt a weakness – because if we are aware of that which we are powerless over, we know how to avoid dissapointments, pit-falls and failures…..Our expectations are then reasonable”
- Another Post from myself/selfcare on prayer& power-powerlessness “Dear God,I’m Powerless over people, places and things. Thank you for allowing me to be powerful over all areas I’m truly responsible for. And thank you for leading the way and being involved with every part of the equation that makes it all so wonderful. All is well.And it is all so. Amen.”
- Post from Accidentalnote on Power “I’m powerful because I love being honest and receiving honesty. I’m powerful enough to wait in silence for those not ready for my honesty. :)”
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- * Collected Meditation Videos Below
Power in Forgiveness - The Power in Joy of Spiritual Discipline
- The Power of Experiencing God
- The Power in Getting Out of the Cage
- The Power of the Ocean of Peace
- The Power in the Ocean of Wisdom
- The Power in the Ocean of Bliss
- The Power of Ocean of Love
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- Excerpts & Articles
- * The Power to Never Feel Powerless Again (Excerpted from The Essential Laws of Fearless Living, by Guy Finley In one way or another, we often feel “trapped” by life. If it weren’t true, we wouldn’t spend as much time as we do trying to “escape” our circumstances. We’re so involved with imagining and swimming to our own Fantasy Island, we never consider this important question: what if the condition we wish to escape were only an illusion that feels real? How would such a realization change our lives? read more
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Letting Go Article
Freedom From the Fear of Feeling Powerless
posted by Guy Finley
Real power isn’t the ability to imagine and implement an endless series of new solutions to old problems, but to awaken the higher understanding that allows us to transcend the need we have to live with any painful problems at all. Which would you rather have: a big fire hose with a hydrant and a fire to put out every day, or a life without fires in them?
But what we have to examine here is the way we think! Most of us wouldn’t know what to do if there wasn’t something pressing us. Isn’t it weird that we’ll come up with a path, a solution, something that we’re going to do, that once we do it we’ll become whatever we’ve imagined? No more pressure, no more fear — but then, the very thing that we set out to obtain, to make us fearless, to take the pressure out of our lives, becomes the source of a new fear and a new pressure! And then when that doesn’t work, we do it again, and again.
We have no idea of the power that we’re created with. We are granted at birth the possibility of a freedom that has absolutely no contingencies whatsoever that can fall apart because the conditions in our lives do.
The kind of power I’m talking about is so simple. For instance, ordinarily we’re trying to obtain things so that we can control or manipulate conditions, but we’re not talking about that. Instead, how about the authority over our own negative reactions? That’s a completely different kind of power, isn’t it? To possess ourselves as opposed to trying to possess things or relationships through which we have a measure of security. The power to possess ourselves can’t be granted by anyone or anything outside of us. It doesn’t exist; nothing can grant us what it is our heart of hearts actually longs for which is to be quietly in charge of our own heart and mind.
Work to remember that at any given moment you don’t have to be captured by anything that presently causes this compromise of your soul. Remember, always, that higher possibilities are never farther away from you than your wish and work to be open to them.
- * The Power to Never Feel Powerless Again (Excerpted from The Essential Laws of Fearless Living, by Guy Finley In one way or another, we often feel “trapped” by life. If it weren’t true, we wouldn’t spend as much time as we do trying to “escape” our circumstances. We’re so involved with imagining and swimming to our own Fantasy Island, we never consider this important question: what if the condition we wish to escape were only an illusion that feels real? How would such a realization change our lives? read more
- Here are quotes from Guy Finley:
- Letting go takes no strength-only a willingness to see the need for it.
- Letting go is the natural release which always follows the realization that holding on hurts.
- Unhappiness does not come at you. It comes from you.
- Real freedom is the absence of the self that feels trapped, not the trappings that self acquires to make it feel free.
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- Real strength is the refusal to act from weakness. See where you have been calling inner-weakness an inner strength; such as calling anxiety concern, or anger righteousness. Dare to live without these false strengths. Result: The end of your confusion and pain over why your strength so often fails you. At the same time you will realize the birth of a new and true strength that never turns into its weak opposite.
- Have the courage to proceed even while knowing that you are afraid. Dare to take one shaky step after another. Result:Freedom from a life of fear because fear cannot exist whenever insight is valued above feeling frightened.
- In spite of all the inner-screams to the contrary, dare to treat your trespasser as you would want to be treated. When you stop punishing others for their weakness, you will stop punishing yourself for yours.
- Real hope is the fact that there is always a Higher Solution. See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn’t work. Dare to let go and you won’t lose a thing except for a punishing idea. Result:A new life that fears no inner or outer challenge since defeat can only exist in the absence of a willingness to learn.
Above thoughts excerpted from The Secret of Letting Go by Guy Finley
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