January 19, 2011 in Empowerment, Happiness

Empowerment is just what is says, power within. It is really an inside job and it comes from the collaboration between the mind and heart. I cannot literally empower you; you must empower yourself.

I can help by sharing wisdom and insights gleaned from information and experience, yet at the end of the day, you have to make the decision to wake up and take your own power back from external voices that seek to use your energy to their own ends. In an ideal world, the flow of energy is a mutual, collaborative effort between caring, healthy-minded individuals. I share my gifts and talents and you share your resources based on its value to you and vice versa.

No person is an island and we are all like little cells that form the body of the planet. We are all interconnected. In fact, do your see the root words “one song” within the word “universe”? We are the orchestra leader in our own life but instead of focusing on creating our own unique beautiful symphony, we keep our focus on what externals are telling us to play.

We stay in constant distraction by what we fear or “don’t want”. When we come from an awareness that that the universe is here to support us and that we have within us whatever we need to fulfill our own destiny, we can start to turn our attention on integrating the many moving pieces of our lives and to create a harmonious life.

We are the common denominator within the various areas of our life. If we continue to buy into the idea that we are “not enough, not good enough or that something is wrong with me”, we create a life that is noisy – a cacophony full of drama and overwhelm. We often miss the beauty within ourselves and in others and instead our brain attempts to create our “self-fulfilling prophecy”, which will keep us focused on what we have unwittingly bought into as “facing reality”, the default pattern of fear.

This is giving away your power to create your own experience of the universe. If you keep your attention on bad news, lack and disease, you will continue to feel bad and hence create noisy vibrations and unpleasant experiences. In general, we all actually could use some “brainwashing” in that what we have wired into our brain/mind for the most part does now serve our highest good.

In fact, it is actually self-destructing our health, our bank accounts and our relationships. Why? We don’t understand this simple truth: You are the center of your universe from the perspective of how you experience your life. As long as you are unaware of how to manage your own brain and stay ignorant of how you are misguided and focusing on what is dragging you down instead of cultivating your greatest potential, you cannot live into the freedom that you seek.

The path to “empower up” is to first pull up your courage, make up your mind and heart that you are open to change and start to recognize how most of what is “common knowledge” and “the way things are” is only one way to look at life and can indeed be course corrected…. that is unless you want to stay on the negative trajectory. As Peter Drucker has said,

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

And the best way to create it is to understand that you are more than human, that the spirit of you, the Real You, has massive possibilities for growth and expansion and that you have a brain and nervous system that has been wired with loads of information that needs to be “reprogrammed” if you are ever going to live an abundant whole life. What do you think?

Tags: Happiness, Life Purpose, Neuroscience, True Potential, Valencia Ray, women empowerment