Empowerment for me is about being able to do, be or have what I consciously choose to experience in my life, including positively impacting my world. It’s about being able to create what I want instead of floundering or feeling like a hapless victim, waiting for the next wave of situations and circumstances to “make” me unhappy.

I figured out a long time ago that if I have to wait for someone else or some circumstance to make me happy, I would probably live and die first. So, I decided, to turn my focus, a long time ago, to finding the path that could take me to my destiny. I think that there is fate, and then there is destiny.

Our destiny is paved with love, joy and peace – regardless of outer circumstances. Our fate is what gets played out based on genetics, karma, childhood experiences and the hand-me-down knowledge that we use in our life without questioning it. My fate was not getting me what I wanted, in fact I did not feel very empowered to go in the directions of my dreams and certainly I did not see then how to make it a reality.

One thing I have discovered is that when there are blind spots in the way, even if someone hands you the treasure map, you still will fall into a ditch and not find the goods. This is what a WHOLE lot of people (I know from my own past personal experience as well), do every single day. Instead of using wisdom and courage to eliminate these blind spots, we somehow think that we can live on a whole new higher level and still keep our bad habits and low self-images running rampant through our minds.

I saw again a movie called “The Kid” with Bruce Willis. I first saw this movie ten years ago and I rented it to watch with my husband last week. This is a great movie to give you an example of how our wounded “inner child” can run our lives in so many ways.

Using this inner child example, let’s see how ignoring this inner pain can mess you up in business:

1. When you form a limiting belief about yourself in early childhood that you “can’t do anything right”(VERY easy to do), it will play out NOW, in how you see yourself and can paralyze you from taking action on everything from having the nerve to leave your boring job to finding the courage to act on your new business idea.

2. If you heard as a kid that you were a “bad girl” or that you don’t deserve this or that, and you don’t release this nonsense, you will self-sabotage your prosperity

3. Or what about, how you must work “really hard” for everything you get? You will make running your business, and your life unnecessarily challenging.

For one thing, our brains want to make us right, so you only notice and take action based on what you have wired into your nervous system in general – unless you learn how to take conscious control through awareness and eliminate these blind spots that hinder your empowerment.

You really can re-train your brain. As long as you believe that the next “magic bullet” marketing kit will make your business a success and you ignore opening your mind to new information that can help you to simply shift the inner turmoil that was never dealt with, you will not be able to experience the abundant life.

There are other ways that we limit ourselves besides these early childhood experiences, but there are not  many.

It is empowering to realize that emotions are not to be feared and that belief is something that can be shifted relatively easily when we learn how to release these blind spots that hold us back from living a life we love and see more clearly where we want to go, knowing that prosperity truly is our birthright – if we can only see a more expanded vision for our life and dump the blinders!  What is your experience or example?

Tags: Business Success, Confidence, Empowerment, Mindset, Self-Image

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