A tree without leaves is like a person without power…not its fullest potential.
Last night in my nightly bedtime guidance sessions, I was guided to visualize myself in right relationship with my power. This is not the first time I have explored what authentic, rightful power means. Perhaps it is the central issue I have worked around my whole life.
I’ve resisted the idea of “power” for many years like many others who were not in their power. I thought power meant being mean, unkind, dominant, just like I observed as a child in my own home or at school when the bullies would exert their will on others. To me, power was a dirty word.
But in the last few years, as I have aged and come more into my own feelings of acceptance for myself and my unique way of viewing the world, I have felt my understanding of true power change. I feel authentic power is a core sense of Self with a capital “S”, and living from that place.
I believe we are taught to disown our True Power. From the very beginning of our lives when we are born into the world, the greater culture takes power into the hands of experts who manage birth. We are poked and prodded and managed away from our mothers. As we grow and develop, we are indoctrinated into a left brain dominant culture that prevents the natural abstract and intuitive thinking of the right brain. In the school institution, our creativity is systematically taught out of us as we are asked to jump through hoops to attain the reward of pats on the head for good behavior and “good grades”. We are cut off from Nature, asked to interface with technology, and moved toward the chute that will expel us into a career choice. Later down the road, we will wake up one day and wonder what happened, why we aren’t joyful or exuberant like we were when we were young children. We have lost our connection, our True Power.
What does that look like? To me, it is walking in the world with confidence and grace, unflappable, loving self and all creation, fearlessly looking inward to traverse the inner landscape and harvest the wisdom, and from that deep well of inner knowing, offering to others what we have learned. It is inner balance, the ecstatic union of my inner Sacred Feminine and inner Divine Masculine. It is knowing our place in the connectedness of the Web of Life, feeling our own part of the puzzle as well as our wholeness. It is a feeling, more than action, I think. When I feel into it, it feels like claiming my body and the earth, loving my life, being the truth of an inspirited human.
All of the work I’ve ever done is towards the reclaiming of True Power. I’m grateful to know this. Whether in my own journey as a person recovered from child abuse or as a woman limited by her gender, I understand profoundly what being disempowered feels like, and I am fueled to assist others in the ways I have assisted myself to reclaim my True Power.
If you’re feeling agitated, restless, annoyed, even enraged, it is likely that you are feeling your oats, and ready to come into authentic power. My experience tells me that these kinds of feelings are precursors to a big leap in consciousness and into a deeper owning in the Self that lives from True Power. What can you do about it? Allow it. Trust that you are being guided to your manifest destiny and let it carry you, even if you think you will not recognize your life once it’s over and done with. The reality of who we are is soooooo grand, and the truth of our magnificence so brilliant that we will be glad we came home to ourselves. We are being asked to return to our divine state and bring heaven to earth while enjoying our power as awakened human beings, all right now in this time window, the Aquarian age.
Ahhhh…expression of potential!
