We all have an incredible amount of strength but many of us fail to identify with it.
The reason is that families and societies give us distressing experiences and images of power.
If you’ve ever encountered someone who used their power to oppress you, you can develop a negative association to your own strength.
You’ll identify with your gentle, easy-going side and fail to connect with your power to protect yourself from inner and outer mistreatment.
You might even normalize such treatment to the point of not noticing when it’s happening to you.
Alternately, you may become an oppressor—either to yourself or to others.
Even if you had the most wonderful parents, living in today’s world means being bombarded with ignorant media images of power that usually include controlling or even killing people.
For millennia, symbolic spiritual images have been used to counteract the brutality of the world with pictures of calm, peaceful, passive-looking icons.
This presents us with 2 false, polarized options—unconscious power or excessive passivity
How about a spiritual icon with muscles!? : )
This would be a more whole and realistic symbol of a human being.
To become a consciously powerful person you must process the positive and negative powers in your psyche.
Try this:
Choose a problem you experience as victimizing you. The problem has the strength and you feel weak in its presence.
Put aside the contents of the issue, and the obvious facts of its mean, hurtful, unfair, nasty, negative elements, and feel into the power of this oppressive force.
Don’t be the receiver / victim of it; be IT.
Again, ignore the contents; just feel its physical energy as your own energy.
Don’t analyze or judge it. FEEL it.
In fact, forget about the problem altogether for a moment, and just experience this feeling of strength.
How would you describe it?
Strong? Tough? Cold? Relentless? Forceful? Unrelated?
Amplify the feeling. Make it bigger and stronger.
Take it on as your own positive strength.
Then return to the problem’s negative power over you, and apply this positive strength to it.
Within your problem lies your own power trying to come forth!
