Using Our Power

This last week I was in the mountains, and what they said to me was that many of us heart-centered folk have a difficult time using ALL our power effectively, for several reasons. We have grown up with the abuse of power, and the exploitation of those who perceive themselves as powerless. These abuses and exploitations have taken several forms:

1 - Perhaps most of us have had family abuses (ranging from implicit sexism in the parental marriage to religious programming which puts shackles on our self-esteem and ability to connect directly to Spirit, to outright physical or sexual abuse of ourselves or siblings).

2 - Many layers of economic inequality within our global society, including wage slavery now.

3 - The ongoing abuse and exploitation of the planet and her resources.

4 - Conditioned overconsumption of food, luxury items, and electronic entertainment, all of which can divert our brains and souls from our natural ways of being, and can also keep us overworking to pay for it all.

5 - Please, readers, add other examples if you are drawn to! There are many.

SO WE ARE OFTEN unconsciously AFRAID TO USE OUR FULL POWER FOR FEAR WE WILL BECOME LIKE THE ABUSERS/EXPLOITERS.

This resonates with me and I see it in others as well - my clients and my friends. We have been taught to be "good", and that means to go along with the program, or with a system which is not essentially life-affirming. To use our power to buck these systems can feel scary or unsafe or impossible.

So, dear readers, how do we COLLECTIVELY DREAM OURSELVES INTO USING OUR FULL POWER IN THE SERVICE OF ALL LIFE?

There's a couple of interesting books out there trying to address this. One is THE SHIFT: AWAKENING by a Mr. English(which I find stimulating yet differ with in some respects- but WORTH the read),, and another is SHAMBALA by James Redfield, which I adore.

If anyone wants to write me about this - different ways to collectively dream ourselves back into our full power - PLEASE do. Either comment on this blog or email me at www.spaceholder@msn.com .

We need our positive visions and dreams, so our brains are open to the guidance from our OWN POWERFUL SACRED SELVES.