WHAT IS EMPOWERMENT?
And why do you feel disempowered?
Have you noticed the latest buzz word being bantered about? Empowerment. Maybe I’m just noticing it since I’ve been teaching about it for decades. Yep, I’m always ahead of my time.
Thought I’d throw out some thoughts about what empowerment really is and why many are not in touch with it. Or, should I say, not allowing themselves to own their power.
Spoiler Alert: We are all powerful whether we believe it or not.
What is Empowerment?
First of all, empowerment is probably not what you think. Empowerment is not about being able to beat someone at something, make someone wrong, overpower an enemy, leave in a huff, or stand up for yourself in anger.
True empowerment is a state of being in your power. Being means not necessarily doing. Or having.
An empowered state means you don’t have to prove anything to anyone. You don’t have to be smarter, richer, cuter, more successful, or stronger than. It’s not about winning a fight or even a war.
Empowerment is being authentic. It’s about trusting you know what to do or say in every moment based on allowing your intuitive wisdom to lead the way.
Empowerment is knowing that you can be, do or have in life. It’s coming from a purely motivated place of simply deserving. Because you do.
Empowerment comes from an inner knowing of who you are, and what you are here for – your true purpose. It’s also standing in truth, expressing from a loving place, asking for what you want. And being okay if you don’t receive, trusting the divine timeline.
Think about what the amazing Senator Cory Booker did this past week. He knew he needed to make a statement that the world would hear, so he spent 25 hours and five minutes on the Senate floor speaking the truth without stopping even to use the restroom.
Intuitively, he knew that was the only way people would stop and listen. He was right.
Clearly, he felt empowered, knew he could do it and chose to take action. Period.
Why Do We Feel Disempowered?
Many of us are living from a place of duty as opposed to true power. Why is that?
Years ago, I discovered that it stems from a common occurrence that happens to many humans. Here’s the Cliff Notes version:
As a spirit, you make a conscious choice of the body you will inhabit based on what you are here to learn, accomplish and clean up.
Perhaps you want a particular type of body, certain parents and specific life situations based on those requirements. Frequently, it’s a struggle to get that order exactly how you want it. Timing is always a factor.
Like maybe that mother you want is just not into having a child for some reason. Or that father has financial concerns. Or siblings resist another intruder. Or inventory is low on blonds (LOL).
When you finally join in with a body, you’re thrilled to be here – hurray, success!
However, you soon realize that being in this physical realm is not always a piece of cake. You’re reminded that there’s pain, loss, and eventual death to go through. Again.
So, you feel conflicted about being here.
Add to that on a higher consciousness, spiritual level, being in a physical incarnation represents “failure” to some degree. Why? Because it means you didn’t complete all you were supposed to do in your last lives.
Double conflicted.
The Big Moment
Not only do you feel conflicted, at some point you experience something that triggers questioning your choice to be here.
Perhaps you go through a particularly painful event – something that threatens your survival in some way, even a near death experience -- and you decide that life is just too difficult, and you don’t really want to be here anymore.
Having that thought is powerful. It triggers tremendous anger, disappointment, and guilt since, after all, it was so darn difficult getting here. And now you want to check out? Throw it all away? Harumph!
From then on, you must hide that thought forever so no one knows. It becomes your life’s job to cover up, deny and suppress ever having questioned being here.
How We Do That
You come up with ways to prove you really, really, really want to be here.
How? You take on various acts to fake it. You obsessively try to prove how committed you are to life. You pretend life is totally FUN! You set up a life where you are needed, irreplaceable, and have lots of responsibilities, just to make sure you don’t ever dare try to leave.
Simultaneously, you have hidden resentment toward yourself for ever questioning being here. You believe you need to be punished and don’t believe you deserve much at all from life no matter how hard you work.
All of this is happening subconsciously. If you were ever confronted with it, you would deny it voraciously. In fact, it’s tucked so far down, it’s “forgotten” completely.
Life Becomes a Duty
Here’s the last part of the scenario: You now experience life not as a choice, but as a duty.
You believe you must stay, yet you equally believe you don’t deserve to be here. You “forgot” you chose this life and all of your circumstances and pretend to be a victim of it all. Much easier.
Just so you know, we all have experienced this scenario in some way, to some degree. And it’s the core reason many struggle with feeling empowered --- they believe they don’t deserve power.
Yep, these words are deep and may be difficult to believe. Suggestion: If you’re noticing feeling triggered reading this, wanting to run away or take a nap, chances are there’s truth there for you to see. Reach out; I’m here to help!
Reclaiming Empowerment
It’s so time to reclaim your inherent empowerment.
How do I know you have it? Because we all do.
Uncertain? Terrified? Start slowly.
What’s one thing you can do as a statement of owning your power? Make that cold call? Write that first page of your novel? Clean up a stuck situation? You know what to do. Trust.
Remember: True power is not about defending yourself, putting up barriers, blocking your friends on social media, yelling at the person cutting you off on the freeway, bad mouthing your boss, etc.
It’s about doing what you came here to do. Being who you came here to be. Expressing love in the unique form it is meant to take for you.
Perhaps it’s by standing up for 25 hours and five minutes speaking empowered truth to power.
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Ready to empower your life? Reach out to me at Royce@RoyceMorales.com and read about my Perfect Life Awakening program at www.RoyceMorales.com.