Disempowerment comes up in the money group and now it's coming up in the writing group. It comes up in everything I teach because at the roots everything I teach is about power.
When you begin a daily practice of any kind which has a component of tuning in to the state of your nervous system, it quickly raises awarenes
It expands the gap between stimulus and response.
Within the gap comes:
* the creeping realization of where you aren't really doing the things needed to get what you say you want.
* all the times you indulge in your Familiar Bad Feeling Place.
* how much time is spent looking at something outside of yourself to explain-blame for how you feel on the inside. It's his fault, her fault, Mercury is in retrograde, the state of the world, sun, planets, etc.
[side note this is why some religions say astrology, oracle cards, etc are a no-no - for some people they can be a massive distraction from Presence and fuel feeling at the mercy of externals.]
Mind loves to find reasons for all the things rather than face all the things that come with being Human.
This means power is given away constantly until you become aware of it.
I can't because XYZ.
I feel______because XYZ.
When you take your power back, "I can't because," becomes an exercise in deep personal responsibility and radical honesty -
"I choose to do or not do."
I choose to blame X because it let's me off the hook of being Present to my emotions, pain, discomfort.
I choose to blame Y because it keeps me from upsetting other people.
I choose to blame Z because then I don't have to take responsibility for how I'm not practicing exquisite self-care.
I choose to focus out there because in here is so uncomfortable.
Notice where and how Mind sidesteps Presence and Awareness to what IS.
Notice how this is the mechanism that means you're spending time and energy on self-help or money programs or mediation retreats only to still be in the same place.
Nothing matters more than opening our eyes and getting honest with ourselves.
We've been raised to be good cogs in the machine and let the dancing monkeys of distraction dazzle us into confusion and complaining.
On a deep energetic level it's up to us to stop giving our power away.
I choose to.
I choose not to.
I feel______.
I am aware of _______.
I notice that_________.
Becomes…
I choose to not eat right.
I choose not to look at my phone every 5 minutes.
I choose not to enter comment wars.
I feel tired.
I am aware of pain.
I notice I want to say mean things to myself.
I notice Mind is looking for reasons rather than stay present to this moment.
It's you.
It's me.
We're the problem.
The solution?
Presence.
XO,
LMW