We have an opportunity every day to use our power to overcome victim beliefs. We begin to see our opportunities when we change the way we think about ourselves. Although, in some instances, especially when we are overcome with worries and doubts, it's difficult to perceive problems as opportunities.
For some of us, thinking less of ourselves than who we really are, we perceive the world from the prism of pain and suffering. We have become too accustomed to clinging to the despair camouflaging itself as a problem rather than perceiving it as an opportunity.
The primary difference between an opportunity and a problem is how we approach life itself. If we believe we are victims, then most things we encounter in our daily activities become insurmountable problems. While, if we believe we are empowered enough to solve our problems, think we treat our problems as great opportunities for us learn and grow wiser.
What's the sense for living if we have few, if any, opportunities to develop our lives. The true blessings of our birthrights are contained in our actions to do things that are rewarding or fulfilling to our personal growth. Everything else is counterproductive.
Meanwhile, nearly all of our problems are caused by the doubts we have about who we are, and the power we possess. Our doubts are created by public opinion, people, beliefs in things -- money, power, fame -- and our unwillingness to accept ourselves as being powerful right now.
Power is not something we earn, it's part of our inherent birthrights. We are born with it. Our problems begin when we forget we were born with limitless power. The moment we accept ourselves as powerless is the moment we begin to search for it in people and things. This is the mindless journey that leads us on the road to pain and suffering.
Similarly, for us to believe we are powerless, incomplete, and inadequate is a slap in the face to our creator. This type of reasoning keeps us victimized, inextricably tied to victim beliefs. When we feel incomplete or powerless, we doubt who we really are. We seek to become like someone else; someone who has power. Who is that person? What do we need to do achieve our goal?
Nevertheless, as we chase after things we believe will make us into someone we admire or want to become like, we travel down man roads. Some of them lead us to other roads, while some roads lead us nowhere. Yet, in spite of the number of roads we travel, we are always the one traveling on them It's not someone else, just us.
Sometimes in our lives, perhaps in moments of great pain and suffering, we intuitively know we are greater than that which we are allowing ourselves to believe. This intuitive feeling, existing beyond the beliefs of right and wrong, becomes the light (awareness) to guide us to the road to empowerment. And on this road, we travel freely, without doubts about the power we have to change how we think and live.
On the road to empowerment, some of us continue to struggle with our doubts. We eschew thoughts of greatness and power within us in favor of searching for them in others. Unfortunately, the tools that lead us to others also plunges us deeper into despair and doubt. Yet, for many of us, these are the only tools we trust and use to enlighten or empower us.
For most of us, if we have build up a high tolerance for toxic victim beliefs, then we find it incredulous to believe in the existence of something else for us to use. So, out of habit, we use toxic victim thoughts to change victim behavior. As we know, this is impossible.
The side effects from toxic victim thoughts create more doubts and struggle. This reinforces our attachment to victim beliefs. And until we clear the toxins from our minds so that we truly know we are not born victims, but have been conditioned by others to think of ourselves as victims.
For us to go beyond our doubts and beliefs of ourselves as powerless, we must be willing to stop the victim behavior and remove the toxins from our minds. According to the book, Seeds from the Ashes,
"Whenever you feel powerless to do something that you want to do, stop and ask yourself why. Why don't you have the power to achieve the things that you desire to have? The obvious answer is that you don't believe you are strong enough to achieve them. If this is the case, then the solution to your problem is attaining the necessary strength or power to solve your problem."
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