When we are troubled and feel victimized by our problems, we find it difficult to search within ourselves for the solutions. For one thing, we don't know where to look.
All of this talk about inner power has little meaning when we are faced with delinquent mortgages, credit card debts, and prolonged unemployment. All we can think about is how to get the money to pay our bills.
And if we believed there is something actually within us that would provide us with the money we need, we would have already discovered it years ago.
Looking within ourselves for answers is for most of us similar to our praying for rain. The rain comes whenever it comes and there's nothing we can do about it.
So there is little need for most people to even take the inner-power statement seriously. And when we do take it seriously, many of us turn our attention to finding someone to help us discover this power.
WE typically go to people who profess to have discovered inner power. We cling to their every word, almost begging them to lead us to this power so we can pay our bills.
There's usually a price for this information -- time, money, commitment, and loyalty -- if we want to get the full benefit of it. The more we give of ourselves, the greater chance we have of discovering our inner power.
Meanwhile, when we get a job, pay our bills or save our homes, we naturally attribute the results to our inner power. We opine that we stuck with it and look at us now.
After we believe we have discovered our inner power, we think this is the answer to all our problems. Unfortunately, unbeknown to us, we must return again and again and seek guidance from the people who taught us how to find our power.
Now what we find interesting about inner power, and our search for it, is that it's nothing more than great clarity within our minds to free us of our powerless beliefs. This clarity can be accessed simply by taking the time to understand how we first came to distrust ourselves as the solvers of our own problems.
Inner power or unconditioned consciousness has a limitless capacity to go beyond our current awareness of ourselves, the power we have, and our relationship with others. It's within us as a fail safe mechanism to protect us from the illusions we believe in and worship with our time and resources.
For many of us unconditioned consciousness is just as elusive as inner power: We don't know how to find it much less use it to enlighten ourselves.
At the practical awareness of life, we can only believe in the realness of the illusions we have given life to. So the first thing we must do is create enough space in our minds to clearly understand that our problems come from us.
We endow them with the power to live in our lives as long as we want them to. They endure because we allow them to.
For us to remove the illusions from our lives, we must first have the clarity of mind to understand their origins and how and why we created them.
This process allows us to perceive our illusions of debts, unemployment, and home foreclosures as being the results of our actions, whether we were aware of them or not.
When create the space for clarity in our minds, we have the awareness of the transformative power in us. At this level of awareness our minds become active with transformation.
We now know the illusions exist only within our minds. And their realness is there because of our lack of understanding about what we have created in our lives.
When we become aware of what we are doing, we also become aware of the power we have to create pleasant and unpleasant results in our lives.
This awareness of the undiscovered power within our minds is what it means to discover our inner power or unconditioned consciousness. It's something we can do without charge, except for our commitment to trust our own power.
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