Keeping Our Power

Today is a good time for us to remember that we have great powers. With so much uncertainty about our well-being being discussed by the media, it seems that too many of us have forgotten who we really are.

As we live with the financial meltdown of home foreclosures, rising unemployment, and burgeoning debts, it's easy for some of us to slip into a psychological coma of self-denigration. And before long, we begin to believe we are powerless, helpless, and unable to live our lives without calamities befalling us at inopportune moments.


Many of us doubt ourselves because we have been taught to denigrate ourselves. We have become victims of our own toxic beliefs and values. And it's from this confusion that our beliefs in powerleness originate. 

Nevertheless, whenever we believe we are powerless, we are in that moment actually powerless. We are powerless because we have abdicated our mind power to the illusions of the world.

Yes, over time, we gave our power away.  And until we achieve the clarity of mind to become aware of what we've done, we will continue to give our powers to the illusions in exchange for hope. 

Power is a form of imagination or visualization.  It's invisible, unborn, and nothing until it empowers itself to become aware of being something. And fortunately for us, we can become aware of being anything we dare imagine ourselves being.

Similarly, in it's purest form, our power always remain with us. It's always available for our use to empower ourselves to express whatever we are aware of being. For example, if we are aware of being poor, we express our awareness of poverty effortlessly.

Meanwhile, some of us express our awareness of being in ways that we believe do not represent or reflect our true awareness. Yet whatever we are expressing in our lives now is identical to the images we have created of ourselves.

Sometimes we forget that we are actually the way we are acting. It's difficult to believe we created the nightmares in our lives. So we attempt to place the blame on others.

In other words, someone other than us is responsible for the debts, addictions, anger, suffering, failure, unemployment, home foreclosure, unhealthy foods, and so forth. And after we create these illusory things in our lives, we find them so unreal, so out of character, for us to do this to ourselves.

It's unfortunate, but most of us create undesirable results in our lives all the time. This is particularly true when we abdicate our powers to the beliefs and values produced by the illusions. And all of this confusion is caused primarily by our social and spiritual disquietude about the existence of our inner power.

Nevertheless, whether we are aware or not of the powers in our minds, we are the beneficiaries of  enlightenment. This means it's our God-given right to possess and use this power and not seek permission from others to do so.

So as the world reels from uncertainty, we must remember that the great powers in our minds are capable of creating new languages, discovering cures for pernicious diseases, and enlightening our minds to see ourselves without the distortions concealing our true identities.