Reclaiming Your Power

If you’ve been a long-time client, you may have heard me say: “All is acting in our favor, always.” I try to remember to say it every time something I perceive as good happens to keep me in the habit of recognizing blessings and the emotion of gratitude.

It’s much harder to say it when we are frustrated about an inconvenience or facing a challenge that we can’t see our way through, or out of. Holding the faith that it is happening for me (not to me) is a practice. For me, faith is an action.

Like Albert Einstein once said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

Our ego wants to pick and choose.

Recently, my pronoia was tested in a way that my ego was not willing to let go. Because of this, I missed learning one of two lessons that were in front of me.

A man, who I had placed my trust in and who I considered a friend that I gave recommendations for, deceived me. Not just once, but many times over. He stacked lies upon lies. Small lies that didn’t even make sense to tell. Big lies that cheated people I care about out of money.

A whole myriad of reactions burst forth. Shock at what I discovered. Anger at their behavior. Shame for believing them and not seeing it coming. Protection of myself and those I was with. Placing strong boundaries to keep this person far away. And damage control to mitigate the outcome.

I received intuitive guidance to listen through, and take direction from, my heart. To lead with Love instead of Fear.

My ego said, “no way!” I stubbornly dug in my heels and hurled angry thoughts at this man.

I don’t know what would have happened differently if I’d heeded the guidance to stay in my heart. (The lesson will circle back to me again until I get it. So, maybe in the future I’ll know.) Instead, harboring all these worrisome thoughts and uncomfortable emotions resulted in becoming physically ill.

A friend, who was with me at the time, is a fellow healer. She uses a bio-scanning machine to read the electrical frequencies of the body that’s fed through an analyzer and provides feedback on what the body is experiencing and why. When she scanned my body for the root cause of the sickness I was experiencing, the results weren’t that I picked up a bug or virus.

Here’s what her machine read: The root cause was five layers of discordant emotion.

At the first and top layer, was the emotion of Concern. The source of the disharmony was a Group Event (which I was leading), with Lies as the main factor causing said concern. It was affecting my nervous system. It was also tied to both the past and present, which told me that it triggered an old and unresolved wound.

The second layer was the emotion to Despise. The source of the disharmony was a Male, with Evil as the main factor. It was affecting my respiratory system. (We only went two layers deep for time.)

This analysis was spot on! And here was scientific, empirical evidence of the Mind-Body Connection. I’ve always believed it, but here it was in a spreadsheet data layout, plain as day. I was making myself sick.

The one lesson I did learn from this was that I was giving my power away. I was allowing someone else and their actions to determine how this experience would unfold for not only myself, but also those I was hosting. I was allowing myself to focus on what was going wrong, falsely believing I had no control over what would happen. In essence, I was playing the victim in my mind.

Navigating as a Captain and Creator

Once I realized this, I took my power back. I shifted into Creator. I took command of the situation and remembered that the future had not happened yet. I could still focus on the direction I wanted to go.

In past blogs I’ve talked about the “Attention Direction.” Where our awareness goes, energy flows. If we focus on where we don’t want to go, that’s exactly the direction we’ll go. If we focus on where we want to go, we then move in that direction.

By refocusing my attention and intentions on how I wanted the rest of the experience (for myself and the group) to go, I started making decisions in that vein. I re-directed the ship, so to speak. As soon as I did, the whole experience shifted…energetically as well as in how harmoniously and easily things unfolded for us.

If I may expand this microcosm learning to a macrocosm lesson, I invite you to consider where you might be giving your own power away. Where are you watching events unfold that cause worry, fear, or anger while holding the belief that you are merely a pawn? That events are out of your control and are happening to you, without a way to affect them?

Rather than imagining a horrid nightmare of a future state, can you place that to the side and replace it with an imagined ideal future state? Both exist only in the mind anyway, and yet the latter feels more expansive and lets you become the manifester of what you want. It puts you, your desires, your needs, and your freedom to choose in the captain’s seat.

Focus on the direction you want to go and the world in which you want to live in. Then do what is in your power to do to move in that direction.

Notice what shifts in response to your new perspective and emotional state. You are always co-creating your experiences. It's time to remember and reclaim your power!