Personal Power Essay

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Personal Power All of us would love to have personal power, the power to manifest our dreams, the power to remain calm and loving in the face of fear, and the power to stay centered in ourselves in the face of attack. Our society often confuses personal power, our power within, with our power over, which is about controlling others. There is a vast difference between personal power and control. Personal power comes from an inner sense of security, from knowing who you are in your soul, from having defined your own intrinsic worth. It is the power that flows through you when you are connected to and feel your oneness with a spiritual source of guidance. It is the power that is the eventual result of doing deep inner emotional and spiritual …show more content…

We created our ego self in our attempt to protect ourselves from the losses we fear loss of self, loss of other, loss of security, loss of face. As children, when we didn’t get the love we needed, we decided that our true Self must be unlovable. In our attempt to feel safe, we buried our true Self and created the false self the ego, our wounded self. The ego self then went about learning how to feel safe through trying to control others and outcomes. The ego believes that having control over how people see us and feel about us, as well as over the outcome of things, will give us the safety we …show more content…

It comes from making love, kindness and compassion toward oneself and others more important than power over others. It comes from doing the inner work necessary to allow the soul to have power over the body, rather than allowing the primal instincts of flight or fight instincts of the body, to have power over our choices. When the soul has power over the body, you have the power to manifest your dreams, to stay centered in the face of intrusion, to remain loving in the face of fear. When the soul has power over the body, you have tremendous personal

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