Personal Power
Power is ability to go straight after what you want irrespective of what the mind is saying
Last night I watched a 20-min conversation between Moritz Lembert and Ria Gijsbers.
Ria led Landmark Forum seminars for 30 years and personally taught it to 150 000 people.
Moritz built a successful coaching business in a record-short period of time.
Their conversation impacted me but when I tried to articulate why to my partner all I could say was “personal power”, and then stop.
I wasn’t sure what it was about Ria’s presence that was so fresh and different.
Maybe the feeling of freedom and fearlessness, not even the absence of fear but disregard for it.
Ability to go straight after things that you want and find important.
Ability or decision rather to ask for what you want, unafraid of what might happen, not listening to the stories of the mind.
Decision to not listen to the mind and operate from a higher level of consciousness, like an eagle raising above the clouds to avoid rain when other birds seeks shelter.
Our mind is a radio
Thinking is like a radio — it plays in the background but doesn’t dictate, unless we allow it, what we can or cannot do.
Sometimes the station is worrisome, sometimes it’s optimistic.
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It doesn’t matter. What matters is what we choose.
- We can listen to its every word, taking it as a straight prescription for action (or inaction)
- We can try to change its contents through affirmations and positive reprogramming
- We can try to silence it, hoping, waiting that one day it will just stop and THEN we will finally be able to do what we want.
Or we can do what we want right now, with the mind chatter in the background, knowing that it doesn’t really matter what it says.
Actions and thoughts are different
The mind and our actions are not the same and don’t even overlap unless we CHOOSE to equate them (see the picture)
When that happens, we lose power and freedom to act because now we are dependent on our mind with its fear and conditions.
That’s bondage.
But we are not dependent on what station is playing in our head today.
We have a choice.
We ARE a choice.
Not even A choice but CHOOSING, free at any moment to be whoever we want to be and do whatever we want to do.
That’s power.
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