Keeping you powerless

I've never understood the attraction of willingly giving over the direction of your life to another person or group.  

I've been talking about this topic of empowerment for a while.

Working with pet owners through the years I found it challenging to see how quickly their decision making would be handed over to a veterinarian, ignoring their own ideas about what might be best for their pet. There is a similar dynamic in the human health arena.

Feeling powerless, leads to a high level of uncertainty and fear about life and it also leads to looking outside of one's self for guidance on how to live one's life. 

When you are dis-empowered there is a lack of confidence and the feeling of having little control over life. Whereas empowered people actively seek the information and resources they need to make a decision or take action that they feel is in their best interest. When good decisions result in good outcomes, this creates an inner confidence that then leads each person to be the authority on what is best for them. 

One of the downfalls of being disempowered is that one becomes very vulnerable to deliberate manipulation of their choices in life. They are easily influenced in what to think and what to do. 

​Do you see any of that type of manipulation and influence going on in the world these days?  

When acting from a place of uncertainty and fear there is an illusion that we have no choice, which disempowers us further. This fear energy is manipulative and controlling, and much of the population has become totally accustomed to being in it.

To everyone that has been sucked into the drama of world events: Realize that the entire purpose of all the drama we call 'news' is to keep you in a particular emotional state because it keeps you weak; unable to rise out of your slavery.

By paying attention and getting caught up in what this politician does or what that politician says and getting angry, getting jaded, getting frustrated - this is you giving your power away. You are allowing these people and events to control your emotional state and therefore to inform your reality. Our thoughts create our feeling, our feelings create our actions and our actions determine our results.

So what type of thoughts do you choose to cultivate? 

​Things you may see as causing harm, being unjust or even inhumane - it's all conveniently there to focus on IF YOU CHOOSE TO.

But ask yourself does focusing on these things provide you with any benefit?

Would there be any real detriment to turning off the news?

Does putting all that negativity into your awareness do anything good for you?

If the answer is no, then I ask - why do you do it???

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#StayCurious