Personal power

If truth, love and power are our essential “soul” nature, power is something I need to learn more about. (I believe they are, and I won’t take space here to argue my case.)

Here’s what I’ve been thinking.

It is a cultural paradox that we live in a country of power (and its negative representation: arrogance), but many of us don’t know how to express power well.

What I DON’T mean by “personal power”:
- ego
- lording it over anyone
- bragging
- wanting my own way all the time
- thinking more highly of myself than I ought
- ambition
- always being a leader

What I DO mean:

- Getting rid of all the crud and clutter, the residue of this world (layers of psychological time, memories that bind, regrets, negative emotions, bad dreams, inadequacies, resentments) so a vast emptiness remains.

- Into this vast emptiness comes God/Source/Creation, whatever you want to call "it."

- When “pure,” it is the most powerful thing imaginable, expressed through you and your idiosyncrasies. Pure means clean. Clean: without the crud, without judgment of right or wrong, without limit.

- When in this state of pure personal power, you: know who you are, don’t feel inadequate even in the midst of others who are “more _______”, have amazing energy you never knew was possible, create a magnetism around you that can be confusing and mysterious to others.

- When in this state, negative emotions do not arise. There is no need for them, because you are in a state of cleanness that is guilt-free. If someone rants at you, their anger passes right through you – whoosh – because there is nothing to stick to. Even if you DID do something to hurt them, you can easily admit it and let it go!

- If you adhere to a particular religious set of beliefs, this does not go against any of them as far as I can tell. If you are an atheist, there are dynamics of human relationship that are real, even if you do not believe God is at the root of it all.

Every day take inventory of feelings, memories, regrets, pains. Let it come up, and look at it, until you understand it. Each one, one at a time, for as long as it takes. Then let it go (in whatever meditative practice that works for you). If you do this at least daily, I guarantee that you will begin to be empty, and this pure personal power will begin to feel like your normal state of being.

It is complete freedom.