Where Did POWER Go?

As an intuitive that researches ideas through connecting with the divine within, I recently did a study on power. What is it exactly? Where does it come from?

The following article is a result of that exploration. I look forward to questions or comments.

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Where Did POWER Go?
By Erika Niemann


Ah, power; only five letters and yet it connotes dozens of meanings, elicits a multiplicity of reactions, and dances in complex patterns of relationship with and within us. Let us look at what power is, where it comes from, and what that has to do with how much power you and I access.

Many of us think of power as the impetus that offers us conveniences: heat in winter, cooling in summer, flight, the use of phones or computers, refrigeration, and so on. When asking someone—“Where do you get your power from?”They would likely answer: “From the local power company.” Another popular perspective aligns with my Webster’s first definition of power: “possession of control, or influence over others.”

We will be looking at power as it applies to individuals. For if we feel powerless in any way, or overpowered by others, where did our power go? Can we take it back?

At the core of power we have what is at the core of all things: energy. Everything from thoughts and emotions to the chair you may be sitting on is energy coalesced into a pattern that we interpret as some kind of form: a chair, light, music, joy, heat. Most of the energy you and I experience on a daily basis is formed energy. But there is an infinite amount of unstructured energy available to us, something I call raw energy. This raw energy is the play-dough of power, and what shapes this play-dough into whatever it can envision is thought. Thought structures raw energy.

Thus far we have raw energy (everywhere and freely available) and thought as the vehicle that shapes it. So if this raw energy is so infinite and we realize that we are thinking all the time, why would we feel powerless or overpowered by others?

The third aspect of power is access. If I want to access raw energy through my thoughts, my thoughts need to be my own thoughts. If my thoughts are coming from someone else or somewhere else, I become the light bulb for power, not the generator. If I’m just a light bulb, some other source is the generator. Some other source is deciding what to make of all that raw energy so readily available, and then sending those thoughts on to me where I receive them and reinforce them by “shining” them into my environment as if they were my own. Someone else is in “possession of control, or influence over…” me!

It may be disconcerting to think that not all of our thoughts are our own. Yet it is true: I have heard other people’s thoughts and, before I knew better, thought them my own. I have also had strong thoughts that were subconsciously heard by another who thought these were his/her own.

Once I add the availability of raw energy, thought forming it, and access of that raw energy through originating thought, I define power as: the ongoing access to our individual/ authentic/clear & intentional thought. If this is true so far, here’s a great question: How do we continuously access our unique and intentional thought?

As everything is at its core energy, we are at our core MIND. Not the mind that worries about the boss, or work, or what is going to happen if and when this or that. MIND is the place where all our experience comes together and is seen and accepted without blinders of any kind. MIND is our place of ABSOLUTE ACCEPTANCE of all that we have been, are, and can be. With absolute acceptance of all our experience—everything we have experienced becomes a source of reference and knowledge. Everything we have experienced and experience becomes a personal resource, our private wealth. And believe me, it can be vast… In absolute acceptance of all that it is, MIND accesses all its resources and creates or generates thought.

Holding that awareness about MIND for a moment, let’s consider this: whether we think our own thoughts or not, our thoughts shape the raw energy around us. Because we think, we are a source of power. When we access MIND and generate or create our own thoughts, we own this power. When we think someone else’s thought we are still using power but we are giving that power to the originator of that thought.

Which scenario do you prefer? Would you like to live from MIND so that you are always in conscious stewardship of your power? If the answer is yes, how would you do that?

Remember that MIND is aware of all it is; it accepts all of itself. MIND does not say: “This is bad; I will not look at it. This makes me uncomfortable, I will not consider it.” MIND operates on a principle of inclusion. By contrast, we live in a world that operates on the principle of exclusion. This “never” happens, that is “always” that way—we say. We exclude with our beliefs, opinions, and expectations because once we have settled on something being a certain way, we don’t expect it to be anything else. In every place that we exclude we resist possibilities beyond the parameters of the exclusion, and we create separation. This separation and exclusion fractures us, and as we become fractured, we disengage from MIND, our core and thought generator.

Okay, so now we know how we separate from MIND. How do we reconnect? The pathway to MIND is the reverse of fracture and exclusion; it is a process I call INTEGRATION. Integration is the process through which we bring in all which we have excluded—and allow it to be part of the bigger picture of possibility within MIND. It is the process through which we say to every uncomfortable experience we may have: “Wait a minute, this may be uncomfortable, but instead of pushing it away, instead of drinking or taking drugs to numb how I feel, I will bring this to me, I will love it, I will embrace it, I will accept that it holds information for me that I can turn to greater knowledge, my knowledge. So, I will be uncomfortable for a moment or two, which will pass. And I will love this, whatever this is, until it integrates into me, into my greater reference of what is—and it will become included in all of who I am.”

INTEGRATION is also the process through which in response to every situation I can say: “Wait a minute, I have choices here; what are my MIND references around this situation? I have access to wisdom, to knowledge; I have resources…”

No matter what anyone else says about who you are in their opinion, or what you’ve done, everything you are is part of you and when you love it and accept it, you integrate it; it becomes a component of all of that which makes you unique, a component of your inner wealth. Love everything about yourself, love everything you experience and say: “I am powerful; I control access to my power by taking responsibility for everything I am, everything I’ve done, by loving my pieces home, which brings me back to MIND.”

What happens then? Ah, yes. Surprise yourself…you might reach the stars without trying—and like it!

Erika Niemann is an empowerment consultant, speaker and author. From a lifelong interest and passion for individual empowerment, she created the Empowerment Through My Subconscious System for individuals ready to live a spectacular life. This system increases access to authentic thoughts by changing existing relationships within the subconscious. For more info visit www.Systems4Empowerment.com or email Erika at Erika@Systems4Empowerment.com