Standing in your own power

[Eagle]

What does it mean to stand in your own power? For most of our lives we are taught to rely on someone or something to give us guidance, understanding, and strength. This is fine but at what point do you get to stand in your own strength?
The greatest leaders in history are the ones we almost never hear about; they are the people who never ask to be leaders but are placed in that position due to circumstance and need. Picture in your own life a person that fits that idea in your mind of what makes him or her good leader, and then what do they do that is different from others. Now compare those people to those who profess to be good leaders, at what point do those who profess to be good leaders teach others to lead themselves, at what point do they give up their power or influence to help others to stand in their own strength, to stand in their own knowledge, to stand in their own conviction.
All too often we give up our power of faith to others and let them direct our course, we let them tell us what we need to do and we let them make our choices for us; but at what point do we begin to make our own decisions? To make our own mistakes/ to make our own dreams come true. So much of our energy is lost when we donate it to others to make choices for us, then we wonder why we are sad, depressed, angry, and unhappy.
The real truth behind freedom is “Standing in your own power!” Make your decisions based on what your heart tells you and not what your mind (emotions) react to. Break free from the training you have been conditioned to believe that you have to rely on someone else to “Lead” you. Strengthen your knowledge, strengthen your conviction, strengthen your leadership and then lead by example and not by borrowed light. Do not get me wrong we can gain strength and knowledge from each other and help each other to be strong, but If you want to be happy, if you want to be successful , if you want to be free then simply....

Stand in your own power

[NeverMind]

Amen.
Also, arm yourself with patience and keep your vanity, however innocuous it may be, under check, because the majority of the people -- not all, but the majority -- will never even perceive your light as being your own. :-)

[spiritguide]

Well said! Thank you!

[Tony]

No one can do it for you. We have everything we need.

[DreamsInDigital]

Great post Dig.

[jorr lundstrom]

Yezzzz..........LOL

[Eagle]

if we know what we need to do then why do we give our power away so Easily

[aquamarine]

great post dig xx believing in yourself and your instincts is very powerful and is in us all blessed be aquamarine x

[Vrilya]

Great thread Digg! I believe when oneself acknowledges ones own power and self worth we acquire an abundance of power within, and we learn as we go just how important that power is to us and to give that power to someone else we diminish our self worth. Our Hearts will never lie nor decieve us.

Blessings and Love Always,
V

[Carmen]

Possibly the best thread I've seen on Avalon in a while!

To me, this year is one of moving into ones own power and integrity. Of being your own person and not being a victim or a follower. For too long humans have given away their power of choice. The time is 'now' to stop that!

[Elethia]

Posted by Carmen (here)
Possibly the best thread I've seen on Avalon in a while!

To me, this year is one of moving into ones own power and integrity. Of being your own person and not being a victim or a follower. For too long humans have given away their power of choice. The time is 'now' to stop that!

Yes!

No one outside you has your truth. Time to stop looking for someone to give it to you. Your truth is yours to discover. Your path is your path. Honor everyone's path because it is unique and right for them just as your path is uniquely yours. We are discovering ourselves, the truth of who we are and becoming sovereign beings.

[Dawn]

I'll bet there are many 'stories of standing in your own power' here in Avalon. I personally would like to hear them. Here is one of mine:

I developed a bladder infection at age 19 - very common for women as you may know. I was put on a course of antibiotics and my trip into ill health began in earnest. For the next 19 years I got one urinary tract infection after another... over... and over... and over... and over. Finally I became allergic to all medications modern medicine had created for these. Now I not only had infections, but I felt extremely ill from the antibiotics used to 'cure' them.

Finally my doctor went on vacation and I had to see a 'fill in doctor' for my next 'new' infection. He looked at me and said point blank, "We are waiting until you get a little worse, and then we are going to put you on a list for a kidney transfer". This information hit me like a bucket of ice water in the face. I finally clearly saw what their path of healing for me was. I looked at this new information and made a decision to either cure myself or die .. but at least as a whole person without body parts cut out and replaced.

The very next day while standing in line at the health food store, the person in front of me gave me my first clue in a conversation with another customer. I instantly recognized that this information was specifically for me ... and I followed the clue. Within 10 days my 22 year old infection went away. And it never came back.

I have gone back to a doctor for help with a couple of other things that came up since then. However, each time I've weighed the advice they gave, and then did my own research. In each case I decided on a different course of action than the one they recommended.

From birth we are taught to turn our health over to doctors, clinics, and hospitals. We go to these places like children seeking help from our wiser 'parental figures'. Stepping out of this pattern leads to power and a new relationship with our bodies.

[Belle]

Posted by Dig (here)
if we know what we need to do then why do we give our power away so Easily

As children we are taught to respect all authority...parents, teachers, police, ministers...and were punished if we did not obey.

Without further counsel as we grow up, some continue obedience to other's authority, some rebel for the sake of rebellion, and only a very few discover their own power.

My cousin Patty and I were born six months apart and lived four houses from each other growing up. We hung out together a lot in our teen years especially, but lost touch for a while after we each married and moved to different states. Some 5 years later, I saw her at the funeral of a family member and was struck by how comfortable she was in her own skin...that's the only way I could describe it at the time.

It was in our sharing later that I mentioned the difference I found in her and asked about it. 'It's simple', she said, 'I've just taken responsibility for my own life...good, bad, or whatever...it's my choice and I refuse to give it away'. She had become her own authority and stood comfortably in her own power, and it showed. Most of all, I wanted to be as at peace with myself as she appeared to be with herself.

The most difficult part for me was breaking the programming of my youth and not giving in to the programming surrounding us all that urges us to relinquish our own authority....congress passes laws for our safety; doctors poison us with their drugs and cut our bodies apart for our healing; everyone knows what's best for us, except us...so they would have us believe.

So here I now stand in my own power, thanks to my cousin who showed me the way by living it herself.

[Aetheric Traveler]

I am the only me I can be.

I am Me.

I AM.

[Cerridwen]

Well said and thank you for the reminder.

[PHARAOH]

"KNOW THYSELF"

"I AM THAT I AM"

"TO KNOW THEYSELF, IS TO KNOW THY FATHER"

"BE YOU, BE FREE"

AnyONE care to add on???

[pyrangello]

Everyday I speak to individuals around me or on the phone, I was talking with a salesman yesterday in south carolina buying some industrial wheels and we started discussing the awakening that is happening within and collectively. He was on the same page as many of us here, and he told me his brother travels the world spreading his knowledge for this awakening as well in groups far and wide. Spoke with a friend last night on the phone locally who is riding the curve as well. This is a very exciting time/ shift we are in and everyday I feel myself turning within gaining my own strength. Many thanks to the Avalon family here for the bumps and especially one avalon member who I met in person who showed me more in a few months than my entire lifetime.

[Eagle]

As most of will no agree the time for action is now, others can help us to open up to the possiblity and in turn we are the ones to release our souls and spirit from bondage of staying inside the box, Peace to all

[Seikou-Kishi]

To me, standing in my own power means having a hierarchy of priorities and not allowing anybody or anything else to re-arrange those for me. I do have an example from my own experience which I think quite dramatically demonstrates the difference between standing in one's own power and being a blossom on the wind of circumstance.

The last thing I remember before the event was that it was late one night and the house was dead. I remained awake doing god knows what. I blinked into consciousness very much aware that I was on some alien vessel. I will say three things now for which I had no evidence but which I felt I knew intuitively: 1, that I was on a ship and not in a building; 2, that I was disembodied and that when I had been 'abducted', my body was left behind or else otherwise separated from me, and; 3, that I was undergoing some sort of procedure akin to one which one might undergo in a hospital (the sense was that I was moving between theatres, for example).

I had the feeling of being lead by a being which was in front of me. The feeling of being lead felt much more like I was on a floating stretcher which was being pulled or, in rather loaded speech I might say as a dog on a leash, rather than feeling as though I were being lead as one might be by a tour guide. The being which lead me was small and floated in much the same way I felt I was floating and it had a sense of being a predominantly psychic rather than physical entity; it had the sense of limbs but which were either very atrophied and curled up towards it or which were currently unexpressed psychic limbs (if that makes any sense).

This entity had much in common with what are called grey aliens, but it looked like none I've ever seen elsewhere. The impression was that it was generally fawn in colour and was nearly completely head. It had its back to me as it lead me through this corridor (which curved; the corridor itself, as a cross-section, was somewhere between octagonal or round, and the impression of the outside of the corridor was of space above the Earth, as though on the outer rim of a circular craft). Anyway, this entity seemed to sense, after a very short while, that I had come to consciousness and turned around. As it did so, it looked at me with large, black eyes (which seemed typically grey) and I could feel this entity trying to suppress my consciousness with its will. In response, I unleashed some sort of shock wave as I 'loudly thought' "No! I am sovereign!" I snapped back to the seat I had been in with a violent intake of breath.

[jackovesk]

Posted by Dig (here)
What does it mean to stand in your own power?

Use It for the betterment of Humanity..!

I watched the film Gladiator again the other night, witnessing the Corrupt Roman Empire's Rein enforcing The People's Serfdom through Terror brought a Tear to my eye...

The battle between the loyal Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius and the Evil Emperor Commodus is exactly what is going on today i.e. Humanity vs TPTW...

Metaphorically...

I allow myself to feel the Emotional Rage at times and during the film just after Maximus took out Commodus, whilst sitting in the dark in my favorite chair I drew the Emotional Energy from Within and with both raised fists in the air pointing skywards...

I visualised that pent up Emotional Energy circumventing the Earth asking the Universe to make those who are responsible for causing Earth's Problems in (ALL) Shapes & Forms Accountable for their Crimes against Humanity..!

I was locked in a Powerful Trance for about a minute and after I could literally see the Energy Flowing out of my raised fists...

I knew I was heard, and this Madness will STOP..!