Do More with Your Inner Power

How often have you heard you're supposed to have abilities that you just don't seem to tap into? When was the last time you had reason to believe you could do what you set your mind to do? This goes further than traditional goal-setting where you pursue what is suggested or imposed.  This concerns the invisible power of your mind.  Here are stories to offer reminders that you can do more with your inner power:

A woman sat and watched her festive fireplace intently.  She voiced her desire for a different kind of fire than the one that was burning.  It wasn't big enough or loud enough for her.  Then, she looked at the crackling logs and focused her mind.  She rubbed her hands together, thinking more.   Low and behold, two logs rolled off the top of the stack of hot coals without her touching them.  The woman laughed. How would you explain the spontaneous blaze that ensued? Was it more than projection?

In another case, a software developer decided he wasn't content with where he was in his life.  He began thinking more about emerging client needs he desired to satisfy.  He spent more time designing the means to provide these services.  When traveling on regular business trips, he felt attracted to speak with strangers who pointed him in timely directions.  Other individuals simply approached him and began offering situations and opportunities.  He got exactly what he needed to move on.  How would you explain why his business suddenly opened up internationally?

What about the young woman who began having repeated dreams about places she hadn't recalled visiting before? Images of a desirable existence began to clarify in her subconscious before she gradually connected them to her incompatible daytime lifestyle and choices.  The more she thought about what she wasn't doing and compared it with what she was, the more she realized she was going through a transition to teach her about the implications of her behavior.  How would you explain why this woman abruptly abandoned everything she knew to face her fears?

In a nutshell, when your mind concentrates on an idea, you channel energy into it and enable it to grow.  You may not understand why the universe reacts the way it does, why circumstances change as they do on the level of your basic senses, or why you notice situations, people and opportunities and events you didn't recognize before.  Energies evolve on levels invisible to your regular senses.  Energy reacts to how you think and what you do.  You can do more with your inner power.  You can harness invisble energy in your favor. Learn to heighten your own sensitivities. 

Realize mistakes don't exist

How often have you felt as though "success" is beyond your reach? You may be the sort of person who assumes you've made too many mistakes.  What if such perception is flawed?  Perhaps its time you realized mistakes don't exist.  You may choose to obscure a truth you don't wish to see.

If you decided to change you perspective, imagine how your life would change.  From the moment you choose to believe that every choice you make has benefits, that your choice to live itself is a version of success, then you will value each experience differently.  What if you decided mistakes were some crazy thing you invented to cause yourself to forget you are successful just as you are? 

Many people overlook that success is based primarily on how a person thinks.  It is grounded in deciding how happy and complete you choose to feel as you are. It isn't based on what you're taught. Success doesn't have to relate to what you can or can't buy, to people you do or don't know, to the nature of reaching particular goals or not. It is grounded on a state of being, on the energy you emit from inside. 

In a nutshell, your mission or life purpose is what you choose to make it. If, at different periods of your life, you choose to change your path or goals, that's simply another facet of your success. It takes courage to reframe yourself, to take steps you haven't taken before, to realize you are no longer the person you used to be. Nobody judges you but yourself. Only you can let go of it and rethink all you are.

Remind yourself that your idea of mistakes may just be other people's projections of what they fear they aren't prepared to do. What works for you, what makes sense to you, will not always make sense to other people.  That's okay.  You define your own success.  Be happy.  Accept yourself.    Mistakes don't exist. They are only a form of your fear. You are ready to move ahead. Success is only a thought away. Begin now.

Uncover deeper secrets behind power dressing

Power dressing is a synonym for dressing for success. No matter which milieu you choose, how you look reflects how you feel about yourself. Would changing your appearance make any difference in how you’re perceived? Would changing self-care influence your esteem? Dressing for success includes feelings you reveal and conceal.

For working women, power dressing can mean female versions of men’s suits or other workplace attire, especially if women are expected to behave like female versions of men. If any hint of sexuality is removed from sight, would you think women would get more respect? What about self-respect? Should yours change?

Men at work are also expected to fit a particular part. Dressing up or dressing down makes its own statement about authority or subordination. Society has expectations for men and women. Each person chooses to conform to standards or not, to be a follower or a trend-setter. Each choice will have consequences.

How you review your position, whether or not you feel comfortable  in your role, all give you hints about the suitability of where you are.  Are you listening to your dreams? Your work choices may not touch upon social causes. Your focus doesn't have to be the pursuit of justice to be right for you. What's important to recognize is whether your choices revolve around other people’s ideas of success or your own.

No matter what you wear, or how you contribute to society, you hide behind masks. As you gain insight into the masks other people wear, you also gain insight into your own. It is these masks of emotion that shape your ideas of success and whether or not you realize them.  Do your current path and clothes make you feel good?

Some people portray arrogant or assertive personas, but they’re really terrified of powerlessness. Other people hide behind sexism or discrimination to conceal their unsatisfied desires, impotence or unresolved anger.  Appearances can indeed be deceiving. Learn to discern what is said by others through their subtle nuances. Reinterpret your choices. Are you a walking contradiction of success?

Fear is always linked to unhealed wounds. Violence, oppression and any other treatment that holds you back from success tends to stem from pain. This could reflect your own as much as anyone who seems outside yourself. Success can be understood as discerning the inter-connectedness among compassion, patience and power. We can only ever choose to heal ourselves.

Master the Guardian at the Gate

Spread the Love Now is a worldwide group writing initiative.  It invites many contributions as the joint brainchild by the Three Monks – Wade of The Middle Way, Kenton of Zen-Inspired Self Development, and Albert of Urban Monk.Net.  I encourage readers to explore their blogs and to write an article for this wonderful project.

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People often sense obstacles prevent them from experiencing love and realizing dreams. Why do obstacles to compassion arise in your own life and seem to persist? What can you do about that? How often do you interpret them as opportunities to learn to love yourself more deeply and to forgive more unconditionally?

By deciding you will confront obstacles, you’re ultimately moving to confront shadows. You are slowly uncovering how you measure meaning in your life, and eliminating those things that have little or no intrinsic value.  Master the Guardian outside the Gate.  Simply tap into what's hidden inside your soul.

Behind the shadow

We all conceal love behind the shadow we create for ourselves. We aren’t meant to turn our back on it. We need to learn to work through it. If we give in, then we succumb to our own weaknesses and we risk projecting them onto others. We need to find courage to invoke the sources of our perceived obstacles and become strong enough to push against them.

Until we take steps to master the challenges this shadow represents, it will continue to hold us back from our truest selves. This means we bar ourselves from choices we sense will enable us to love others for who they are, and to experience love to the fullest extent possible, that is, without limits.

Raising awareness

Each of us can choose to reframe our thinking. However we define love and compassion, our view can expand. We can decide this shadow we create will be our teacher, no matter which form it assumes; fear, doubt, ambition, shame, humiliation, selfishness, or any self-destructive behavior. We can choose to shift focus from ourselves, the wants and needs of ego,  to focus on becoming a miracle for others.

To learn more about love and compassion, all you have to do is be good to people. Whatever you have, you can offer it. It can be measurable, like money if you can spare it, or, it can be things like your time and energy. You can raise awareness about compassion by doing things for people who are unable to reciprocate or repay you. What you give from the heart will come back to help you discern your inner self and accept it as is.

Personal journey

Any negative energies we encounter reflect our own progress toward a greater understanding of love. Challenging people and circumstances actually give life to shadows that stand between you and your Highest self. This is your personal journey to knowing love. It requires you conquer fear, banish ignorance and liberate your spirit. No matter where you are, who you are, you can devise creative ways to be a blessing.

As we learn to work through what troubles us, we build strength and character and also discern the infinite power of our love that initially clouded our judgment.  It’s all about taking steps to redefine catharsis, purification and transformation.

The infinite power of Love

Love and compassion are not experiences beyond reach.  They are not the goals of some relentless pursuit that continually eludes you.   Life experience enables you to learn how to express love and compassion despite reasons your mind may echo you’re not worthy or someone else doesn’t deserve your love and forgiveness. 

As you progress on this mental and emotional journey, you discover the means by which your true identity takes form. You find the means to become unstuck, to get out of that rut, and you grasp the means to change for the better.  All you have to do is reach inside, embrace them, share them, and wait for the imagined confusion to pass.

Choosing a fork in the road

We’re all been there. You know, you set out for a destination and somehow, you get sidetracked. You end up on what seems to be a detour. You may come to a sign and take an unknown road out of pure curiosity. You may never reach the original destination. It may bother you or, you may forget about your initial intention completely. Upon later reflection, you may wonder if you were ever meant to reach the place in your initial thoughts. Maybe that quest had a different purpose.

Angels are always watching over you.  As you ask, they perform deeds to help you. What if you suddenly realized what you assumed were detours actually led you to the path you were meant to travel?  At times, your sense of direction may be misguided, yet, you go on as if all is well. Who or what might put new ideas into your head at different phases in your life? Could this be your guardian angels reminding you of their presence? Helping you get back on the right track?

Each step you take is either a step toward or away from your true self. Each choice you make can enable you to move into your true talent and true identity or, further cloud your perspective. Learning the difference is part of the reason you’re alive. Your guardian angel is ready to help. When was the last time you reached out for heavenly assistance? Why not ask for what you're thinking about right now?

Consider a woman who was driving to deliver material to a prospective client.  Encounters with heavy traffic and road construction caused her to rethink the trip midway. After waiting for a time, she turned her car around and began to retrace her steps. Soon after that, she came across a sign she hadn’t noticed before. The sign directed her attention to a different client prospect that had an office nearby. Although it turned out to be closed, she did find another unanticipated prospect. This new client turned out to be larger than the other two prospects combined.

Why did she set out for the original destination and never actually reach it? Why did this woman suddenly notice that alternative road? Where did that sign come from? Did her perception change? What about her energy vibration? Did she find something because she was ready and looking? Maybe her originally planned trip was actually meant to prepare her for what she found. It wasn't coincidence that she discovered an angel T-shirt with wings on the back that afternoon. It was another positive sign.