[Radiant Living] Stop Getting In Your Own Way

[Emerge Healing]

By Megan Woolever

We are often the biggest obastacles to having what we want in life...not ability, not education, not family history, not even money. To borrow from one of my favorite quotes by Marianne Williamson,

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

All the power to create the life you were born to live is inside of you...all you need to do is figure out how to tap into it.

That's where personal empowerment, or what I call "Self-Evolution," work comes in. When you say "Yes" to cultivating your personal empowerment, you are saying yes to growing and expanding into the power that is your birthright. And, as Marianne Williamson said, its not just in some of us, its in everyone.

For power is simply the ability to make a change in your life, but empowerment is making the change in a direction you want. In my practice I take my clients through four key steps to personal empowerment:

1. Awareness
2. Discernment
3. Choice
4. Action

These steps are crucial to becoming master of the power in your life. First, by cultivating Awareness, or recognition of the condition of your thoughts, feelings and habits, you create an open space where you begin to realize that you are something greater than your mind, body or emotions. You start getting out of the way for something bigger to come through you. Second, by learning Discernment, you begin to become aware of which thoughts, feelings and habits strengthen you and which weaken you. Third, you learn to make Choices towards the things that feed, empower and strengthen you. And you come to realize that we are making these choices again and again every day. Its not a one time thing and every choice counts! Finally, you cultivate powerful Actions that move you into greater alignment with your goals in life. All the internal work is great, but if you don't take it out into the physical world and put it into Action you are kind of missing the point of being a human, incarnated being.

Over the years I have watched as my clients move through these stages and amaze themselves and those around them with new-found power and freedom that they had no idea they were missing. I invite you to learn more about this process and contact me if you would like to learn more about how you can live your life more powerfully.

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Posted By Emerge Healing to Radiant Living at 2/20/2009 11:55:00 AM