Managing
Power
“...we
are all born here to go to Earth School. We're on this planet to
learn to be spiritual beings in a physical body, to gain
consciousness of our greater purpose. Life on Earth is all about
learning to manage your power.”
Caroline
Myss (Invisible Acts of Power)
There's
a commercial on television right now for a nicotine gum; every time
someone turns down a smoke and opts for the gum instead, a little
bitty band pops up out of nowhere and sings, “I just want to
celebrate another day of living...I just want to celebrate...” We
should all have one of those. It could pop up whenever we make a
conscious decision not to curse that old man in his Porsche
convertible who just cut us off on the highway; or withhold a
negative judgment about the woman who slapped her child in the
checkout line in Walmart, or the girl who's clunking along in those
awful ten-inch heels that remind you of a circus act. I agree it
would be a shame to miss a 'cursable' moment like that, but we're
talking now about managing our power.
What
if you knew your thoughts hold energy, and that when you send out a
nasty thought, or a curse, that energy actually influences the life
of the recipient? Would you think twice about it? What if you knew in
real life situations that your worrying, fretting mental twisting
creates a cloud of negative energy that invades other people around
you? Would you be more likely to seek peaceful thoughts? What if you
knew that sending out ill will is like shooting poison arrows? That's
what Caroline Myss is talking about when she says we're here to learn
to manage our power.
All
of us encounter people every day who are not managing their power
very well. Maybe we, ourselves, are not. Maybe we react to an uncivil
word or action with another uncivil word or action. Perhaps we're
listening to hateful words someone says about someone else and
laughing along with the joke. Perhaps we're returning fire for fire,
word for word, thought for thought. That's not managing one's power
very well, but we all do it. Unfortunately, the cure is not as simple
as chewing the right gum. I wish it were. The cure is gaining
consciousness of our real purpose for being here, and focusing on
that. The cure is gaining consciousness, period. Today, every time
you check yourself before saying that ugly word, rendering that
hateful judgment, wishing someone ill, sing that little song to
yourself—“I just want to celebrate...”
In
the spirit,
Jane
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