True Paths
There have been instances in my life when I have doubted what my true path is. There are nights when I cant sleep, and mornings I cant get started. I look around me through and I realize an important thing. I am still here. I am still breathing, and still have the spark to relight any fire that may have gone out.
I also realize that it is not me that initiates the defeatist energy that sometimes overwhelms me. This occurs when I worry things in my life. This is when the shift of power, my power, happens. When I worry about money and bills, the power shifts. The power that used to belong to me, is now in the very incompetent hands of the things that I worried about, money and power.
Thank goodness this shift doesn’t happen often. When it does, I always breathe on purpose. I focus on my breath, remember its purpose, and I then can relax and center myself.
There are those things in life that cannot function in us unless we are off center and not balanced. When something knocks us off center. We then attract these other things that may appear to compound our already messed up energy. It is in knowing that we have the power over all things that save us.
We have the power of our creator, since we are all created in his/ her image. Since we have been created to be as the creator is, then we are creators. Think of what that means. It is important to know how you feel at any point during your day. Check in with yourself and determine how you feel. DO NOT be afraid to acknowledge this feeling and determine its source.
To blame is a weakness fuelled by the very thing we are blaming or angry with. The angrier we get, the more power we give to it. Since power is connected to energy and energy can neither be created or destroyed, then the power has to come from somewhere. It does, from us, to the very thing we are angry at. Its funny that our old teaching ends up messing us up a little bit. You know the old saying, an eye for an eye, or those who live by the sword, shall die by the sword, and my personal favorite, fight fire with fire.
None of these really work in the long run. History tells us that in its glorious blood and guts detail. In the same way, this thing that you blame is also negative, and the energy you choose to fight it with is anger also negative. Can you see now how your anger only fuels the opposite of what you would like to accomplish? If someone upsets you, being angry or frustrated is the natural human reaction. You must allow this feeling for it has its own process. Deal with that as a separate issue. The longer you hold this anger, the tighter a hold it will have on you. Pretty soon it will become very difficult to release it. If experience has taught me anything, releasing it early while it is still young is so much easier. You are also fooling yourself if you think that you being angry is in any way bothersome to the person or thing you are directing it at. It is not, and never will.
Make sure that you know that you need to process these feelings as soon as they come up. The best way to begin the process is to not take the energy that you are being given, personally. There could be many factors why someone is giving you negative energy, and most of the time, it has nothing to do with you.
They are usually upset about something they have given their power to, and are looking for someone to dump this on to. A natural unthinking human reaction. They too, are being bombarded with negative energy from others. They DO take it personally and it grows and grows within them. That is, until it spills out because that are not dealing with it. SO you come along at the right time for them before the spillage. So you see, it is unfair of them to spill onto you and selfish of you to assume that it is yours.
Knowing this can help you dispel any negativity that comes your way. It takes a lot more energy and wastes a lot more time to be negative than it does to be positive.
So, you see, fighting fire with fire creates more fire. Id rather fight fire with water. Life is way too short for me to spend any of it being angry. I like to keep my power these days, rather than give it away. You give away your power each moment you are angry, and we have so little precious moments in this life. So make them count. When you are positive, your power grows.
Power, true power, can come from processed anger and rage. Rage and power defined create real power. Imaging channeling rage and anger into the power of healing and sending that back along the path that you are receiving the negativity. Try it once, as it is refreshing and EMpowering.
All text copyright (c) 2006 Martin Jordan
