Power is yours to give, but also yours to keep. I am talking about the power we let people and situations have over us. Nowadays, we all walk a fine line between respecting authority and giving away our power. Power and influence are a necessity, but who gets to wheel them? We all do, whether it be in a relationship, a family or the work place.
Now I am a feisty one, who loves to push back on authority, especially when I don’t form a personal connection with the people in authority. I don’t know if it’s my natural fire sign traits or an intuition to shake things up. Either way, we all struggle unknowingly with giving away our power or allowing others to lead us.
Our power is how we hold ourselves: how we interact with the world and how we react to others. It’s the invisible hold we have on ourselves and the hold we allow others to have on us. We need to grasp that our opinions are our responsibility and no one focuses on us to have them. But they can unintentionally and at times, intentionally cause us to form core beliefs around them.
In my favourite coming-of-age movie, Labyrinth, there is a young girl named Sarah. Who learns how to claim her power and stop letting others influence her. Through hardships unnumbered, Sarah over-reactions to the changing world and suffers consequences. Throughout the story, Sarah learns how her thoughts and actions directly created her predicaments. In the end, she learns the true meaning of sovereignty and becomes her white knight.
As It Is
That brings me to my reasoning for bringing up this topic. Recently, I find it hard to empathize with others, who express a lack of control over situations. When in reality we do have control, we are in control of how we think, feel and react to the external and internal world. As soon as we all understand and acknowledge our power smoother life will be.
Live Joy, Renee