The path to self-empowerment is not an easy one. Here are some ideas and suggested ways to get you started so that your unique soul path can be outrageously more joyful !
1) Become aware of your beliefs and how they influence your perceptions. Think about the saying: "Seeing is believing." Perhaps it is equally valid to say: "Believing is seeing."
2) Become aware of your emotions. If they are anything other than enthusiasm, what are you resisting?
3) Be willing to re-examine your past and memories you may have suppressed. Areas of unconsciousness represent areas you are unaware of, but that doesn't mean they don't influence you.
4) Be willing to walk away from situations that rob you of your personal power.
5) Be willing to let go of control over others. Trying to control others is usually as sign of fear and resistance. We cannot be self-empowered when we are trying to control others.
6) Be willing to feel your feelings without resistance. Embrace all emotions with enthusiasm. When you are angry, for example, really feel the anger. When you are in pain, be willing to fully experience the pain. Remember, it is the judgment of our feelings that causes the resistances that inhibit our personal power.
7) Connect with all the aspects of yourself. Get to know your inner child, your logical adult and your spiritual or higher self. Work on integrating the three into a harmonious unit.
8) Examine those areas in your life where you are not yet self-empowered and see what choices you have made that you may be willing to change.
9) Know the difference between self-empowerment and self-isolation. Ideally, when we are self-empowered, we connect more fully with others rather than less. Intimacy is the product of two self-empowered individuals willing to be totally seen and known by each other.
10) Understand that it isn't so much what happens to us in life, but how we deal with it that matters.
11) Be willing to be "cause" rather than "effect" in your life. This means taking full responsibility for your words, thoughts and deeds. It also means never seeing yourself as a victim of circumstances.
12) "Dance in your passion and play in your joy."
