Making things happen, Part 3: The Power to choose; the power to act
In Part 2 of Making Things Happen, we talked about Power as an essential element in bringing a creation into form. And we considered the power to see, as one of the elements of personal power.
Today, let’s look at two more aspects of personal power: the power to choose, and the power to act.
The Power to Choose
A second aspect of power is the power to choose. Once you’ve seen reality as it is, you can choose to create more of the same reality, or you can choose to create something entirely different. Or you might choose to create something that builds on the past to shape a more vibrant future.
You have the power to choose what you’re going to create. That’s where purpose and intention enter into the picture.
You can choose your values.
You can choose how you think, how you act, what you put your energy into, whom you hang out with.
When your choices are in alignment with your vision, your values, and your soul’s purpose, they contribute to your power.
The more that you bring your choices into alignment with your values and your soul, the more power you will have.
The Power to Act
Thirdly, you have the power to act.
You can choose to act in ways that support your values or that diminish them.
You can choose to act in ways that enhance and contribute to the whole, or you can choose to benefit yourself at the expense of the whole-in which case, you will diminish yourself because whatever happens to the whole, happens to you too.
You can act in alignment with Source or you can act against it.
When you own your power to see, to choose, and to act, you stand in your power, you stand in your sovereignty. Then, things start to manifest very quickly-the gap between your intention, action and result becomes much smaller.
When you don’t own your power–when you are stuck in narratives about victimhood, or obsess over your wounds, or don’t follow through on your values and your commitments–you become much less effective.
Right relationship with power is essential for successfully creating anything–in your business and in your life.
Are there aspects of your life or your business that aren’t working as well as you want them to?
Take a look at your relationship with power. How do your beliefs about power affect your ability to create?
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very deep post…
This really resonates with me in my life right now. I also noticed that it appears the the most successful and powerful people of the world, tend to make stern, swift and strong decisions. They execute their power of choice very well.
This is something that I am trying to fine-tune into my life right now. With a tendency to be indecisive, I realize I will be better in business and in life if I choose and actually do make bold decisions.
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Dear All,
I was just guided to this website serendipity. Such a breath of fresh air, and a beautiful place to seek peace in cyberspace.
Hiro says, “You can choose how you think, how you act, what you put your energy into, whom you hang out with.” I recently received a letter in the mail from an acquaintance I hadn’t heard from in six years or so. Recently someone asked me if I ever hear from {her} and I automatically responded with “No, thank the gods” and knocked on wood. A few weeks later there’s a letter from her. I had to distance myself from her because she was not someone I wanted to hang around with because I was not comfortable with her energy. I felt very upset having received this letter. It was like being in remission and having a disease metastasize again. I put the unopened letter in my burnable recyclable papers that I burn every day.
It feels good to find people who are on a healthy pathway and honor their own self esteem. Sometimes we help someone the most by not helping them at all.
Thanks to all of you, and best wishes. Such a lovely website. Can’t wait to make some time to explore.
Hi Hiro!
I wanted to introduce myself. I was the one who asked the question for Jen Louden’s March “Wise Person”call about how to relate to the energy of money when it had been used in my family and that of my husband in lieu of affection. I LOVED your answer that money is a deva that can be worked with! First because I am a visual person and I can just see that money deva now. I have been working with a series of exercises from a book for creative entrepreneurs, written by Lisa Sonora Beam. She asks us to draw a mandala of our business self. I could easily see the areas of heart and meaning, gifts and flow and even tools and skills, but the value and profitability area remained blank for a long long time. But then I suddenly got an image of medieval richness, deep reds. golds, angels blowing trumpets and caskets of treasure. I didn’t know where this was coming from but it felt so dense and so right. Now I know, from your comment about the deva of money, that I was beginning to see what my money deva looks like!
Thank you so much! This means so much to me and I am very excited to continue to work more with this image.
I had also asked a question about how to protect oneself from negative energies and I got so much too from your guided work on building grounding and centering.
What a new wonderful path I am now, thanks to you. I am sure I will be visiting here more often and probably at some point wanting to work more with you.
love,
Erika
Erika, hello! Thanks so much for visiting here and introducing yourself.
It’s wonderful that you’re developing a relationship with the Deva of money. It’s an interesting being, in part because it is involved in, and mediates so many relationships in the physical world.
We’ll talk about it on the blog over the next few weeks. Looking forward to being in conversation with you again.
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Hiro: you make this all seem so simple, yet simple doesn’t necessarily mean easy (or maybe I just make things un-easy).
I “get” the power to see, and recognize the patterns that don’t serve my highest good, but sometimes I get confused internally when it comes to the power of choosing and acting . . . does choice lead to action or do my actions define the choices I am making?
I also struggle with operating on auto-pilot vs. staying in the moment so that I can choose and act in deliberate ways.
Thank you for a thought-provoking post.
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