Personal power is that sense of energy, hope, and optimism that lives within you. It is also the personal dynamic of the sheer confidence in your ability to influence the world around you. To have personal power, you have to believe that you live in a basically safe world, that you are healthy and that you are a good person, worthy of the receipt of positive experiences.
But what if something terrible happens to you? What if you are a victim of any type of crime, including fraud, burglary, rape, murder or identity theft? What if a relative commits suicide? What if you are in an accident and you suffer a terrible injury that leaves you unable to function in the world you used to know? What if a debilitating illness strikes you and you cannot be who you used to be, cannot do what you used to do and cannot live the life you used to know?
All of a sudden, in any of the scenarios above, you become a victim of the event. If the event happens to your child, spouse, sibling or parent, especially in a situation where murder or suicide takes place, you are equally affected by the echoing aftermath of this catastrophic and emotionally crushing situation. Sudden death by any means of someone you love leaves you feeling as if someone has taken the very breath of your own life away. Sudden debilitating illness or injury for yourself or someone very close to you, means that the very life you used to have is now gone forever.
Victimhood means that you feel powerless to not only influence what is going on around you, but also to change what has happened. The trauma of the event keeps returning in wave after wave of sickening surrealism. You have to adjust to the reality of the event and then somehow figure out how to live with this gigantic emotional weight that has brought your life to a complete stop. How do you explain to people that your initial fatigue, is staggering? How do you ever feel rested and happy again?
This difficult situation exists all around you in the lives of other people, but you cannot see it because you aren’t meant to see it. It didn’t exist in your world before it happened to you. It happened to other people. Now, you feel alone in your situation. Once the reality of the initial event passes, once you regain some level of footing, you have to decide how to live with the label of victim, for yourself, or the label of victim for someone you love. The point here is that the word victim is just that, a label. But it is an exceptionally powerful label! The word victim, all by itself, embodies the essence of powerlessness, weakness, and cruelty. Life has seemingly dealt you a terrible hand.
Now comes the hardest challenge of your life: changing this dark, sticky, emotionally descriptive and destructive label. Consider that the word itself forces you to see yourself differently, shoves your face into the darkness of the event, over and over. How do you remove the label of being a victim for yourself or a loved one? You have to take your personal power back.
Taking your power back will stop the energy of the words victim and victimhood. It is probably the hardest work you will ever do, and it will take quantities of your energy, but it will be the most rewarding work you will do. Consider that you will have asked yourself a thousand times why this event happened to you, your loved one or family. You may not ever receive the answer that you think you want, a black and white: this is the reason. What you can decide to accept is that you are having a powerful experience and you can take your power back, by deciding with the free will you still have, how you will respond to this life-changing event. The first step is to begin to change the terminology you use to describe the event.
Stay tuned for Part 2
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Clearing Items of Negative Energy Comment
Dear Friends, a reader by the name of Dale left me the following comment and I felt that it is applicable to many people. You can check out the original articles, Clearing Items of Negative Energy which are archived KS&Ls #300-302.
"Yeesh, that's a bit scary. I own a number of WWII flying helmets and aviation related articles, some of which are German. Any ideas of what I can do to clear the negative energy as they are very dear to me. Is it worth trying?"
First of all, you have to understand that the items emit negative energy all by themselves if they are displayed or even in a drawer, because they were part of a war that saw the deaths of roughly 73 million people worldwide. The items are tied to the karma of the war and the karma of the deaths of all of those people. That said, if you want to continue to own them and have them in your home, put them in a box lined with aluminum foil, shiny side in [which contains the energy] and then add salt to the bottom of the box which neutralizes the energy. Seal the box and put it away.
It is impossible to clear the energy of items tied to that much karma. Burning sage around it, even burning dragon's blood around it will not help. You have to put them away and neutralize the energy which the steps above describe.
Next you will need to burn dragon's blood to clear your home of the energy of those items. Again, [my opinion based on experience] burning sage is worthless. It smells nice, but has no dynamic power to clear that level of negativity. Even with Dragon's blood you may want to also add the resins of Frankensense, Myrrah and Benzoin. Also, you will probably want to do this once a week for a while. Make sure to open a window to let that negative energy leave.
Some things just cannot be cleared. This is why there are museums, so that all that energy can be left behind when you leave the building, and you do not have to live with it day to day. The energy of war items, pistols, flags, Nazi arm bands is just horrific. If you have those items in your home, you might experience legal problems, water leaks, arguments, and financial problems all because your home is in resonance with the level of negativity that the items emit. Consider that pistols owned by Nazi's were highly likely to have killed literally hundreds of people. Do you really want the karma and the energy of that in your home? Can you spell nightmares? Having that type of item is like opening the gates to hell in your living room.
So, my opinion, is if you want to keep them, neutralize them by keeping them in the salted foil or donate them to a museum. Clear your home and be grateful that you know this knowledge to preclude anything negative coming your way.
"Yeesh, that's a bit scary. I own a number of WWII flying helmets and aviation related articles, some of which are German. Any ideas of what I can do to clear the negative energy as they are very dear to me. Is it worth trying?"
First of all, you have to understand that the items emit negative energy all by themselves if they are displayed or even in a drawer, because they were part of a war that saw the deaths of roughly 73 million people worldwide. The items are tied to the karma of the war and the karma of the deaths of all of those people. That said, if you want to continue to own them and have them in your home, put them in a box lined with aluminum foil, shiny side in [which contains the energy] and then add salt to the bottom of the box which neutralizes the energy. Seal the box and put it away.
It is impossible to clear the energy of items tied to that much karma. Burning sage around it, even burning dragon's blood around it will not help. You have to put them away and neutralize the energy which the steps above describe.
Next you will need to burn dragon's blood to clear your home of the energy of those items. Again, [my opinion based on experience] burning sage is worthless. It smells nice, but has no dynamic power to clear that level of negativity. Even with Dragon's blood you may want to also add the resins of Frankensense, Myrrah and Benzoin. Also, you will probably want to do this once a week for a while. Make sure to open a window to let that negative energy leave.
Some things just cannot be cleared. This is why there are museums, so that all that energy can be left behind when you leave the building, and you do not have to live with it day to day. The energy of war items, pistols, flags, Nazi arm bands is just horrific. If you have those items in your home, you might experience legal problems, water leaks, arguments, and financial problems all because your home is in resonance with the level of negativity that the items emit. Consider that pistols owned by Nazi's were highly likely to have killed literally hundreds of people. Do you really want the karma and the energy of that in your home? Can you spell nightmares? Having that type of item is like opening the gates to hell in your living room.
So, my opinion, is if you want to keep them, neutralize them by keeping them in the salted foil or donate them to a museum. Clear your home and be grateful that you know this knowledge to preclude anything negative coming your way.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
KS&L 67 Independence Day
What does Independence Day mean on a spiritual level? Perhaps it just means the freedom to be spiritual in any manner we wish. Maybe it is looking around the world and noticing where that freedom exists and how it was gained. Maybe it is looking around ourselves and noticing what we had to do to be free from that which has tormented us emotionally for a very long time.
Either way we look at it, gaining independence either from a petty despot, or an emotional prison requires some type of effort, some type of sacrifice. We cannot define independence if we do not know what imprisonment looks and feels like - obviously a polarity issue. So we have to fight for what we believe in, we have to fight for what is the right thing to do and sometimes we have to have help to achieve that independence.
Often, it is extremely difficult to remove a powerful despot as we have observed throughout history - we just have to have help. If imprisonment is the norm, how do we have any conception of what freedom feels like unless we are aware enough to know that we long for it? If we are numb to our situation, we stay in denial, we stay in a place of fear.
If we choose to come out of that situation, it can be really, really scary - most people at least know what the torture routine is. If we have to leave what we know to understand something new, we have to have a whole new level of courage and the number of people who have that level is not as high as we think or would like it to be.
Emotionally, we have to have help to remove that emotional despot/monster who has tormented us, sometimes for life times. Help that is often costly in what we realize we have to leave behind. Imagine that the people who left Europe for the United States had nothing but their courage in their pockets. Most of them had modest means. Yet they longed to know what it would feel like not to be imprisioned.
People who declare their independence from their secret torturers, their old fears, their guilt and sadness also arrive usually with little more than their courage in their pockets. Yet, it is that very courage within them that gets them through as they accept help.
So just maybe the bottom line for any type of independence is the very, very, very first freedom of all, courage. So to all those courageous people throughout history, to all those who have fought for their emotional freedom for themselves and/or others, Happy Independence Day now and for always.
Either way we look at it, gaining independence either from a petty despot, or an emotional prison requires some type of effort, some type of sacrifice. We cannot define independence if we do not know what imprisonment looks and feels like - obviously a polarity issue. So we have to fight for what we believe in, we have to fight for what is the right thing to do and sometimes we have to have help to achieve that independence.
Often, it is extremely difficult to remove a powerful despot as we have observed throughout history - we just have to have help. If imprisonment is the norm, how do we have any conception of what freedom feels like unless we are aware enough to know that we long for it? If we are numb to our situation, we stay in denial, we stay in a place of fear.
If we choose to come out of that situation, it can be really, really scary - most people at least know what the torture routine is. If we have to leave what we know to understand something new, we have to have a whole new level of courage and the number of people who have that level is not as high as we think or would like it to be.
Emotionally, we have to have help to remove that emotional despot/monster who has tormented us, sometimes for life times. Help that is often costly in what we realize we have to leave behind. Imagine that the people who left Europe for the United States had nothing but their courage in their pockets. Most of them had modest means. Yet they longed to know what it would feel like not to be imprisioned.
People who declare their independence from their secret torturers, their old fears, their guilt and sadness also arrive usually with little more than their courage in their pockets. Yet, it is that very courage within them that gets them through as they accept help.
So just maybe the bottom line for any type of independence is the very, very, very first freedom of all, courage. So to all those courageous people throughout history, to all those who have fought for their emotional freedom for themselves and/or others, Happy Independence Day now and for always.
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