Personal Power - A Case of Mistaken Identity

Reclaim your personal power with authority and courage.  When you want to know about something or how to achieve a goal, it needs to be approached with nothing less than victory.

What is personal power? It is a feeling of something you are waiting to express or bring about.  A feeling of authority that you have the ability to overcome, to change, to open up to the power that lives in you. You are life.  Your will and intelligence governs this expression and expansion.  It is natural to step into your personal power when you reclaim your authority over your life.

Who are you?  What are you?  Only you can answer these questions.  We are designed magnificently to be unlimited, to create.  We can sculpt, maneuver and design our existence in any way we wish, once we escape the imprisoning fears, philosophies, educational systems and religions determined to keep us in a state of mediocrity. The old power systems are failing to control us.  People are realizing we each have the ability to reclaim our power, our ability to think, to create, to be conscious, to be aware, to live in courage, to see truth, to feel, to know.

How will you demonstrate your freedom, your courage, your power and authority? It seems we are beginning to wipe the sleep from our eyes.  You can liberate your identity or continue to expand on mistaken identity. We are not who we have been told we are.

We have believed all the I Am’s…sick, limited, sad, victim, struggling, abused, confused, ugly, fat, etc…the constant building of mistaken identity. Change the I AM’s to reclaim your power and authority.  Who do you want to be?  Only you can decide.  Self talk is powerful.  What are the quiet conversations you have with yourself?  The story you feed yourself.  Is it destructive or full of personal power and authority?

Each of us hold our power inside.  It was never out there in the world.  For centuries of time, there have been many who brought us that message.  Now we are seeing old systems built on lies, fear, manipulation and control being revealed and crumbling everywhere you look.

New systems of government, business, banking, technology, communication, learning and living will move into place.  The next few years will bring about change throughout the world. We are a global community, sharing and coming together for the greater good for all people. There is a bright new world emerging from the rubble.  Will you be ready to step into it?

Take your power back in full authority.  In reclaiming power, you must be willing to stop feeding a mistaken identity. There may be a temporary appearance because of former self talk, but you can say NO.  I AM not sick, poor, overweight, limited, ugly, confused, etc.  I AM healthy, happy, productive, unlimited, beautiful, magnificent, creative or whatever powerful statements work for you.  Feel this reality.

Just the energy of saying powerful creative words feels good, brings up our spirit, confidence, courage and feelings of happiness.  Compare to how it feels when you think about the negative alternative.  I AM limited is the choice of not to be.  To be or not to be?

Are you willing to be restored to the truth that you have the power and authority over your life?  Reclaim your true identity. It is not complicated.  The simplicity is…choose life, creativity, abundance, courage, this present moment, love and happiness.  If you continue to tell yourself you are broke, confused, unable or any old stories, you are feeding a false identity.

The I AM that you are is the artist and the director.  Who this I AM becomes, you get to decide - you get to choose.  Live in your freedom and authority. Stand free to live the beautiful courageous life you came here to live.

Debra Oakland @ Living in Courage

The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.  Nothing should be able to harm a man but himself.  What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance,
~~~ Oscar Wilde

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Happy vs Unhappy - A Wonderful Quote

“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.”

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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Courage & Grace

You wake up in the morning, feeling great and ready to take on the world.  Your are positive that your day will be wonderful and then ka-boom, you get pulled out of the happy place and into feelings that make you not so happy. We need to stop ourselves from getting pulled out and going into the human reactor mode. To be a human reactor is constantly reacting to a world of effects that seem to make us smaller and take us out of our power.  We are not here to react, we are here to create, to generate, to build. Not to react and not to take from this world.  In this way we will change the way the world has lived for thousands of years.

What supports us?  Grace & Courage. If you live from the outside in, you are constantly reacting to the stimuli outside that makes you less.  Living from the inside out will make you more, a power to reckon with, making change to build, to create the life you dream of. Spiritual or positive self talk (give it whatever name you want), helps you to build your inner center into a powerful place that you can live your life out of.  

Let’s talk about grace, which gives us the courage to take one mighty step after another.  Welcome grace into your life and all your experiences.  Wear it, be it, smell it, taste it, see it, live it. Grace will reveal love to you and lift you above the turmoil of the world and all that seems difficult.  Have you ever really thought about this word.  Now might be a good time.  Grace opens the way to wisdom and illumination to guide you in your choices and decisions. We have Will (a force, a power) inside each of us that drives every quality, giving us passion, which unfolds into our creative expression.  Grace can take everything that opposes the joy of life and transform it.

What is your relationship with your home, environment, creativity, work and employment, friends, and family? How does grace act when you don’t limit it?  I suggest you try living in courage and grace.  This experiment and experience my surprise you.  Where do you live the center of your life from?  This is a big question.   When we take ourselves off of automatic pilot and start answering the bigger questions with honesty, then we become expanded, conscious, and powerful.  Live in Courage and choose Grace.

Debra Oakland @ Living in Courage Online

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Use Courage and Wisdom to Live a Happier Life

It is through experience that knowledge becomes wisdom.  Wisdom is a great gift.  When used properly, wisdom can assist us to live a life of peace.  What do you search and strive for in your life?  For each one of us it appears in different forms.  Hopefully at some point we become wise enough to see the walls we have built around ourselves that limit us.  Allowing ourselves to release and let go of all that does not work in our life any longer takes courage and inner strength.  These walls of resistance are sometimes invisible even to our own eyes.  It is so easy to look at someone else’s life and see why things are not working out for them.  Yet when we look at ourselves, we often miss what limits us.  I know I want to be a happy little miracle maker.  How about you?  I think we all feel that way.  Some serious contemplation and examination may be necessary (when you are ready) to make profound shifts in your life.  There are millions of books on the subject of living a better, happier, healthier life.  Why then is the world not filled with happy, healthy, successful, peaceful, fulfilled people?  It is sometimes even hard to find people that are filled with true joy.

Our world seems to have sped up at a pace no one can keep up with.  Everyone is busy, busy, busy.  No time is the mantra everyone hears from each other.  People want and need more time just to get through the day and accomplish tasks, just to keep up.

It is time to take the journey back to self, back to love.  Living in the past will only complicate your life and do nothing to build a better brighter future for yourself and your family.  The future does not exist yet.  The moment you are in right now creates your next moments, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years.  This is so simple, that we just don’t get it.  The few who do live happy lives.  How do you feel right now?  Think about this, because it is all that exits.  Imagine a tightrope.  You are standing on the tightrope, which represents NOW.  On one side is the past and the other is the future.  Do you notice there is nothing there? Absolutely nothing.  The past is gone as soon as the moment passes.  The only thing that keeps it alive is your mind or a memory, that’s it.  Imagine the things people could let go of if the past is released into the nothingness that it is.

Embrace the NOW moment.  What do you want?  In the fullness of this moment happening NOW, you get to decide.  Your moments gain momentum and appear in the physical for you to experience.  So, if you get to choose, wouldn’t you want something wonderful in your life?  Every moment you stay peaceful, joyful, productive and take action towards your dreams, you take a step closer to the life you want to live. I want this life for myself and work towards it daily.  Old patterns and habits are exactly that - old, and keep us stuck in a continual rut.  I want out and am climbing that ladder one step at a time, one day at a time by practicing the art of living in the NOW moment.  The more you can stay present, miracles do start happening.  The phone rings, connections are made, people supply you with information or bring you something you needed (without having to ask.) Synchronicity is happening all around you.  Oops! then we forget and go back to old patterns and get old results.

Remember to pull yourself back to NOW as often as you can, until it becomes a great new habit that will reshape your life.  I did not say it would be easy in the beginning.  Just get your foot in the door, use courage, and please trust that things will shift for you when you let go of the judgments and move into joy.  What I wish and dream of for myself, I wish for and dream of for everyone everywhere.  I send you love and support in your best life lived in the courage each of you represent to me.

Debra Oakland @ Living in Courage Online

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Are You Happy?

What makes one person happy and not another?  Many years ago the Sociology Department at Duke University did a study on “Peace of Mind”.  After studying hundreds of people, both happy and unhappy, nine factors were found to contribute to emotional and mental stability.

l.  The absence of suspicion and resentment.  Holding a grudge was the major factor in unhappiness

2.  Living in the present and the future. Much unhappiness stems from an unwholesome preoccupation with past mistakes and failures.

3.  Not wasting time and energy fighting conditions you cannot change.

4.  Cooperating with life, instead of trying to either demolish it or run away from it.

5.  Forcing yourself to be outgoing with others-instead of retreating within-during times of emotional  stress.

6.  Refusing to pity yourself or seek self-justification in easy alibis that make you appear “noble” to yourself   and others.

7.  Cultivating the old-fashioned virtues of love, honor, loyalty, thrift.  ( We add courage to the list at Living in  Courage.)

8.  Not putting too much pressure on yourself.  When there is a wide gap between the standards you set for yourself and your actual achievement, unhappiness if inevitable.  If you cannot improve your performance, try lowering the demand instead.

9.  Finding something bigger than yourself in which to believe. Self–centered, egotistical, materialistic people score lowest of all in any test measured for happiness.

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Gratitude - Gratitude - Gratitude

Today I am grateful for every beat of my heart, for every breath I take, and this gift of life I have been given. What are you grateful for? Think about it. Gratitude is essential for manifestation. How can we be given more when we are not grateful for what is already in our lives? Doesn’t that seem to go against the natural laws of the universe? As a whole, we greatly underestimate the power we hold to create excellence on our lives.

Those who have achieved greatness in the face of adversity pushed through every obstacle, using their will, courage and spirit that is the core of achievement. There are many times when we get what we want, and instead of savoring the moment in gratitude, off we go, running to the next thing that seems so important. Focus is lost. Gratitude is sometimes forgotten or ignored. We start asking why our lives are not working as well as expected. A circle of activity that repeats over and over until we take action to make things change.

With the wonderful presence of new technologies, the pace of life has accelerated greatly, leaving many people with “not enough time” for the simple pleasures in life. Make a choice to choose what brings you joy and peace. Be grateful. When waking up decide how you want your day to go by placing a clear picture of the activities in your mind, feeling positive and successful. When going to bed in the evening, be grateful for the activities of the day. Write it down 5 things. That may help put it in a more solid form for you to look at from time to time. This will keep you out of worry and negative thinking habits, allowing your mind to reprogram itself to success. You are so powerful. Take a stand in your life. It is so important you do this. Your happiness and a courageous life “well lived” depends on it. I send my love to each of you as you take your stand in the joy your were meant to be. Go out and make it a great day.

Debra Oakland

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A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle

In A New Earth, Tolle expands powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.

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Lunch Today in Laguna Beach

Have you ever been in one of your favorite restaurants, happily munching, when you hear a loud voice incessantly talking negative about other people? Today was that day. I should have moved, but I did not notice “the voice” until my food was delivered. I must have heard the word “narcissist” 25 times, loudly repeated in the course of one conversation. Everyone this person talked about had a problem and this person had all the answers. I almost fell to the ground in gratitude that I have been reading Eckhart Tolle’s new book “A New Earth”, as it saved me from wanting to turn around and scream “are you freaking kidding me with this crap”. I took a big breath, noticing a woman at the next table having similar thoughts. After I tried singing along to the song being played in the restaurant and sticking my fingers in my ears, I stopped myself, quit judging, labeling or placing any importance on this person. I know better. I realize that people come across our path and are brought to our attention for a reason. What we do with it, is entirely up to us. I decided to ask for the highest and greatest good for this person, blessed them, and went on chewing fast, leaving as soon as possible.

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle could not have arrived on the scene at a more perfect time. I applaud Oprah in presenting this book and the author, every Monday night on her website for 10 weeks. This is the world’s largest online classroom of around 700,000 people and over 1.5 million listening to the link after the Monday classes. If you are interested in the planet earth, all relationships, finances, physical health, mental health and happiness, politics, any belief system of any kind, this is the book for you. Most of the people I know are reading it or participating in the online classroom. What is great, is if you miss the Monday night class, you can go to www.oprah.com and listen to the whole class the next day. I love seeing people from all over the world involved.

Debra

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