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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Feel Your Joy by Andy Dooley

Feel your love, feel your joy.

Be the change you want to see.

Celebrate today, and feel your power now!

It’s always more FUN to give than receive!

Andy Dooley

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I Wonder What the Courage of Love Will Do Now.

As I sit here pondering Courage and Love, I have to ask some questions about love.  What kind of love do we indulge in?  Love that is scintillating, ecstatic in its newness and grows like the sands of time.  Love that leaves you sad, empty, lonely, jealous or grieving.  All human love is based on positive and negative.  Then I began to think about a different kind of love.  An all encompassing pure, true love that is the essence of who we are when we are not in duality (positive or negative).

This kind of love can seem impossible to acquire, yet it exists in each one of us.  It seems to me that we are all one mind, one heart that has fragmented into thousands, millions of languages and skin color.  Yet we are all one, all connected.  People around the world talk about the connection we all have with each other.

In situations of your life, whether you are trying to create, accomplish, correct, start new, leave behind, overcome or anything you can throw out there, it seems that there is so much resistance acting. When there is not enough love, resistance acts.  I am not talking about human love, I am talking about a love that is our core..that we have been disconnected with as a human race.  This love holds the Unity of Light ( masculine, the mind) and Love (feminine, the heart)  and holds all the powers of the Universe.  It has intelligence, will, power and everything in it.  There is not one thing missing. Have you thought about this?  I really want to anchor some key ideas about this and let it integrate deep into the soul, the heart, where love is.

Love loves to fulfill, to make things happen. It is part of the Earth, a force that gives life to everything.  My best thinking tells me that when we disconnect from the mass collective consciousness of fear, there is a much higher consciousness to tap into. When you tap into pure love, one of the effects is that the mass consciousness has less power over your mind, feelings and body.  We all want miracles in our lives, where are they going to come from?  Can you carry a different kind of love?. Are you ready for it? I know I am.   There is a better way.  Use the courage you came into this world with and make some powerful decisions about how you want to live your life.  Love or Fear.  You have free will and you get to choose.  Our free will is what sets us apart from other life forms on earth.

There is a magnetic force in the atmosphere that assists us to manifest. This magnetic force is compromised because of the free will people have used for good and evil.  Our energy is tapped, we get tired, sometimes the clarity is not there.  When we move towards pure love that is timeless and selfless, there is this great storehouse of love waiting to broadcast out to the world, bringing into reality our purpose for this life on earth.  I wish you great success in your life’s journey.

I send you love from my heart to yours,

Debra Oakland @ Living in Courage

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Have Courage - Release Resistance - Grab a Miracle

Do you have the courage to let go of resistance in your life?  I think we all want to live as our authentic courageous self. We all have areas of our lives where we feel challenged daily. Ultimately there is a knowing as to where the resistance is, and how it is acting up in our lives. Take a look at it - go deep inside and really look at what holds you back. Walk with it, be with it.  This is something you can take your time with.  Don’t seek to measure this as something outside yourself, maybe the effect is something outside of yourself, but the resistance creating the condition is inside you.  When you find it, do you have the courage to let the resistance go?  When there is resistance to anything, there is not enough love. If you are choosing something, yet day after day you are challenged, there is not enough love.  Instead of feeding the resistance, teach yourself to surrender, and watch it turn into something beautiful.

Take the journey back to who you truly are. Are you ready to know that miracles, or what the world calls miracles, are the natural way of living life and they unfold naturally when you are in your higher power of love? Ask yourself, is there anything in me that can interfere with the unfoldment of my miracles? Ultimately the only thing that can interfere with a miracle is fear. What is this fear specializing in? Is it one of the children of fear, such as hatred, revenge, jealousy, judgment, doubt?  Resistance is fear. Miracles are a higher power that have an opportunity to act in our lives.  When you use your free will to fear, then that is a force in which the miracle coming to you, must stand aside and wait.  The miracle of you is waiting.

Trust your life, keep choosing love and you will experience what love - loves to fulfill.  This planet is craving beauty, magnificence, restoration of her elements and perfection.  When will the nonsense of destructive human free will stop?  When enough humans come back to their hearts and into love, this planet will change. The 4 elements ( fire, air, earth and water) will respond to this love.  Restoration will begin.  This planet desperately needs to heal, just as we do.

Thanks to the power of the internet, destructive individuals are being exposed.
Around the world people are connecting on common ground, even though many in positions of power have tried to separate and control us through fear. Keep your eye on love and peace, not just for yourself and your family, but for our world family.  Look at the bigger picture instead of the small details. It is our job to turn and face the light and have the courage to turn our backs on all that is destructive. When people of the world come together in peace and those we place in positions of power direct their influence for the highest and greatest good for all, the healing will begin on a global level.

Peace For All,
Debra Oakland

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I Celebrate the Courage in all Mothers

Today is my birthday and I celebrate the Courage in all mothers everywhere. I really think that if anyone gets a gift, it should be my mom. The photo here is of my beautiful mother, BJ Welch.  I must express my gratitude for all the years of nurturing, support and love I received. I was very fortunate to have had a great childhood. Thank you mom for all your unconditional love and the courage you exhibited throughout your life. Losing family to cancer, AIDS, a drunk driver, heart attacks, etc, has been challenging, but we have grown immensely through the process of life’s events. So I celebrate today for you. Thank you for bringing me safely into being who I am today. I dedicate Living In Courage to you. I love you.

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Imagination by Andy Dooley

You are the master creator of your reality,
It is your imagination that holds the key.

Unlock your treasure chest and open your heart,
Pour out all your love, and live the part.

All your dreams are waiting for you,
Love yourself and follow through.

Andy Dooley

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Love Qualities

144 Qualities of Love

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What are your 7 Wonders of the World?

A group of students were asked to list what they thought were
the present “Seven Wonders of the World.” Though there were
some disagreements, the following received the most votes:

1. Egypt’s Great Pyramids
2. Taj Mahal
3. Grand Canyon
4. Panama Canal
5. Empire State Building
6. St. Peter’s Basilica
7. China’s Great Wall

While gathering the votes, the teacher noticed that one
quiet student hadn’t turned in her paper yet. So she asked
the girl if she was having trouble with her list. The girl
replied, “Yes, a little. I couldn’t quite make up my mind
because there were so many.”

The teacher said, “Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we
can help.”

The girl hesitated, then read, “I think the ‘Seven Wonders
of the World ” are:

1. to see
2. to hear
3. to touch
4. to taste
5. to feel
6. to laugh
7. and to love.”

Author: Unknown

If you feel inclined, please share your 7 Wonders with us at Living in Courage. You could change someones day, bring a smile, or start a new line of thought. Come to think of it, anything could happen. Make it a fabulous day.

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World’s Stongest Dad

Now this is courage on fire. I can only imagine, like the song says. What a vision of mutual love and respect.

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