{"id":670,"date":"2009-05-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/californiapsychics.us\/2009\/05\/empower-yourself.html"},"modified":"2010-11-18T10:28:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T18:28:13","slug":"empower-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/mind-body-spirit\/empower-yourself.html","title":{"rendered":"Empower Yourself!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">I have heard these exact words from callers over and over again:\u00a0&#8220;I hate feeling this way!&#8221;\u00a0These words\u00a0 are generally expressed in response to relationship distress. So then I ask the individual, &#8220;Well, describe the feeling.&#8221;\u00a0I will present a personal experience which will demonstrate where this is leading and I believe this topic is critical in the healing process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;font-family: Arial\">Over a decade ago, while I was a volunteer in an organization that promoted personal development, an incident occurred that I can never forget.\u00a0It changed my life. At that time my position was referred to as a &#8220;Room Assistant.&#8221; I was basically just there to do the &#8220;Grunt&#8221; work. There were three of us and we had very specific responsibilities. There was an organizational structure to the room and everybody had a boss. This was a particularly large group, around 75 participants.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;font-family: Arial\">One day into the four day seminar, one of the participants chose to leave.\u00a0 We did not know it at the time, but she was the sister of one of the Room Assistants.\u00a0So, he also checked out for a full day, attempting to support his sister. This left myself and the other Room Assistants with an extremely heavy work load.\u00a0Well, one of our responsibilities was during each break, which was only 10 minutes long, to straighten out the room.\u00a0 This included picking up all their notebooks and arranging them alphabetically, straightening out the chairs and specifically removing any chairs of people that had left the seminar.\u00a0 We missed that one!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;font-family: Arial\">When the group returned from break, my companion and I were literally dripping with sweat. The seminar resumed, and the empty seat stood out like a sore thumb.\u00a0The speaker called us up front to face all 75 in the room and proceeded to verbally abuse us for not removing that chair.\u00a0We actually believed we were going to be applauded for our hard work.\u00a0The entire incident was so unfair that one of the people in the audience actually stood up and defended us.\u00a0He was silenced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;font-family: Arial\">We sat back down, both of us seriously shaken. We just sat there, lost in our own shame.\u00a0 We felt abused, not good enough, failures.\u00a0Then something came over me, and I just wanted to help my companion, and I turned to her and whispered in her ear, &#8220;Lupe, you just let him take your power. Do not let anyone ever do that to you again!\u00a0Ever.&#8221;\u00a0The way we felt then, is the way my callers feel when they say, &#8220;I hate feeling like this.&#8221;\u00a0The feeling is\u00a0being POWERLESS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;font-family: Arial\">The bottom line is that no one takes our power.\u00a0We give it up.\u00a0Why?\u00a0Because most humans have one thing in common and this is a general sense of unworthiness.\u00a0This LIE, this misconception manifests an array of behaviors and self-defeating attitudes that only confirm our worst fear that we are NOT good enough. This IS shadow work.\u00a0 Confronting one&#8217;s personal shadow rather than running from it is the key.\u00a0 Then one&#8217;s life becomes something much more than living in reaction to our past imprints. 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