(an excerpt)

Without a doubt women have been devalued and conditioned to believe that they are powerless to effect their lives in ways that will allow them to touch their genius and unleash their potential. It is now, in this moment in time, where we are being given the opportunity through different experiences, of walking into the expansion of our truest selves and encouraged to deepen our own understanding of our innate power.

Have we misinterpreted Power?

Shakespeare said that life is but a play and on its stage are just actors. Indeed, life at this point in time appears to be steeped in the drama of different soap operas. We all know that the soap operas of today’s time feeds the fantasy of the illusion, the fairytale, from money to sex to deception, control and material success, whilst at the same time, overtly or covertly makes a mockery of Love and Truth by turning a blind eye and hardened heart to the pain caused by the betrayal to human emotions. Is the abandonment of our Truth and power of self-belief, the reason why what could be the beauty and romance of life has turned into the confusion of wounded souls, the tragedy of saddened eyes and the heartbreak of troubled minds?

The current climate of the world where women and men are able to employ the means and methods of enhancing their physical attractiveness, albeit a plus for one’s self-esteem, runs the risk and danger of feeding one’s fantasy and illusion that the definition of power lies in external phenomena and in what they can secure for themselves from others. This mind-set has grown to such mammoth proportions, that it borders on the elements of narcissism. Many have disregarded their authentic self, and become what they are not, in an attempt to secure the fantasy of what they see around them and believe to be their escape into joy and happiness.

In truth, fantasy is just that. A fantasy. It has no security, does not like victims and is relentless in its pursuit to fill a void that unfortunately can never be filled. This is because Power does not lie out there, but in here, in you and it is not about what you secure from others for your own needs but rather what you can give. It is through this giving that meaning is effected and it is through meaning that one begins to live their authentic self. Within the authentic self, lies one’s power.

Power is not about controlling another person, how they think, how they feel, or what they do for you. Your power does not lie manipulating another person’s mind set or effect their behaviour for your gain. Power is not about ‘enslaving’ someone to meet your needs.

Power is about acknowledging the other and respecting their attempt to unfold their potential by sincerely supporting their individuation process despite your own ego needs. Power lies in your one sense of self-worth and in the ability to support the attempt of another to develop their own worthiness of self.