Empowered with Love

As humans, we struggle.

Doesn’t it seem odd to you that struggle is something we all have in common?

I guess the question I have is: Is struggle our true nature?

I don’t think it is.

Love and being in joy are our true divine natures and we are first and foremost divine beings. In a human body, we experience life on earth to grow and evolve our souls. I believe we give ourselves experiences so we can so we can make choices of how we choose to be in any given moment.

If someone were to say something unfortunate to you, how do you choose to react? Do you rip them a new one or do you understand that in that moment they went unconscious and didn’t know better or couldn’t do better. How we react is a choice.

Choosing to react by yelling back is one way we suffer. We assume the person meant to harm us rather than taking a breath and seeing their pain. We match their pain with our pain.

Suffering.

What would happen if we met their pain with love? With understanding? With empathy? Not what we normally think of as empathy where we somehow think we need to take on another’s pain, but rather to reach out energetically and say “I feel your pain, here let me share this love from my heart.”

Suffering is a human construct. It comes in part from the ego. As humans, we need the ego – it isn’t all bad.  However, it can be very persistent and when it wants what it doesn’t have, it can make itself a victim. It can feel sorry for itself when it doesn’t get its way and can use fear as a way to control. As a divine human being, you have been created in love. That’s what you are. The ego has a hard time with that. The ego has illusions of grandeur that says being in control is important, being right is important, and more than anything power is the key to everything.

There’s a difference though between the ego’s power and divine power. Divine power knows that ego is a big talker and needs the bravado to have a sense of self. Divine power knows the self is connected to the larger Self, to all things. From this place, the feeling of power is humble. It simply knows itself to be the truth. It doesn’t need anything.

There have been times when I’ve mentioned in a newsletter or in a client session that taking back our power is something we need to do. This is often met with the retort of “Isn’t power something we’re trying to move away from?”
Yes, if you’re thinking of ego power, but not at all if you’re thinking of divine power and living from the love of your heart.

Living an empowered life means being in touch with the heart, that place inside that knows what is true. It guides us from the place of compassion, love, empathy, and gratitude for self and others. When we bring these into our everyday lives, we can start to let go of the struggle and become empowered divine humans living on earth with joy.