Embodying Our Power
July 7, 2010
You cannot do anything unless you have the energy for it.
That’s such an obvious statement. You feel that you know what it means and yet you also realise that it says very little. There’s such a big wide-open space waiting, calling for your skill and understanding to land the latest spark of genius in it. That spark is mighty tricky. It hovers at the edge of recognition and then winks out again, compelling you to retrace your steps to find other words, other concepts that better fit your inspiration of what you want to say.
And there is so much to say about energy and the experience of embodying our power. Our power though is not based solely around a sensitivity to energy. To feel energy, to experience vitality, is only one way to talk about embodiment. Embodiment is about decision making, intelligence, physical relatedness, collective consciousness, and our understanding of what it is to be here. We need to take charge of and be responsible for everything that we are about. Decide what we are here for and then embody that in a powerful way.
Conscious embodiment allows us to let go of personal roles and a conformity to what doesn’t apply to us: it allows us to create ourselves newly. Questions such as “Who am I?” become completely irrelevant. “Who am I?“ is often echoed when people transition through an energy shift or are not clear on how to remake their lives. Here is what I offered to my beautiful friend Lisbeth, when she asked for advice on how she could understand herself better.
An even better question, I said to her, is “What level of work should I focus on next?“. For it’s really a matter of choosing something that’s important to you and then getting on with it.
So my advice is -
- Know that you are incredibly gifted in sensing and relating to energy, in ways that can benefit others.
- Feel that energy inside you all the time, able to be utilised at a moment’s notice.
- Find a focus for that energy on a daily basis.
- See that you are a front-runner of energetic mastery for a whole new generation of people, coming awake to themselves and their place in the world.
- Weave the power of that knowing into everything that you do.
- Each day wake up to yourself as a new expression of all that you stand for.
- Love who you are being in every possible way; align the whole of your life with your power; and glorify everyone that you meet – simply by being you.
As you read this, you will of course have your own ideas of what it is to embody power. You might pick over the words but you’ll have some general direction of where to take all of this.
It’s important to me that we lead our lives in an energetically masterful way, doing whatever is appropriate in alignment with the feelings that are evoked in us. But I’ve come to see that the knowing of what we stand for and the declaration of what we embody, is always there, whether we feel the energy of it or not. So I have to revise my opening statement to take account of that.
Once you have the energy for / of something then you literally know all there is to know about it, either because you are sourcing the intelligence of it or because you have an intimate relationship with energy. But also, once you make a declaration of what you wish to embody then you are the living embodiment of that, even when you can no longer feel the initial surges of what you thought would stay in place forever. What does stay is the commitment for being brilliant and the ability to know that whatever happens – however things look – you are the power of it in action, and therefore you get the say in how it all turns out.
Summer of Fun
July 2, 2010
The weather in the South of England is gloriously hot and seems ready to stay that way for the rest of the summer. So shades on, cover up well if you’re sun sensitive, and set up the garden gazebo – for it’s time to get out and play.
I’ve noticed over the past few months a growing desire for dancing, my body suggesting that it likes to explore rhythm and movement. So Soleira and I signed up for Salsa lessons, and I practice away early in the morning and just before bed.
Fun is sure on my mind. Let’s have fun. At the end of a recent teleclass, I was impelled to tell someone to get out onto the streets and have a party. You know, along the lines of the T-Mobile ads, where a big group of people spontaneously (orchestrated) burst into action. [see below]
A summer of fun is definitely brewing and now … here is my contribution to edge it along. So sing along in your best disco party voice, and see if you have the energy to jiggle for several rounds of it.
“Take To The Streets”
Dance, dance, don’t wait for a chance – to show us all your moves!
Dance, dance, without a glance to see if we’re in the groove.
For when you’re on fire and a sparkling
And your hips are a jiggling and shaking
Then there’s nothing can stop you from having
The most fabulous time of your life.
So take to the streets, and show us the beat,
That sets our bodies a moving,
And show us your power
On the beat every hour
Cos’ we’re here for the whole of the night …
Cos’ we’re here for the rest of our life.