A Note on Powerlessness
You may have been told you are powerless. You may believe it. I've felt it, feel it sometimes still until I remember…..
It's not true.
Nine ways to connect with your power
1. Your power is found in acceptance.
Accepting that “this” is your thing right now. A family member or loved one with a health condition or your own health condition that needs proper care.
2. Your power is found in taking responsibility. Response-ability
How am I “able” to “respond” in a manner that serves the health and wellbeing of self and others. What is my responsibility as a mother? A partner, a family member, friend? to support proper care, to provide care, to be caring.
3. Your power is found in education.
What is "this thing." What am I up against? How is this properly treated/handled? How do I move barriers to healing and wellbeing? What is my part in creating, perpetuating an environment of wellness? What needs healing in me?
4. Your power is found in discernment.
Being curious about your perceptions, your beliefs, your actions and learning how to discern what may be conditioned, learned or untrue and finding a fresh perspective, action, belief to ground in.
5. Your power is found in choice.
How you respond to this thing is your choice. How you care for this thing is your choice. Choose powerfully. Choose with love.
6. Your power is found in action.
It might mean moving your body to move emotions, performing an act of self care or kindness or having an uncomfortable conversation or facing your thing head on and fully investing in healing & wellbeing.
7. Your power is found in emotional regulation.
Learning to regulate and practicing regulating your emotions and your nervous system makes way for your most powerful brain function, receptivity and authentic connection and communication.
8. Your power is found in sensing.
Being in your body and able to respond to instincts & intuition rather than reacting from fear and emotional dysregulation. Feeling into what is correct, safe, nourishing, nurturing in the moment.
9. Your power is found in healing.
Powerlessness is paralyzing, debilitating.
Sometimes, just the tiniest shift in perception, awareness, in your body, towards connection, towards clarity, towards nourishment, towards the earth or another being will restore your power.