Being powerful isn’t a process of doing, it’s a process of undoing.
Power isn’t something you find, it’s something you already have. It’s your inherent nature. If you’re experiencing powerlessness, the key to overcoming this is not by becoming more powerful, but by removing what prevents you from feeling powerful. Invariably—thoughts: limiting beliefs, self-defeating thinking, unhelpful behaviours, driven by fear and compounding fear.
Thriving not endurance threshold is the measure of power
We often mistake enduring hardship for power. We think that power is the ability to clench our jaws more tightly, give ourselves a kick in the butt, and just endure the suffering we’re going through. Increasing our threshold for suffering isn’t being powerful—it’s being misdirected and unkind. Power isn’t in shouldering suffering, it’s in seeing through suffering.
It’s in telling the reality of what is from our story about it. It’s in honesty and truth. It’s in diving in and cutting through all the thinking and experiencing the sense of clarity, space and lightness on the other side of this.