Empowerment! This is a focus of mine and something I have been thinking about a lot lately. My goal with every client, and really everyone I meet, is helping them connect with their power. Power has gained a negative reputation lately. People often think in power over rather then being empowered. I have been looking at our society and why we have such issues with standing in our personal truth and our personal power. If you think about it our society has set up a system of oppressing the very members that create it. We are actually making the choices that create this. I don’t only mean on a spiritual; we create are reality and choose to be here level. I mean everything that is happening that you like and don’t like is happening because of the choices we make as a society. We make choices everyday to give away our power to someone or something else. We allow doctors and hospitals and pharmaceutical companies to dictate to us instead of listening to our own bodies. We believe the fear and half truths that pour out of the education system, government run agencies, and politicians. We trust everything we read online or see on TV and not look for its authenticity or check to see if it rings true in our hearts. We are bombarded everyday with other’s opinions about how we are not eating right, need to fear some other country, fear another person, or how everything is going to kill us. We are told by people in “authority” how wrong we are living our lives. That we must seek an unattainable level of perfection in looks, health, spirituality, morality, behavior, and finances otherwise we have damaged our personal security and should feel bad about it. These are generalizations and nothing is absolute but it is the energy that you push through everyday. People are starting to wake up. The economic crash has people questioning our government, corporations, and these false ideas of security that we have been fed. People who “didn’t want to rock the boat” have had the boat tipped over and are pissed! I’m watching people stand together to demand their rights be respected. As people keep making new choices and voting with their dollar there is a shift happening. Insurance companies now cover; home birth (and midwifery is now legal again), chiropractic, massage, and sometimes acupuncture. More and more products are being created to be environmentally friendly and more companies are making natural and organic products. Families are choosing to home school, unschool, or democratically school their children. Parents are choosing to have one stay at home parent even if it will make money tight. Companies are offering more choices to parents as employees. Co-ops and democratic work environments are popping up everywhere.

I guess my point is choices are out there. Everyone has the ability to do what they want and create the world they want. It may never be your exact ideal world but it can be close. If you don’t like what has been happening in our country, or in your life, or in your town, don’t just sit there. It is because people don’t speak up that things keep going on the way they have. I’m not saying you won’t have consequences but its better then continuing on in the old way. If some one is being insulting tell them they are and how it offends you as openly and non-aggressively as you can. If you see an injustice occurring do what you can to stop it or give compassion and help to those involved. Think about where you spend your money. Research the companies you support.

It is time for all of us to stand in our power. We need to speak up and be real in our lives on a personal level too. Stop hiding your true self from those around you. You need to accept and love yourself. No more excuses. No more running and hiding. The time is now! There is never going to be the perfect situation for you to do what you want. So start doing it, even in small ways, now. When you are truly ready and are not going to let anything get in your way then the universe will start giving you just what you need in each moment. Then you can attract in all that you want. You open to all that you are. I ask you to be brave and step forward into a new world now. Step into love.

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