Awaken your power.

In this episode, Dyanne Kelley and I talk about what it takes to keep moving on a journey toward greater truth and authenticity. We agreed that it begins with deciding that we are worth saving. We also discuss the value of women's stories, the emotional challenges such as guilt and shame, and discuss what it means to ask ourselves the question, Who Am I, Really?

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In this episode, I chat with my friend and founder of Mxe, Heather Corndorf. Here's just a snippet of what she had to say:

"Heather: Right and that these are all the the core values are, these are internal words at MXE, and it's our vision. So, on the surface, it looks like we're, you know, moving around and dancing, laughing which we are, but the whole purpose I see this vision that these people that coming in, they are going to love themselves unconditionally. They're going to have compassion, respect, and then they're going to be able to have the same for the people on the street that they don't know. And their family and friends, and then that's going to just move like wildfire. So, I think that when we see people fighting, when we see racism, when we see leaders saying and doing things that make your jaw drop there is a little bit of pain, there's a lot of pain. And I think that a lot of that has to do with the lack of self love.

When you are in pain, you want other people to be in pain. It's just, it's contagious. You actually want people to be in more pain than you. And I think the same happens with self love."

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There's all kinds of information out there, but then there's also this incredible power we all have just innately, and that's our intuition.

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A lot of what this podcast is talking about so far is power as it relates to our place in the world—our courage to stand up for things, our ability to influence, lead and persuade, our strength as we move out into the world with our voice and our sense of personal authority.

But there is another angle to this kind of power that we are trying to awaken. And that's the power of sovereignty. That power of being in oneself in solitude, in aloneness, and being okay with that. That too, is a kind of power.

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Personal growth was not only for childhood. We are all walking around, wounded in some way. For this planet to heal, and for us humans to continue to evolve, we must begin ourselves. If we don't fully recognize our human stories for what they have to teach us, hoping instead, that by ignoring them they will go away, we will never actually be free

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Growing our power is a process of deepening our knowledge of ourselves and this world and our place within it.

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But now I've learned the importance of empowering myself. When it comes from within, it's a completely different kind of power. It is not a contingent or conditional power. It simply is a part who we are.

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Anger's Fire

"Anyone can become angry, that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way that is not within everyone's power. And it's not easy." Aristotle anger
Anger is a challenging emotion because it is fire and fire is hard to manage.

But when used appropriately, it can create a fire that brings light and illumination into the world. It can bring clarity, it can allow for digest of old ideas and beliefs. It can clear away falsehoods and masks and lies so that we can see the truth beneath all of that. Anger has an important role in this human life. And for us to continually try to pretend that we don't have it, or on the other hand, succumb to it so completely, that we become the actual embodiment of anger. Now, having kidnapped anger, this messenger rather than having allowed it to come and do its job, and then leave.

We get angry about things because they matter to us at some level. And unless we allow anger it's full right to exist in a mature and thoughtful way. We're never going to get the message and will continue to replay it again and again.

Everything takes energy, and we need fire. We need the illumination that sometimes only anger can provide. And the more we cultivate a relationship with anger, the more readily his messages are understood and taken in and accepted, the less he'll will have to visit. The more we will tame this dragon of ours, and he will be at our service. Without it actually causing pain to ourselves or others, we will be able to act upon the underlying message.

We will be able to see what only fire allowed us to see.

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Figure out what it is that truly will make you happy from inside and stop chasing after reputation and status, which are as transitory as a media cycle, as impermanent as a snakeskin.

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Resisting the Pull and Power of the Status Quo

 

The status quo is a force of power that keeps a society stuck. But, to best challenge the societal status quo, we must first challenge our own.

Why is it that as we grow up, we become incurious? As we move from childhood to adulthood, we slowly lose that sense of pushing back, questioning authority, or challenging norms and rules. What's even worse than that? Becoming rigorous defenders of the status quo, bound and determined to prevent anyone with a new idea and a new thought, and a different way of doing things to gain a foothold.

We all know that the status quo keeps us stuck. It keeps us from our own growth. Therefore, it is important for us as human beings, if we want to remain awake and aware, if we want to come into our own power, that we challenge the power of the status quo. For it truly is a power. It is a force of energy backed by decades, generations, maybe even a millennia of custom, tradition, and belief.

For our personal and collective growth, we need to create a society in which we look for the friction and we look for the rub and we embrace the discomfort. It is in the process of taking something down that we build something better in its place.

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