Your own empowerment is integral and personal to you. That is to say, your personal power is a significant aspect of who you already are. It is not something that is separate or apart from you which you need to obtain, control or measure. Your own internal, personal power is not determined by how much influence or control you wield over your environment or over others.

In a highly personal sense, it is permission that you give yourself to consciously (in your normal waking state of consciousness) tap into more of you and your own energy. By so doing, you can then easily recognize the choices which are at hand and permit yourself to act on those choices in the here and now.

This is a perceptual action by which you create and accomplish what it is you desire to create and accomplish. It is an internal movement toward access and acceptance of all you, not just acceptance of those aspects or portions which others allow you to express. It is as natural as natural can be.

Empowerment is a gentle movement within yourself which revolves around a simple shift in your perception. It does not involve laborious treadmill exercises to get motivated or improve or develop. This simple perceptual shift within your consciousness may more accurately be viewed as a continuous opening up to who you already are, and thus distinguished from continuously pushing yourself to become something you’re not.

In a nutshell, personal empowerment is your own personal, direct authority over your own life and person, and the present, objective ability to create what you desire in your experience within the physicality of your day-to-day waking reality.

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Others have a vested interest in convincing you of the opposite: that something or someone other than yourself is a better, more complete, higher or more pure source of information about you than you are. That is the business of all manner of social, political and religious belief systems and institutions.

Getting in touch with your own personal power is not, however, a result or a function of being granted some sort of temporary stewardship over yourself, or of having your choices dictated to you by others. That approach leads to dis-empowerment.

Empowerment, on the other hand, is the moment-to-moment trust in your own guidance as well as a reliance on your own internal indicators. And those indicators and internal communications are immediately available – right here and right now – from within yourself.

This does not mean that you cannot or should not share information or take advice from another. Nor does it mean that you are an island independent from all others. What it does mean, however, is that you are the immediate as well as the ultimate source of your own personal power and freedom.

While you may not be objectively or fully aware of how to access and act on the information you provide yourself, know that it is there, and that it is available to you. You only need to look to yourself, rely on yourself and trust yourself.

Consciously acknowledging and recognizing yourself as your own best authority in all matters pertaining to you is a critically important key to unlocking your own personal power. And trusting yourself to act as your own authority is essential to sustaining your personal power in all circumstances and at all times.

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The expression of victim has to do with choosing to view your life as an unrelenting series of events and circumstances which unavoidably happen to you. In this mode, rather than viewing your life as an incredible, wondrous expression within physicality, you view yourself as a helpless victim of your environment, of your own personal history and experiences, of other people and even of yourself. Pain, suffering, anxiety and trauma abound.

Directing your own energy, on the other hand, generates quite a different view and experience. As you direct your own energy you literally empower yourself to go in the direction that you prefer to go in. As a result, you naturally feel better and more in touch, in sync, with yourself. And for good reason – you are more in sync with yourself. In this orientation, life is an uplifting, inspiring and satisfying experience. And, yes, even fun!

This choice of perceptual orientation also influences your experience in another powerful way. What and how you express within your energy essentially attracts more of the same. Now, that doesn’t happen due to some sort of immutable like-attracts-like cosmic law, as is fashionable to say.

Rather, as you get more in sync with yourself by directing your own energy, and as you view and appreciate your day-to-day reality as a creation of your own energy, you reflect that and allow yourself more freedom of movement.

Now, let’s do a quick time out and consider another perspective: there is nothing inherently wrong with orienting and viewing yourself as a victim. Victim is also your own creation. And the creation of victim is not any better or any worse than any other expression – assuming, that is, that you have chosen that expression. What is dis-empowering and enervating, however, is being stuck on auto-pilot, so to speak, and not recognizing the ever-present choices you do actually have.

Recognize that you always have choice and that you configure and express your personal power to the extent that you consciously act as a director of your energy. This perceptual awareness and conscious action puts you in sync with yourself and thus leads you, naturally and effortlessly, to personal empowerment and freedom.

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Step one. Consider the fact that while you may be in first gear, there are many other gears available to you! This is a significant point. The reason you may not feel that you can get out of first gear may simply be that you are not actually offering yourself a genuine choice of moving into second gear.

And to be naturally motivated, the choice needs to come from inside you. It needs to be a real world possibility in your life in the here and now.

So what keeps you from seeing more of your available choices? Well, are you receiving enough information from yourself about moving forward into second gear? Or are you focused primarily, if not exclusively, on your thoughts and the resulting frustration of not moving forward?

Focusing your attention on your thoughts would be like limiting yourself to, say, the fuel gauge while driving. Don’t get me wrong, the fuel gauge is important. But it’s certainly not the whole picture. To actually shift gears, you need to take in quite a bit more information in real time. You need a tachometer worth of information!

Similarly, although you continuously offer yourself a great deal of information, by-and-large you may only be focused on what your thoughts are telling you. And that focus on your thoughts to the exclusion of other internal communication is likely to limit your choices. Or, more accurately, limit your view of your choices.

From this perspective, a simple solution to get yourself into second gear, to move forward, to get motivated, is to allow yourself to be open and aware of what information you are already, continuously, offering yourself.

For example, are you in touch with your feelings and emotions? How about your intuition and imagination? Are you taking advantage all of that content rich information?

Once you start to take advantage of the broad spectrum of information available through your own personal empowerment dashboard, you may find that shifting gears in your life can be quite easy, even to the point of being effortless!

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Without the slightest exaggeration, genuinely understanding exactly how these two actions are different can bring you to the magical heart of personal empowerment.

Why is it such an important distinction? Well, it’s important because you actually express your power by doing, not by merely thinking about doing. Of course, there is obviously nothing wrong with thinking, and we would all do well to encourage more of it – as anyone who even skims the daily news already knows!

As you connect and get grounded, or, in other words, as you begin to focus more of your attention on what you are actually doing – rather than remaining focused almost exclusively on what you may think you are doing – you will begin to gently move toward yourself. And being in touch with yourself is the best motivator.

This is no small thing! In fact, it’s quite magical. Many personal empowerment systems from cultures around the world are based on this simple perceptual adjustment. And the beauty of it is that there are no outside restrictions – you are free to refocus your attention anytime and anywhere.

Being more in touch with yourself by noticing what you are actually doing is also quite powerful. It puts you in a position of allowing yourself to then adjust and direct the experiences that you are generating in your life – rather than having to plod and suffer through what otherwise might appear to be happening to you. And that’s because what you are actually experiencing moment-to-moment is about the best indication you actually have as to what you have chosen to do and experience.

Directing your experiences within an awareness of yourself and your own action instead of carrying around the weight of your existence as a helpless victim will, almost magically, produce a sea change in your life. By redirecting your attention in this way, you will begin to move rather effortlessly with increased awareness and freedom.

It all begins with simply noticing what you are actually doing rather than mindlessly focusing on what you think you are doing. Try it. Get grounded by noticing and paying attention to what you are actually doing, and see what happens.

No doubt you will be in for a real surprise!

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The words development and improvement present the strong and rather unmistakable, underlying assumption that there are things inside you that need improvement… because… well, because you are (reportedly, at least) deficient, broken or defective in some manner!

However, isn’t that an incredible assumption? What if you are not deficient, not broken, not defective? What if it’s all there, where and how you placed it or wanted to experience it?

If this is the actual situation, do you really need a new, improved you? Or, just a broader awareness of all that is actually going on within all of you?

Consider this perspective:

You are not deficient nor are you broken or defective in any way. Rather, you may merely be objectively unaware of all of what you are actually creating in your life or how you are creating it, which, in turn, may now be generating a bit of confusion or stress in your life.

The word objectively as used here means that which you are consciously aware of in your normal everyday waking life. 

This perspective allows you to connect with some quite amazing things about yourself. First, it’s great to know that you are not broken! Perhaps really confused at the moment – but not actually broken or defective!

Second, there’s now no reason to put yourself down simply because, at one point in time, you may be objectively unaware of all that you are doing. This is not an excuse for behavior, but it is a significant perspective on personal empowerment.

And third, gently turning your attention back to yourself so that you allow yourself an expanded awareness of what you are actually creating and how you are creating it has to be easier than trying to tinker with and fix amorphous and deficient internal workings! You are not software computer code.

Moreover, as you do turn your attention toward yourself and appreciate what you are creating, you actually generate an awareness of your own personal power and the choices you actually have at hand. This movement leads to personal empowerment and creative action.

While words like development and improvement or similar may generally be useful to get a sense of internal personal movement, more accurate wording for the movement toward yourself in awareness must necessarily include the notion of personal empowerment.

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