Privileged to Be Empowered

We live in a world that demands our best everyday. To ensure that we embrace the spirit that makes it all possible requires focus refocus and refinement. Drive is necessary and should have direction. Drive without direction will keep you going nowhere. The advantages that come along with privilege come with a price. The price of privilege is measured by the intensity of your efforts. Effort equating to result is not a physics or math problem. There are those that will equate privilege with having all of the finest things that life has to offer. I would not disagree. Having substance is not a bad thing. Substance does not guarantee the life that was intended for you though. Perception is a key. How you see things determines your faith. When your substance is the byproduct of your efforts it defines who you are and what you are made of. When you believe it's possible you are on the right track. Mark 11:24 "Therefore I tell you whatever you ask in prayer believe that you have received it and it will be yours." The price of empowerment is worth the investment.

When you believe in you, achievements are the natural procession. Every plant started with a seed. Nurturing that seed guarantees it will grow. Mathew 13:8 states "Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown." The next verse is, "he with ears let him hear." You are as important as you want to be. Your efforts should be intense and true. To be convicted in what you believe and that belief is based on what's inside you and what life has taught you, is strength attained through faith and effort. Faith without effort is not faith and effort without faith will keep you spinning your wheels. Universal law teaches just as good as it can be it can be just that bad. Intellect and freewill allows us to choose. Situations or circumstances do not define you. It's what you choose to do about those situations and circumstances that define you. Life has offered more gifts than we realize we have. The road to realizing and acknowledging these gifts is our opportunity to forward these gifts. The more we believe the more we open ourselves to receive. The more we receive the more privileged we become by continuing to pass that gift on.

The reason the seed that fell on good soil produced more than was expected was the nurturing and attention to detail. Focus and faith dictated the situation. They are key ingredients to an empowered life. Life is not discriminatory it offers the same for all. The day you were born and day you pass. It's what we do between these lines that will determine the effect of our privilege. Life has always offered more than we take advantage of. The opportunities to achieve are only as relevant as we choose to make them. No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. Enjoy and respect the privilege of empowerment.

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A Law of Attraction Affirmation for When You Are Overwhelmed or Afraid

What do you do when all you can think of is the problem you need to solve? What do you do when the wheel of your worry seems to be powered by a rabid gerbil of fear? There he goes, running along, churning out more unease and feelings of helplessness. It is time to take back your power and change the direction of the flow.

Sounds great. Now how do you do that?

First, honor how you really feel. Pretending you are not scared does not work. Your body knows and there is no fooling it. You have to work through the fear and anxiety in order to clear it all away.

Admit that you are afraid or worried. Once you do that, understand that feeling something and being it are two different things. In other words, just because you are afraid does not mean that the situation is hopeless or that you cannot be empowered by your feelings.

You always, always have a choice in how you will respond to any situation. That is your super-power and it never goes away. No matter how bad things seem (and that is always a matter of perspective), you have the power to decide what meaning it does or does not have to you. You cannot choose how others feel or act, but you can control what plays in your own head.

Next, read these words aloud. (Or write your own version of an affirmation, whatever helps.) This can allow you to let go of the feeling of need so that you can change your focus to one of gratitude and expectation for a solution. This raises your vibration and can make you feel better too.

"I release my attachment to the outcome. I release my expectations. I release my suffering and allow myself to let go, falling into the arms of the greater truth. I trust the path, even when I am in pain or afraid.

I choose to trust when I am broken and when I am well. I choose to trust when it seems I will not have enough, as much as I do when my cup overflows. I chose in this moment, to focus on gratitude and remember all of the times when things could have gone wrong, but somehow went right instead.

This small situation is but a microcosm of time, space and perspective that will pass. The birds still sing. The fruit still hangs on the vine and the world still turns. Daylight chases shadow and the cosmos continues to expand.

No matter what happens, for me, this is but another lesson. I accept the lesson with a grateful heart and move on, secure in the knowledge that this is but an illusion that will one day fade. When that moment comes, when this mirage is over, I will understand every purpose, every pain and every reason that eludes me now. And so, I let go, trusting that all is and ever will be, well."

Now breathe and put your hand over the area above your heart. Then imagine the happiest memory that you have. No matter what it is, think of something joyful. You can also imagine how you will feel once you have the solution. Hold that thought, those feelings for at least thirty seconds. Really feel it. Rinse and repeat as needed.

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