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The Nature of Power

It is time, time to reconnect with the fullness of the power that you are.

When your power is challenged, hold firm and steadfast.

Stand firm in your power and do not allow another to push you out of it. Yes, it may be difficult. Yes, it may be stressful. Yes, it may call on what seems to be every ounce of your strength and resolve, which, of course, is not true. But it certainly may seem that way to you.

Good! Exercise that strength. Exercise that resolve. Exercise the power that you are to be the fullness that you are in every moment.

Power does not exist in a vacuum. Like every other element of your strength, it only needs be present when it is challenged. There is no reason or call to be particularly powerful when all is well, when all shines magnificently, when nothing and no one would seem to challenge it. Just as there is no need to trust when all is well, there is no need to be in your power when that power is not challenged.

Be in your power in every moment, regardless of what comes your way. Be in your power and choose empowerment. Choose it from a place of openheartedness. Choose it from a place of love.

This is not an aggressive power. Not at all. This is not about shooting down. This is about staying grounded in your strength, regardless of what is going on around you. It does not mean lashing out. It does mean standing firm. This is not about bullying. This is, perhaps, a response to bullying.

Bullying, be it from an individual or a nation, is not an expression of power. It is an expression of powerlessness. It is the last resort of the powerless. To find something within it, within him, within the nation, within the body cosmic and politic, that can lash out in some synthetic expression of synthetic power: That is what bullying is. When you stand firm in your power, that is when the bully backs down.

There are lessons and implications at a geopolitical level in this, of course. What are they? They are that war is not the answer. They are that being in a place of authentic power, strength and truth and coming from that place at all times, in all moments and in all occasions, with a desire for peace: that is what stands down the "enemy."

Of course, there is no true enemy. The only enemy is your fear. The only enemy is your lack of power.

Open to the power within you. Stand firm in that power from a place of openheartedness, loving kindness and love infinite. For that is the truth of the Universe. That is the truth of the cosmos. That is the truth of All That Is and All that You Are in the full allness that you are.

Congratulations for every moment that you are able to stand in that power, to call out for help from your highest, most powerful self, to keep your heart open and to hold your own fear at bay. Congratulations.

And for those moments when you cannot or have not been able to, take a deep breath and choose again. In the next moment, choose again. And in the next moment, choose again. And in the next moment, again, make a choice for peace, make a choice for love, make a choice for the love-centeredness, love-powered empowerment that is the truth.

Power and empowerment do not exist as something you take from someone or something else. In other words, you are not powerful because someone else is not. You are powerful when all are in the truth of the holiness, the wholeness of their power. And that holiness and wholeness are and remain the power of peace, the power of love, the power of acknowledgment and integration of all that you are.

Choose. Choose your power. Not at the expense of another, but in concert with the other so that all are in and coming from their places of authentic power. Not fear-based power, for that is no power at all. That is a false construct. That is pretend power. That is the power of the bully, who sees the powerlessness in you.

Once you are an expression of the power within you, there are no bullies. For no bully would dare. That is the truth.

Never is it a choice between your power and the other’s power. All are powerful. And when all are empowered from a place of love, there is no reason to fight. There is no reason to battle. There is no reason to war. There is no reason to fear.

All can be in a place of power simultaneously. Not the power of mutually assured destruction, but the power of mutually assured protection, mutually assured love, mutually assured peace. For there is no need to war, there is no need to battle, there is no need to fight when there is no need to fear. And there is no need to fear when you and all act from a place of empowerment, which is a place of fearlessness.

Fearlessness is a vibration and a resonance beyond the vibration of courage, which is an important vibration, which allows you to take your fear and move with it and through it. But the next vibration is the vibration of fearlessness, which is acknowledging and immediately transforming it into the power that is your birthright, the power that is your soul right, the power that is the infinity of your highest and greatest self.

Aloha and aloha and aloha. Peace and love to you. In these times of shakiness, in these times of uncertainty, in these times of fear, all the fear now rises to the surface. So much has been stirred up by so much and by so many, as you and they and we all shake up the fear that lies at the base of the darkness within us. So that fear bubbles up to the surface. So much rises.

Be in your power in the midst of that fear. Know that the fear is not real. The fear is a denial of the innate power within you. As you acknowledge and act on that power from a place of openheartedness and loving kindness and aloha, nothing and no one can have any true harmful effect upon you.

Choose empowerment...loving empowerment...and know the true nature of power.

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