When you decide to claim your power in this lifetime it can often seem a daunting task. Many of us are raised to be afraid of speaking up or standing out and learn quickly to become invisible. Especially so, if we come from abusive backgrounds. To many of us, when we talk about power we often do not know what that is. It is difficult or even impossible to grasp the meaning of what power is.

Personal power is often mistaken as the ability to become successful in today’s world, usually that means with our careers and our finances. So we strive harder everyday to move ahead with promotions, or work as much overtime as we can manage, as we juggle raising and supporting a family., or at the very least making ends meet as we support ourselves. This leaves very little time, if any, for ourselves, our dreams, our pleasures in life.

The downtime we do take is often filled with a deep guilt that the time we are enjoying could be making us more money or we find ourselves spending money on our down time that we feel should be going towards other things. There is not much value placed on the being-ness of life. We are filled with an anxiety to go out in the world and be do-ers all the time. The lack of balance between the two manifests in many different ways, disease and debt being two of them. We tend to give our power away to money and let it dictate our lives.

We are obsessed with making more of it, knowing that more will never be enough. In the spiritual communities we find an even greater confusion to how money is supposed to fit into the greater scheme of things. Living humbly and without is a dogma found in many different religions. The basis for this is to learn the lessons of not having the distraction or ego attached to what money does to the human soul. What does money do to the human soul? Could it be that living a life filled with abundance and a combination of doing and being, of working hard and being responsible with what we have and spending downtime is a wise investment? In my work, I often see an abuse of money and sabotage in people’s financial lives.

Hidden deep within is often a feeling of unworthiness that seeps into our lives as a whole and affects every aspect, especially when it comes to our financial lives. We dream of success, of fulfilling our dreams, of traveling to faraway places. We secretly wish for these things, or perhaps we have less dramatic dreams for ourselves. So what is it that keeps this from happening? How often do you find yourself saying you cant take that self help workshop because you cant possibly spare the $50.00 it costs. So you don’t and you go back to your life. Money is really energy and energy follows thought and moves towards it.

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