You've Always Had The Power . . .

I had an "aha" moment last week.  I finally realized that I believe in me!  And in that realization, everything makes sense and now I feel like there's no turning back or nothing holding me back.  It's amazing that you can have people tell you how much they believe in you . . . but until you believe in yourself, it doesn't really sink in how when you finally believe in you, you never really realize how much power you have over your own life.

Situations have come up for me lately where other people have put their opinions on me and in the past I've always tried to please everyone or just stay silent to keep the peace.  But, this time I politely have just removed myself from those situations and being around those people.  I realized that I had to power to remove myself and not make them wrong to make me right . . . and that has been empowering.

Did you ever stop to notice how encouraging and forgiving you can be for other people but when it comes to yourself, you have this negative tape replaying over and over in your head that either you can't do something, you don't have the talent to do something or your not lovable enough to have anyone care for you.  You're always too -- too fat, too skinny, too dumb, too poor, too lazy, too ugly, too, too, too.  The replaying of that tape always stops us from thinking we can do anything so we don't even try.  It's a self fulfilling prophecy!  Like Henry Ford said, "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right."  We manifest our thoughts . . . wouldn't you rather manifest positive things instead of negative things in your life?

What if you threw that negative tape you have replaying in your head out?  What if every time something negative came into your head you stopped and tried to reframe it to replace it with a positive thought?  Just like anything, it takes practice but it gets easier and easier and pretty soon you'll get really good at it.  But, only you have the power to change your thoughts about yourself and what you believe you can do.

Having my "aha" moment this week had reminded me about The Wizard of Oz movie and what happened at the end of Dorothy's journey of trying to find her way home.  Dorothy asks Glinda the Good Witch if she can help her go home and Glinda tells her that she doesn't need to be helped any longer because she always had the power to go back to Kansas.  The Scarecrow asks Glinda why she didn't tell Dorothy before and Glinda says, "Because she wouldn't have believed me.  She had to learn it for herself."

Here's their conversation about finding home:

Glinda:  Well, Dorothy, you were wise and good enough to help your friends to come here and find what was inside them all the time.  That's true for you also.

Dorothy:  Home?  Inside of me?  I don't understand.

Glinda:  Home is a place we all must find, child.  It's not just a place where you eat or sleep.  Home is knowing.  Knowing your mind, knowing your heart, knowing your courage.  If we know ourselves, we're always home, anywhere.

Dorothy ends the movie with:

". . . and if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard because, if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with."

Stop waiting for someone to save you, fix you or help you.  You are the only one responsible for you.

You've always had the power . . . but you have to learn it for yourself.

Quotes:

"To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless."  Deepak Chopra

"Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power and potentiality of everything outside of you."
Steve Maraboli

"Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear."
Anthony Robbins

Love and Happiness,

Tracey