Balanced and healthy power comes from connection and love. Unbalanced power comes from separation, ego, fear.

The Struggle of Personal Power

June 9, 2016

---Balanced and healthy power comes from connection and love. Unbalanced power comes from separation, ego, fear---

When I first started practicing yoga and the concept of power came up in classes, I shied away from it. I associated power with egotism, the power-hungry, the graspers, the oppressors. I saw power as something that people pretended they had so they could use it over people and get what they wanted without consideration of others. I saw power as cut-throat survival - eat or be eaten, move or get left behind, fight or perish. Although I didn’t have the words for it at the time, I was relating power to separation, ego and fear.

I saw this negative, unhealthy manifestation of power all around me, I even felt it within my very nature, and I was afraid of it. I wanted nothing to do with it. So, I didn’t want to look at or explore this “power”. I wanted to shut out that side of me in hopes that I would never have to deal with it.

Exercise Your Voice (+ an actual exercise to try!)

May 11, 2016

The voice is a very powerful tool in life. With it we can: get a point across; express our needs, feelings, desires; take responsibility for those needs; decide when to stop and listen and when to speak up; follow a rhythm or tune, sing, scream, yell, whistle; spread love or hatred.

Every time we open our mouths, we choose what we want to communicate, what we want to share in the world.

Recently, I have been thinking about and exploring the use of voice. I am taking singing lessons to get re-in-touch with my voice. I am practicing expressing myself and my truth as much as possible and as appropriate. I have decided to speak up more often and make conscious choices on what I am sharing through the use of my voice.