Tapping into your inner Power

Date: 27 November 2020 | Author: Edina de Jong – Hodžić

I have been observing my closer community and wider environment since the start of the corona-pandemic and there are many ‘holistic perspectives’ that I can bring to you that you might find interesting related to this topic. I choose to go for the one that I believe will provide you with the necessary mind-food to challenge your view about ‘power’ and how to tap into your own inner power. 

We can easily say that humanity has been bombarded with information related to the pandemic shared with us through various media. When we get entangled in that stream of information it is very easy to loose your ‘head’, trying to understand what is happening, which information to ‘trust’, how this ‘story’ might impact you and your family etc. Usually when something comes into our reality, we either react or respond. When we react we judge the situation as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ depending on the information that we have stored in our subconscious. For example, if you have labelled the situation ‘bad’ you will react out of fear and will do anything to calm down your internal nervous system that seems to be running on steroids. In this situation you will look outside yourself for solutions that provide you with a sense of safety. You are scanning the environment for someone/something to give you this sense of safety and if someone from the outside is providing that, you cling to that feeling of safety / that person as your saviour.

Majority of humanity has been conditioned from early childhood to look for answers ‘outside’. When a child feels distressed it looks for help from their parents to release the tension / stress and feel safe again. In this case it is completely understandable that a child looks for external help because they have not yet learned how to release stress on their own. In fact, as adults we have unconsciously continued this pattern and when we feel stressed / overwhelmed we often tend to outsource our decision making ability to an ‘external authority’ that can take many forms like the manager, the politician, the doctor etc. The moment you’ve outsourced the solution to your question / problem to someone else – you have given your power away. You have become a victim of the circumstances without even being aware of it. You have placed the authority of someone else above your own authority, inner knowing and wisdom and you have disempowered yourself.

When we look into human history, we can conclude that this co-dependency mindset has been part of our being for as long (and even longer) as there are written records of human history. Waiting for someone else to give us answers and save us, is a shadow state that humanity is currently battling. Though it’s also an invitation for each one of us to increase our own awareness (consciousness), to heal our wounds and to evolve into mature human beings that have reclaimed their Unique Inner Power.

So then, which other option do we have except ‘reacting’? It’s the way of responding. Responding is taking in the information that is coming from the external environment in a conscious way and feeling into the resonance of it. It’s the ability to pause, take a step back from the situation and ask yourself questions beyond the ‘pre-programmed pattern’ of your mind and allow yourself to be guided by your inner knowing / authority opposed to the ‘external authority’ from the previous example. Fear is not necessarily absent in this approach though the difference is that the person who’s responding is very conscious about the fear that she/he feels and allows the fear to ‘be’. The secret is that once we allow and accept the fear (we don’t resist it), it tends to dissolve. Responding also means that we are aware of the different ways that we can respond: out of fear or out of love, care and compassion. We have to take responsibility for how we receive this new information / story, without blaming it on the source.

Any situation in which we are confronted by information from the ‘external’ world is a beautiful opportunity to bring awareness to ourselves about the ways we unconsciously feel and react. This is the path to deepen our connection with our Unique Inner Power. It’s through this process that we strengthen ourselves and become more resilient when confronted with ‘external situations’, whatever those situations might be.

Once we have activated this inner process of ‘knowing’ we will get challenged by our ego-mind. The way of the ego-mind is to make you feel ‘inferior’ by telling you that you’re not an expert in that particular field and that your perspective is not valid or true. Therefore you should not share it with others in order not to humiliate yourself, to get rejected or abandoned. The fear of sharing our perspective / truth is also fed by a collective subconscious belief that harmony can only exist if there is an agreement between different people. Honouring your inner authority, guidance and your unique truth doesn’t automatically mean that you dishonour the truth of the other person that you disagree with. Both can co-exist. For humanity there will be a big leap in evolution when we learn to interact with each other in harmony while honouring the different perspectives that we hold. If we take the example of our current global crisis, I have observed that in some discussions there is a tendency to make the other person wrong because they don’t agree with us or they see things from a different perspective even to an extent where the freedom of speech is being limited. This is a typical reaction of the ego-mind that wants to control and manipulate. These are shadow states of the human psyche and our current global crisis is inviting us to transform these shadow states.

The truth is that we all possess an innate intelligence that is far more reaching than any formal education and we can access this information by activating our DNA through meditation practices and the process of healing and self realization. Most humans today have activated 2 (standard), 3 or 6 strands of their DNA though we have 12 strands in total. Scientist call the non-activated DNA ‘junk DNA’.

When it comes to making important decisions in life and taking information from different sources, there is one rule that I learned to apply and that is to ‘hear’ beyond the words. What do I feel when I listen to this information? How does this information feel to me? How does my body react? Am I contracting or expanding? Have all perspectives been considered in this story? A very important thing that unfortunately nobody has taught us in school is to read into the energy (intention) of the words / information that we receive. Words can deceive, but energy never does. Learn to trust your intuition and inner authority more, you will see over time you will become more and more experienced with it.

There are many ways to awaken your intuition and locate your inner authority. Some of us take a long and spiritual journey to find that inner place of peace and innate intelligence. Though, there are tools that we have inherited from some great teachers in the past that can help us with this quest.

In my work as Holistic Coach I use ‘Human Design System’ to help my clients to locate this ‘inner authority’. There are different energy Centres where our Inner Authority can be located: Spleen Centre, Emotional Centre, Sacral Centre, Identity Centre or Heart Centre. If your ‘Inner Authority’ is for example located in the Emotional Centre (Solar Plexus), your emotions are your guidance. To make the right decision for you, you have to wait out until the emotions have settled (which can take days) and you have reached clarity about your decision.

It’s never too late to return to your Unique Inner Power! 

I will end this blog with the very wise and relevant words of Lao Tzu from ‘The Complete Works of Lao Tzu’ by Tao Teh Ching and Huan Hu Ching, translated by Master Hua-Ching Ni. “The remedy for people of the future age of great confusion lies in the ancient knowledge of the integral way of life that has been passed down from generation to generation. The holistic way of life, practiced by the ancient sages incorporated body, mind and spirit as a whole in all activities. Their clothing, diet and dwellings were in accordance with nature. They relied on their limbs for transportation. Their education was broad and comprehensive; it did not emphasize one element of their being while neglecting the others. They did not seek out special activities for recreation; their work and recreation were one and the same. Their forms of exercise developed not only the body, but the mind and spirit as well, through the harmonization of internal energies. Their music functioned as a bridge between mind and spirit and was not just an emotional release. Their leaders were chosen because they were outstanding models of virtue, not for their financial or military capabilities. Philosophy, science and spiritual practice were incorporated as one whole.”