As a society, we are not empowered as individuals to reach our fullest potential.  So many are being oppressed through war, disease, hunger, domestic violence, drug addiction, and the list continues on and on.  Then there is the everyday life of disempowerment through succumbing to mass consciousness rather than trusting what we believe to be true for ourselves.  We become complacent and listen to others rather than ourselves.  This is not empowerment.

Empowerment comes from a place of deep connection with oneself.  This place is one of true love, support and knowing that your inner voice is right and you are listening and acting on behalf of yourself.  You are not concerned about what others’ judgments are about you.  You are focused on your being-ness for the betterment of the whole.  You find yourself in creativity, honoring and listening to yourself, as well as others.  You make time for yourself.

You may already be leading a wonderful life of love, support, and happiness with yourself, family and friends.  You may not care or understand about the significance of being your empowered self.  And maybe it really isn’t that important to you because your life is fine the way it is.  You’ve come to terms with all parts of your life and that’s just the way of the world, so to speak.  You’re not super happy all of the time, but you have a pretty decent life.  You don’t bother anyone and aren’t really bothered by too much either.  Maybe this feels like or perhaps is your empowered self.

Is there a part of your life that is filled with your own creative expression?  This shows up in innumerable forms, i.e. art, writing, music, cooking, gardening, physical activity, building, making things.  The creative form must be something that you are absolutely involved in and love doing, not another activity that you’re doing to ‘get it done’.  When you are involved in this activity creativity is showing up for you, you are in a flow with life itself, and you are following whatever comes.

This may not seem important on the grand scheme of things.  You have so many other things happening in your life, you may not have time to do these ’petty’ things of creation.  Doing creative things may seem like they are for people who don’t have a ‘real life’, you might think.  WATCH your mind playing tricks on you!!!  Our society for many many years has trained us to listen to others rather than our own creative expression.

Allow yourself to be fully who you are!  This can be a challenge!  Fear oftentimes will overcome you and bring thoughts that discourage being your full self.    When you empower yourself you allow YOU to live your life fully without the fear and self-judgment.  This is complex yet, actually simple.  Most things are simple, but our minds like to make them more complicated, so they seem more intellectual or meaningful somehow.

I have a message for you:  No more dimming your light!  It’s time for you to shine brightly in the world like nobody’s business!  People are waiting for you to shine so that they are able to shine more brightly too!  The time is here for all of your inner creative thoughts to manifest into your reality.  No more holding back, no more excuses, no more distractions.  Just be yourself fully in your own power!