ENDOWED WITH OMNIPOTENCE
To you, I give power to take hold of the life you thirst for.
We all have ambitions, aspirations and ideas of how our life is to be. We envision ourselves succeeding personally and financially. We envision living a healthy lifestyle with an abundance of friends and satisfying family relationships. We intend on living our dream life, yet so often, life interrupts our perfect plan with a wicked curve ball. Our wallets are always empty, our health less than ideal and doubt lurks constantly in the shadow of our someday dreams. The ideals we envision seem far from grasp as the calamity of life settles in ladling our future to us like a bowl of tepid soup.
Meanwhile as we are spooned our life, we observe the relative ease and speed at which some people’s lives fall into place like an engaged line of dominos. Money comes easily to them. Excess weight sheds virtually overnight. Their health is at an optimum. Success and abundance seem to be the predominant themes that define those other people. We question why we are not achieving the same levels of success. We wonder why our ideas flop. Why pounds adhere to our hips. Why money squirms from our grip. We trudge forward in a brew of tallied frustration over our failed stabs at success.
How To Books clutter our coffee tables as we attempt to figure out how we also can achieve success, abundance, wealth, health, happiness and harmony. However for many people success, abundance, wealth, health and harmony are slippery fish. They squirm from our grasp because, and only because, our understanding of how we achieve each of these is misguided.
Through this lack of understanding defeat settles in as we thumb through countless attempts at success ending in disappointment. As we accept defeat, we develop a belief that we are somehow not as talented, smart, or driven as the next person. Having it all is just not in the cards for us. We begin believing we cannot lose weight, have an abundant future or succeed professionally. Ultimately, this lack of understanding causes us to settle for mediocrity compromising the ideal life we intended.
Understand this. People do not fail because they lack inspiration, drive, a hard work ethic, or intelligence. People fail because they lack awareness of the power they hold within. Furthermore, people who consistently try but repeatedly fail are no less eager to succeed than those who have succeeded. Success, whether you define it as wealth, abundance, weight loss, health, or happiness emerges unalterably from the power contained within, always! Consequently, people who seek success need more than just knowledge. They need the right knowledge coupled with the wisdom to apply the knowledge.
The power we hold within is the Omnipotent power of thought. Our thoughts form our reality. Thoughts are responsible for our success, failures, health, illness, harmony, abundance and lack. Thoughts mold our reality into the everyday experiences of our life. Awakening to the power within shapes your life in ways yet unimaginable. You can have abundance, health and harmony. Discord, decadence and disparity disappear. You will realize that you are in charge of you and always have been. Exactly what is presented in your life currently, like it or not, you are responsible for. However, if you do not like what is presented, since you created it, you can also change it. It is therefore necessary to understand who you are and how you work.
It might seem counterintuitive to you to consider that an Omnipotent reservoir of thought power is available to you, yet slips deceptively by your awareness. After all, if you knowingly had this power why wouldn’t you take advantage of its full use? Bear in mind that ours is a history plagued with blissful unawareness. An examination of our thoughts and beliefs over the years, decades and centuries provide glaring affirmation of our stubbornness to exam the merit of our thoughts.
Consider an example. It is easy for people to recognize the thought fallacies held in the chronicles of history where extreme thoughts and belief aggression are present. Rewind to The Salem Witch Trials of 1692-1693 which tragically resulted in over 150 arrests with more than 20 men and woman subjected to death by hanging. These unfortunate souls were thought to be witches. However, it was not the physical actions of these ill-fates that condemned them to death. It was the thoughts of the pursuers about the behaviors of the pursued that lead to the consequence of the hangings. Action cannot occur until a thought presents direction. Therefore, a seed of thought must be present first in order for a consequence to follow.
We view the Salem Witch Trials through the filter of our now-a-day beliefs as episodes of mass hysteria or religious extremism. The Salem Witch Trials seem archaic, barbaric, and completely antiquated. We can see today how erroneous beliefs lead to disparaging consequences. We can convince ourselves that the thinking in 1692 Salem was defunct. Progressive thinking we thankfully believe has led us out of the dark ages of preposterous thought. Or has it? Ultimately, we cannot see the disparaging consequences occurring now as a result of our own thoughts. We view our reality through our own personal beliefs just as those in Salem viewed the world through personal beliefs. As a result, our beliefs blind us as well to the consequences that follow.
We do not have to dig very far back in our own history to find similar examples of extremism. In fact, we only have to rewind a smidgen to 6:00 pm yesterday, as the local news most certainly peppered our television set with stories of belief aggression! Watch the news. Read the paper. See how we attack each other, other countries, different cultures, school administrators, or local politicians. Instantaneously our thoughts compound into opinions (beliefs) on the merit of the stories presented. We raise the flag of our beliefs over the heads of others defending our beliefs as though they are verified facts while treating other’s beliefs are as mere opinions. We see neither the fallacies of our beliefs nor the aggression they contain.
While extreme examples appear easy to spot because they involve aggressive beliefs (thoughts), they should also be the most easily identifiable because they are so apparent. Yet, we are impervious to how our most apparent beliefs shape our lives. We find massive amounts of people, including entire countries, subscribing to damaging belief systems. How easy is it then, if we are so unwilling to dissect our mammoth beliefs, do you think it is to identify small insignificant thoughts that govern our daily life? As it turns out, it is pretty difficult. Our thoughts and beliefs are no more apparent to us today than they were four hundred years ago. Most of us never stop to examine what we think about and why we think it. We do not question the thoughts that appear to us and the beliefs they form. We are too accustomed to accepting what we think as factual interpretations of our reality.
When we fail to exam our thoughts and beliefs we fail to see the connection between what we think and what we experience. We mistake the consequences for the effects. Our beliefs slip by registering a reality that feels distinctly thrust upon us instead of created by us. We end up thinking the effect (what we experience) is the cause of our thoughts because the effect validates the thought. If we did take a moment to examine our beliefs, we would understand that our thoughts form our reality and create the effects. We would make that connection. Thoughts precede consequences. It is not the other way around. Since we are unwilling to dissect our glaring beliefs (these would include our political views, religious beliefs, cultural tendencies, biases), our ability to grasp our not so glaring beliefs is rather rusty. We simply do not question what we think. Since we do not practice thought inspection, we fail to comprehend the link between our thoughts and reality produced. Thus, we remain contently unaware of the power within.
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