Power vs Place

How often in life or even in a day do we feel that we have lost our power to a person, a circumstance or a situation? It seems that power is something that is easily lost as we feel we have lost control over something. When we lose our power the thing that took our power, or shall i say the situation we gave our power to, seems to be the center of our universe. Then we invite the mind in for play and the mind distorts, measures and judges and we are under its power as well. We end up feeling like a weak, rotten, lame person. We get into the the 'why Me's' and we feel that no one else could possibly be dealing with these types of things but us. We can literally become obsessive about what or whom we lost our power to and we scheme up ways to get our power back. It is all mind. It is all distortion. When I feel I have lost my power I remind myself that nothing has 'power' in my life unless I give it power. When I find that I have given something/someone power I remind myself that it is OK for every circumstance or person in my life to have a 'place' but not a power. That simple reminder changes my whole obsessive frequency. Everything has a place not a power. Anything that I have given power can simply be put back into its proper place in my thinking or in my emotional world. This thought gives access to a total shift in perception and emotional energy. Whatever you have lost your power to...get it back and let it have its place. If it has its place you can learn from it and look at it objectively instead of obsessively Good luck. It takes practice.

Humility

Humility is once again a topic of discussion. How often is it when we receive criticism that we are not gracious to it. Criticism is a form of feedback that can be so helpful to our growth. It can be tough to take at times....yes, but sometimes the feedback we get is exactly what we need to get to the next level of our growth as an individual. If the feedback we receive does not feel correct for us there is no reason to swallow it, however, all feedback may have at least a seed (if not a whole spoonful) of truth to it that could possibly make a difference in the way that we approach the world. Life is about changing and growing no matter how educated we are, how smart we think we are or how great we think we are. There should always be room for growth. I think it can be equally as hard to deliver criticism as it is to receive it. Sometimes when we think about confronting we can get afraid of conflict, rejection or some other negative consequence but the bottom line is that none of us are perfect, we are all here to learn and grow and to face fears of conflict and to give someone feedback can be healing to the soul. We should feel good about ourselves that our feedback may possibly impact someone for deeper reflection into themselves. Giving it and getting it are a gift if we can be humble enough to give it and be open to it. It can only make us better people.

emotion/essence

What do we do when sadness comes? I have worked with so many people or have known so many people, including myself that struggle with shame when sadness comes. The way that I treat and/or look at the emotions is that when they are coming up it is because they need to come out. It's a chemical process or a natural process. When we resist their waves and we keep them in they actually begin to grow in our unconscious. It becomes like a mold that spores very quickly without our noticing and soon people begin to feel that we have negative energy. As they begin to grow and build we have less and less control over their expression and how they manifest in the world. The emotions are our hard earned pearls gleaned from life's challenges. We cannot escape them by not dealing with them...they will just get transferred to the next person, challenge, job in greater volume etc. If we deal with the emotions as they come we are taking advantage of the opportunity to cleanse and let go in the now and we travel much lighter in life. People begin to feel we have good energy and we then attract more and more into our lives. To take care of yourself means to take care of how you feel. Try not to expect others to take care of how you feel. They are your emotions and are there for you to understand and nurture. The more you understand how to take care of yourself the more wise and dignified you become. There becomes something about you that is different, as if you have been breathed upon by something magical...your essence is different and you become intriguing to others because they will want to have what you have. The hard work of the emotional world is absolutely worth it. Today take care of yourself.

Youthful folly leading to revolution

Youthful folly is all about an innocence or naivety about life and often the people or circumstances in it. We can look at the world with bright eyes, be full of hope and ultimately lose our connection to reality and/or logic. Being hopeful is a beautiful and inspiring feeling when we are in it and it can be painfully misleading. I often tell my patients (and remind myself) that hope is dope...especially when it comes to our relationships. We often think and hope for the people around us to change. When we get distorted in this way, we end up living off of our natural patterns and we become lost in the hope which sets us up for the fall. What I try to do is to get logic wrapped around my hope. This can take time. Time and repeated experience are healing elixirs to distorted hopes. It is looking at the patterns of behavior over time and seeing it without distortion but with sensibility and then revolution can come. If something or someone is not adding to your life it is time for revolution in some form whether that be rejection and getting that person/job etc. out of your life or it could be about making a major change in your life. Rejecting something in your life that is holding you down is what allows you to take flight. In life to get the most out of it we have to be brave enough to set revolution into action.
Be brave to today!

letting go

Letting go--
Letting go is something that many of us avoid. Whenever we let something go there is a void that we experience in its absence. To avoid the anticipated emptiness many people will not let go. So many of us will stay where we are miserable just to avoid the fear of the emptiness. I have found that when we let go and dive into the emptiness that the emptiness is temporary and it is not bottomless. In fact, when we let go we set ourselves free to soar to new heights and to new places we never could have gone had we continued to hold on. If there is something in our lives that is holding us down, making us unhappy, or causing us constant frustration...take a breath and just let go. The most powerful thing we can do at times is to turn away. There is relief, there is surrender and the doors open for all the new experiences wanting to come into your life to bring you joy. Letting go also helps us to keep our energy clean. Clean energy is attractive energy. The more clean you keep your emotional environment the more powerful of a person you become. Get out your cleaning solutions today and get to work...figure out what to let go of...and get rid of it.

woman rising

snippet from book two

Woman Rising

I am a woman rising

from the depths of

all of life's challenges

I still come out shining

I am not always secure in intimacy

I seem to lose my power

the closer I am to somebody

My life..not a fairy tale story

rather is a adventure

from victim to victory

I have learned I have to

love myself crazy

My love for myself is worked

upon daily

I am not inspired by marriage

however....

through all that pain

I learned how to have carriage

ridicule and gossip were all a

part of it...

people who judge make

me want to wretch

I have learned not place

others before myself

I have learned to embrace

my oneness first.

My oneness is my natural rhythm

upon which I dance

the music in my life

puts me into a trance

It is magical and

self created

My uniqueness has been hard earned

just watch me as I let it burn

In life I want to tear it up

fill up to the brim

my happy cup

I now live a life dynamic

I have an understanding of me

that is authentic

I am not designed to be married

to one person

I may travel through many

different love experiences

commitment not an issue for me

I just don't like feeling

as if I am not free

I have many stars to reach

for...don't you see?

I need someone dynamic

who can keep up with me.

so I fly far far away

through a journey

that is done in my own unique way

I have been through fear

heart ache and pain

at times so unsure

I felt I would fracture

now I embrace the energy

of composure

I am living life in my own way

taking in my lessons everyday

Life is full of things for me to embrace

I have love everywhere

I feel so graced

Life is changeable

I find it so inspiring

I am embraced in the process of evolving

I am....A WOMAN RISING

Perfected Grace

As we all know life is emotionally stormy. That is just life. It is what it is. life is a series of crises that we face, whether they be physical, emotional, mental and/or spiritual. Each crisis is here for us to pass through so we gain a maturity or a sense of growth...to develop a new form or level of ourselves. The trick is to stay open, to stay composed and to show perfected grace in the world...internally we can battle and be in fear while to the outside world we can stay composed and open to the process of maturing through change. Change...all change and all crisis is here to mature us as people. The more mature we become the more open we operate in life. Perfected grace is showing an energy of an inherent trust in the process that your life is taking. Being in the flow of life, not aggravating it, responding to it rather than reacting to it...that is perfected grace. All things find their way to a new level whether that be growth and expansion or closure.
walk in perfected grace today.
Dr. Sherrie