Resistance is futile ... (Part 2)

This is a reply received in reference to the previous post, which was about resisting yourself by avoiding a focus on yourself and your own needs:

        “So true:  Are you always ready without a moment's hesitation to serve the needs of everyone in dialing distance yet resist exploring your own needs?

        What you wrote here is so true yet ending the internal resistance seems like a lifetime(s) endeavor.....or is it?”

Response:

Resistance is a choice you make in each moment. In that sense, there is no question of ending it, for ending it implies that you no longer retain a choice whether to express resistance or not. And you always retain choice.

The point therefore is to make your choice within each moment with an awareness of what you are doing.

This is the basis of your personal power and what leads you to more freedom of movement.

Joseph Fedorowsky / Personal Empowerment

Resistance is futile ...

“ . . . Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. . . " - Locutus of Borg/Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode The Best Of Both Worlds (1990).

I’m not a treky - but I do love that phrase. It rings true. Your life as it has been is over as you allow yourself movement without resisting yourself, without hesitation and with trust in yourself.

That's a good thing.

Resisting yourself on the other hand can take on many forms.

Do you resist and deny yourself that which you offer to others? Are you loving and gentle with the local kitty cat but mean and harsh to yourself? Are you always ready without a moment’s hesitation to serve the needs of everyone in dialing distance yet resist exploring your own needs? Do you reach out to give everyone the benefit of the doubt except yourself? Do you resist or ignore your own inner voice?

Getting in touch with your own personal power is practically synonymous with accepting and trusting yourself.

Resisting yourself, on the other hand, is not only pointless, inefficient and stressful, but it’s also no fun!

No doubt, resistance is futile ...

Joseph Fedorowsky / Personal Empowerment

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Create yourself!

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Perhaps it’s about both.

What I do notice, however, is that viewing myself as being lost, broken or deficient does create limits on the choices I present to myself. And the admonition to "find yourself" does imply that you must be lost.

On the other hand, the exciting advice to view life and yourself as an open-ended creation-in-the-works speaks to personal empowerment and creativity and fun.

. . . I think I’ll go with George.

Joseph Fedorowsky / Personal Empowerment

Can you feel the difference?

A significant (and comforting) point to keep in mind, to be aware of, is that personal empowerment isn’t just another way of how, in some future time frame, you can become more efficient or more accomplished in your actions and your goals.

Personal empowerment speaks to opening to who you already are, right now.  And that's mo’ betta!

In accessing who you already are, right now, efficiency and accomplishment (if that is what you want) naturally become more of a flowing, organic expression rather than an unending series of onerous tasks on your to-do list that you must discipline yourself to timely complete.

Ahhh . . . can you feel the difference?

Joseph Fedorowsky / Personal Empowerment

Welcome! What is personal empowerment?

What is personal empowerment?  It's something about how to provide yourself more access to your own personal power and freedom.  It's about how you express yourself within a world of apparent limitations and how to generate the experiences you actually want in your life. 

In essence, it's that special, gentle movement toward yourself.

Joseph Fedorowsky / Personal Empowerment