You've Always Had the Power My Dear

cznewlands
Jan 26, 2015
2 min read

I remember the first time I saw that movie...it never seemed like the other "kids" movies I watched. There was something scary, magical, there but very real. I remember being frightened by so much of it. Having always been a very vivid dreamer (That story is a whole other future blog!!) Yet every year I have watched that movie and very year I find something in it that opens a door to another path, another way of looking at our co-existence with spirit.

Recently I have had an image of us humans. quite the opposite of conventional thinking of the past. In the past we have been taught that we are born like a "clean slate”, a completely open mind and we travel on this journey of life and our parents teach us how to behave, what to do what not to do, we start to speak on our own and then we are taught when to talk, when not to talk, we start taking our first steps then we are guided as to where it is safe to walk and where it is dangerous to walk. We start to ask a million questions and the answers we are given, of course are very simple, “Why is the sky blue"? "Because it is" or "Because God made it that way" and a million other takes on that theme...we go to school and we are once again told what to learn and what we are "supposed to think". Now depending on where you were born, your family, your teachers and yada yada yada starts to determine how you are supposed to think.

So this once incredible open mind and clean slate becomes colored with the teachings and opinions of others...the entire time when we are young our curiosity, our 6th sense our passion and desire to learn is at an all-time high and we become the "mini me's" of our teachers...our individualism is many times thought of as wrong, rebellious. We lose that "open mind" that curiosity that willingness to venture into that unknown place. We are born “cable ready" but as we get older we become more frightened...we fight change because we are so used to traveling the same path as those before us and those before them. If we get lucky we hit a brick wall, lose a job, pick up an addiction, get a divorce and get out of a marriage that should have ended before it started...yes I said lucky because when you hit that wall you have 2 choices to live in the world of should have's or could haves or to become that child again with that wisdom of your years. To strap your power suit back on and get out there and do it your way, take the good stuff you have been taught, infuse your own passion, your God given gifts set out on a new road, a higher road.

Yes....take your power back...not the one that was taken away, but the one YOU gave away........