Stepping into your personal power can be a difficult journey, mainly because if you are stepping into that power, you must first have managed to lose it somewhere.  You may have allowed a particular situation or a person to overwhelm you until you felt helpless; perhaps you didn’t even realise that you do have hidden strengths, until something happens to show you that they are there, just well hidden.

However you discovered that you are not standing in the power that is yours, you will not be able to step fully onto your path until you make the decision that it is time to change.  That means, you start to do the work to make necessary changes in your life to gain the strengths that you know are yours.  You do this through study, through personal growth both in the spiritual world and in the physical world, and through acknowledging, understanding, and healing from the hard parts of this physical life.

That is the Journey. 

On some journeys we will stumble from problem to problem and keep on circling around and around on the path of Samsara.  Sometimes that path can come to be a very comfortable place because even when the things you keep coming back to are difficult, you still recognise a level of security in the familiarity.

On some Journeys we appear to move forward in leaps and bounds – everything just falls into place.  But most journeys require us to grow in our Self; to understand who we are.  And that takes work.

Stepping into Power doesn’t mean becoming well-known, rich, or famous.  It doesn’t mean someone who is a Politician or CEO of a company, or someone who has a huge following on social media.  I call that ‘noisy’ power and it is often attached to an out-of-control Ego.  This kind of egoic power, as I see it, often comes at the price of being able to control others.  Which, for some people, is the experience they have chosen for this life, and it works for them. 

For me, Stepping into Power is the quiet knowledge that you hold in your body, that despite the hardships that life has thrown at you, you have had the strength to survive.  It comes from a deep commitment and surety that the Journey you are travelling is where you need to go right now – even if that changes in the future.  Stepping into Power is a quiet confidence that whatever life throws at you, however wobbly the world around you seems to become, you will be able to deal with it and still continue your Journey.