*** Are Power-sites Sucking Your Life Energy?

“The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.” - Eric Hoffer

You have the power to shape your future the way you want it to unfold. You are a magnificent and magically powerful being. You are blessed with the gift to create all that you desire to experience in this ...“The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.” - Eric Hoffer

You have the power to shape your future the way you want it to unfold. You are a magnificent and magically powerful being. You are blessed with the gift to create all that you desire to experience in this life. You live in a world rich in abundance that is yours to enjoy and to contribute your unique expression. You were given this power to enable you to assert your full potential.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt. This doubt clings to you as a parasite sucking the life energy and creative force right out of you. The more doubts you have about your own ability and opportunity the more "power-sites" drain you of your power to magically create the experiences you want. You are left depleted, unable to create more than the mundane or unfulfilling experience over and over again. This pattern of creating more and more of what is not wanted only feeds the powersites. Powersites are insatiable and will consume all the power you allow them to have from the life force that is your gift and your birthright. When you give up this power to your Inner Critic, your self-doubt and fear, your Inner Critic will shape your future to mirror all that you doubt and fear.

“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” - Peace Pilgrim

Peace Pilgrim was an elderly woman who walked more that 25,000 miles on a personal pilgrimage for peace from 1953 to 1981. I cannot say whether this remarkable woman ever had a negative thought. What I can say is that every person I talk to about their life challenges has had their fair share of negative thoughts. The recent surge of self-help popularity has produced a sea of people who flog themselves if they notice a single negative thought running through their heads. "Uh-oh" they lament, "I'm having a negative thought so I must still be broken! I'm not fixed yet!"

First of all, no one is broken. No one needs to be fixed. Negative thoughts of self-doubt are natural and serve a purpose. They are indicators of whether you are moving toward or away from that which you desire. Negative thoughts are just your Inner Critic’s way of telling you that you're about to stretch and grow into a newer and bigger comfort zone and it is scared of new, unknown, places. Even if you don't particularly like the current comfort zone it's what you know and, therefore, safe.

The distinction is whether or not you give power to that negative thought by following its lead. If you do, that thought, that belief will cling onto until you consider it an integral part of your being. You will forget that this negative piece of you is a parasite rather than a birthright. With this power, the parasite will feast upon your bounty of magical gifts of inspiration, intuition, validation and self-esteem.

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still” - Lao Tzu

The next time you bathe in a negative thought process just notice it as it washes over you. Recognize it for what it is, the voice of that scared little Inner Critic who means well but is woefully misguided. Instead of giving these negative thoughts power by acting upon its lead (even if that action is a decision not to act), choose to act from a deeper place of inner power and strength. This deeper place within is the home of your wisdom, inspiration, intuition, personal passion and truth. It is the home of the Wizard Within. It is where your magical power of positive manifestation comes from.

When you tap into your own power, the power that you were born with, the parasitical power-sites lose the strength to cling on and fall by the wayside. Your energy is restored. Your life flows effortlessly. Your experiences are rich and fulfilling.

It is not a matter of eliminating your negative beliefs; it is a matter of rendering them powerless over you. Your inner power can then act as a teflon shield where negative thoughts are unable to cling onto and feed off of your innate life force.

"May the force be with you." - Han Solo to Luke, right before the attack on the Death Star battle station in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

That’s a very fitting episode title, "A New Hope". Reclaiming your power restores your faith in your abilities and opportunities. Reclaiming your power provides an unlimited source of energy with which to create your dreams, your inspirations, your rich in experience and delicious life. This is what you are here to do.