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New Year’s Resolution: Take Your Power Back!

Feeling the best I ever have in 2008, I reflect on how I finished the year 2007.  I decided to clear out all in my life that wasn't working for me, and drained me of my energy.  This included what I put in my body, how I treated (and worked) my body, how I interacted with others and myself and what I did for a living.  Last December meant detox or clearing out the old to make space for the new.  I decided to start the New Year off right, already in motion of how I want to be.  Why wait till January 1st every year, why can’t we decide when we want to make changes and make that our New Year?  Let’s not give something up, let’s take something back. 

Think differently, embrace yourself and your desires and TAKE YOUR POWER BACK!
Taking your power back does not mean becoming powerful, it is to be empowered.  To live your life for you, to know what you need, to make decisions based on your needs and to prioritize how you spend your days, what you think about, spend your energy on and how you live your life based on what you value.  Your top priority is YOU and you should value yourself over anything and anyone.  Your power comes from thinking and acting with YOU IN MIND.

Where did it go?  Did you ever have it?  Are you living true to who you are?  Are you making the right decisions for you and what you need?

Self awareness and awakening brings inner happiness and peace.  Being self aware is being able to know what is yours and what isn’t.  Why do you do what you do, why do you wear what you wear and why do you think the way you think.  Did others tell you who you are and who you aren’t, what looks good and bad, and how you should feel?  Give yourself space before concluding if it’s true to you.  How you really feel in your heart is the truth.

Recognize the ways you give your power away and learn the practices to gain your power back, take responsibility for your life and become empowered.  “I gave that man the best years of my life!”  Now that is giving your power away, but it is also an untrue statement.  They can’t be your best years if you gave them away, they weren’t yours.  The best years of your life is when you start giving to you. The best gift in life comes from you and never stops giving.

We are the ones we've been waiting for...

We have been telling the people that this is the eleventh hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the hour.

 

There are things to be considered: Where are we living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in the right relation? Where is your water? Know your garden.

 

It is time to speak your truth. Create your community. Be good to each other. And do not look outside yourself for the leader. The leaders is within. This would be a good time.

 

There is a river flowing very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold onto the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and they will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination.

 

The elders say we must let go of the shore and push off and into the river, keep our eyes open and our head above the water. See who is in there with you and celebrate.

 

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt.

 

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!

 

Banish the word “struggle” from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that you do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

 

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for…”

 

The Elders, Hopi Nation, Oraibi, Arizona

November 2005