Empowerment - A List of Choices

Empowerment is a process that:

• Challenges and shifts our perceptions and assumptions about the way things are and can be.
• Deepens and expands our experiences and understanding.
• Connects us with our inner power of presence.
• Broadens our perspectives to be more inclusive, impersonal and causal. Realizes and expands human potential.
• Develops new levels of consciousness.
• Opens doors where doorways did not even exist.
• Supports us in becoming awake or conscious as Soul.
• Grows as we do.
• Is achieved over time, not overnight.

I empower myself when I:

• Seek my own truth and live from it.
• Authentically express myself.
• Believe in myself.
• Become conscious of life in new ways.
• Choose beliefs that serve me.
• Believe in my capacity to influence events.
• Respect and take care of my physical body and my mental and emotional health.
• Gain control over my thinking and emotions, and therefore over my life.
• Detach from and witness my thinking and feeling.
• Choose to think constructively and stay focused on what is powerful, positive, and productive.
• Stop making excuses.
• Release a victim mentality.
• Mind my own business.
• Release judgment of myself, other people and situations.
• Accept responsibility for the results in my life.
• Consciously work with emotions to heal and grow.
• Draw on my courage to move through fear.
• Do things for myself without guilt.
• Do things for others without resentment.
• Stay grounded and centered in my own truth in the midst of adversity.
• Share my gifts and talents with others.
• Own and take control of my life.
• Own my personal power.
• Build high self esteem, self confidence and self worth.
• Find meaning in my work.
• Accept and respect the differences between myself and others.
• Do NOT force or manipulate to make things happen.
• Do NOT make others do what I want.
• Express my feelings, thoughts, desires and actions honestly while being sensitive to how this expression affects others and their feelings.
• Forgive myself and others.
• Open to accept that everything serves and therefore, forgiveness is not needed.
• Seek fulfillment as well as success.
• Know what I want.
• Make conscious choices that serve myself and life.
• Make my own decisions and act in accordance with them.
• Give myself permission to perform and succeed.
• Commit to my values and goals.
• Experience life more fully and more abundantly.
• Am willing to explore how every experience serves myself and others.
• Harness the passion of my heart by going for what inspires me.
• Uncover my passion, purpose and potential.
• Allow the soul's purpose to express.
• Purposely, intentionally design the life I most desire and take action to create it.
• Adopt a 'whatever it takes' attitude to realize my dreams and never give up.
• Tap into source energy to manifest the life I want.
• Open in gratitude for all that life has to offer.
• Connect with myself and other people and situations with love and compassion.
• Serve the higher good of all concerned.
• Give unconditionally.
• Have faith, focus and follow through in what I want to be, do, and have.
• Identify with life working through me.
• Identify and live the values that are most important to me.
• Learn from every experience.
• Unconditionally love myself, others and all life.
• Trust myself.
• Am willing to trust life and surrender.
• Live fully present in the moment.
• Expand my vision by making my questions bigger than my answers.
• Seek understanding and truth.
• Recognize abundance and open in gratitude.
• Recognize my true spiritual nature.
• Recognize the divine in everyone.
• Touch the life energy within another.
• Experience self realization, self actualization, and self transcendence.
• Connect with the One Life.

I support the empowerment of others through:

• Helping them become the best they can be.
• Supporting them to assume responsibility.
• Helping them to help themselves.
• Awakening and fostering their innate creativity and imagination.
• Helping them access their inner power.
• Sharing information, training, asking for input.
• Discussing, cooperating, delegating tasks and decision making.
• Being a model of life and vitality for others.

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