How To Never Feel Powerless Again # 3

Nothing in the universe can make us choose to act against ourselves as when we consort with self-compromising negative states. Living in sorrow, in anger, awash with regrets or that constant sense of feeling inadequate because some challenge seems to be greater than our ability to deal with it—living with those kinds of negative states is a consensual affair.

But nothing is being made of us that cannot be un-made when we understand that truth.

Transcript

Hi,

This is Guy.

Welcome back,

And I hope that you have been able to derive some meaningful understanding and new actions from the material we've covered so far.

And just to refresh what we've been talking about,

We're looking at how the root of any crisis,

Not just the current one,

But of all those conditions that we seem to crash into in life,

Are all rooted in a sudden sense of feeling powerless in some way or another,

Inadequate,

As we just talked about in the last session.

And we've been looking at what if what we have always thought as being power really isn't power at all,

But something that we have embraced without knowing it,

Some idea,

Some belief,

Some opinion,

An image,

That for our unconscious embrace of that idea has left us feeling powerless when that was never necessary,

As again we're about to prove to ourselves in our last session,

Which is called,

Take Full Possession of Yourself.

It's a little known secret that our experience of life in any given moment is a direct reflection of what we actually value in that same moment.

Now we may deny this truth because it's unsettling,

But when it comes to what we are in relationship with,

Inwardly and outwardly,

Actions speak louder than words,

And seen or not,

All actions are a choice of one kind or another.

Nothing in the universe can make us choose to act against ourselves,

As in when we consort with self-compromising negative states.

Living in sorrow,

In anger,

Awash with regrets,

Or that constant sense of feeling inadequate because some challenge seems to be greater than our ability to deal with it,

Living with those kind of negative states is a consensual affair.

Nothing is being made to us that cannot be unmade when we understand that truth.

Those dark states that I've just described that appear always in the moment of a crisis,

They never dance alone.

They must have a partner to produce the kind of pain that they do.

And that brings us,

If you will,

To some good news.

We're released from the dark embrace of any unhappy thought or feeling in the same exact moment we see that we've been tricked into dancing with that troubled state,

Into a world where the only thing that comes out of it is what we are left with,

Which is usually feeling inadequate and powerless.

So to that end,

We're going to look at four very special insights to help you choose in favor of higher self-awareness so that your new partner in the moment of a crisis isn't some painful thought or feeling telling you that you're never going to get through it,

But rather that something walks you through it,

Showing you without doubt that who and what you are is already endowed with all of the interior power,

The awareness that you need to transform that unwanted moment into something that changes your relationship with it and yourself for the rest of your life.

So let's take the first of these four insights.

When you want peace within yourself,

More than you want to feel agitated over unwanted events taking place within or around you,

Come wide awake and quietly ask yourself as consciously as you're able,

Is this agitation something I want to live with now or tomorrow or would I be better off living without it?

Look how simple that is.

I become aware of myself as best I can,

Aware of that thought or feeling that's full of agitation and I just ask myself through the awareness of that condition,

Do I really want to live with this state or am I better without it?

And when through your awareness your answer is clear,

So is your choice and in that same moment appears the peace of heart and mind for which you long and which you had unknowingly given away.

That's what it means to take full possession of ourselves is to realize that we have been giving ourselves away without knowing it and once we're aware of it we simply take ourself back.

Number two,

When you want to be at ease with yourself around friends and strangers alike more than you want that uneasy feeling that comes with fawning to win their approval,

Become wide awake right on the spot,

Maybe at the dinner table,

A restaurant,

Wherever you are,

In a car and just quietly ask yourself as consciously as you're able,

Is this painful sense of inadequacy coming from a place of strength or from weakness?

That's all.

Just aware of something in you telling you about yourself that because of what it's telling you it's also telling you what you have to do to escape it.

It's all evident in that moment and when your answer is clear that you're not coming from a place of strength but rather something is coming at you that's weak,

So will your choice be in that moment and you will reclaim that quiet self-command for which you long according to your level of awareness of the same.

Let's go to number three,

When you want to be patient with others more than you want to feel frustrated over their inability to please you,

Come wide awake and quietly ask yourself as consciously as you're able to,

Is this feeling of impatience good for me or is it good for anyone around me?

And when in that same awareness you know by the pain inherent in that impatient state that that's not good for you,

Let alone those that you love or care about,

In that same moment born of that same light of awareness your answer is clear and when your answer is clear so is your choice and in that moment when you choose to remain aware of what is weakening you because you didn't know that you were being invited to do that,

You'll know exactly what it means to regain a kind of forbearance of patience that's not just healing for you but for everyone involved.

And lastly number four,

When you want to share in the fullness of the present moment more than you want that terrible sinking feeling that somehow or other you're missing out on life,

Come wide awake and quietly ask yourself again as consciously as you're able to,

Is this fear that life is passing me by helping me in any way whatsoever?

Does this fear know anything at all about what it means to be complete in the here and now or is this fear telling me that somewhere down the line if I do what it tells me to do that then I'll be complete?

We already know the answer but we forget to ask the question because any and all of these moments where we are temporarily possessed by a relationship that we're unconscious with with our own nature we simply forget the truth and when we know the truth it sets us free.

In this instance fear doesn't know how to make you whole,

Fear can never complete you it never has and it never will.

To see that as so your choice follows and when your choice is to be aware of and then drop that relationship in that same moment you drop that unfriendly relationship you make friends with an unshakable sense of wholeness what you've been looking for all along.

In this life there is no greater power nor there is there ever a need for any other than your divine right to consciously detect and then drop any form of fear worry or dark self-doubt.

I hope that you have been able to work with these principles that we presented in the last three series of talks and if you will listen to them again each time you will take something new from what you listened to the time before because you'll have changed something in your consciousness for your willingness to work with the ideas.

That's my wish for you and our hope as human beings to change the kind of consciousness we're living from so that we no longer live feeling ever again as if we're powerless in the face of some condition greater than we are.

Thanks.

Bye.

Reviews

This is very helpful to me; just what I needed. Thanks so much!

These 3 talks are inspiring and provide the tools to make some life changing choices. Thank you Guy 🙏

What an eye-opening series of talks! At once deeply complex and laughably simple. I will be listening again. As you said yourself, there will be something new to take from them. Thank you 🙏🕊️

Thank you!

What a awakening! To truly be in the now!Thank you Guy for sharing these series of talks.Looking forward to practicing these new awarenesses!

These are so good. I look forward to listening to others.

Dear Guy Finley,
SO happy to find you in Insight Timer! I have read your books, and Vernon Howard’s for decades. Thank you. Your teachings are inspiring and helpful. ❤️

Thank you 😊😊💓

Nice!

Thank u sir for that. Greatly appreciated. ☮️