Written by Lee Lott | 17 January 2012

True Power is maintaining your balance and equanimity, no matter how dramatic or personally provocative external circumstances are.  You give away your power when you fall into other people’s dramas or react to provocation.  This occurs though strong emotional reactions, which can carry you away denying all awareness of self and the intuitive wisdom available to you.  Potentially, you can create more drama and make a situation worse by feeding a downward spiral of negativity. The media coverage of the capsizing of the Costa Concordia illustrates this.

Having covered the rescue operation the media are now feeding the energy of fear by speculating about an “ecological disaster” through the escape of diesel oil from the vessel’s fuel tanks. Certainly, this is an issue that needs to be addressed but why create more drama and feed the negative energy of fear?   How helpful is it to the inhabitants of the island of Giglio?   For days the news focus has been on the drama, death, pain and disaster.  No great emphasis was placed on the individual acts of courage displayed or the will to good shown by people who helped those in distress.

When a drama or provocation occurs in your life, do you stand in a place of detachment listening to your intuitive guidance or do you get carried hither and thither by a tide of emotional reaction?  Do you deepen the drama by focussing upon or speaking about the negative features of a situation or do you remain balanced and look for the good that is also occurring? How much attention do you give the positive aspects of a situation?   What feels more empowering?  Naturally, there are emergency situations when adrenalin is released and one is drawn into instinctive reaction. However, when the drama is over, do you remain in it, or do you align with your true power, detach and look what you have learned and the opportunity provided for you to grow.

Drama and disempowerment or detachment and true power, what do you choose?