Being Powerful vs. Acting on the Power that Flows through Me

I taught a class on EFT for the first time the other day.  In the days lead­ing up to the class I thought that I was com­fort­able with the idea, thought that I was com­fort­able with being the teacher.  Wrong!  On the day of the class my but­ter­flies hit and they hit hard.  I tried call­ing fel­low Meta­phys­i­cal Mama Angelina for cama­raderie and to calm my nerves, but as I knew would hap­pen, she didn’t answer.  As has hap­pened so many times over the years for both of us, I wasn’t able to get through to her on the phone when I really needed to work the issue out with myself.

Since I was headed off to teach EFT (Emo­tional Free­dom Tech­nique, or “tap­ping”), it seemed appro­pri­ate to tap out my feel­ings of over­whelm and insecurity.  This is a process that involves tap­ping on acupunc­ture points on the head and upper torso to release lim­it­ing, neg­a­tive beliefs and to replace them with sup­port­ive, pos­i­tive beliefs. 

Fol­low­ing the EFT for­mula, I started by say­ing all of the crappy, I-can’t-do-it thoughts that were run­ning through my head, fol­lowed by an affirm­ing state­ment .  “Even though I’m com­pletely freaked out that I’ll totally mess up tonight, I deeply and com­pletely love and accept myself.  Even though I am in over my head, I deeply and com­pletely love and accept myself.”  By say­ing them while tap­ping on the points, the neg­a­tiv­ity is grace­fully lifted and released.  I went through every self-doubting thought that was eat­ing away at my stomach. 

Next in EFT is “plant­ing in” affir­ma­tive state­ments while tap­ping.  I started with things that I knew were good to say, but I wasn’t quite feel­ing yet.  ” I have all of the skills that I need to run a great class tonight.  My inner wis­dom will guide me each step of the way.”  And the magic of EFT is that I started to feel it — I started con­nect­ing into the energy of the Truth that I was affirming.

I tried affirm­ing “I am pow­er­ful”, but found that the state­ment fell flat for me.  I seem to have “being pow­er­ful” tied up with images of ram­pant destruc­tion — pic­ture King Kong pow­er­fully sweep­ing through the streets of NYC, wan­tonly destroy­ing all in his path.  Yet I know that there was some­thing about “power” that was impor­tant for me to affirm.  I tried “I am own­ing my power”, but I still felt like I was strap­ping on armor and spoil­ing for a fight.  

As I qui­eted my mind and allowed the state­ment to come forth nat­u­rally, I heard “I am act­ing on the divine power that flows through me, the divine power that I am entrusted with.”  Yes!  Yes!  I shifted away from the mas­cu­line energy of mak­ing some­thing hap­pen through my own will and into the fem­ine energy of embrac­ing and chanelling the energy that births through me.  I was moved to tears as I repeated this, feel­ing my heart over­flow with love as I hon­ored the gifts that Spirit has entrusted me with.  I was able to honor that God cre­ated me to be a teacher of love, of growth, of heal­ing.  Honor that these gifts are not of my own doing and don’t need to be forced, they just ARE.  My only roll is to trust them, act on them and express them.

I headed off to my class much calmer and con­fi­dent that I didn’t need to rely just on the knowl­edge in my head to see me through.  By remem­ber­ing that a pow­er­ful, wise energy was always flow­ing through me, I was freed from the anx­i­ety of think­ing that I had to power through the expe­ri­ence on my own.

Remem­ber, beau­ti­ful women, we are cre­ated to birth.  Cre­ated to bring forth Divine mir­a­cles that start as no more than a spark, yet grow into glo­ri­ously capa­ble new beings.  Through no effort or “doing”, we incu­bate the most com­pli­cated beings on Earth and bring them forth, sim­ply by allow­ing the power of lit­eral cre­ation to blos­som within us.

What is ready to birth through you now?  What divine power now flows through you?  What is Spirit call­ing you to allow, affirm, create?

Namaste, dear ones,

Heather

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