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The Language of Empowerment pt2  

CandExo 47M/53F
1 posts
4/13/2021 5:51 pm
The Language of Empowerment pt2


The knowledge and implementation of what is appropriate for the development of human potential, the empowerment of others and the transendence of human spirit is justice. Love and justice go together: love provides the motivation to serve another and justice provides the moral reasoning and knowledge necessary, for the proper and efficient implementation of this motivation. Our motivation and intentions determines the force of power that we bring to relationships, though there are other forms of power that we use to either empower or subvert spirits capacities; power alone is neither good or evil, it's intention and motivation behind its use that reveals authentic morality. When power is used to maintain power, control and status, or to subvert the capacities of spirit, it's a misuse of power.
When we feel empowered, we can manage our emotions, we can act because we have an internal focus of control. Having power means to have a sense of control, there are many different kinds of power dynamics within all relationships. The structure of power can be seen as various forms of contstraint on human action, but also that which makes action possible; power is potential energy consumed over time and has the ability to influence people and their decisions, it's a knowledge imperative. The dimensions of power are: constraint and enablement, action energy potential and the knowledge imperative.

The kind of power I'm speaking about can be defined as: organized and intelligently directed knowweldge, an organized effort that tranasmutes desire into its physical equivalent, when the organized efforts of the individual are combined with others in a socailly validating way, the potential of a mastermind support group becomes possbile. It's the power of authenticity and loving kindness that comes from the language of empowerment.

Alternatively, non-authentic relationships also exist when knowledge is faulty or incomplete, or we lack the motivation to act on our knowledge, that leads to a suppression of desire; can make us uncomfrotable exercsing our power, even giving it up and not initiating independent action. Our knowledge of what is faulty or incomplete can stem from honesty, trust or other issues, it can also be simple lack of awareness. A lack of will, desire or motivation, usually speaks to a lack of empowerment and validation, in addition to possible safety and security concerns and can even rasie autonomy and responsibility questions. In any event, authentic relationships eleminate knowledge deficits and increase our willingness to facilitate empowerment for others and share in activism and community, more improtantly authentic relationships help reduce the entrenched egotism that permeates non-authentic relationships.

Much of our entrenched egotism comes from social conditioning or scripting and includes our own perception of the sum of our experiences. In general, societies follow certain moral codes of conduct and the individuals in that society are judged in accordance to that moral code. If your within that code, you are deemed worthy, if not, you are rejected. Fortunately, moral codes like truth are progressive; any law, code of conduct or doctrine that limits, devalues or attempts to supercede the value of the human spirit needs to be swept into the world. When personal power and self worth are not encouraged, we come believe power and love can't co-exist. This is far from true. Power can be used create and establish justice.

Justice provides the condition under which love can flourish, love can be born in the absence of justice. Yet, it cannot endure in the face of continuing injustice. So the moral use of power is the pursuit of justice, hence the recent sucess and moral high ground of the pursuit of social justice and human rights. When we live in fear or become afraid of our power, we don't feel safe or loved. We learn accommodate and acquiesce power others. This lack of self-responsibility creatively feeds into sociaties perceptions of conduct; emotional empowerment becomes the way we approach validation and vindication, but this binds us to roles of victim-blame games.

Only by using the language of empowerment can we respond in reassuring and loving ways that validate, empower and encourage others to do so in our own exchanges with them. The next step is to affirm the belief that we are spiritual beings, that mind and body are the vehicles of spirit; that we aren't our thoughts, feelings or roles but by building an awareness of how our attachments to and investments in those aspects of ourselves can alter our views of what is ascribed, just or pertinent when finding a productive way to vindicate and quench our need for validation of feelings, thoughts and wants, while gaining understanding and awareness of our perceptions of reality.

Situations that affect our attachments to and investments in roles and relationships can create misperceptions which can lead to conceived or perceived irrational, illogical and reactive thoughts and feelings, creating or increasing uncertain, insecure and uncomfortable feelings that compound confusion. The confusion comes from, the perception of our subjective realities interpretation of objective reality when we subjugate our spirit to roles, attachments and investments. When thoughts are on role instead of in role, investments and atachments follow. With the distinction of our spirit from mind, we start to see we're not our thoughts and also recognize the effect our thoughts have on our feelings in influencing our being and behaviour.

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