Take Back Your Power
by Edwin Harkness Spina
Lately, I've been watching episodes from the 1970s TV show,
Kung Fu, on DVD. It starred David Carradine as Kwai Chang
Caine, a half-Chinese, half-American Shaolin priest who
wanders the post-civil war American West looking for his
long-lost brother.
Caine is a martial arts master who resorts to using his
fighting skills only when someone's safety is at stake. Kung
Fu introduced many Westerners to some of the basic tenets of
Eastern thought. Like fine art and true wisdom, many of the
teachings espoused in the show are timeless and universal in
nature.
One of my favorite episodes, El Brujo, concerned an evil
witch who was terrorizing a small town. The townspeople so
feared this man that they willingly gave away their power -
performing whatever actions he demanded - hoping to please
him. At one point, the townspeople were resigned to letting
an infant die because the evil man had cursed the baby.
When Caine arrives, he cures the infant using herbs. Later,
the witch curses one of the town's leaders, condemning the
man to death in 24 hours. As before, the leader tries to
give away his power - this time, pleading for Caine to
rescue him. Caine simply replies, "Why do you believe him?"
The leader's shock matches the shock I sometimes see on
people's faces when I ask them the same question, after they
report "news" they've seen on TV. The number of people who
willingly accept the thoughts and edicts of others, without
question, is astounding, but understandable. In our society,
we have been trained since birth to delegate our thinking
and give away our power to outside "experts."
When you spill hot coffee on yourself, you are advised to
hire an attorney to argue that you were not warned the
coffee was hot. When you watch a political debate, experts
come on later to "explain to you" what you just heard and
what it means, as though you were incapable of forming your
own opinion. You are taught to blindly allow doctors to pump
drugs into your body, and to ignore the wisdom contained
within your own self.
While soliciting outside advice can be helpful, blindly
accepting another's thoughts, without discernment, violates
your responsibility to yourself as a majestic spiritual
being living on earth.
In the Kung Fu episode, a flashback to Caine's early
training at the Shaolin monastery in China echoes this
simple truth. His blind teacher, Master Po, explains, "The
undiscerning mind is like the root of a tree - it absorbs
equally all that it touches - even the poison that would
kill it."
Caine chooses not to accept the poison. When the witch
curses Caine, nothing happens, for the simple reason that
Caine "does not believe him." The witch's hold over the town
immediately vanishes.
So it is today. You need not blindly accept whatever fate or
expectation your parents, siblings, teachers, political
leaders, media commentators, friends or co-workers have
dictated for you. You not only have the right, but the
responsibility, to decide, for yourself, what you think.
To do so, you must become aware of your thoughts. You may
well discover that the majority of thoughts that you think
every day are not even your own. You may further discover
that many of these thoughts are disempowering, intended to
induce fear or otherwise direct your behavior.
You did not incarnate on earth to "play it safe" or be a
robot that simply "follows the rules, hoping to fit in." You
were created in the image of God. This means you were born
to create. Your life's mission is to tap into your inner
self and express the wisdom from within - not to blindly
accept the viewpoint or doctrine of some expert, guru or
societal program as the default setting.
Understand that as a creator, every thought you think is
creating your world. Will it be a prison ... or will it be a
heavenly garden? Wouldn't you rather be the architect of a
beautiful paradise worthy of such creative power?
To create "Heaven on Earth," you must regularly tap into
your divine nature by whatever name you choose to call it:
master within, higher self, inner light, etc. When you tap
into your inner self on a daily basis, you begin to assume
and deepen your majestic spiritual nature.
There is no other mission on earth as critical as learning
to tap into your inner self for guidance and expressing your
inner light. As numerous spiritual traditions assert, "The
highest and best source of wisdom comes from within."
Learning to ask for, listen to and accept this guidance is
essential to developing spiritually.
When you have tapped into your inner self, you then can use
your mind to interpret the "voice" of your inner master, and
take inspired action to create or express yourself - whether
you are writing, painting, singing, working, playing or
simply thinking.
Now, be forewarned: there are those who may tell you that
relying on your "mind" is dangerous - that doing so is
egotistical. Some "schools" of thought actually argue humans
think too much and, to balance this tendency, they should
rely more on emotion and instinct. This "theory" misses the
point entirely. The issue is not whether you, or anyone
else, thinks too much, but rather WHAT VOICE DO YOU LISTEN
TO - the voice of your ego or that of your higher self?
Experience, intuition and certain other clues will help you
to recognize the voice of your inner self and avoid the
pitfalls of the ego. (We will cover this subject in more
depth in our next newsletter.)
Until then, it's time to think your own thoughts and take
back your power!
If you would like to flush extraneous, discordant energies,
thoughts and emotions from your energy bodies, to better
prepare you to tap into your innermost self, and release any
limiting beliefs that may be holding you back, then visit:
www.EnergyCenterClearing.com/ECC.html
Best wishes,
Ed
P.S. Your feedback is welcomed - please send your comments to me at:
ehspina@mysticwarrior.us
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