Peace, Personal Power & Control

“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…”

― Hermes Trismegistus

With current events this week impossible to ignore, we have a potent reminder that peace and personal power has to be cultivated within each of us.  We are harshly reminded, that force is not the same as power.  Force is aggression. Personal power is not the same as control.  Personal power is not controlling others.

Personal power is our deep healing, deep trust and knowledge within ourselves first. Personal power is peace. A peace deeply within that is then reflected outward. When each of us takes the difficult journey of self-healing, the path isn’t always easy. It’s not a quick fix that we (and I ) hope for.  It just isn’t.  Instead of continuing to distract ourselves in so many cleaver ways, we are once again reminded that NOW is the time to learn how to come home to ourselves.  To find the peace within. 

As someone who found this concept difficult to fully understand and embody, it’s definitely a journey.  I’ve been a recovering type A, trying to control my life, people-pleaser for a while now. I’m not here to tell you it’s easy or quick. I really wish I was.

But I invite you to be on this journey with me for the long game anyway.  I promise you it’s worth it.  Quick fixes, outsourcing of your personal peace, outsourcing your personal power just doesn’t work. It doesn’t.  Not everyone will join you on this journey.   It will feel lonely at times. But you should still take this path. Do it anyway.

I now see with a new understanding what the ancient wisdom traditions, like Buddhism, are teaching us, inviting us into.  It’s a universal truth of remembering who we truly are.  Remembering our soul’s nature.

Lasting peace has to start within. This can feel difficult in a daily life and society so full of distractions - many good, some not so good.  Cultivating peace and forming a loving kindness towards ourselves helps us feel self-compassion which forms trust which forms safety…from within. Only from self-compassion AND a willingness to be on a healing journey (just with ourselves), can we feel and offer compassion to anyone else.

My heart breaks - I know yours does too - for the violence, fear, distraction and brutality we are all witness to together.  What’s happening in February 2022 in Ukraine is the latest on the world stage. 

Take the action you feel called to, to offer your help and support Ukraine.  I invite you to also accept the journey and take action to find the peace and personal power that awaits inside of you.  To heal the parts of you that you’ve distracted away from, avoided or haven’t found love for yet. 

Inside of you is a deep knowing, deep self-compassion and love. Take the steps you need to to remember who that is. I promise you it will lead to you to greater safety, joy and compassion.  And, isn’t that something we all need?

This is the time to say in your own life - enough. It’s an invitation to choose differently. It’s time to stop, to get quiet, feel the inner discomfort…even if only for a few minutes.

Only by doing this, on repeat, can we start to find, feel and heal. 

Your inner-strength, self compassion and love is waiting. It’s only through each of us that all of us can heal.

Maybe you feel, like I do, that you are here at this exact time in history to make this change within yourself. You deeply hope those changes will have a ripple effect outwards.   When you choose to change, you release the generational pattern that may be in your ancestry. 

Your change will have a positive, life changing impact to your children, your family. Maybe you are called to have a bigger impact through your own healing to your community. Or maybe your country.  Maybe that’s the reason you're here right now. In this specific time. To make a positive change in the world that your soul is craving. 

I’m not sure why you are here - only your heart and soul knows the truth of that.  What I do know, is that this is your invitation to find out. Learn more. Get curious. Start to listen. Start to have a conversion with your heart and soul. I promise you - you will not be sent onto the wrong path.

Find your peace. Find your purpose. And please - for all of us - find your inner strength, your personal power.  Let the days of outsourcing your power be over. Practice cultivating self- trust, learn to listen to your intuition, practice self compassion and self love.  The journey will be worth it. The beautiful changes you’ll create will be worth it. 

I invite you to be the change. Become, within only yourself, the peace you want to see in the world. 

Remember - “As above, so below, as within, so without”

If you need support or ideas on how to make changes in your current path, ask. Ask me, ask another coach AND ask yourself.  Find the peace within you, the quiet, still space that is within. Get quiet and begin to ask. Even for just 5 minutes. Just ask and be open to receiving. Do it again tomorrow. Do it again the next day. The day after that. Add the practice onto another healthy habit you have in your day so you don’t forget.  Just start.

This is an invitation to myself as much as it is an invitation for you and anyone else open and willing to hear it and receive it.

With loving kindness!

Diana