Owning your own personal power; finding your center

It is so important to stay in your place of personal power in your life. To be in your personal power means to hold your center despite any external circumstance which may make you feel a little shaky from time to time. Often our reactions to other people around us will make us disconnect from our own center of ‘knowing’. It only takes a minute to connect with that center of knowing within ourselves. That center of knowing will allow you to decide, for instance, if you are honoring your integrity in a business interaction or if someone else is telling you something that doesn’t feel right to you. It is important to honor those feelings that you have inside of yourself because that is your gut talking. The gut is synonymous with the third chakra. The third chakra is your center of personal power and when your stomach is in knots about something that may be an indication that your connection to yourself is not clear about something; your place of personal power is shaky. Knowing that you can take a brief moment to check in with yourself and ask some questions. Why am I feeling these butterflies right now? How is this sensation trying to get my attention right now? Where am I not owing my personal power in this situation? Trust yourself. If you can’t control the circumstance that you find yourself in, ask yourself ‘how I can hold my center and honor myself in this situation?’ It might be something as simple as deciding that your well being does not depend on the current situation rather it lies much deeper and within a place of personal power that can’t be challenged by external circumstances. Holding your center of personal power is important because it is herein that your self esteem also lies. If someone is unhappy with how you conduct your life, yet deep inside, you feel that the way you conduct your life is right for you; your self esteem might be challenged momentarily until you connect with your own place of personal power and trust your inner knowing as to what is the right path for you. Every person that you encounter in your external world comes from their own place of personal power. They may have ideas about the way you should conduct your life. If those ideas are not in alignment to you and your own personal power then silently bless them and decide that you will not allow their opinion to influence how you feel about yourself. Hold your center in the situation. It is only in the moment that you react to the situation and feel poorly about yourself as a result that you actually lose power and disconnect from your center of personal power. Just bringing your awareness to the moment, redirecting your intention back to your center and finding the place of personal power within yourself  will allow you to center yourself and find that all knowing place inside of yourself which you can always trust to lead you in your life.