Unbraiding relationships of power-over

Trump and all like him are a charade of what power really is. They are fear masquerading as leadership. They are patriarchy masquerading as father knows best. They are self-interest masquerading as care for others.

True power is the ability to express and create through one’s wholeness, through an open unlimited heart.

Individually, and as collective humanity, we are being presented with an important, paradigm-shifting choice:

• Do you still choose to create through the limits of fear?
• Or do you choose to manifest through the boundless energy of LOVE?

If we sit with this choice, we will access from our deep collective memories the many occurrences of abuse of power, of being shackled, limited, of fear and fear and more fear-based thinking and acting. Is there any variation of the power paradigm that we haven’t played out already? Not likely.

Just thinking about Trump and all those who want power for self and vain-glorious aims feels heavy, dense, stagnant as a drying-up cesspool.

Intentional choice is energetic action

Do you choose to be done with this dynamic? I do. All fears are illusions we collectively agree to. This includes our fear of what might happen if Trump, and the many like him around the globe, come into power. Let’s try to step away from this programmed fear.

Perhaps the sticking point here is this — that we still believe in the power of these “high” elected (or otherwise taken) offices to set the tone for our lives. Our minds cannot separate our own power from the power of those we live “under.” It’s the history of hierarchy that we continue to struggle with and against. So we must release this as well. We must unbraid the energies of fear of power and hierarchy before we can step into our true individual and collective power.

Then we can make substantial leaps surmounting this belief and putting power back into the hands of all humans to create a better world.

Then we each may sense into what this means and how it might be expressed in physical reality through all of us. For as long as we believe our own ability to co-create is made or broken by others we limit ourselves. If we stopped giving them our power, if we make them besides the point through local projects and initiatives, then how might politics be energetically restructured? How might a power dynamic look as a reflection of personal well-being and peace?

We must unbraid the energies of hierarchy and fear of wholeness. For as long as we disbelieve our individual and collective wholeness we will experience ourselves as broken in some fundamental way. As fundamentally unable. Period. This has become our collective comfort zone. “I am not worthy” our collective mantra.

This is what makes us susceptible to control by others. Demagogues. Bankers. Big Pharma. Marketers. Our disbelief in our wholeness and belief that someone else has the fix (hierarchal perspective) limits the expansion of our own abilities. As long as we think the magic pill is outside of us we will look to the leader that can better guide us, the company that can better boss us, the doctor that can better heal us, the scientist that can better prove what is known.

Will you join me and choose to be done with this illusionary path to “happily ever after.” The path of “please, please validate” my existence. The path of power-abdication. The trust is broken around agreements to hand power off to a few.

And what is emerging from the broken trust is belief in ourselves. Through the cracks of this broken hierarchy dynamic, the light is shining on our real power source which is from-the-heart-love relationships and connections. The light is shining on our choice to take full responsibility for what we co-create together.

Let’s stop dimming our power through the distraction of old power plays. The status quo does not want us to tune into the new heart-based power dynamic. Let’s keep unbraiding the energies of power-over as by inviting in new expressions of heart power. Let’s connect to true power sources of love.

Relation.Ships are the our true power vehicles

It is through real relations with one another that we can connect the dots of our individual greatness and expand what we have to give and to express. No more asking for validation from outside ourselves. We must first believe that we each are here on a mission to break the spell of “power over” us so that we can express the immense power from within us.

Again, as long as we give our power to others our hearts can be broken by people, by organizations, by the political process. So now is the time to practice being in full empathetic heart. This is the strongest heart of all. Now is the time to appreciate the power of heart we can bring to our own lives, to service of something greater than ourselves, to the world as a healing vibration of love.

All that is accomplished by humans is done through the vehicle of our relationships. So let’s first be in aligned relationship to Self and our soul mission, and then let’s be in alignment to those we are here to co-create with from a renewed sense of heart power.

Melissa Wadsworth is the author of Collective Manifestation: Heart-Centered Blueprints for Intentional Community