What is it about power? (Power hungry, much?)

When it comes to having your own business, power is a foundational necessity. Yet most of us have such an unhealthy relationship to power.

What comes up for you around being powerful? About having the ability to make choices and see them happen?

Very much like with business and money, we’ve had terrible experiences with others who have wielded power over us, and in order to avoid hurting others, we back away from power entirely, or at least in certain common situations.

Like in business. Like with money.

One of the invitations I made to our Community members a few weeks ago was to welcome in our hunger for power. 🙂 Yes, to be power-hungry!

Yes, I said it that way partially to be funny, and also to partially make visible the reactions we have about power.

However, it’s also true that we have a legitimate need for power, for the ability to affect our environment.

In Sufi terms, “power” is a Divine quality, it’s something that we cannot create, but that we can receive and express. And whenever we have a need for a Divine quality, that translates, somewhat poetically, as a hunger, or thirst, for that same quality.

So “power hungry” is actually spiritually legitimate.

Now, it can be a really unhealthy, dangerously unhealthy, hunger. We can twist our relationship to Divine qualities, and through fear or greed (which are often the same thing), some folks can chase and chase and chase power-hungry strategies to a point of hurting others, sometimes catastrophically so.

Like with anything, we need to be awake, aware, discerning in our heart.

However, just because some folks hurt people with power, doesn’t mean you should avoid your own hunger for power.

One of the four ways that I recommend our clients engage and learn about Divine qualities is to feel their thirst for them, that in noticing the absence of something, helps us to understand, encompass the thing in profound ways.

Here’s my invitation to you: can you feel your need, your totally legitimate need, to affect your environment, to be able to respond, to engage, to make a difference?

Now, take a moment and recognize that for what it is: a desire, a yearning, a hunger or thirst for power. Let yourself embrace that.

There’s more to do with it, of course, but for now, just this one step. The next few minutes, the rest of today, the rest of this week, notice, accept, embrace your thirst for power.

I want you, as a heart-centered business owner, to be powerful. To be full of power, and ability, to affect our world. I trust your heart, and I trust your desire to make change. I want more power in your hands, not less.

How does this land with you? What are your thoughts about it? Let me know!

With love and power,
Mark Silver, M.Div.
Heart of Business, Inc.

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