Empower Yourself

by Bishop Robert Loring, OSM OSJ of Arizona

(this piece originally appeared in a 2003 edition of The Light)

Each and every time you give thought to your weaknesses and inadequacies you disempower your own self because thoughts are energy and this means you are giving energy to your faults. You could just as easily start giving energy, via thought, to your strengths. Each and every time you give into thoughts of fear (the opposite of Love) you make yourself become more fearful even though you could give that energy to Love through thinking loving thoughts and, thus, begin to empower yourself. Every time you think you are alone you increase your own loneliness. You could open your eyes wide and come to know that, in truth, you are never alone because your Divine Mother/Father has not left you abandoned on this earthworld.

Many times many of us are our own worst enemies and what the majority of us need to learn is how to become our own best friends. For, when we engage in self defeating thoughts born of fear we are playing the role of "self enemy" and every time we play that role it disempowers us within our ownselves. What many of us need to realize is that the Divine has NOT given us spirits of weakness and fear but, spirits of great strength, great power, and especially of great Love. We not only need to come to know this but we also need to come to ACT like it. But we cannot know this or act like it until we stop being our own worst enemy and start being our own best friend.

Becoming your own best friend means to do so in a nonegotiscal and nonselfish way because you are not on this planet alone and your spiritual walk is not only all about you but is also all about every human life on this world. Becoming your own best friend means making a conscious choice to love yourself unselfishly. It means forgiving yourself for everything along with forgiving ALL other people. And it means purposefully being gentle on yourself instead of crucifying or torturing yourself every time you make a mistake in life.

Many of us tend to ruthlessly attack our own selves when we make errors in life and what we need to do is simply learn from our mistakes, be gentle on ourselves and others, and go on walking down the path of life. Instead, many of us get stuck in beating ourselves up via our thoughts of guilt and self inadequacy along with often blaming others. This all serves no productive purpose in our lives and this only disempowers us even further. Do any of us really need to be disempowered within our own selves more than we already are? I don't think so!

Part of learning to be your own best friend is loving others and committing random acts of Love both for others and for yourself. Thoughts are all fine and well but their is nothing like action to drive the realness of Love "home". Further, learning to be your own best friend also means coming to the realization that each of us, including yourself, is far more than "only human" because the truth is that we are each a Sacred Child of the Divine (God/Goddess).

Each thought of Love that we have about ourselves and other people empowers us. Each time we forgive ourselves we grow in inward power (the only real power). Each time we commit random acts of Love we are enacting our true role, that of a Sacred Child. Each time we actively seek to see similarities between ourselves and others instead of the differences we grow in empowerment. Each time we consciously and purposefully decide to be our own best friend we grow stronger and are reminded that we are spiritual beings at our cores and, therefore, are far far more than "only human", weak, and powerless.

Perhaps what the world needs now more than ever before is self-empowerment rooted in non-egotistical and unselfish Love. For, these are trying times for most of us and these are times in which not to be weak and fearful but to be strong and loving. And, as far as love is concerned, real and lasting Love all begins with us loving ourselves first. For, how can we truly love others if we do not love ourselves? We cannot giving something to others which we do not already possess our own selves.

I encourage you to stop disempowering your ownself. I encourage you to change those self defeating, disempowering thoughts you have to self empowering thoughts. And I encourage you every time you have a thought born of fear to start consciously changing those thoughts to those born of Love because, in the end, it is Love and NOT fear which empowers us. Fear only makes us more powerless, more defeated, more beaten down within our own selves. BE that Sacred Child of the Divine! BE your own true nature (Love) and stop fighting against it. Choices and thoughts rooted in fear, self defeat, self condemnation, and self doubt stand against your own true nature for such thoughts oppose Love and it was from Love which you were created and not from fear

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