Our agency or power to choose, is one of the most important powers that is truly ours. This skill is something we must master here on Earth. Your agency, fully and completely belongs to you. The absolute truth is that NO ONE can take this power away from you. When we are not aware of our power to choose, we give this power away. We need to always be mindful that we are our own agents.
Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and a Holocaust survivor said it perfectly. His captors can take away his family, his possessions, and dignity but they can not take away his power to choose his response in any situation.
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
~Viktor E. Frankl”
Isn't that so true? Even if it is a nano-second between what happens to us and how we respond and react, we still have the power to choose how we respond and interpret our world and our experiences.
What are the signs of that reactive victim-mentality and proactive victor-mentality?
One sign is by what we say often. If the first response we say in daily speech is, “I can’t because…” and then we come up with many reasons why we can’t that is often the sign of a reactive victim-mentality. Other signs of reactive victim-mentality are feelings of overwhelmed and stuck, gut problems, weight problems, and leg problems.
This is because in our subconscious we have not learned to rely on God fully and drawing energy from Him through pure faith. We unknowingly draw energy from our core, our knowledge, from our limited understanding, and move forward slowly with fear. Even though we feel we have so much faith, and it is true, we are also holding onto so much opposing fear-energy at the same time. Thus the internal conflict and frustration.
Who do you choose to connect with? I choose to connect with God. We are not victims to the world and its trials. We are victors. This mentality helps us have hope, resilience, positive outlook, joy, power, energy and ideas. Let's start our reply to challenges with, "With God, I can because..."
Essential oils for connection to God: Sandalwood, Frankincense, Immortelle
