Personal empowerment is not about being perfect, being right or even being happy every single moment of your life. It's about being you. And you are both joy and misery, peace and anger, compassion and indifference and so much more!
When we can accept all these diverse aspects of ourselves, even the parts we deeply dislike (especially those parts), a unifying force happens within us and the conflict ends. This means allowing full expression of what we feel in each moment - without judgment, without beating ourselves up, without resistance, without flicking our shit at others, without believing we need to be something other than what we are right now.
It means to ride the tumultuous waves of our own indivi(duality) and in so doing create harmony within ourselves. It is this unification radiating out from our heart that transforms our lives.
It means taking that journey into ourselves. I won't kid you, it's no picnic. In fact, it's messy and down-right excruciating at times. This is precisely why so many people avoid the walk. Instead choosing to cling to addictive, stimulating comforts that stop emotional sensations from occurring at all. The deeper the resistance - the stronger the addiction. This is also why some people would rather point their fingers in blame than take responsibility for their experiences.
It requires real courage, honesty and vulnerability to sit with ourselves; to walk straight into the mystery of all that we are and embrace every last morsel of what we find there.
Being you - something so simple, yet so challenging at times.
THAT my dear sweet friends, is what your soul longs for most.