Confidence: Your Response Ability Reflects Your Inner Power

Confidence has to do with managing your own thoughts, feelings and emotions.  Your perceptions are changeable to the degree that you take conscious control over the management of your own inner world.  Most people seem to be too pre-occupied with what others are doing to the neglect of their own personal development. 

This tendency is often related to the egoic need to deny our own weaknesses, which will also cause us to not develop our strengths and talents.  It is not what happens to you that determines the outcome of your life, but how you RESPOND to the situations and circumstances that you encounter. 

You have a unique destiny that you can move consciously toward, or if you choose to stay asleep and sleep walk through life you will tend to stumble into a fate that is less elegant and empowered.  The choice is ultimately yours as we have been given the gift of free will. 

This free will though, is dependent upon your level of conscious awareness.  If you stay in the victim, blame game mode, you will feel that you are simply tossed to-and-fro upon the waves of life.  However, once you are willing to accept yourself where you are and become willing to take responsibility without blame, you can consciously start to develop your “response ability”. 

This is your ability to make conscious choice about where you want to go.  Where ever you currently find yourself was created by past choices and decisions, whether consciously or unconsciously chosen.  The key is to in the present time, the now, start to learn how to manage the way that you think and feel, setting conscious intention to heal illusions and perceptions that limit you, and change the energy that is constrictive and non-productive to one that is expansive and full of possibility. 

If you take the hand that you seem to have been dealt and rise above the appearances of the external world, you will find that you can transcend or “fly over” what may initially seem like insurmountable odds.  I know.  I did it myself. 

I could have easily continued to blame people and circumstances for what I considered “unfair” handicaps and I have physical attributes such as gender and race that may not have been favored at the time.  Yet, I determined that “where there’s a will, there’s a way”.  This was one of my mantras in those days, as was “winners never quit, and quitters never win”. 

The more I responded with a winner’s attitude, the easier it became to be willing to take a chance and the more I won.  These challenges served to build faith, confidence, endurance, courage and patience; all are powerful qualities that serve me very well in life, even unto this day. 

The more you act on the Power within in faith, the stronger your “ability to respond”, or willingness to take responsibility, becomes.  Inner power is limitless and others can’t define it for you unless you give your power away. 

Go ahead, try it.  Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the willingness to move in the face of fear, to feel fear yet do it anyway.  In order to thrive during our changing times and develop confidence, you will have to build this quality.  You can do it!  We all have access to the Power Within!

Comments

[Tracee]

Great article! I'm motivated to take responsibility for my response ability. :)

[Migen L. Osorio]

Yes, to be reminded that we have been created with free will, is mind-enhancing. If we keep on blaming circumstances and other people for the rut we may be in, we will never move forward. Stay in the now. That's where we're at really. Stay in the now and start from there. We can chart our lives by making the most of where we are at present. The past is gone, although we can learn from past mistakes as well as be buoyed up by past triumps. The future is still to come. The future will be dependent on what we do at present. The future is a consequence of our past and where we are at present.
All these may seem elemental and all too very basic. But we need to be reminded again and again about these if we are to develop our inner power and self-confidence.
We must make the most of what we have in terms of time, talent and treasure. And we can do this if we take a proactive stance.
These thoughts were made possible because of what I just read: "Confidence: Your Response Ability Reflects Your Inner Power."
We must take responsibility for our lives. No one else can nor will. We owe it to ourselves to be the best of what we can be.