If you’re not where you want to be financially, consider this. Your difficulties may have little, if anything, to do with money, but your fear of or ambivalence about power…because you don’t understand true power.

Basically, there are 3 kinds of power:

1. Power Over (Domination)
2. Power With (Collaboration)
3. Power-From-Within (Dominion)

The drawback with the first two is that exercising power depends on others cooperating.

True, authentic power derives from the 3rd—Power-From-Within (a term coined by feminist author, Starhawk)—which comes from your mind.

When you understand how to control your thoughts (vs trying to control other people), you’ll discover the immense power you have, regardless of what’s going on ‘out there.’

“By harnessing the transformational power of the mind,” declares renowned neuroscientist Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz “you have the power to change the physical structure of the brain.” 

Neuroscience has proven the power of mind. But the best tutorial on mind training or exercising Power-From-Within comes from A Course in Miracles.

“Your ability to redirect your thinking,” the Course explains “is the most powerful device that was ever given you for change.”

Few people understand this power, the Course admits and then warns us:

You do not guard your thoughts carefully enough. There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.

So beware, the Course cautions. “Whenever you feel even a shred of fear or any uncomfortable sensation, consider it a valuable warning that you’re following the wrong thought system.”

Discomfort means you’re following your fearful Ego, which always generates more fear and misery. Instead, shift to the loving, but quiet, guidance of your Soul.

Every time you view an experience through the adoring eyes of your Soul rather than your frightened Ego, your world will miraculously change

Simply put: True power doesn’t come from what you do, but how you think.