Be Your Own Hero: Why the Spiritual Revolution Depends on Self-Empowerment
The green Kia taking its sweet time ahead of me offered a delightful message, via a bumper sticker on its hatch: BECOME UNGOVERNABLE. These two words struck a perfect chord, crystallizing this moment with the burgeoning of a spiritual revolution. The rules are changing quickly, as more and more of us are realizing that what we've been taught no longer holds true. Much of it never did to begin with.
Just because someone in authority says something doesn't make it so, and just because they say jump doesn't mean we jump. That's because each of us has our own inner authority. Now more than ever, it's time to lean into its infinite intelligence for truth, clarity, and discernment. It is the life raft of peace within the external chaos.
Here's the thing. Everything you need to know is inside of you because of who you are: A divine spark of the One Creator, walking around this planet in a human suit. It's because of this inner divinity that you have the means to discern what's true for you. When you stand firmly in your truth and act from that place, you propel forward in an empowered, divinely supported way.
You experience real freedom and liberation.
While no one can take this divine power away from you, fear can block you from accessing it. That is why it's important to keep eyes on the prize, surrender to love, and go inside for the way forward.
The answers lie within; they always have. One powerful way to tap into this inner guidance is through Spiritual Journaling, a practice of writing freely from the heart and letting Soul's wisdom flow onto the page. This ancient practice allows you to access infinite wisdom for direction, bypassing external sources that seek to control you. It's the most revolutionary thing you can do: Choose divine love, the greatest energy on the planet, and receive your truth directly from Source. Reclaim your sovereignty.
Reclaiming Your Inner Authority
It's telling when you see how, over the past 5,000 years, the patriarchy has toyed with us, causing so much needless pain and suffering in the process. It has systematically diminished, denigrated, denied, and discouraged the Divine Feminine gifts that each human innately holds. That intentional act left us woefully imbalanced—as individuals and consequently in the world we've created. To reclaim your inner authority is to embrace feminine attributes like love, kindness, nurturing, inclusiveness, beauty, collaboration, intuition, and feelings.
Your feelings are sacred. They are the one thing that's real and you can trust. Pay attention to them to discern what is true for you. It's as easy as finding a quiet place, taking some deep breaths, and going into your heartspace. From there, ask your inner self, or Soul, to reveal to you what they are telling you. For example, you can ask something like Where is this emotion coming from? What belief or pattern is coming up for me to look at and release? What is my next step? Then allow the quiet voice of intuition to fill the void—act on the guidance, or the nudge. Trust in what you receive when in those moments of peace, as you return to balance and your power.
The Hero’s Journey Inward
It's how we become our own hero and guide. Joseph Campbell's monomyth aptly applies to personal spiritual development. Here, life is a series of initiations that are meant to help you grow as a soul, and to discover who you were meant to be in this lifetime. Joyful, loving, and expansive.
The hero's journey inward begins from a place of feeling separate from your Source love. Due to mind-blowing manipulation, God was placed outside of us, and many of us were never taught or told of the spark within. An initiation arises where fearful emotions emerge, such as judgment, hatred, worry, frustration, blame, revenge, you know the stuff. The hero is then called to remember the answer: Choose inner love. Let love show the way forward. In the game of life, it's like the crib notes to any test—the eternal answer. To navigate fears that pop up, call on love to help you overcome them, let it guide you step by step, then emerge on the other side to feel peace, bliss, and healing.
Embracing this dark night of the soul is essential for growth; it is this inner work that frees us. There are no shortcuts. To embrace your full power, you must navigate initiations that offer opportunities to see, heal, and release emotional wounds and traumas, along with old and outdated patterns, beliefs, and expectations. They were never yours to begin with, and have served only to separate you from your inner love and power. Each time you drop another layer, you become a closer version of your authentic self and are free to fly even higher.
Practical Tools for Self-Empowered Spirituality
It can be fun and easy to develop a personal practice that serves your unique path. Start by filling your spiritual toolkit with practical go-tos that help you feel good, return to center, and stay balanced. Start with good energy hygiene and watch where you give your energy away. Remember, you give your energy to what you focus on. Stay out of fear in the first place—limit your time on social media, online, around toxic people, and absorbed in network news. All are rife with fear and rabbit holes that can quickly lure you into a spiral.
Practical tools can both slow and shift spiraling thoughts and feelings, as well as help you maintain balance and fortitude. Go into nature to clear your mind like forest bathing. Find creative outlets such as cooking, gardening, dancing, painting, or writing. Engage in breathwork. The simple act of deep square-breathing is an immediate way to return to center, or balance. Quiet your mind through meditation, or using sound. Stretch your body, walk barefoot in the grass, lie on the ground, listen to birds sing, gaze at a candle, clouds, or a starry night.
By building new resiliency through spiritual sovereignty, and the lows will become fewer. When they do show up, they’ll be less dramatic and shorter in duration because you will see and understand what’s happening, and know how to return to peace. Each time gets easier as discerning your truth becomes second nature.
The Ripple Effect: How Self-Empowerment Transforms the World
Healing yourself is the most radical act of service. You deny fear of the energy it needs to grow, which simultaneously removes you from a painful and chaotic loop and places you firmly back into your power, where love, inspiration, and peace easily flow in and out of you. As you ground them into the planet with your thoughts and actions, you tip the energetic scales with love and shift our collective vibration. Fear finds fewer places to roost. You receive divine inspiration to act upon, which spurs new ideas, innovations, and structures built from the ground up with balance, hope, and inspiration. Earth and all her inhabitants feel the ripple from this high tide, floating all boats.
Imagine the magnitude of change that ripples when people choose love over anger and resentment. From one act of kindness, compassion, and connection, an eternal wave of love flows on, growing exponentially. Momentum eventually takes hold. A collective shift occurs as we move into a New Earth, leading to a new, conscious way of being.
The world moves forward by design. Humanity is progressing and evolving. Becoming ungovernable means not surrendering the divine gift of inspiration to anyone. When you do, you're no longer available to house the fear the old guard is so generously distributing. It will have no place to land, and without the energy of you, me, and millions of others to sustain it, it will fizzle out much sooner than later.
Be the hero of your own story. Choose love. Go there for answers, and follow the path of your inner wisdom. If you'd like to take it up a notch, accelerate your own healing path, discover the ins and outs of channeling your soul with my workbook Refine Your Magic. It's a little book that offers big transformative change.
