This One Thing Can Transcend Your Existence— 3 Principles To Cultivate It

Aram Rasa Taghavi
Jul 28, 2017 · 3 min read

“In looking for the source of power, we have noted that it is associated with meaning and that this meaning has to do with the significance of life itself.” — Dr. David Hawkins, MD, PH.D

If you’re not satisfied, fulfilled, feel lonely or anything else, it’s likely that you haven’t created or found enough meaning for yourself.

The winners in work and life know how to manufacture meaning because they know that meaning starts and ends with choice.

Often times, we take ‘forceful’ action that’s driven by fear and powerless as a result — instead of ‘powerful’ that’s attuned to the universe and made in a high state of consciousness.

As such, it would help to understand the nature of Power and Force and observe where in particular areas you may be ‘forceful’ vs. ‘powerful’.

This is mostly about building habits and making ‘powerful action’ second nature vs. our very normalized ‘forceful’ action that’s become common as we strive to get things done and achieve goals on a day to day basis.

Power Vs. Force

Think of power as energetic and supplying and force as costly and draining.

Anything that needs justification or needs to be explained is force.

If something is being debated, it’s forceful. It requires propaganda and rhetoric and disguises underlying motivations.

So if you catch yourself justifying something, it’s forceful.

You don’t need to explain power.

Ghandi said “that human rights are not granted by any earthly power, but are inherent in the nature of man himself by consequence of his creation.”

So he forbade all use of violence in his cause.

There was nothing to take from him and nothing for him to lose, and, over time, he won independence of a billion person nation.

Power always wins in the long run.

Always. Every. Single. Time.

Powerful people have endless energy that emanates and finds it’s energy through consciousness itself.

Forceful people require lot’s of external energy and consume it by consuming the energy around them.

This is in accordance to the standard laws of physics:

“force automatically creates counter-force, its effect is limited by definition. We could say that force is a movement. Power, on the other hand, stands still. It is like a standing field that does not move.”

The Effects of Powerful Action

Given power energizes, gives forth, supplies and supports the organism (you) and everything around it, it’s only natural it has the power to shape the environment and consciousness it comes into contact with.

Whether it’s the people you work with or the intuitive dog that seems to love you more than it loves the forceful person.

Cultivate Power With These Three Principles

  1. Be mindful of your state of mind and others state’s of mind as often as you can. Build up radical empathy and hone your intuition.

Your state of mind often determines how you act and what you say.

2. Let Go and Surrender Feelings That Create Emotional Responses

Feelings create all the thought and emotional responses that create stress.

Feelings are the root cause of every human ailment and create the state of mind/body that make you susceptible to disease.

It’s feelings of guilt, undeservedness, shame, anxiety, pride and fear that create the emotional responses and thoughts.

There’s a physical process that takes place when you sit with the feeling, acknowledge it and surrender it.

You become empty.

3. Don’t just meditate, have a meditative day

Meditation should kick start a full day of meditation, not just during the time your meditating.

The ultimate test is how well you’re able to sit in a room with yourself and not do anything.

Is this very hard or do you enjoy it? How much you enjoy it says a lot about your action and how well you’re

Conclusion

Understanding the difference between power vs. force can transcend our world.

I see so many examples of force failing us and power creating positive change.

It’s pretty simple, if something requires explanation, and creates resistance or backlash, it’s forceful. If something does not, and there’s nothing to be said about it and it just is, it’s powerful.

Make the choice to take powerful action and create the world you wish to see.

Aram Rasa Taghavi

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Articles on entrepreneurship and life from personal experiences (only). Former XIR @ Expa SF

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