Power

Presumably, the very mention of ‘personal freedom’ on one hand, and of ‘personal transformation’ on the other, are liable to be taken as code words indicating awakening of ‘personal power.’ Perhaps, the only thing we might disagree on is that values and creativity are the starting point of any individual transformation process. For some, there is a need to have a point of reference. Whenever one goes embark on deep work with the self (this include both the body and the psyche/mind) the most important thing is to have a strong and sharp spine, or better yet, a statement of one’s individual believes and personal truth, which stay flexible enough to be challenged while undergoing the process of metamorphosis. This, exact quality or capacity, provides an individual with a willingness to act on many levels with one’s self, others and the surroundings.

The exercise of this power relation among the core self, the outside and the new to be is the source of a multi-dimensional personal empowerment. My sense of this process is that one comes to an underlining semantic clarity, stemming from comprehending the difference between what constitutes deeper/combined levels of engagement with one’s self and the other versus incremental alteration to the existing self. The latter builds on everything that is already well known to the individual, and on improving one’s practice and ideas. The former, however, redefines previously established paradigms, processes, and practices while enabling the individual to consciously reach vertical and horizontal levels of a new personal world that becomes irreversible, yet, open to explore - further and deeper.

As such, personal empowerment is a form of intellectual awareness in which the self and the world appears to be both multidimensional and united as one. This also stops one’s brain from flipping back and forth between multidimensional and seemingly conflicting perceptions while allowing the individual to simultaneously appreciate the whole picture and share their impressions with the other.