Effect of Power, or Power of Effect?

Let's talk about "powerful energy". It's a phrase that promises so much, yet often says so little. What does it actually mean? Any energy can be described that way, but the label can be as uninformative as calling something an attunement, an activation, or an upgrade. These words float around spiritual circles like currency, but what are they actually buying you?

When you scroll through descriptions of energy work, you'll see the word "powerful" everywhere. Powerful transmissions. Powerful frequencies. Powerful initiations. The word loses all meaning when everything claims it. Like a restaurant menu where every dish is "amazing" and "incredible" - you stop trusting the descriptions and start wondering what they're actually trying to sell you.

Humanity seeking for its own power somewhere, waiting for someone to show you how to access the power they somewhere inside them, they know they have, but seem to be somehow unable to access it, do something with it.

It might be that what you experience is the direct effect of your own expectations. Your mind has already framed the founder as a legitimate channeler. They speak of an energy in a certain way - maybe even calling it "powerful" - and suddenly, their description becomes the script for your experience. Your pre-conceived notions amplify the sensations you feel. You've essentially written the review before you've tasted the meal, and then you taste exactly what you expected to taste.

And even if it's "just" that - can you feel how IMMENSELY POWERFUL your own beliefs truly are? Can you sense the creative force you're wielding, the reality-shaping capacity of your own consciousness? You're not being fooled. You're being shown exactly how potent you actually are. The placebo effect isn't proof that nothing happened. It's proof that you happened.

These aren't the beliefs of some abstract person receiving an attunement somewhere, sometime. They are yours. The you before the session, the you during the connection, the you washing dishes, the you walking the dog in the park, the you sipping your morning coffee, the you stuck in traffic wondering if you remembered to lock the door. YOU. Every version, every moment, every mundane Tuesday afternoon and every transcendent breakthrough - all of it is you, wielding this capacity to shape experience through belief.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Attunements are primarily a form of induced remembrance. They don't necessarily remind you of a specific energy in a specific form, but rather, they remind you of your own innate power. They aren't something foreign you purchase from someone who has what you lack. They activate what you already possess but have "forgotten" - just as you forget that being right-handed doesn't mean you can't learn to write with your left.

Think about that for a moment. Your left hand has been with you your entire life. The neural pathways exist. The physical capability is there. You just haven't trained it. With practice and commitment, you can become quite smooth with it. It's about activating a kind of muscle memory that was always available, just dormant. Unused. Waiting.

You have the ability to speak twenty different languages if you commit to it. The mechanism for language acquisition doesn't disappear after childhood - it just gets buried under the belief that you're "not good at languages" or that you're "too old to learn." You simply need to remember your capacity to learn and adapt. The hardware hasn't changed. The software just needs updating, and you're the programmer.

In the same way, you remember your ability to reshape your life, to adjust to a new identity after you've grown used to doing things a certain way and forgot you weren't chained to it for life. You convinced yourself that this job, this relationship pattern, this way of responding to stress, this version of you - that it's permanent. Fixed. "Just who I am."

But who told you that?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

You need to REMEMBER your ability to hold the paradox: you are an adult with a developed brain and an established identity, yet you are still able to restructure, rebuild, and rebirth yourself from the ashes of the old you. Both are true simultaneously. You are fully formed AND endlessly malleable. You are complete AND constantly becoming. You are this person AND you contain the blueprint for a thousand other versions.

This isn't a unique feature you have that others don't. Every human being has this "feature". But most people don't remember they can do it. They've been conditioned out of it, socialized away from it, shamed for changing too much or "not knowing who they are." Attunements simply remind you that you hold far more within yourself than your self-definition allows you to recall.

Your identity is not a prison sentence. It's not a tattoo you're stuck with. It's more like a wardrobe - and you've been wearing the same outfit for so long you forgot you owned other clothes.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

We tell toddlers and children, "You can be whoever you want! You can learn anything!" We plaster it on classroom walls. We put it in children's books. We say it with such conviction when they're small and unformed and full of possibility.

But the older they get, the less we say it. By adolescence, we start qualifying it. "Be realistic." "Play to your strengths." "Not everyone can be an astronaut." By adulthood, we've stopped saying it entirely. The message shifts to: find your lane, stay in it, be grateful you have a lane at all.

What is literally bending the plot of your life is the fact that you can still do it.

You can still become someone else. You can still learn something new. You can still transform from this form to another. The capacity didn't evaporate on your eighteenth birthday or your thirtieth or your fiftieth. It's still there, beneath the layers of "should" and "can't" and "too late."

But you have to die first.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

It's not a physical death, but it is a deeply symbolic and, in some ways, literal one. You must willingly leave the comfort zone of who you think you are. You must step out of the familiar story, the well-worn grooves of your personality, the predictable responses that have kept you safe and small and contained.

Otherwise, your brain, clinging to the warm blanket of your known self, will scream that you'll die. It doesn't understand the difference between ego death and actual death. To your nervous system, they register the same way. Your ego on feat, terrified of the unknown, will pump up the volume on that scream with a chorus of "This is just who I am" and "I can't change" and "What if I lose myself?"

Your identity will fight for its survival like a cornered animal. It will throw every excuse, every limiting belief, every past failure at you as evidence that transformation is impossible, dangerous, foolish. It will remind you of every time you tried and failed. It will speak that you're being naive, that you're in denial, that you should just accept reality.

But yeah, that is not the truth of you because you are far more powerful than that. You've just forgotten how to access your power and channel it. You've outsourced it. You've given it away to founders and teachers and systems and modalities, convinced that they hold something you don't.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The effect of the "powerful energy" you feel during a connection is the effect that you produce. You are the generator, not the attunement. The attunement might be the permission slip, the framework, the catalyst - but the electricity is yours. It was always yours.

We are trained from a young age to want what others have, to see their results and possessions as better and ours as lacking. We look at other children's toys and think they're more fun. We look at other people's lives and think they're more interesting. We look at other practitioners' energies and think they're more potent. We are literally programmed to see power anywhere outside of ourselves, and never within.

So their things are "powerful," and ours are not. Their attunements work, and ours don't. Their gifts are real, and ours are imagination. Their connection to source is clear, and ours is blocked.

But could it be that it is the biggest lie of all?

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What if that feeling of "lack" is actually a sign of your own power? That surge of envy, that spark of anger when you see someone else's success is a sign of your own power, misidentified and turning inward. That's desire. That's recognition. That's your soul saying, "Yes, that. I want to create that. I CAN create that."

The energy you feel isn't coming from them. It's coming from you, responding to the possibility you see reflected in their work. You're not lacking what they have. You're activating what you've always had, using their example as a mirror.

The effect of a "powerful" energy is really the power of your own effect. It was never about acquiring something new from the outside. It was always about the power you were before anyone told you that you needed to buy it, earn it, deserve it, or receive it from someone who supposedly has more of it than you do. The power you still are, the power that is inherent.