11:11 Call Back Your Power, Your Wonder and Your Joy

Come home to your own soul: Call back every piece of yourself that you have ever given away.

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Release any energies that are not yours and come back home to your soul.

Taking your power back doesn’t mean controlling others, but rather taking control of yourself.

If you are a Sensitive Soul, you are empathic. More sponge than Teflon, your mood and energy can easily be influenced by sources outside of yourself. Your sensitivity, your big heart and your deep compassion may cause you to take on the concerns of others and expend too much of your energy on their problems without even realizing it.

You have a finite amount of personal energy. If you exhaust it by trying to solve problems that you’re not authorized to fix, you will lack the energy to pursue your own dreams. Investing too much of yourself in a particular perspective or ideology can also trap your eternally free spirit in a rigid and confining box: Whenever you emotionally and energetically attach to a specific idea, person or outcome, it stays bound until you detach it with acceptance, love and forgiveness.

Without your conscious awareness or consent, the urgent concerns of another (alive or dead) may be offloaded on to you and weigh you down. You can become so deeply absorbed with the agenda of other people that you start to act in their best interest, and end up sacrificing your own dreams. When you routinely rescue others from the consequence of their actions, you not only deprive them of the benefits they would gain from handling it themselves, you convey to them that only you are capable of solving their problems.

It's not a matter of letting go—you would if you could. Instead of 'Let it go' we should probably say 'Let it be'.- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Many Sensitive Souls began taking on the energy (and problems) of others long before they ever uttered their first word, making it seem as though it’s a natural, and even virtuous behavior. However, whether it’s for the purpose of protecting someone else’s feelings or keeping yourself “safe,” the learned habit of absorbing energy from other people not only drains you, but captures traces of your spirit in another person’s emotional web. Any unresolved energies and emotions you’ve taken on will “stick” to you until you release what is not yours and come back to your own soul, the incubator of your dreams.

All suffering is caused either by an attachment to a positive outcome or an avoidance of a negative one. ~ Jafree Oswald

Squandering your resources on others instead of creating your soul-led life is not an act of selfless service; it’s actually a boundary violation. When you take on someone else’s challenges, you deny them an opportunity to grow their souls. If you’re a Sensitive Soul who has carried other people’s burdens for so long that it’s become second nature, let this be your invitation to let them go and let it be. Trust that everyone you love has a soul blueprint that they’re guided by, just like you.

You can only lose what you cling to. - Buddha

It’s a choice to carry energies that are not yours. No matter how someone may try to frame it to manipulate you, when you act in your own best interest, you’re not acting against someone else. When you make a choice for yourself, you are reclaiming your power.

It’s fear that caused you to give away parts of yourself in the first place: The primal fear of rejection, ostracism or criticism is a powerful motivator that can hijack you from your soul’s mission. Unresolved fear creates an energetic cord that binds a piece of you to someone else…until you reclaim it by calling back your power. Remind yourself that a connection based on fear cannot possibly serve your highest good; it must be cleared and relinquished if you want to grow.

The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in your life.” – Hal Elrod

Spiritual Practice: Let it Be

Be bold. Cut the energetic cord. Forgive everybody everything. Let them off the hook to let yourself off the hook. Vow to act in your own best interest from now on.

Instead of constantly reacting to the dysfunction of others, let them be. Trust that you have nothing to lose; anything meant for you will come back to you by your soul’s design. When you have the courage to call back your power, you will be so proud of yourself. You will earn your own respect. You will glow from the inside with the warmth of your own soul, the incubator for your dreams.

I call back my power.

I call back every piece of myself that I have ever given away.

I call back my voice. I call back my clarity. I call back my heart, my truth, my body, my mind, my spirit and my deep love.

I allow it all to return to me now: my love, my joy, my wonder, my curiosity and my faith. I allow my soul to refill with the energies of my trust essence--unconditional love.

I come back to the home of my soul.

Try this Medicine Mantra for calling back your power from Lee Harris & Davor Bozic: