Some people discover this automatically, for example when something serious occurs in the environment. Yet relatively many people often do not even realize the power they have within them. This is for the simple reason that they have not (yet) been confronted with it. They are sometimes called the so-called ‘Sunday children’, the people who drift through life and who do not have to deal with serious conflicts, the death of a loved one or otherwise. That does not alter the fact that you can also consciously use that power, but then you have to figure it out.
Spirit
Life path
There are different ways to gain your own strength, but sometimes it is out of necessity and people go through a life path that shows that they are very strong. People often only realize this afterwards or far into the process. Most people can handle more than they initially think. What plays a major role here is the condition of the environment, is there support, does the situation also apply to them, can you tell your story, etc. The fact that you do not have to do it alone, which is of course ultimately the case, plays an explicit role here.
Passion
Someone who is really passionate and completely absorbed in something can often go very far. Go further than the average person wants and perhaps can go, and just think of the top athlete who pushes himself or herself to achieve that ultimate performance or the artist who often manages to create the most beautiful art from the caverns of his/her existence. . You can’t do that if you don’t have a passion for something. It may sound sad to say that not everyone is really passionate, but it is.
When it comes to humanity, the masses are what we call average and there is nothing wrong with that. However, this fact does not alter the fact that the biggest peaks and valleys when it comes to passion are not in this category. In addition to a dose of talent, which is undoubtedly shared by more people than the top performers who are currently around in all kinds of areas, you also have to dare and be able to go to the extremes to reach that top. And that takes strength, strength that someone else cannot give you. At most, someone can encourage you, but the strength must come from within yourself.
Am I strong?
And then the question will undoubtedly arise for many people: Am I strong? After all, not everyone is put to the test and is forced to find out whether and, if so, how strong he or she is.
It is not easy to realize from a negative situation whether you can handle something like that. After all, thinking about how it feels, for example, if someone close to your heart dies is not something you can do in advance. That does not alter the fact that you can indeed detect your own strength. For this it is important that you dare to dive into yourself. This may sound rather plastic, but in fact it is. It is a form of discovering yourself and seeing and feeling what your heart desires, but also where your fears lie, in short, getting closer to the extreme within yourself.
Find out
When it comes to the negative aspects of realizing your strength, it becomes a difficult one and you can only hope that you will be spared it. But discovering your strength from your passion is a different story. Research conducted in 2011 by the University of Massachusetts shows that no less than 65% of people do not or hardly achieve their passion. Reasons are diverse and often have to do with the background.
The most common reasons :
- Environment/home situation not stimulating (even discouraged, based on own fears)
- Living from survival mode
- Fear (as counselor)
- Insecurity
So if one of the situations mentioned is relevant, it is important to first let go and experience what that passion can do to you. Charting your own course already entails the first point where your own strength is tested. is becoming. The advantage of such an exercise is that in addition to learning more about yourself, which is always educational, you also discover your passion. You feel more aware of yourself and no longer live, work or act according to average. Using your strength is often possible just to defy the resistance that this change may entail. Change by definition brings resistance (to a greater or lesser extent), realize this.
Finally
It is not for everyone to discover it for themselves, but most people discover it sooner or later out of necessity. After all, as you get older, loved ones die, people get sick or something else serious happens in life. The power is in every person, if it really has to be. The only question is how you deal with it.