Are you using Power or Force?

Every picture we create in our minds has a magnetic power. These “Attractive Powers” have been measured and quantified through the use of behavioral kinesiology as described in books including Power Vs. Force by Dr. David Hawkins M.D., Ph.D.  Power is universal and energizing, while the use of Force always creates its own resistance and is a negative drain on ourselves, our organizations and the world as a whole.  Envy, blame, guilt and worry are just a few emotions that fall under the self defeating category of Force.  These are also the habitual tendencies of individuals and organizations under pressure.

Our challenge is then one of cause and effect.  Is worrying simply the reasonable response to real problems, or is it in fact the very energy that attracts exactly that which we are trying to avoid.  To answer that question all you have to do is ask your body.  Do you perform better on a test, sales call, an interview or service situation when you are worried about the outcome?  Force is always antithetical to the outcome. Force is always fearful.

Unfortunately, for average organizations in times of stress it is often easiest to comfort themselves with the ineffectual attention to behaviors believing that decisive action is the best remedy.

Action is necessary, but it is not one of doing, but one of understanding.  Once we “know why” the “know how” is easy.  Anyone who has experienced a life threatening illness understands this perfectly.  What seemed so confusing or difficult before the diagnoses is now perfectly clear.  The challenge is creating that same epiphany without the life threatening event.  The truth is, every act of Force is a life-threatening event
that saps the things that make life worth living.

The characteristics of Power – joy, peace, contentment, courage and appreciation – are not the result of external events, but universal understanding.  They are both the cause and the effect attracting like unto like.  We all know this, because we have all experienced it.

We have all done the unimaginable, simply because we imagined it.  Our challenge is to help people remember.  My friend John Scherer uses this phrase in his new book Five Questions that Change Everything, “We don’t change ourselves, we become ourselves, and that changes everything.”

We have the mistaken belief that only our minds think; the truth is that every cell in our bodies thinks and each of those thoughts is infinitely correlated with all others.  Every one of those thoughts can be classified in one of two categories.  There are no neutral thoughts.  Every thought has an accompanying emotion.  Thoughts either energize or de-energize. They can be classified as either Power or Force.  They come from only two places.  Forceful thoughts are generated by a feeling of fear or scarcity, while Power-full thoughts are a product of love and abundance.  Choose love and love will choose you.

Randy Morgan CSP CPC

Humor and story unlock the door, science inserts the key and remembering helps us rediscover the best that is in each of us.