The Present Moment is Where Your Power Lies
Being fully in our power means being fully present with all that is. This is something that I learned recently when I was in a public speaking training. I learned that to be fully present with your audience, it allows you to make more of an impact, speak from the heart vs the head, and comment in real time on things happening in the room.
This leads to making a true connection with the audience, which is the most important thing you can take away from this post: that being in your power allows for true connection with others. Being in your power comes from the ability to be present.
This desire to be present in speaking, also reminded me of what initially brought me to embodiment work. The fact was, I used to struggle with really being present with all my emotions, and other people’s emotions as a highly sensitive person and empath, and so I protected myself by numbing, or living from my head.
I didn’t even realize this was what I was doing, living from the mental part of myself, until a huge emotion would show up out of nowhere and I’d reflect and realize it had been building for awhile. I’m grateful for where I am today, which is embodied, able to fully be present with discomfort and not retreat within my head or fidget and shift with anxiety.
It took me going on this journey of embodiment, developing my & connecting to my internal felt senses, and allowing my uncomfortable emotions to express and be present, to fully own my power in the present.
I learned that this disconnection to the present moment is what blocks us from our full potential. We can’t embody all of our magnetic energy and power when some parts of us are focused on the past, and other parts are worried about the future.
If we’ve experienced trauma, or didn’t grow up with healthy ways of expressing our emotions and ourselves fully, we may find ourselves avoiding taking up our full energetic presence, because we learned at one point that it was not safe, that it made us a target, or that it got us hurt.
Embodying ourselves fully helps to release this stored, unresolved tension in the body, by somatically experiencing it, letting it express and reach completion, and integrating it. Without embodying and healing these emotions, unresolved stress, emotions, and trauma block us from being able to be fully present and calm in the moment.
This may be why you struggle with meditation, find it hard to sit still, or to communicate with power. When you’re disembodied, the present is not a comfortable place to be! It can be incredibly confronting and bring up issues that you may not want to look at, or that feel dysregulated and unsafe to your nervous system.
Living from the present, as exemplified by Goddess Aphrodite, who is fully comfortable in her body and dwelling in the possibility, the eros, of the present; is the key to living an embodied life. It’s the key to fully owning your power as a woman, throughout your being, and letting yourself be seen as you are.
This embodied power gives you the ability to fully experience the discomfort of taking a risk, of speaking your mind, of expressing your vulnerability. It allows you to make true connection with others. When you find yourself in fight or flight mode, nervous or anxious, stumbling upon your words, bring yourself back to the present moment, your body, and find your safety, your home, your power, in this space.
With love,
Emily Grace
This is the work I do with clients in my 1:1 program Reclaim, which you can learn more about here.
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