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The Power Inside You: 10 Secrets to Self-Empowerment

The Power Inside You: 10 Secrets to Self-Empowerment, by Faust Ruggiero. Photograph of woman against moody sky by Caique Nascimento
Photograph by Caique Nascimento

Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

No one can fix your world for you, but everything you need to find peace, power and love is within you already; you simply need tools to access it

We live in a world where becoming powerful is defined by individuals and social standards which tend to lie outside of our own minds. We have become a society that has surrendered our connection with our own internal power base and redefined it in terms of our ability to connect with, and be part of a social system that pressures us into believing that belonging to it, and surrendering who we are to it, gives us definition, and subsequently power. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Though we are, in fact, social animals, we are first, and foremost, individuals. We are unique and specific to ourselves, and we must begin to understand that true power was born inside of us, and it is we who must understand how to connect to that power, define it, and learn to champion it.

Self-empowerment has little, if anything to do with the outside world, and those who live there.

It has everything to do with the power that

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