How to Stop Giving Your Power Away: And Start Being the Person You Were Meant to Be

By Kurt Winowich

If you are an average American, you have been giving your power away without even knowing it. We have been taught that it is not good to seek power or to be powerful. Thoughts of greed, money, manipulation, controlling of others or even military force comes to mind. We have been taught this lie and thus we have become disempowered without even realizing it. The result of this manipulation can show up in our lives as depression, illness, stress, anxiety, or a general loss of happiness.

What is true power and why is it important to us as individuals? Simply, your power is measured by your ability to create the things that you want to see in your life. Anything that disrupts this natural ability, we call disempowering. Anything that enhances this natural ability, we call that empowering. People are unknowingly giving away their power by the things that they watch, listen to, think, say and do daily. By retaining your innate power, you will improve all the areas of your life, including your health, your relationships and your career or business. The author presents and explains master principles on how to raise the quality of your mental, emotional and physical energy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Oct 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504387088

Kurt Winowich

Kurt Winowich is an Empowerment Coach, Speaker and Author. Kurt facilitates health and empowerment workshops from coast to coast, helping people to live healthier and happier lives.

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LET’S GET STARTED

I ’ve always been interested in Power. When I was young, I found that I loved the power of playing an electric guitar connected to a powerful Marshall amplifier. That sound, that frequency, that vibration, that penetrating Power, I just loved and still do today. I’ve always loved fast powerful cars with lots of horsepower to zoom me down the street. I always loved to hear that power, to feel that power while smoking my tires off with hundreds of horsepower. Later, as a commercial electrician, I really enjoyed harnessing the power of electricity and putting it to use. Throwing a switch and watching an entire hotel light up was simply awesome. To see that power was fascinating to me. To be in a thunderstorm that moves in, to see the lightning and feel it, hear it and see it crackling all around still fascinates me to my core. The power of nature is God like. About 25 years ago I became fascinated with how some people were more powerful than others. What did these people do in order to be powerful? What did these people not do in order to stay powerful? In short, what is human Power and what makes someone Powerful? I went on a 25-year journey of reading, writing and studying powerful people. As I began to gather powerful mentors, I realized that powerful people are not always the ones we would suspect, or be led to believe. I spent a lot of time, money and energy to collect the data that I’m going to share with you. This information will make you more powerful by showing you how to stop giving your power away.

A BRIEF HISTORY

O ver the centuries there have been hundreds of books written by scholars, teachers, philosophers, religious leaders and scientists which all explain a similar human trait. Buddha said, What we think, we become. Emerson said, We become what we think about all day long. In the (King James Version) Bible, it states, As a man thinketh is his heart, so is he and what you sow, so shall you reap. More recently Prentice Mulford wrote, Thoughts are things and scientists such as Edison and Einstein both agreed that thoughts are energy that affect physical matter and in fact thoughts have a magnetic attraction. Even more recently, books like The Secret made this concept famous calling it The Law of Attraction. That book explained how what you think about or send out through your mind, you get back in physical form, be it health, wealth, relationships, situations or circumstances. This book you have in your hands was not written to tell you that you need to think happy thoughts or think positive, although that is not bad advice. This book was written to give you powerful ways to change yourself. By changing the thought energy you send out, you will be changing what you see develop in your life for the better. Some of the principles we will discuss you may think you have heard before. In addition, you are also going to be exposed to principles you probably have not heard before. Before we can talk about high level or energetic concepts, we need to be solid on the basics. You may consider some of these first principles basics, they are. Unless the basics are mastered, nothing else beyond the basics can work for you. Basics are the foundation to which we build anything on. A true master is someone who has mastered the basics.

All of the principles in this book work together to enable you to keep your power, generate more power, and use it to create what you want to see in your life. Whether you believe it or not, societies around the world have been setup in a way that dis-empowers the masses. Much of TV, movies, radio, newspapers, websites, advertisements and the media in general, send out disempowering information and imagery. That type of information can plant seeds of fear into the mind. To stay powerful, we need to engage our mind daily with quality mental nutrition such as the material found in this book. The material in this book can support you in your transitions. In time, it can also cause complete transformation in your life.

CHAPTER 1

The Law of Attraction is not enough

T he law of attraction has been popularized in recent years. By now most people have heard about what it is and many understand how it operates. Books like The Secret explain what this law states. In the past, this law was referred to as prayer or even magic. Here is a very short explanation of how the law of attraction affects us humans. Simply, when we are focusing on things that make us feel good, we then attract more situations and circumstances that make us feel good. When we are focusing on things that make us feel bad, we then attract more situations and circumstances that make us feel bad. So then, our work becomes about where we place our focus. Our work becomes not placing our focus on the things that make us feel bad (or disempowered) but placing our focus on being, doing and having more of the things that make us feel good (or powerful) as I like to call it. Most people are unaware of the things they do that make them feel bad or disempowered which is why books like The Secret or Think And Grow Rich have not solved all their problems. The material in this book will point out the common ways that people dis-empower themselves without even knowing they are doing so. This material also points out the ways to cultivate your power, to be more powerful so that we engage the law of attraction properly. When we are being powerful, only then are we able to create and attract more of what we want in every area of our life. That is our work, to remain powerful. That is what this book is about and that’s what we will be studying.

It is possible that you may come upon a concept here in the book and think, wow, this is so basic or hey, I’ve heard this before. You may think, I already know this. Remember what Leo Buscaglia said. To know and not to do is really not to know. In other words, just because you heard or read something before, doesn’t mean you are living it or being it. Sometimes we have heard something without understanding the full meaning behind the concept. You know something when you have experienced it. You know something when you are living it, it is a part of your being and you have the results to prove it. Simply, to know something means you can’t un-know it.

Here is a concept to get us rolling. What came first, the money or the power?

Think of two men, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. Both men developed so much wealth in the United States, that they were hundreds of times wealthier than anyone we have here today. They both started with nothing and they ended up giving away more money than today’s Billionaires even have control of. These two men used their power to create whole industries that did not exist before. Their power did not come from the money. All powerful people, be it people with incredible health, wealth or relationships have one thing in common. They have empowered thinking. They have focused thinking towards what they want and feel good or excited about the pursuit of the thing. A person who has scattered thoughts all day or people who are multi-tasking are not generating enough focused energy to create anything in particular. Again, society is setup in a way that can keep the average person from being able to focus on any one thing for too long. Society talks about living a balanced life as being the correct way to live. Well balanced life and focus are a bit of a contradiction. Focus is where your power comes from. If we put a certain amount of energy into a light bulb, you will see the dispersed light go out in all directions lighting up part of a room. If you put that same amount of energy through a laser light, you will see a focused powerful beam of light that can burn through walls and be seen from the moon or beyond. We are going to talk about the ways to leave behind the disempowering patterns and learn how to concentrate mental and emotional energy into power. We will talk about how to direct that power at whatever you want to create or change in your life. These are secrets to being powerful in your life here on earth. These are secrets to feeling good more of the time and creating more of what you want, whatever that is. A mentor of mine said this, he said, there is no magic, but yet, its all magic. I think what he meant was that some of these concepts may not appear to be secrets or magic and many of them have been in plain view. The real secret is that you need to know them and they are all magic once you know them. I believe that we humans are not just creative, but we are creators. We humans have been given the ability to create anything that our minds can conceive. Just as knowledge is only power if we use it, power is only power if we use it as well. I have a 575-horsepower car sitting outside. It has amazing power when I drive it. If, however, I just let it sit there and look at it, it may as well be a rock. It is only powerful if I tune it and unleash it. So, throughout this book were going to be discussing how to be and stay powerful as well as how to unleash that power.

People seeking power have been given a bad name. That is because we have been taught that power and wanting power is a bad thing. That is a misnomer and a lie. We have been taught wrongly about what power actually is.

First, let’s better define what we mean when we say Power. The word Empowerment gets thrown around a lot these days so let’s be clear on this. Power is not physical force. Force is not power. We are not talking about bashing through anyone or anything that gets in the way of us achieving something. We are not talking about domineering anyone or controlling anything outside of us, that is not Power. We are talking about being dominant and at cause over our lives. The only reason anyone is not getting what they want in life is because they are (unknowingly in most cases), giving away their power.

What is my definition of Power?

My definition of power is simply this: Your power is measured by your ability to focus your mental and emotional energy on a subject until you bring it to be. An even shorter definition is your ability to create what you want to have in your life. Some call this manifestation. Your power is in your ability to decide what you really want, to shut out all distractions, and cut through your fears. Your power is in your ability to act when inspired to do so. Your power comes in your ability to find the gold or the opportunity in everything that surrounds you. Your power comes from you accepting and keeping 100% responsibility for absolutely everything that occurs in your life. Your power is measured by your Response-Ability or your Ability to Respond, not re-act, to everything in your life. Your power to move your life forward comes from your willingness to change anything and everything in your life, should it no longer serve you. Some call this raising consciousness or vibration. Your power comes from seeking your truth and knowing that you can create what you want from wherever you are. When we are being powerful, it is then that we feel good. Feeling good needs to be our objective every day. For only when we feel good, can we then create or change what we want in our lives. Feeling good is what we all want, but sometimes we forget this simple truth, and get caught up in daily activity.

For these reasons, we need to be aware of the things that can unknowingly dissipate our power. We also need to understand the things that can help us generate more power on a daily basis. In this book, we will identify the things to stop doing which are dissipating your power or allowing you to give your power away each day. We will also be talking about the things to do that will enhance your ability to generate more power and focus your power. The results from this process will allow you to first become more, then do more and live more of what you want in this life on earth. If you want to help yourself or others, you must first be powerful. You cannot help others from a place of weakness or disempowerment. These principles transcend, they are universal. These principles apply regardless of what culture or country you’re from. These principles will work for you regardless of your religion, or your background, or education. These principles apply to every human on planet earth, period. The following principles are the pre-requisites for success. They are the basics and the foundation for which to build any success on.

So then, first let’s talk