Own Your Power: A Life Plan To Become The Master Of Your Life

By Sitara .

"To become the master of your life means you take full responsibility for who you are, living in a state of full authenticity." - from Own Your Power <

• Language: English
• Publisher: High Vibe Books
• Release date: Dec 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781737777809

Sitara .

Sitara's passionate purpose is igniting the master within people by supporting and reclaiming inner power through deep presence. She is the author of "Own Your Power"; a book that brings a deep transformation to its readers and practitioners.Her devotion to a conscious path was always present throughout her life. She fully embodied herself as a seeker with a mission when she traveled around the world, alongside the most influential and respected spiritual masters of meditation, such as Osho, Dalai Lama, Sadhguru, Ama Ji, Guru Ji and Devi Ma. While residing in an ashram in India for more than 7 years, she cultivated the art of meditation, being certified to teach and share the medicine of meditation. Sitara worked as an actress for many years, including appearing in "Al Salir De Clase" - a popular sitcom in Spain, before fully dedicating herself to her spiritual journey. With "Own Your Power", Sitara shares a life plan that is designed to enable anyone to apply meditation to everyday life.She continues to ignite the inner master within all of her students, while transmitting her vision to cultivate a planet filled with empowered creators.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book is dedicated to all of the amazing seekers out there, who have a deep feeling of belonging to something bigger than this planet.

I want to acknowledge all of my teachers and my beloved masters. Thank you for your service to this world. To my master Osho, whose energy has been with me before I knew his name. Thank you for being there in every moment of my life. Your energy is felt, appreciated and celebrated. Thank you to Sadhguru for pointing out to me that living Gracefully was all that I needed. Thank you for allowing me to stay by your side in Coimbatore, and for showing me that you can build anything with the love and support of others. Mohan, Bodhi Dharma, thank you for the trips we made together. Thank you for saving me from becoming normal, thank you for opening my eyes and introducing me to the love work of the Dalai Lama. Thank you for your wisdom and for shaking me up.

Thank you to Ama ji for sharing your heart with the whole of humanity and showing me what a heart opening feels like. RiKash - thank you for introducing me to Sai Baba and the work he does beyond his body, thank you for always seeing beyond me and encouraging me to bring healing and transformation to the world. For all that time we sat together charging water for devotees, listening to mantras, and praying together before the doors of the temple were open. Thank you to Vianna Stibal for channelling and providing a road map specifically for awakening healers to the energy of the creator through Theta Healing, and to Gizella Turbok for introducing me to it, and for supporting me in my path of remembering this technique with all of her love. Thank you to all of the shamans, medicine men and women, healers, light workers and bodyworkers that have supported me in my growth and elevation, and who have always illuminated the path when it became darker. Deep bow for you all!

Thank you to my soul Family, you know who you are, I share with you the passion for life, the service to others and a deep connection that transcends dimension and time. Thank you to all the dreamweavers that made this book possible by gifting and supporting the dream of making this book.

Thank you to my inner circle, my support system, for supporting me in many different ways. I bow down to all of you for appearing in my life and feeding my soul and life with inspiration. Thank you to Laura Wood for your vision, for making everything that I create look so beautiful, for our endless brainstorming, and for always listening beyond my words. You are so talented and your work is simply magical. To my Book Coach, Mabel Iam, for always believing in my dream and giving me the space that I needed in order to create this book. For igniting with gentleness all the knowledge that I was carrying inside and showing me the way to bring it to earth. To my editor Chris Morris, for your time and dedication to respect my voice and my intention with every word. To my beloved friend Pepe Botella, Thank you for all the pictures you have taken of me during all these years. I deeply honored your work. To every soul that I encountered who listened to the excitement and enthusiasm that I had about this book.Thank you for believing in my dream. We made it!

Thank you to my Mother and my father for giving my life and coping with my concerns beyond the normal 3D. To my brother who has always been non-judgmental and stood by my side no matter how weird he thought I was. To my grandparents you have forever filled my heart with your unconditional love. I can proudly shout out that I have had the best grandparents I could ever have wished for. To all my cousins and their families - we are growing together. To my Goddaughter, Camila, who has filled my heart with joy. To my Divine Sacred Partner, Zoel, together we conquer everything. Thank you for all your support, for your true love, your music, your patience, your encouragement, your understanding, and for all of the lessons that we learn together. Thank you for believing in me and listening to my excitement every morning, when you still had your eyes closed. I love you beyond the moon and back.

To my son Neo, You are my everything.

FOREWORD

You are the place of power from which all action and reason comes.

You are the ground where all things rest.

You are the land from which all things are born.

You are the point where all things begin.

Your body, mind and emotions are produced and animated by an Almighty intelligence that lives in you and needs you to manifest all its creative power.

You are the universe and its powers. You are the bridge of everything created and manifested by divinity.

Here and now, you know who you are and you know who I am.

WE ARE ONE’

– Mabel Iam

If you want to take control of your power and your destiny, this book is for you. Are you wondering why I am so confident about this? From the age of 12 I started the path of self-knowledge and all my life I dedicated myself to exploring the human soul. I have written more than 34 books on the themes of love and relationships from a psychological and sacred point of view.

In my 65 years of working in the self-help and spiritual development field, I have read more than 6,000 books and have met more than 700 spiritual teachers. So I have the experience to tell you from my heart that this book contains a unique excellence. It contains experimental, scientific, and psychological aspects, while delivering a depth imbued with years of the spiritual encounters that the writer has experienced throughout her life.

If there is a deep search for oneself, I can affirm and guarantee that you will find in this book your own power, love and infinite happiness. Thus, you will stop seeking so much information because you already have –within this condensed book–everything that you need. Effectively, this book is an Encyclopedia of Meditation. The author provides the necessary steps on each page for you to gently approach your deepest essence.

I have met many spiritual teachers who have generated many controversies for my ego. This is not the experience that I had with Sitara. I have known Sitara for some years now and I always found her energy like an earthy fire that transforms and heals everything she touches. Therefore, I want to emphasize that it is my honor to make this introduction to the work of a soul that was born with purpose, and which brings to light total creativity and wisdom at all times.

In the process of reading and holding her while writing this book, I really got to know her deeply. I was struck by her coherence, the innocence within her mastery. Also, I am really inspired by the FAITH she has in her higher Self. And most importantly, everything she writes and teaches she also practices in her life.

Dear reader, this is the fundamental reason that I am so happy that this book has reached your hands. You have found a teacher who is coherent and in sync with her message, teaching, and her life.

Sitara knows herself like very few people I have met. In addition, she is a marvel of a writer, revealing these hidden treasures in an organized and very practical way, making it possible to follow the text as a work plan. She cares about her students; she loves people in such an admirable way.

This text is a MEDITATION book to keep in your heart. Its structure and content is a masterpiece. In its four chapters you will find the four levels of consciousness to develop and manifest the divine being that you are. Sitara will be guiding you in each step and she will take you by the hand, accompanying you to fulfill your internal process in an easy and concrete way.

This book offers insights for a life filled with love, kindness and compassion for those who seek. The reader will find a balance between theory and practice in this manuscript. The meditations that are presented in each chapter of the book will perfectly guide you to the planes of consciousness to discover yourself, helping you to understand all of the mechanisms of your ego that move you away from your divine essence. In addition, you will find the melody and music that will accompany you like an angel whispering in your ear.

In the first section, The Power of Release, you will be able to let go of everything that weighs you down, that you no longer need to navigate the waters of abundance and happiness with confidence and power. You will be able to free yourself from the emotions that block the path to your true destination.

In the second, The Power of Emptiness, you will be able to empty yourself of the conditioning, thoughts and the need for approval of others to begin to be born of your true BEING. In the third, The Power of Connection, you will have your inner garden so clean and flowered after embracing all of the previous processes that you will be able to manifest and do everything you want in your life.

In the fourth and last section, The Power of Celebration, you will have reached such a full elevation of consciousness that you can experience life as a celebration.

In each step, you will walk an infinite feast of opportunities and you will be able to be ONE with the creation and the totality of it.

Enjoy this wonderful and magnificent journey that my beloved Sitara proposes, so that you can return to the only place you should never leave. Your own home that resides in your immortal heart, filled with power, love and light.

I love you completely

Mabel Iam

SPECIAL NOTE TO READERS

Thank you, thank you, thank you for choosing this book among the many others that are available! I wish to nourish your soul as you take this journey with me.

I have written this book for you. It’s my deepest desire to share the experiences from my life that have changed my perspective profoundly. I want to share all of them with you. I need to share them with you.This is my Life Plan that I have been figuring out all of these years. And now it’s time to share it.

There are moments for everything. There were moments where there was not so much light in my life. Moments where I was in despair. And it was only through developing tools to invite the light that the darkness disappeared. I was forced to use my tools, and this always worked out. I could bring calmness and perspective to my life through these techniques. Moments where I was scared and I invited connection to the divine. Moments of anger, of deep sadness, moments where I was lost, and moments when I was longing for the connection to others. All of these moments, some of them extremely dark, were part of life. Yet meditation was my medicine.

The techniques described in this book are not intended to substitute any psychotherapy or medical care. They are intended to provide spiritual guidance. Some of the meditation in the book requires a strong and healthy condition. If you are not able to follow through, you will always find an alternative way that best suits your physical form. Learn how to listen to your body. Although I did my best to provide useful information, I do not accept any liability to anyone who uses this book.

English is not my first language. But it’s the language in which I have learned and remembered the art of meditation, and the call of spirituality. This book has been channeled in English, and some deep parts of my heart in Spanish. I trust that you can go beyond the words, beyond the language, to the universal language of the universe.

My dear reader, put your whole heart and mind into activating these techniques, and do not concern yourself with the result. The result is what is important to you, you will miss the action itself and it will become meaningless.

You are the reason for this book. You are an eternal source of inspiration. Deep Gratitude and acknowledgment to you and your life.

This is your Life Plan, your journey, and it’s what counts above all else. Own your power and make the most of it.

THE REAL MEANING OF THIS BOOK

I deeply believe that this book, Own Your Power, is the Life Plan to master your life. How will you achieve this? By identifying where you are in your life right now, and igniting the power that you need in order to Own Your Power again. The information that you need to unlock the power that is inherent within you is all contained within these pages. And I’ve ensured that the text is as user-friendly as possible; for example, in the section, ‘How to use this book: The Life Plan’ you will find more detailed information on how to apply the information to your own life.

The Law of Nature states that everything is a vibration. Let’s start by noting immediately that words also carry vibrations, and are rooted to an experience. Today, right here and right now, I want to start pointing you in the direction of erasing and deleting all of the existing concepts that you have behind the words ‘Power’ and ‘Meditation’. In fact, you can use this process for any word! At the end of this book, you will find a ‘High Vibrational Word List’ that will help you introduce these new words into your daily life.

I am constantly in the process of deconstructing any idea that is associated with words that we commonly use, and that affects our inner and outer world. And I am still working at this! You are going to associate every word that you encounter with a feeling, an image, and your brain is going to automatically create an expectation, trigger your belief system, and even express a reaction.

So let’s start the process of recalibrating language by recognizing this, and creating a new definition for the three big words I’ll be using in this book - Own, Power and Meditation.

When I talk about OWN… I use it as a verb; to accept and be responsible for something. It’s indivisible. It’s your human right. It’s your precious possession. Own and self goes together...they are part of one another. They are inseparable. In this book, you will create a definition of owning, one that will stay with you forever...one that nobody can take away.

WHAT IS POWER?

The word Power is associated with so many misconceptions. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) gives the definition to POWER as the ability to do or act; the capability of doing. Power is commonly connected with control, authority, or influence over others, and even though that can be associated with the word, it shouldn’t be the primary association that we make with Power.

Power has a deeper meaning than you might immediately imagine. It will be used in this book to describe a strength of mind, a quality in a person with an inner strength that does not depend on external things. Many assume power comes from the outside-in. They believe power is granted to a person by someone else, but real power is increased within a person simply by the choices they make, the actions they take, and the thoughts they create. The purest power doesn’t use any destructive force and is not to be utilized for the purpose of manipulating or dominating others.

(Take a moment to journal)

What shows up for you when you think of Owning the Power Within you?

Losing Your Power

Do you feel frustrated? Are you surrendering your power to your parents? To your partner? To your boss? To any particular situation? STOP RIGHT NOW!!!!!

We live in a world of domination. Everybody is trying to control everyone else. When you are immersed in that matrix and you start projecting, rejecting, living with fears, you start losing your power. The only power you can lose is the fake power, those that come from your Ego and that are created by the society we live in.

Some of you might give this power to your parents, some to your partner, some to your boss, or even some to a situation. But every time you give it away, you start feeling tired, frustrated, drained…all consequences of losing that fake power. Only that kind of power can leave you feeling this way. Real power cannot be lost or given away. It’s unconditional, it’s unlimited. It does not have any specific quantity to give or to keep. It’s inexhaustible…

My intention through writing this book is for you to remember your power, to own it. To know that your power is the direct connection to life force, it is the life force within you.

What is Meditation?

The OED defines Meditation as the practice of focusing your mind in silence, especially for religious reasons, or in order to make your mind calm. As I read this definition, a mix of feelings and vibrations manifest within me. How am I going to focus in silence when I have tons of things in my head? Religious reasons? Focus? Mmmmm…all of this feels confusing in my body.

(Take a moment to journal)

What do you want Meditation to be for you?

In my search for inner peace, detachment, and no-mind moments, I was always seeking meditation. It was a goal, something to practice, and to attain. There was this conflict of me wanting to relax, but having so much going on at the same time. As human beings, we always have active minds, so when I was faced with the idea of stopping my mind and tapping into that no-mind state, it naturally became a struggle. Has this ever happened to you?

Then everything changed. I started to recognize meditation. It was inside of me. I had been carrying it within me all of this time. There was nowhere to go, nothing to search, nothing to do or to achieve…it was a STATE OF BEING. A state that I could always access. And when I started looking at meditation this way, my whole approach changed. It was not a goal anymore, it became a journey within, and as part of that journey, I realized the strong 4 powers that showed up continually. The very ones that I will be sharing with you.

Now revise your answer to the question of what meditation is for you, and let me know if you have that feeling, that state inside of you, somewhere deep inside of you, that you are already that. If your answer is Yes, as you progress through the book you will be cleaning and clearing the path to that place. And if your answer is No, I have never felt like that, through these powers you will feel, recognize and identify that you do indeed have it within you.

How to use this book: The Life Plan

The book is divided into 4 powers, four actions that in my experience are vital for a complete transformation. If this is the first time that you read the book, I recommend that you go through all of the book from beginning to end, as an initiation. There will be meditations that resonate with you more strongly, and to which you feel more connected, meditations that will be easier and others that will be more challenging. Consider this book a ceremony to become the master of your own life. Be kind, let it sink in your body, mind and soul. Listen to your body, but always remember that we are more than the body and the mind.

Each Power contains 8 Meditation Techniques and each technique contains the objectives, benefits, scientific and neurological basis, and recipes to support the maximum performance of this phase, along with my own experience, where I learned it, how I integrate it, and how I apply it in my daily life. You will also find testimonials of students, friends and colleagues that have been meditating with me, alongside stories of the teachers who illuminated my path, and tales that have been passed down throughout human history.

These powers are the short-term and long-term paths that one takes to find oneself. They are the doors to oneself and contain ancient techniques that will lead you to live a full life. They do not mean that you will not encounter any challenges, or that life will change. Life will remain the same, but you will no longer be the same because you will have the tools at your disposal to vibrate from your center and become the creator of your life.

Once you have activated the powers within, you will realize that you will be able to return to each power whenever you feel like it, and revisit these in order to achieve the main objective, which is the title of the stages.

In each phase, you will find interactive exercises that you can use to clarify the objectives of each phase. Remember that these will change as your power changes within you..

1 - POWER TO RELEASE

2 - POWER OF EMPTINESS

3 - POWER OF CONNECTION

4 - POWER OF CELEBRATION

Meditation is a path towards yourself, and the journey is what really matters here. As you walk this path, you will be marking your way towards your being...creating that route on the way home that you can always use.

Remember that during this journey, you will be able to go back and revise any of the meditations. If you are in the POWER OF CONNECTION and you start getting negative thoughts, go back to the POWER OF RELEASE. Or if you are in the POWER OF CELEBRATION and need to take in some depth, go back to the POWER OF EMPTINESS.

If you’d like to enhance your meditation journey, you can also subscribe to our private group - Own Your Power Club (www.sitaramediattion.com), where meditators from all over the world share their experiences of these meditations. You will also receive additional daily information to accompany you on this one-way trip.

Now...close your eyes and think of any moment that you were doing something with such total concentration that you got lost in it. You were so involved in what you were doing, totally present, and for a second you melted with that activity. It could be running, cooking, dancing, cleaning… you forgot yourself in that activity, you started observing what you were doing, and the gap was created.

That gap, that space is where meditation lives. In that moment, in that gap, you begin watching yourself, and you will find two currents within you: one which is doing, and one which is only observing. A meditator will always have two parallel currents within, the natural current of thoughts and the current of witnessing. We will refer to it as ‘The Watcher’. The watcher is no one. It is just pure consciousness. This state of witnessing is what I invite you to introduce in your Life Plan, as we journey together through this book.

As you go through these words, become the watcher…move your hand watchfully as you are holding the book; open your eyes with purpose as you are reading these letters forming words; put the book down carefully, walk watchfully, take your steps alertly, in awareness; drink water watchfully, eat a snack watchfully. DON’T allow unconscious, mechanical behavior to take possession of you. This is the alchemy secret of transformation; the real meaning of this book.

Watch... watch… & watch

INTRODUCTION

REBIRTH & MY NEW NAME

I was born again on February 14, 2006. On this day, I started the most conscious and meaningful journey. It was a journey that completely transformed every aspect of my life. It was the beginning of understanding my true nature. I understood that I am more than my body. I understood that I am more than my mind. I am also the soul.

I always questioned why, as soon as a child is born, without their permission they are condemned to follow a religion and related tradition for life. A ‘blessing’ that they will carry for the rest of their history, and will even pass on to those who come after them. A decision that defies the fundamental law of our own will and that we must carry with our conscience from then on.

Because of this, I decided not to baptize my son in the Catholic religion, creating a big stir in my family. Unfortunately, I couldn’t decide on my religion of choice! My mother doesn’t believe in God - she was brought up in a Communist state, and God cannot coexist with Communism. My father was brought up as a Catholic, but I can never remember us going to church together as a family. Regardless, I was still baptized in the Catholic religion, and baptizing this new child was a tradition that I was expected to continue! My family wondered: Why would she want to break this tradition?

As you are reading this book, and taking in all of the experiences that led me to really own my power, you will know I am all about deconstructing what has been showered upon us and no longer serves us. I believe one of the fastest ways to achieve evolution is to change our inherited traits, and one of the most effective ways is to release traditions that no longer support the new human (with all due respect to anyone that thinks or feels differently). I knew, in the center of my heart, that not continuing the tradition of baptism for my child, stopping the legacy with him, was one of the first things that I could do to support him in owning his power. I would like for him to be able to decide his own path for himself when his powers of reason have fully developed, so that he can choose his own religion or spiritual practices.

Before my rebirth celebration, I called my father. It happened to be his birthday. A day that I will always remember - February 14. I was thousands of miles away at the time, and I called him to talk about the decision that I’d made. I shared with him how I felt, and the new chapter of what I wanted my life to be. It’s funny when there is no doubt coming from you, the whole universe supports you.

Dad, I am choosing to be born again. WHAT?!, he replied. He didn’t understand the essence of the path that I was