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How to Find Your True Power

Lewis Howes

True power comes from facing and integrating the ashamed and fearful parts of yourself that believe you lack power. Humans are inherently powerful beings but have forgotten this power due to limiting beliefs formed through life experiences.

Summary

The speaker explains that discovering one's true power requires a counterintuitive approach: confronting the internal parts of yourself that doubt your power. These suppressed aspects—shame, fear of inadequacy, and self-doubt—are what keep your power locked away and hidden. By facing, meeting, and integrating these parts of yourself, you can reclaim access to your inherent power. The speaker emphasizes that humans are born with tremendous power, referencing Bob Proctor's observation that the human body contains enough power to fuel an entire modern city for a week. However, throughout life, people experience events and circumstances that cause them to develop beliefs that they lack power. This forgetting of innate power is not due to an actual loss of capability but rather a psychological and emotional disconnection from what was always present.

Key Insights

  • The speaker claims that power is found specifically in facing the parts of oneself that believe one doesn't have power, as these are the elements keeping power locked up and hidden.
  • The speaker argues that ashamed parts and fear-based beliefs about inadequacy must be faced, met, and integrated as the path to reclaiming power.
  • The speaker states that humans are inherently and very powerfully born, citing Bob Proctor's claim that the human body contains enough power to fuel an entire modern city for one week.
  • The speaker contends that people have forgotten their inherent power not because they lost it, but because life experiences caused them to develop beliefs that they lack power.
  • The speaker presents the idea that reclaiming power is a journey of remembering what was always present rather than acquiring something new.

Topics

Inherent human powerShadow self-integrationLimiting beliefsSelf-empowermentPsychological barriers to power

Transcript

[0:00] Your power is found in facing all the parts of you that believe you don't have power. >> Mhm. >> That's where your power is. Because that's the stuff that's keeping your power locked up and hidden away from you. So, the ashamed parts, the parts that fear that you'll never be enough, facing those, meeting those, integrating those is the path back to your power. Because inherently you're powerful. You are inherently very, very powerful. Bob Proctor used to say, "You have enough power in your body to fuel an entire modern city for a week, right?" [0:32] We're very powerful beings. We were born powerful. But we've forgotten it because of the experiences that we've gone through…

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