We are living in times where the existing power structures are revealed and the need for change is evident. So far we were governed, in politics, society, business, everywhere, by people who understood power as a means to dominate others and force them to respond to their will.
POWER OVER versus POWER FOR
This is the concept of "POWER OVER" and this use of power has discredited the word "power" altogether. But there is another way to use power as "POWER FOR", and this form of power is absolutely necessary in human life. If we want to be free and thriving in our lives we need to have the "power over" ourselves and what we decide to do and how we decide to be. We need to own our power and do with it what we need to do to foster life and existence. If we deny our own personal power we are responsible for the fact that others take it over and use their power over you - as it has happened often in the past and is still happening.
What does it mean to have "power over myself and my life"? First of all: recognise that you are co-creating your experience. It is not that life happens to you and you are the poor victim of what is presenting itself to you, the good things and the bad things. You won't have the full power over your life as soon as other people are involved in it - and humans are always embedded in a social network of one type or another. But you have the full power over what you say and what you do.
MEN, WOMEN AND POWER
Coming to the conversation about "Men, Women and Power" where below you find the last part:
(Find the previous parts HERE)
What is going on between men and women is co-created, always. Nowadays there is the movement "Me Too", women bringing in public their experience of being abused, as they say, by men in the public sphere. What I personally am missing is the part where the women were responsible for what had happened to them. Well, this is not what we talked about in the below conversation, but about the necessity to find ways of communication between men and women, between people in general. We are so caught in thoughts and assumptions about what is happening and what others think or do. We don't bother inquiring but take our viewpoint for THE TRUTH. And it is exactly this what is creating conflict and war in our world: our inability to communicate!
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