Music Mondays: Whose Is It: Battling For The Power To Be You

If you were to take off all of your clothes and stand in front of a full-length mirror for ten minutes and could only pick five words to identify who you are, what words do you think you would choose? As you stare at yourself in your purest, most vulnerable form, would you instantly launch into titles of spouse, lover, mother, father, sister, brother, friend, occupation, etc.? Would you state your physical appearance, your current life situation, or the status of your health?

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Really? Is that all you see when you look at yourself?

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If it is, then that is a clear indication that you have relinquished all of the power you hold within to someone/something else. And without your power, you can never fully know who you are.

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What a shame, because that is definitely not how life is intended to be.

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It was never intended for your entire existence to be defined by a role or a title, or even a condition, a situation, or someone else’s opinions and definitions. Each of these have their own standards and lists of “do’s and don’ts” that are expected to be met. Those standards and lists can slowly pull your power to be you away from you over time. Before long, you are living and breathing in a space and existence that is not your own; totally at the hand of an outside force.

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Thus, you have lost yourself and have no idea how to be you. What’s worse is that you don’t even know it.

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The power to be you is a battle that must be fought every single day. Every minute of every hour, all of the time. Unfortunately, the society in which we live makes it that way. Because of this, your job is to know who owns your power to be you at all times—and make sure that person is you. If you have lost it, you must determine who (or what) has it and be brave enought to battle to get it back. If you have it, you must fight with everything within you to keep it, refusing to surrender to the hand that tries to take it away.

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For the remainder of this month, take some time to yourself and try doing the exercise above: it will help determine if your power to be you is yours, or if it belongs to someone/something else. If you are fully aware of who you are, or if you have some soul-searching to do.

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Remember: the only way to be a REAL “New You in the New Year” is if you are truly the one holding the power to do so.

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Enjoy this week’s Music Mondays selection, “Brand New Me” by Alicia Keys.

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