Power or Force?

The inspiration for this week’s post comes from my Father’s Day gift – a fascinating book called Power vs Force by David Hawkins.

Let me be frank – the book’s not an easy read. It struck me as a curious and intriguing mix of spirituality, psychology, quantum physics and applied kinesiology.

It’s probably one of those books that you derive so much more out of it the second time round as much of the first time is spent trying to get your mind round various concepts.

Nonetheless, Hawkins shares some quite breathtaking revelations about the human organism’s capacity to distinguish, with absolute accuracy, truth from falsity.

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Muscle reactions

I’m not talking about a person’s ability to discern the truth at a conscious level through the analysis of body language or the use of a lie detector.

I’m talking about strong and weak muscle reactions that occur in the presence of positive and negative stimuli which could be good and bad situations, good and bad substances or truthful and non truthful statements.

These strong and weak muscle reactions will happen irrespective of what the individual’s opinion or knowledge about the subject or situation may be.

The implications are huge.

At some deep level, we know …

At some deep level, totally regardless of what we have been taught, what we have come to believe or what we would prefer to be the case, we know categorically, not only what is life enhancing as opposed to life consuming but what is true and what is not.

As I read through the laborious tests and experiments that Hawkins and others did to establish this fact, I couldn’t help but feel a tingle of excitement.

Life coaching and the \’centre of knowingness\’

One of the basic premises of New Insights life coaching is that people know, at a deep level, what is right for them even though this may have become thoroughly clouded through various  experiences and interactions with their external worlds.

We call this ‘centre of knowingness’ the inner voice or the inner being.

We believe that every person has a unique and special role to play in the evolution of the planet and the universe. Each of us has an inner voice that knows our purpose and whether our thoughts, actions and behaviours contribute to or detract from this purpose.

The inner voice speaks to us through the emotions that we feel. When we move in the direction of our purpose we feel positive emotions like joy, happiness and fulfilment. When we move in the opposite direction we feel negative emotions like disappointment, frustration and anxiety.

The Power …

Life coaching is effective because it helps to reconnect people with their inner voices, thereby bringing them into harmony and alignment with what they are here to do.

By serving the interests of an evolving planet and universe through doing what we have come to earth to do, while respecting the free will of others to do what they choose to, we feel empowered, happy, at peace and content.

This is the ‘Power’ that Hawkins speaks of in his book.

… and the Force

Those who like to question the basic premise of life coaching and the existence of a knowing ‘inner voice’ are inclined to argue that our purpose is something we manufacture as a vehicle to meet our own needs and wants in a difficult and competitive world.

They might argue that we need to be in control or risk being controlled by others; that it is acceptable to suppress the rights of others if it is necessary to protect and enhance what we have or want.

This self-centric approach is the essence of what Hawkins terms ‘Force’.

A simple choice

Every day, we are confronted by examples of the use of Power versus the use of Force.

Politicians can use power to serve their fellow men or they can use force to extract advantage from their positions.

Businessmen can use power to help build society through ethical means or force to manipulate their markets in order to make exaggerated profits.

Sportsmen can use power to build a good spirited form of social engagement, entertainment and fun or power to win at all costs through manipulation, deceit and dirty tricks.

Partners can use power to build constructive, mutually beneficial relationships or force to meet their own needs through dominance and the creation of a climate of fear.

Power or Force? This simple choice is for each of us to make.

 

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