Working from the Inside not from the Outside

This topic was brought to my awareness again with a recent meme I saw and shared on Facebook.

To me this spoke more of the outward in approach our society has about everything.  (not the teachers fault!)  We have been taught a lack based world, and this goes along with it to dampen our true selves. Society has been teaching this forever and that is why we think we need to compete, that there isn't enough, we need to perform to be rewarded....etc. This happens because we don't know other ways.  But in essence what happens is we dis-empower ourselves by trying to conform.  Somewhere along the line humanity decided that for harmonies sake we can only be alike to get along.  Maybe it is a commentary about our understanding of power.  Abraham-Hicks frequently talks about finding relief in your emotions (an indicator of how aligned you are with the greater Source energy of the Universe) and when you are in fear, depression, despair....you are feeling powerless and to move up the emotion scale to find relief you have to empower yourself with the next emotion up which can be anger or revenge.  The people around you don't want you to be angry or revengeful because you were easier to handle when you were having powerless emotions.  And they never suggest you camp out in anger or revenge, but these are stages on the emotional ladder you need to pass through to find a better and better feeling, to find relief.  Do we as a society keep ourselves and others in stages of powerlessness, conforming, so that we are easier to deal with?  The other example I thought of, being raised Christian, was Jesus.  His teaching was to love one another as yourself.  And that is empowering, connecting us to love and light or God if that works for you.  However, Jesus's teachings have been surrounded by outward in approaches and rules...judgement day, needing a savior, sin...society killed him.  All those things working from the outside that we need to be worthy, we need a savior, we are bad, these concepts take away our power.  At times they may give us hope, but with hope comes times of doubt.  It's not a very high, empowering vibration over all, but certainly better than others.  We can do better!


We need to remember that the power comes from within us and to let that shine in love and light...we aren't going to be the same or conform too well.  But if we are really in a high vibration of love the differences between us aren't going to cause conflict!  


How often can you say you are in a truly high emotion of pure love, joy, harmony, appreciation?  I know this is my focus.  Relief from hope just gets better!