CHAPTER 5

THE POWER WITHIN

You are strong, beautiful and powerful within

Your courage and love will help you to win.

You are brave and trusting and carry such light

Your knowledge is blessed by an inner sight.

You carry within you wisdom and light

And in God’s presence you’re called tonight

To feel the truth that within you lies

As you reach toward heaven and the beautiful skies.

On wings of light you’ll surge on forward

To a higher place where you will find God,

Your longing will then be but an empty space

When you finally find inner wisdom and grace.

© C. Hamilton 1999

We have barely begun to realise what powerful beings we really are. We so often shun our power, because we are afraid to show it. We keep it under a bushel, because we do not want it exposed to the light. We may feel powerless, but we are not. Our strength comes from within, and we have more than we could possibly imagine. No one is a victim. We only feel that way if we allow ourselves to be. We can overcome anything if we so choose.

Inner strength is not judged by outward appearances. The weakest person may have the greatest inner strength of all. They will battle all odds to overcome any adversary. They do not use physical strength as in the strength of a weight lifter, or a person of outer strength, but they show an inner strength, unsurpassed by any that show only brawn.

Mother Teresa showed remarkable strength. Although she was a weak little old lady, she would go out into the streets of Calcutta and carry in dying bodies. These were people who no one else would touch because they were afraid of becoming infected. Her inner strength carried her through many, many years of working non-stop with sick people, healing them as best she could and comforting them. She empathised with those who suffered poverty and hunger and gave them bread, understanding and love. She fought against all odds to live a long life of serving others.

An Australian, Ian Gawler, showed enormous strength when he walked from Adelaide to Melbourne. What is so amazing about this man, is that he had suffered cancer and lost his leg. He managed to walk over 700 kilometres (over 420 miles) with one leg! His inner strength was so great and his determination so all-encompassing that he was able to achieve a feat many others would consider impossible!

Our inner strength comes from the heart, or the soul, and our souls are so much more than we could even imagine. We have the power to create anything we desire. Even in our weakest moments, we can find this strength within. I have often felt incapable of finding any strength to overcome the all-powerful feeling of defeat, and entrapment. But I was told that we have the strength within us to overcome anything. Even in our weakest moments, we have more strength than we can possibly imagine. We have great power within our inner souls, as we are one with the Divine Source itself.

We often do not acknowledge this, as we are afraid of what others will think if we show our inner strength. We are afraid they will think we are too bold, or too outspoken, or too proud. But this hidden power is within each of us. When Jesus spoke to the wind and the waves, he was showing us that when we command the Higher Powers within us, we too, can speak to the elements of nature and command them in our power.

I often do not feel like I am powerful. I often feel like I have no control of a certain situation. I feel helpless. Yet Astara tells us:

Your strength within comes from being who you really are, not by listening to others. Be charitable to others and listen quietly to their advice, but then go within to your own feelings and abide by what you feel. Trust in your own inner knowledge.

Many before you have fallen through trying to please another and not listening to their inner voice. Hold to your own, and you will never be disappointed. You have far more strength within than you realise. I leave you now. Another comes to talk with you.

It is I, Michael. You know me as Archangel. My full essence could never be fully experienced through any human vehicle, but you are experiencing a part of my essence. You are one of my own. You have yet to recognise this and remember. We have been connected for aeons and I will never desert you.

There is much power within you, but you have hidden this power for fear of it being known to others. You have been afraid of your power, because you have mis-used it in times past. Now is the time for this power and your brightness, to shine for all to see. The world has a great need of it. Many of my legions are now upon the earth plane, and many are being awakened now. This reminder is for all who feel the tug of compassion in their heart. Your time is NOW.

Do not fear for your future. You write your own future. You write it with fear or with love. Let not others persuade you away from your true lesson – the calling which you feel in your hearts. The purpose you came here to do is now being called upon. Rise up and claim your power – your birthright – your light. You are my children. You are stars of the Creator. And your time for revealing this has now come.

Stand in your power. Be who you ARE. I bless you and give you courage in this time of need. I am Archangel Michael. So be it.

We are being told by Spirit that it is now our time to stand up and be counted. Our time for holding back has passed. It is now time to release all past that does not serve us, and move forward. The world is waiting for us. It is waiting for us to emerge into our true selves, and be who we were always meant to be. It is time now for us to stand in our power and face the world the way we were always meant to face it.

We feel powerless so often, when we become sick. Yet we do not realise at the time that we do have the power to overcome sickness of any kind. We often choose a certain condition to learn a particular lesson. When we can come to understand that everything is alive, even inanimate objects from computers to cars, as they all have living elementals, or spirit, within them, we have the power to create anything we desire. We can ask the spirit in our car to look after it, and it will. I knew a man once who used to do just this. He was a great teacher. One day he drove his car into the garage for a service and the garage mechanic told him it was a wonder the car got him anywhere as it was in such a bad condition. He did not tell the mechanic that he had asked for the little spirit in the car to look after it for him and keep it going! He also taught me that we have the power to ask for whatever we need to be there before we need it and it always is. I have tried this and it really does work! It only has to be said once and then forget it. Spirit never forgets our request.

We can send love to our computers and they will respond by not crashing on us. How many of us, in moments of anger and frustration, have had the computer crash on us? You can bet it always happens when we are in a bad mood. Have you ever wondered why? It is the thoughts we send out that attract a like vibration. We can focus thoughts of love on anything around us, and it will respond in kind. Inanimate objects have the ability to communicate to us the physic energy they pick up from things around them. It is entirely possible that in years to come, we will be able to pick up the vibrational level of an object. Each object has a vibrational level of its own. As we become more in tune with nature and more sensitive to things around us, we will find we can hear these objects speak to us.

We are also told that Earth is a living body, alive like us, and deep within Earth’s core is the Flower of Life, the source of the Spirit that binds all in its form. It is the same Spirit that holds the heart flame within us that gives life to Earth. We could become deathless, living from age to age as a Light among men, just as those in Lemuria and Atlantis have done before us. We have the power to free our soul from bondage of darkness and let it take wing in its flight to the stars. We are also told by Thoth, "Here ye and listen, O my children. Magic is knowledge and only is Law. Be not afraid of the power within thee for it follows Law as the stars in the sky".

Death cannot harm us. It is just a passing through into another dimension, and back again to experience life. We eventually attain the higher dimensions of such great light that we no longer need to incarnate again in physical form. We can take with us whatever we desire for our own potential and our own growth. We do choose however what we take with us in each lifetime, and that which is intended for our highest purpose. We come here with a mission – a life plan and it is our guides that help to prompt us to carry it out.

We have the power to create our own future. We so often let worries about the future or fears about the past overtake us. Our future reactions are based on what we have experienced in the past. We need not be afraid of what our future will hold as we write our future in each now moment. We must not let fear overtake us and drag us down. We have to lift our energies by being positive in our every moment:

I am Astara. I come to remind you to lift your energies. Do not let feelings of despair, fear or gloom overtake you. These vibrations do not lift the earth. They hold her down like a chain net, which cannot be broken. Lighten your thoughts - do not let fear enter your mind and heart.

By allowing all, you are accepting all into your heart, and not restricting your movements by fear-driven feelings and thoughts. These feelings place a lock, or blockage, on your emotions, which stop the Love from flowing through your veins.

When you relax you will be surprised at the difference it makes to your vibration. You actually slow right down and become one with the things around you. As you do this, if you could see into the etheric world, you would see streams of coloured lights spinning off you and onto every item that catches your vision. It is a most beautiful sight from where we sit in the spiritual realm. The colours that radiate from you are most magnificant.

As you travel through your day, be in tune with the inner feelings you have about things that come into your day. As you experience each feeling, let it pass through you, and observe how you feel. Do not try to take this feeling to your heart. Rather let it pass through you and watch it travel on its way. You are beyond these feelings and far more than you could possibly realise.

If you look around you at the presence of others, you will see their angelic presences and know that they reflect your angelic presence also. Everything you see and feel has a connection to you in some way. By living and allowing all to pass without judgement of it, you are becoming a lighter person, and raising your consciousness towards a heightened vibration. As you raise your vibrations, you also lift the vibrations of the planet you walk upon, and each time you do this, you are assisting in her birth towards her new consciousness. Remember these words as you carry on into your day. They are for all people.

If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how to change our lives, we have power. Taking responsibility for ourselves is one of the greatest powers we have. Many people come through catastrophic illnesses saying it was the most wonderful thing that ever happened to them because it gave them a chance to see their lives differently. In my case, the loss of my daughter was a catalyst for me finding myself and awakening to the strength within me.

If, on the other hand, we feel we are victims, we will find it hard to find our power within. So often we feel intimidated by others, or we feel that we just can’t do what we know we ought to do. It is not an easy thing to face the strength within us and move forward. But in order to break our pattern of powerlessness, we must accept the responsibility of our own power.

Nelson Mandala, the African leader, wrote in his inaugural speech in 1994 :

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically literates others."

We serve nothing in the plan of ascension if we hide who we are. We have lived so long as victims that we are now afraid to own who we are. We have power within us beyond our wildest dreams. Our power is to be used for the good of all. Often in the past, in previous lifetimes we have had this power and misused it, and it has caused disastrous consequences to all concerned. We may have been given much authority, and abused it, and this is the reason why we now hide the power that is within us – because we are afraid of repeating a past mistake. Our souls know the reason we have hidden it for so long. But we have learnt from our past, and it is now the time to allow it to come into its own.

Through regression, Dolores Cannon discovered one of her subjects had a past where he’d tried to help another planet. He saw himself fitted with space outfit and all, landing on a planet that he’d tried to assist. Through his intervention however, he’d interfered with the indigenous people of the planet and prevented their growth as it should have happened naturally. In this, his current lifetime, he was afraid to allow himself any power for fear he would repeat his past mistake. I think we all have similar fears for holding back our power.

Those who use power for selfish purposes will not survive in the New World. Those who use sexual prowess, for example, to keep another in abeyance or servitude will no longer be able to use this as a means of power over others. Each person, knowing who he or she is, will be master of himself, and there will be no more victim-hood among mankind. We will not be allowed to claim our power upon this planet any longer if we are intending to use it for ill purposes. The God-Creator/Source/All-that-Is has seen it all happen before. He/She/It will not allow another catastrophe to occur upon this planet because of power abuses. The dark energies that are trying to hold their power will not survive.

Mankind will no longer be allowed to use these powers unless they are for the highest good of all. It is time to acknowledge our own powerful energies, and to use them for the good of the whole. Our power can be used in the most positive ways – to help others to see themselves for who they really are, to help others fight their depression, their lack of self-worth, their illnesses and their fears. So many souls are in need of hearing this at this time. Depression lives in the lower chakra of the body, so if we can lift our vibrations we can rid ourselves of this debilitating emotion.

The Power of Emotions

We find our emotions rocketing to and fro so often these days. We are always fighting them, trying to stay centred. These emotions, and the strength of them, can be frightening. The time has come to do some ‘spring cleaning’ of our emotions, sifting through all the forgotten corners and coming to new realisations. It is time for crying those unshed tears and letting go of any remainders of unresolved emotional residue.

I have been finding lately that I have anger coming to the surface. It has been rising to the surface so frequently of late. Simple things seem to cause me to become irrationally angry. My husband braking his car when I was reversing behind him, and not giving me warning, caused me to go into work fuming one morning. Yet there is no logical reason why this should be so. The anger just wells up so unexpectedly, without rational cause. By releasing this anger, it has evaporated and is no longer within me. If we hold the anger in, it is more likely to cause us harm further down the track. It is anger, frustration, resentment, etc. that are the causes of most of the diseases of mankind that develop in old age. Even doctors and psychiatrists are now admitting that a deep hidden anger or resentment, over many years possibly causes cancer. We are so powerful we can do this to ourselves! We have to deal with the fear of this now, as the old approach will not work. We manifest these sudden illnesses almost instantly now, as our power has become more obvious and we are calling these things to us.

The strength within us may be staying hidden because we don’t want to acknowledge it for fear of its power. We know, deep down at a soul level, that we have allowed our power to cause harm upon the planet before. We know its potential, and we are afraid to unleash it. If we allow it to be released by sending it love, accepting it, and acknowledging it, telling ourselves that it is okay to be angry, that it is okay to be emotional as long as it doesn’t hurt another, then it will cease to be a problem for us. We can unleash our anger by hitting a pillow, or even walking the dog. Any feelings that we lock up inside us will inevitably come to light again as a physical disease at some stage later in our lives. But if we allow it release, then the earth will transmute our anger and our other emotions, and we will find them being replaced by feelings of pure love.

The greatest power of all is that of self-love. This love will give us everything that we have ever needed. The power is within us through understanding our own potentials and our own inner selves.

James Twyman, a peace troubadour and author of the well-known book Emissary of Love, among other books, interviewed a little child recently by asking her about her ability to see psychically what others were thinking. She felt that the gift she had was the same as many children today have. This child demonstrated the use of telekinesis and showed her understanding of the minds of others. For the benefit of James Twyman, she focussed energy on a bud not yet in bloom, and within seconds the flower opened in front of his eyes. For her it was a minor accomplishment. She felt her purpose in being here was to show others that they also had this gift.

This child was aware of other children all over the world with the same gift whom she had never met. But her main concern was that people today are afraid of the power that they have within them. They are afraid that the power they have will make others see them differently. The power that can, and will, change the world is love. Love is the vibration that emanates all things to a higher vibration. It is through love of all things – even inanimate objects that can cause them to move without being touched. It is the energy of love that moves objects, hearts and minds toward a greater understanding. This is the power we have within us if we would only lose our fear and use what we have. If we do not use it correctly we can become ill.

We do have the power within to help the world. A great master has told us:

"The greatest service you can render to mankind is to work truly and earnestly on the inner plane to radiate love and establish on the physical plane of life the thought, the ideal, the feeling of brotherhood. Never waver in your belief that all is working together for the good of humanity. In the measure that you hold fast to this truth, so will you increase your power to help the world and all humanity. Preserve in your heart the strength of the spirit of Christ; give forth good thought - love thought. Humanity will absorb the light that you send forth. Instead of absorbing the dark and destructive forces, they will absorb the Light, the constructive, the Godlike, the Christlike qualities of life."

Power in Prayer

Miracles have been known to happen when we give power to prayer. Greg Braden, author of The Isaiah Effect, writes of a miracle where an elderly gentleman was strolling towards a parking lot and missed his footing with the metal cane as it collapsed and sent him crashing to the asphalt. He crumpled into a heap on the sidewalk while his wife screamed for help. Before he knew it, a woman was already there, cradling the gentleman’s head in her hands. She gently moved the layers of skin around the neck to see where the bleeding was coming from. As she did so, she seemed to silently pray, as onlookers saw her looking towards the sky. They watched in amazement, as the open wound seemed to close. Moments later the ambulance arrived. They also traced the bloody marks on the skin and the clothing, only to find no wound there.

Braden talks about the power of mass prayer when, in November 1998, the effects of prayer were felt throughout the world as Iraq’s time to end their war was upon them, and the military was in the process of firing on Iraq. At the very moment that countries around the world joined in this vigil, the president received a cease fire agreement. Is this a coincidence? Until we understand the intricacies of prayer, we will never know. He has discovered that prayer is not so much in the thought, or the words, but in the emotion, the feeling and belief of it already happening.

The earth is now raising it’s own vibrations, and unless we do the same, along with the planet, we will no longer incarnate upon the earth when our time is over. There have been other planets prepared for those who still wish to focus in third dimensional energies. Our planet will no longer be in a vibration to sustain the lower energies and must move on in its own evolution. One way of lifting our vibrations is to allow ourselves to feel gratitude for all things around us.

Chris Hamilton -