Empowerment

I came across this article online through Yoga Journal that was really good and I was talking with my girlfriend Audrey after work on the way home and before class about it. Ironically our conversation ended up being about a lot of the topic items in that article and she had never even seen it.

We were on the topic of empowerment. It's amazing what kinds of things you end up working on when you are trying to better yourself. How many of you have stopped to realize how often you 'explain yourself' for whatever reason for whatever you are doing/going/etc.? Yeah a lot of us do it. Technically you don't owe anyone an explanation for anything. Society though thinks otherwise though as we often need to provide explanations for things we do at our jobs or for education or even for safety reasons to people we care about. There's a fine line though between that and then going beyond that..

I've gotten used to explaining and am just now realizing that I don't need to. That it's okay to be quiet and have healthy down time. That being still and listening and working on me is a good thing. If I want to share important things like my dreams or goals or funny stuff ..whatever it is...I will with the people I love (especially if asked).

It was very empowering though to me today though to say outloud that I don't have to explain "why" and not just think it. Understanding your fears and overcoming them instead of letting them keep you from growing is a good thing;-).