As you can imagine I spend a lot of my time with clients trying to understand all this and usually mostly failing, but what you say here rings true. Traditionally what we are taught about what is powerful is woefully inaccurate, incomplete, and as has been made clear, dangerous.
I remember hearing someone say once consider if the power is “the power over” or “the power to.” It’s stuck with me. In moments of fear, anguish, overwhelm, feeling less than, could we remember to seek the *power to* rather than the power over? I don’t know. I hope so.
“The truth is, that all men having power ought to be distrusted.” – James Madison
As you can imagine I spend a lot of my time with clients trying to understand all this and usually mostly failing, but what you say here rings true. Traditionally what we are taught about what is powerful is woefully inaccurate, incomplete, and as has been made clear, dangerous.
I remember hearing someone say once consider if the power is “the power over” or “the power to.” It’s stuck with me. In moments of fear, anguish, overwhelm, feeling less than, could we remember to seek the *power to* rather than the power over? I don’t know. I hope so.
Appreciate you.
I hope so too, thank you for this comment.