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Empowerment. What is it, really?
Most people confuse feeling empowered with being empowered. One is temporary and reactive. The other is permanent and proactive.
They're not even close!
One is temporary and REactive. The other is permanent and PROactive.
Empowerment: At Its Core
Empowerment isn't a feeling. It's a state and level of "access".
It's the access to your own energy to strengthen your decisions, awareness, direction, and power, consciously directed toward creation or change. It’s not something that's given to you, it’s something you recognize you already have and claim from within.
You don’t become empowered. You claim that you ARE the power, then take the wheel.
1. At the Cellular Level (Physical)
Your body reflects empowerment before you feel it.
The chemical cocktail of empowerment: Dopamine, serotonin, testosterone, and oxytocin all spike when you’re in an empowered state. This is the neurochemical signature of motivation, clarity, and trust in your own agency.
Posture changes: Empowered people literally take up more space. Shoulders back, spine straight. This is not just a reflection and demonstration of confidence, it’s a command to the nervous system saying: “We’re in control.”
Energy distribution: Empowered states signal your body to stop preserving energy to use for fear and start deploying it for progress.
Neural pathways: Empowerment is tied to prefrontal cortex activation, where planning, future vision, and willpower live. Disempowerment keeps you stuck in the amygdala, reactive, panicked, survival-mode.
Empowerment flips the switch from survival to creation.
2. Emotionally (Energetic Pulse)
Emotionally, empowerment is not an emotion itself, but a sort of “symphony conductor” for your emotions.
It’s the authority to feel everything without being controlled by anything.
You stop resisting your emotions and start using them as energy to fuel action. Just as your designed and built to do. It’s authentic!
Fear becomes fuel. Sadness becomes depth. Anger becomes boundary. Joy becomes momentum.
You aren’t empowered because you feel good, you’re empowered because you master your energy that you create your entire life with and you know how to move that energy, not be moved or controlled by it.
3. Psychologically (Belief Layer)
Empowerment is the absence of permission seeking.
It is built on:
Ownership: “This is my life. No one’s coming to rescue me.”
Responsibility: Not blame, but response-ability: the ability to choose your response and outcomes.
Perspective mastery: Choosing the lens you look through, not defaulting to pain-based perception. (See The PowerLife Credo for an ultra empowering lens)
Self-trust: Not some stupid and unrealistic belief that you’ll never fall. You’re going to fall. Self-trust is knowing you will always rise, no matter how hard the fall.
Psychological empowerment is the recognition that you are the source, not the result.
4. Spiritually and Energetically (PowerLife Level)
You are a conduit of life energy. Empowerment is allowing that energy to flow without distortion.
Disempowerment is interference, static, and self-denial.
Empowerment is alignment between thought, word, energy, and action.
This is the principle of natures harmony when your internal truth matches your external expression.
Empowerment isn’t given by anyone or anything, it’s what happens when you get out of the way of what’s already inside you.
5. Behaviorally (Observable)
Empowered people:
Act decisively
Take radical ownership
Show up when it’s inconvenient
Say yes to growth and no to comfort
Don’t ask, “What should I do?” but “What will I create next?”
Don’t seek certainty or even meaning. They CREATE it through clarity and aligned action
Practical Definition
Empowerment is the act of recognizing, reclaiming, restoring, and redirecting your energy and authority toward your chosen outcomes, without needing permission, certainty, or external validation.
It is the invisible switch between being influenced and becoming the influencer of your life.
Practical Tactic: The Power Trigger
1. Catch “the loop”: When you feel stuck, say, “I am not powerless, I am paused. I choose now.”
2. Breathe deep once (inhale power, exhale hesitation).
3. Choose one action that moves you forward. Doesn’t have to be big, in fact it’s usually a mundane task or something simple. It just must be done by you.
You’ve just shifted from powerless reaction to empowered direction. That’s real power.
This whole breakdown is grounded in at least five PowerLife Principles:
Highest Energy Wins
Awareness Creates Possibility
Only Decisions Change Lives
Progress Not Perfection
Power of Perspectives
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And a final challenge for you to bring this home.
Today, pause and ask:
Where am I waiting for something that I could be creating?
Now take one small act of creation. Do it without waiting to feel like it.
That’s real empowerment.
Find A Few Smiles
“Find a few smiles, capture a few laughs, touch a couple hearts, stimulate a mind or two, and for the love of all things holy, find a way to allow the things into your life that help you enjoy the trip because it ends the same for all of us anyway. Don't take things so seriously; things always find a way to work themselves out. Whatever you need, someone else needs to give, as I learned very clearly from all the beautiful homeless women who brightened my dim heart. We are all connected in this crazy, cosmic soup, and no matter how much it may feel like it sometimes, none of us are ever truly alone in our struggles, trials, challenges, and hard times, and the same applies to the good times. We're never alone in the victories, triumphs, epic moments, and peak experiences in our lives. When you have a little, give a little. When you need a little, accept a little because there are always people who need to share the good in their lives just as much as there are people who need that good stuff during the bad times.”
― Mike Kemski, Change Your Energy, Change Your Life: 11 Simple Principles to Happiness, Success, Fulfillment, and Joy
The Sneaky Failure Ninja
“Your words are an extension of your thoughts, and your thoughts form your belief systems. Your beliefs are a very big aspect of who you are, what you do, the quality of life you live, and the people you surround yourself with. Really, any and every thing in your life is an extension of your thoughts or belief systems. Your belief systems then usually become a standard or set of rules in which you govern your life and daily actions. This, in turn, creates your physical experience and your perception of reality. The result is usually an opinion or perception that defines in your mind who you are. It is your story about your life, your identity. You become what you choose. Other people also influence you in different ways and to varying degrees, but ultimately you are the one who anchors a belief to yourself. However, most of us did not deliberately create our beliefs. We just picked them up along the way. There are all kinds of outside influences to mold and shape your belief systems. The media, your friends, your family, your religion, the books you read, and advertising are just a few things that influence you every day.”
― Mike Kemski, Change Your Energy, Change Your Life: 11 Simple Principles to Happiness, Success, Fulfillment, and Joy
“It would be fairly safe to assume that who you are is a combination of your thoughts, the words you use, your perceptions, your feelings and emotions, your beliefs, and the meanings you attach to certain aspects of life.”
― Mike Kemski, Change Your Energy, Change Your Life: 11 Simple Principles to Happiness, Success, Fulfillment, and Joy