Impulses and Natural Power

This Seth quote provides a more detailed description of impulses and the outcomes when natural impulses are followed at the individual and group level.  It’s pretty clear looking at the daily news that mankind rarely listens to it’s natural impulses (due to cultural imprinting, limiting belief systems, neurolinguistic programming through the media, etc.) and there is a confusion over the meaning of “power”.

I like Lazaris’ definition of “personal power”: the ability and willingness to act.  “Power” has nothing to do power over someone or some group … that’s a pure distortion.  Natural, or true “power” is what Seth describes in this quote; i.e., when one has the ability and willingness to act on natural impulses.  

Note that there are no losers when natural power is expressed!

“As the body wants to grow from childhood on, so all of the personality’s abilities want to grow and develop.  Each person has his [or her] own ideals, and impulses direct those ideals naturally into their own specific avenues of development – avenues meant to fulfill both the individual and his society.  Impulses provide specifications, methods, meanings, definitions.  They point toward definite avenues of expression, avenues that will provide the individual with a sense of actualization, natural power, and that will automatically provide feedback, so that the person knows he is impressing his environment for the better.

“Those natural impulses, followed, will automatically lead to political and social organizations that become both tools for individual development and implements for the fulfillment of the society.  Impulses then would follow easily, in a smooth motion, from private action to social import.  When you are taught to block your impulses, and to distrust them, then your organizations become clogged.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 860)