Fear of One’s Own Power
Transcript Excerpts of Jane’s Teachings
during a “Shifting into Your New Consciousness” Group 7-9-09
(Participants’ names are change to protect their privacy.)
(After a discussion about people in the group hiding their power.)
(To group) “Many people feel that if they let out their real self, they would be too much for other people. This originates from childhood, when children often can feel that if they came out with their real selves, it would be too much for their parents, and their parents couldn’t handle it and they’d fall apart, and therefore they (the child) wouldn’t survive. Children come in to this life, completely outside of the framework of their parents’ emotional defense systems. And in one moment, with one word, they can shatter the parents’ defense system. One look, one word of truth … something that’s outside of the control of the parents’ defense system, can be extremely upsetting to the parent. The parent can then act as though the child has done some horrible thing and has this huge power. But the child is just being a child, not doing anything but just expressing who they are, and just saying things the way they see them. But truth is enormously powerful. Often the child then makes limiting decisions based upon how the parent responds. But the parent’s response is not reflecting truth. And so the child can get a mistaken idea about what it means to be in your power and the effect it has.”
