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Empowerment vs Power-Over

Yoga as a Model of Empowerment

Any discussion of power can benefit by highlighting the difference between power-over (force) and empowerment.

Power-over is demonstrated by military and corporate hierarchy.

Empowerment is demonstrated by students receiving benefits from yoga without needing to have learned or been convinced of anything beforehand. They simply need to experience it. (Good teaching, of course, helps them get even more out of it, but the point here is that yoga practice itself is empowering.)

Therefore, yoga is a clear and practical example of how power can be received and experienced as empowering, with no power-over involved.

Thus, yoga is an excellent model for how to replace top-down, authoritarian methodologies, hierarchical and compartmentalized systems, and excessively left-brained ways of thinking… and embrace more balanced ways of learning, experiencing and living.

TWO DIFFERENT WAYS OF OPERATING

We incarnated into the long-standing, top-down, pyramidal power system that parasitically feeds the top tier elite from the energy, resources, and life force of the lower levels and Gaia. Obviously, this is an imbalanced operating system that is destroying the majority of life on the planet…. The new earth operating system has been evolving, anchoring and activating for all who choose to shift. Instead of a top-down pyramidal system, the New Earth offers a circular continuum that … functions in unity consciousness. It is a self-sourcing ecosystem that enhances life on the planet. As we move further into the 2000’s, we are witnessing a global shift from a dying system into a newly forming world system of collaboration. – Meg Benedicte

See Also

• The Failure of Systems. The Power of People.
• Control or Empowerment: Choosing a Lens for Decision-Making.