Ego, Power, & Saying Yes To The Hero's Journey With Christian de la Huerta

Author Christian de la Huerta has so many amazing things to share and teach us about the hero's journey,  ego, the soulful self, and power plays as we discuss his book "Awakening the Soul of Power: How to Live Heroically and Set Yourself Free".Some takeaways:The empowerment of women is the single most important thing that needs to happen in the world in order in bring balance to the masculine and feminine energies. We are all heroes in daily life every time we transcend the human propensity to feel victimized. When we have the ability to pause and bring choice and not strike out. To start on the heroic journey you first have to answer the call and say yes. Then leave the comfort zone or the familiar and face struggle before coming home to share your wisdom.It is necessary to understand how our ego mind works because that is the source of all of our suffering.Our ego is a baseball in the center of a baseball stadium. Who we are is the stadium,  but we’ve allowed this small thing of ego to think it is all of who we are. And we are always making important decisions from this very small, fear based perspective. The ego is full of extremes. From feeling superior to feeling inferior in an instant. Treating ourselves as a victim or seeing ourselves as a victim is one of our blind spots. We have a vested interested in staying in the “Poor Me”. If only it wasn’t for this or that, I’d be happy.On this heroic journey - if we hold someone or something outside of us responsible for our happiness or our state of being, we are giving our power away. Life is always going to throw us curveballs, we can always choose how we show up in response. And that slight refrain changes everything - it pops us out of victim mode.  Become aware of what the ego is and how it works and how it is getting you stuck in certain patterns. Self awareness is first step.Breaking out of the ego prison can’t be done over night. It has to be done in bite sized pieces. Investigate In which relationships do you give your power away? Are there patterns and what are the circumstances?Breath work helps in healing of initial misunderstandings. Any self-awareness practice is recommended. It may be boring 90% of the time and your mind will wander. But the benefit is that it is a practice of becoming self aware and present. Our soulful self if our the higher self - our own authentic self. It is our own sacred real estate. If the divine is everywhere then its in us too. That’s where our intuition and best potential and wisdom lives. The ego is the monkey mind and is so loud. It has something to say about everything and everybody. We have to learn out to quiet it through meditation so that we can hear the voice of our inner soul. While the ego has many words and big words, the soul uses simple language like yep, no, I wouldn’t go there, etc.We get confused about power and we avoid conflict because we are afraid of our emotions. But emotions are energy. If we suppress those emotions they take their toll on us physically. We are the only ones that can give our power away.Christian and information about his workshops, retreats and coaching can be found readily at his website https://soulfulpower.com/His book can be found at Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3FMuKgAAs for me, I can be found at my website: https://llmcshane.com and you can follow me on Instagram http://www.instagram.com/lesleylmcshanePlease SHARE, RATE and REVIEW this podcast so that it can be found by others. That is your gift to me.Best always - LLMFind me on my Website:https://www.lesleylmcshane.comQuestions? Email me:  [email protected] Guide: 4 Steps To Prioritize Your Health & Wellness This Week (And Actually Do It!) Connect with me on Instagram:Get the Redesigning Midlife UpdatesFind your community at the private Redesigning Midlife Facebook Group Get your MENO WELL bars (formerly Bossa Bars) - Use LESLEY10 for 10% off your first orderCheck out Kion and get the Redesigning Midlife Discount - 20% off subscriptions and 10% off individual orders.Need a good, reliable, clean, and professional Plumber? Call 1-Tom-Plumber - The Name Is The Phone Number