Stop Outsourcing Your Power: Lead Yourself from Inner Authority
Stop Outsourcing Your Power: Lead Yourself from Inner Authority
Hello Awakening Soul,
You don’t need more advice.
You don’t need another guru.
You don’t need someone to tell you what your next move should be.
What you need is to remember your inner authority—that part of you that already knows.
The part of you that’s been drowned out by noise, trauma, conditioning, and culture.
Today, we reclaim that.
🚫 How You’ve Been Trained to Give Away Your Power
From a young age, we’re programmed to look outward:
“What will people think?”
“What’s the right choice?”
“Will this make them happy?”
“Let me ask someone first.”
Whether it’s family, teachers, systems, social media, or spiritual figures—we’re taught that someone else knows better.
But here’s the truth:
💥 If you don’t consciously claim your power, the world will gladly take it.
🔥 The Cost of Outsourcing Your Power
Every time you default to external validation, you:
Delay your own growth
Deepen your self-doubt
Reinforce the belief that you’re not enough on your own
Outsourcing your power leads to:
Chronic indecision
Anxiety before every move
Seeking permission to live your life
Disconnect from your intuition
Dis-ease in your mind and / or body
You’re not confused. You’re disconnected from your inner authority.
Our ego is created by our identification with form - physical form, thought forms, emotional forms.
Think of it as your self with a small ‘s’. As we grow we are taught to identify more and more with form, not only through the body but through our experiences, intelligence, achievements, failures, and beliefs.
The ego isn’t bad, it’s our human experience, it is the role the Self with a capital ‘S’, or soul, plays while manifested here on earth. The problem arises when the ego gets over fed. The body and mind are meant to be instruments that we, creation, use to expand creation to experience ourselves. They are the paint and the brush, life is the painting, and we the Self are the painter.
So time rolls on and the ego feasting up a storm as we identify as the body and mind. It has power and control. Why wouldn’t it fight to maintain it? It wants to exist! And it uses the subconscious mind to do this.
But here is the thing, we aren’t trying to slay it, just do a power correction so that we can create in harmony with our Self and self. Your Self—with a capital ‘S’—isn’t just wise. She’s waiting. She’s the voice behind the noise, and she doesn’t whisper. She knows.
And our Self, or inner authority, can see a few steps ahead of the ego. So even though the mind might not know why we should follow a nudge the soul gives us, usually through the body or a subtle sense we call intuition, we need to re-member to follow the nudge. This could be a sound, word, knowing, glimmer, etc.
🌬️ What It Looks Like to Lead From Within
Living in inner authority isn’t about being bossy or always right.
It’s about being anchored.
✅ You know when something’s off—even if it looks perfect on paper
✅ You trust your timing
✅ You don’t explain your no’s
✅ You feel rooted in your decisions—even when they’re messy
Inner authority feels like peace, even when others don’t approve.
🔑 How to Reclaim Your Inner Authority
1. Stop Asking for Permission You Don’t Need
You already know what to do. You’re just scared to do it without backup.
2. Practice the Sacred Pause
Before reacting or deciding—breathe. Tune in.
Ask: Is this true for me? Or is this fear?
3. Watch for the Approval Trap
If your yes is rooted in fear, it’s actually a no—masquerading in people-pleasing. If your no feels like betrayal, but it’s rooted in truth, honor it anyway.
4. Embodiment Check
Stand up. Say the decision aloud.
Do you feel expanded or contracted?
Heavy or light?
Your body doesn’t lie.
🧘♀️ Daily Anchor Ritual: “I Choose Me”
Say this out loud each morning:
“Today, I lead myself. I trust my inner voice. I choose what’s true for me, even if no one claps.”
Write it. Say it. Feel it.
Let your nervous system recalibrate to you being in charge.
💥 You Are the Leader You’ve Been Waiting For
No one is coming to save you.
You are the sacred authority of your life.
You are the oracle, the teacher, the guide.
When you stop outsourcing your power, you stop betraying yourself.
And that’s when your real life begins.
In this story, the princess saves herself.
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You were born sovereign. Let’s remember what that feels like.
I see the Light in you, and it is brilliant. I want you to see it too!
Brightest of blessings,
Dawn xo
The Awakening Light
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