Strength
_I: Speaking of the historical idea of abundance, you mentioned that individuals used to associate abundance with accumulation because those who had more lived longer, and therefore, those who had less lived less. A simple logical relationship, that whoever eats lives, whoever does not eat dies. What we saw in this is that for a mere matter of survival, human cultures have blurred the idea of being abundant to the point of believing that it has to do with wealth, and not with exchange, forgetting the fundamental key to wealth, which is the exchange, and therefore the sharing. This, which led to creating petty and greedy individuals, led to a society of consumption and accumulation of goods, as a human foundation, but above all, I believe, it led to something worse.
_AM: To what?
_I: In Control. He who accumulates what others lack, has power over others...
_AM: Well, let's redefine this concept, because what you really want to refer to is Power. The word Control has nothing to do with manipulating someone, although that is how it has survived to our times. Control, arises from the Latin “contra-rotulus”; The word “against” comes from two things that oppose or differentiate each other (“con-“= unity, and “-tra-“= between; in English “against”), while “rotulus” means “device that rotates.” , which rotates.” This refers to an official communication system since Roman times that spread throughout Europe and from there to the world in medieval and colonial times, where royal or imperial communications were made on rolls of paper, with a certified duplicate. These official rolls were called “rotulus” and the duplicates “contra”. Thus, the Contra-Rotulus or Contre-Role (in French), was a duplicate certificate that validated what was ordered by the ruler so that documents were not falsified. This is called “Contre-role mechanism”, a term that passed into other Romance languages as “Control” when pronounced in French.
_I: Wow… I never would have thought of that. In other words, the control mechanism is not to impose itself on others, but to ensure that something is as it has been said, verified.
_AM: Yes. But of course, who sets the law?
_I: The king, the emperor, the feudal...
_AM: Reason why the law verified by the “controls” of the state, ended up being synonymous with the weight of the law or the government over the population.
_I: Oh, of course, it makes sense now…
_AM: Control is a necessary mechanism for the security of what is said or ordered, it is a way to corroborate that what is said is true before the law, and thus there can be no deception. But this same control system is what is distorted when the real conflict arises.
_I: The Power…
_AM: Our old and desired friend. Nowadays, just as “control” took on a negative connotation, “power” is often a word with a positive connotation, since in the social, cultural and spiritual world we often talk about “inner power” or “power of the mind.” town". We ourselves use the word empowerment to recognize the internal mandate of our own life, and in fact the mantra “I Can” is an important concept to develop as in the first month of our year, in the sign of Leo. However, it awakens ambiguities, such as the fight "against power", or the power of those who have more, or the power of the government, or the rich... The idea of power has governed humanity for millennia, and everything has its logic. and origin in the first human tribes or families. “Power” comes from the Indo-European word “potis,” meaning “master, lord, owner.” The idea comes from the fact that, like most hominids, in times of crisis the alpha male takes command of the pack, and takes over the individuals that compose it as his own, taking the females at his disposal, something that we call “espouse” (which means “to be under the owner”, or to belong to the master).
_I: Oh, it's strong. The word “husbands” implies a sense of belonging to someone.
_AM: Objects and Subjects under the power of an individual who accumulates them, and appears to be abundant, only because his power has allowed him to possess it. Power is the control one has over things, and therefore, inner power refers to having full control of one's thoughts, emotions, and actions; cultural power is the power to dominate freedom of expression; The power of a government is the grace granted to regulate the individuals that make up a nation. Dominate comes from the word “domus” which means house, home, that is, who can manage one's own home. Thus, the one who managed the resources was the powerful one, the one who had power over things. The idea intensified when the law of survival implied a constant struggle. Thus, security became key to subsistence, and the oldest natural law of all was established.
_I: The law of the strongest.
_AM: The alpha male was the one who possessed the most strength, and therefore, he could protect what was his. But in humans, due to neuronal development and intelligence, force also became strategy. The strategy gave more power to govern others, manipulate them, extort them, direct them, which gave rise to the appearance of kings. Strength no longer depended on the physique of the person in power, but on their ability to manage the strength of others. And the others obeyed his orders, since the king had in his custody the food necessary for subsistence. In exchange for food, the king obtained protection and trust, and if anyone dared to betray this trust, power fell on him, even with the death penalty. Force became a natural tool of control, since word of mouth the ferocity of the king was transmitted to his enemies, enlarging his image, generating fear and fear, the emotions of control par excellence. Brute force became mental strength, and from there the strength of power was constituted.
_I: And that's why whenever someone gains power they usually hide behind the strength of others, like states use the military and the police.
_AM: Exactly. From the beginning, he who owns the goods, the money, the resources, has the power to command others, and ensures his subsistence by being protected by the security forces.
_I: It's horrible...
_AM: But it is what you have created throughout history. The fear of dying has made you build societies that need control mechanisms, because people do not have inner power, so they need someone to give them power, or the idea of it. The sense of belonging to a clan gave rise to the sense of nationalism, which is the origin of populism, in which individuals give their personal power to the power of the group, and the group gives its power to a leader who tells them where to direct that power. force. And if the individuals awaken their power, the leader will turn, using the very strength of the people to defend himself. It's not new, this is always.
_I: Does this mean we are relegated to living like this?
_AM: No, it means that you are still in the process of evolution.
_I: And how do we begin to transform this?
_AM: Finding one's own strength that gives power, to be able to dominate oneself, and thus be abundant.
_I: What is strength?
_AM: In spanish “Fortaleza”, “Fuerza” which comes from “Fuerte”, which comes from the Indo-European “bheregh”, which means “high mountain”. The mountain is a symbol of rigidity, solidity, immovable firmness, and therefore, it was the favorite site for the construction of protected sites, such as castles, or fortifications, as the word itself says: a medieval fortress, a battle fort, fort or fortification. In English, “strength” comes from “strenk”, which also gives rise to “strong”, and is related to narrow and tight, something that gives the idea of placing things very close to each other until they are impossible to move. .
_I: Everything refers to a structure, a rigid construction.
_AM: That is, an object or subject that integrates everything, that has everything that is required, that is firm in its being. A being that has not managed to work on each of its internal aspects is a construction destined to collapse, from which no one can claim to be powerful. Imagine that your body is a tower. If this tower does not have a foundation, or lacks stones in its walls, or lacks any buttress, or a good mortar has not been used to connect the parts, then the tower will not have consistency in itself. You must understand in this analogy that we are referring to the physical, emotional and mental state of a person, to the fact of working internally or not, of recognizing shadows and lights, of being flexible or not, upright or ignorant.
_I: Strengthening the Being is rebuilding its parts, like building a tower...
_AM: It is to become the mountain. Integrating every rock, river, tree into you.
_I: It reminds me of the phrase “be strong like an oak.” When I was a child, I was 12 years old, I had a friend Roble at my school. He always went to visit him, I would sit under him and tell him all the things that happened to me, which most of the time were quite heavy, depressive. One day, I arrived crying, because I felt so much weight of everything that was happening to me, and on top of that, the bullying at school. I needed to talk to someone, but no one understood me, because I didn't even know what was happening to me, and I remember him telling _I: “for years I have been weak, fragile to the changes in the world around me, but I never stopped. The wind can bend you like hurtful words, but you will only defeat them by making yourself flexible. The rigidity of the ground will prevent you from expanding, like the structures that design your world, but with patience you will always find the cracks through which to extend your being. The sun sometimes burns, as do the expectations we have. However, like their rays, they become the fuel for your expansion. And sometimes you will face storms, and some lightning will strike very close to you, I have lived it, and I have been damaged, but in every storm comes a new hope, water. Consistency, self-confidence, flexibility, recognizing what the world gives you, is what awakens the strength to face the world.” “Look at me,” he told me, “Today I am strong and robust, focused on myself. “No one gave me that strength, I built it with my experience.” Whenever I pass by my school as an adult, I go to visit him. And in fact I always think and say that the day I die, I want to be buried under an oak tree, to become one like him.
_AM: As the oak tree has told you, strength is something that is built with inner integrity, with the ability to take control of oneself in the face of the forces of the world. Wholesome strength does not grant power to control what surrounds you, but to awaken power over yourself. Power is the product of potential, and it only arises from the energy that lies within you, not from the things you obtain from outside. All power generated by the accumulation of resources is nothing more than the mask of imminent decline. All power built inside is what lasts through time and space.
_I: The strength of the being, in the solar plexus, then, does not have to do with the ability to expand my power to those with whom I relate, but to find the firmness of myself without losing the axis between the external forces that pull from my. It is not getting lost despite the emotions, the conflicts, the ideas.
_AM: He who, unaware of his potentials, oscillates between his personal relationships, oscillates in the truths of others, oscillates in the beliefs of the world, will be broken. Whoever oscillates in consciousness, learns from others, remembering that the reason for his movement is thanks to the axis on which his pendulum is anchored.
_I: Strength arises from me, and when I share this strength, we create a network of powerful beings upon themselves.
_AM: Build your inner power from the strength of your integrity, and only then will you be able to generate a movement of conscious beings that transform reality. Become the mountain, become the oak, and affirm who you are.
_I: I am.