Clarity of Innocence

Feeling helpless is not our failure.

It’s something that happened to us!

All life gets an explosion of pure energy to power it through life. People call it self-esteem.

Nurture is the way all life respects and supports that power of survival.

Mankind has gradually stopped supporting it.

The price we pay for unintentionally taking away the power of our offspring is trauma and helplessness.

It spreads across the entire planet when we all do the same thing.

We now live in a hostile world.

Every bit of that hostility has unintentionally come from our lack of support for the self-drive of our young!

Blocking their efforts to explore and discover their own path into their own life causes feelings of helplessness.

They have to first shut down their own power of survival and life, if they are to satisfy our requests.

That hurts. Life and death hurt!

All life is self-powered. It’s plan is to find it’s own way and survive. That’s what our children are trying to do.

They go right through learning to walk and talk, and they do it the real way, through their own drive.

When communication becomes possible though, they no longer get to power their own learning.

They cannot roll over and do everything we want without first suppressing their own drive.

They were not created with the ability to do that. That’s not what life is! Life powers itself!

Once they accommodate our wishes, they have lost connection with their own identity and feelings.

That causes feelings of helplessness! Of course it would. Their own power no longer drives their progress.

They can no longer feel their power!

The usual next step is to hide how helpless they feel.

They fake it!

People are naturally kind and compassionate, but that’s our real feelings.

Anybody faking it doesn’t know what their real feelings or identities actually are!

Children now don’t express their real selves! They can’t. Not after they have overcome their own real needs of life.

They needed to follow their own path to survival and success, but didn’t get too far with that. They got forced to comply instead!

Any of this is easy to demonstrate. Allow them to lead their own way, and watch the difference. It’s a whole different world!

The natural and compassionate one!

They are dangerous in a powerless condition!

And so, this has become a dangerous world!

It is not safe to share real feelings with others who don’t have their power anymore!

They cannot hear us. They don’t understand feelings. We will get told we are wrong.

Everybody wants their power back!

Most are trying to be the person they have decided to be instead.

Not many have an accurate picture of what happened to them.

Meanwhile, what happened to our real power and identity?

It’s still there! It’s still honest!

What is it projecting now? What are we really trying to express as our real selves at this point?

Helplessness!

Who is going to allow themselves to show helplessness in this hostile world?

So we don’t allow our real selves to show.

Unfortunately, all by itself, this action of not presenting our real feelings, prevents us from healing.

Our power cannot return while we hold it back, and present something else!

It can only repair itself with full and honest expression!

Therefore, for any hope of all of regaining our own self-esteem, we have to find a safe enough place to express the helplessness that we really feel.

Once we begin that, it’s a steady path to continuously regaining the strength we were born with.

It’s a slow but steady trip. It seems to take longer than it should. It all feels good and right though.

As we become stronger we become better people. Our goals become good relationships.

We become comfortable standing alone. We no longer need rules. Our intentions have become empathy and cooperation.

We slowly return to the condition of real people! Having inner power back does that!

We have to allow newborns their natural right, and the power to drive their own progress.

If we can do that, we have regained our world-wide compassion.

They will be the best people ever. They will also never have to work at getting their own self-esteem back!

Thanks for listening.

Good luck on your own journey!

This post is part of https://clarity-of-innocence.com

Take care,

Norm