You fear your power because power was punished. When being strong made you threatening to those who needed you weak, when capability brought crushing responsibility, when competence meant being exploitedâyou learned to stay small. Now you hold back your strength, refuse your potential, hide your capabilities because showing them historically cost you.
Fear of your own power means sabotaging your success, rejecting leadership, staying in safe mediocrity rather than risking the visibility that comes with excellence. You might have talents you never develop, opportunities you avoid, success you flee from because power feels like target.
Living afraid of your power means never becoming what you could be, accepting less because more feels too risky, watching others claim what you could have.
Embracing power means learning that you can be strong without being targeted, using capability for your own ends, accepting that power can be safe when wielded wisely.
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Content informed by trauma research, polyvagal theory (Stephen Porges), somatic experiencing (Peter Levine), and nervous system regulation studies. For comprehensive citations and further reading, see Unfiltered Wisdom: The Book.
About the Author
Robert Greene is the author and founder of Unfiltered Wisdom, a US Navy veteran, and a trauma survivor with over 10 years of experience in nervous system regulation and somatic healing. He is certified in Yoga for Meditation from the Yogic School of Mystic Arts (Dharamsala, India, 2016) and affiliated with Holistic Veterans, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving veterans in Santa Cruz, California.