Power vs Ego
By: Thanos Galiatsatos
Tags: Power, Truth, Ego, Standtall

Do we really know the difference? All we hear in movies is how characters are described as power hungry ego maniacs, right? And that may be true when someone is so much in their ego they want to chase power to feed that beast. So then what’s personal power? The power of myself to chase power to fill my ego? Not quite.

When someone is being described as being in their ego, it’s very apparent to everyone else except the person who’s in it. They can be loud, obnoxious, mean, rude, judgmental, power hungry, etc… I’m pretty sure we’ve all come across people who act this way in our life or at least have seen these characteristics in movies. These actions, we can call them, are sitting on and derived from a seriously wounded place. Like a tree with rotten roots or a tall building with a weak foundation. You can add all sorts of bells and whistles to make the tree look pretty or the building look fancy, but the truth is it’s hanging by a thread and ready to collapse with the slightest gust of wind.

Naturally the ego wants to protect itself and not feel vulnerable and show all these wounds so it tries to be loud, obnoxious, wear fancy clothes and buy fast cars to compensate for the way it really feels deep down, which is hurt. It’s a natural defense mechanism of the ego. Not so much to buy fancy cars but to protect us and compensate. It wants to stay alive and keep us alive at all cost. Someone who’s in their ego feels jealousy, envy, hate toward others who are more successful, feels victimized, and any other low vibration emotion like this.

Standing in your power on the other hand, in your personal power, feels and looks much different. First of all the foundation is rock solid. The roots are thriving and the cement is simply unbreakable. They don’t feel the need to show off because they believe in themselves and know their worth through the firm ground they stand on. They are unshakable and unwavering. They understand themselves and every layer to the core. This isn’t to say they never had any cracks in the foundation or rotting roots, it simply means they took the necessary measures to fix it or heal it. Everything needs to be nourished in order to thrive and if we aren’t nourishing ourselves and our wounds, we’ll simply try to cover them up by showing society how pretty we’ve made ourselves look.

Standing in your power means you’ve addressed the wounded part of you that needed healing and you’re able to step into yourself even deeper. To step into the person you were meant to be since the beginning. I really see it as two shadows merging into one. One shadow is your potential and the other is your wounded ego. When you heal all those parts that are in pain, you allow that shadow to step into it’s potential and walk this planet the way you were always meant to.

This is what I mean by standing in your power. You aren’t operating from a hurt place anymore. Everything is standing tall, strong, aligned, just how it was originally designed and created. Just like our homes need repairs or our cars need tune ups, so does our own heart. The very thing that keeps us alive to enjoy that house or that car, we simply neglect it. Or we were never taught that it needs healing in the first place because we may have been taught to just ‘toughen up’.

It actually makes me laugh because standing in your power doesn’t get any more tough. It’s the ultimate place to be. All it takes is a little surrender and to allow yourself to feel your pain in order for it to go away, forever.