Power: Word Prompt

[salixj]

As always with a word prompt, the purpose is to get you to delve into yourself via circumlocutory path, rather than directly. It can sometimes help unlock what is your mind easier, and with less tension, than approaching a feeling directly.

Power: think about this word and respond to the following questions/ideas.
 

1. What does the word power mean to you?
2. Read the definition of the word (yes I know you know what it means, however, sometimes we can learn new definitions for even simple words.)  Do any of the definitions spark some additional thoughts?If you speak languages other than English write those words as well, and seek out their origins and connections.
3. Read the etymology (in any or all of the languages you speak). Does anything you read surprise you?
4.  Think of power in terms of your different aspects, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. When have you felt most powerful in each aspect? When have you felt most powerful? When have you felt least powerful? Have you ever used your power to negatively? What did you do and why?  (Try not to allow this to make you sit in guilt. That is not the point of the exercise. Awareness of what we did wrong and why. Forgive yourself and be aware of what makes you act wrongfully can help stop you from acting in that manner again. Often we use our power against instead of for because we ourselves are under or we feel under threat.) Almost all of use have used our power wrongly at some point in time or other) How have you used your power positively to help yourself or others? How did that make you feel in the end?
5. When has power been used against you and when has it been used for you? How do you feel now about those incidents?
6. Create a power symbol. It can be anything that when you look at it, the word power comes to mind. Think of wearing this symbol on your chest (you don't really have to wear it, however if you can make it into a badge or piece of jewelry, that would be cool. Not my skills but if yours, please share!) If you were a superperson, how would you use your powers on a daily basis?
7. You are a superperson. How will you use your powers to make the world a better place to live?