Responsibility

Responsibility and the Power of Feeling

What is responsibility

Responsibility means living and responding to life from the truth that you are the source of, and therefore, responsible for all happenings in and around you. The Power of Feeling is nothing but your ability to realize yourself as the source of all the happenings in your life. This understanding gives you tremendous control over your own life and gives you the power to be a positive influence in the life of others.

A person who does not feel responsible for even his own actions lives like an animal – he lives a very low level of consciousness. A person who feels responsible only for his own actions, is a human being – he lives in middle –level consciousness. A person who takes responsibility for others’ actions is divine – he lives in leadership consciousness.

Reason vs Responsibility

So, how can I be responsible for everything happening around me? How can I be held responsible for what is happening outside me? If an accident happens in my life, how can I be responsible? Everybody asks this question.

There is an important difference between being the cause of something and being responsible for it! Sometimes, you may not be the reason for a certain happening, but if it is affecting your life, you ARE responsible for that happening. For example, you may not be the cause of political corruption in your country, but as a citizen of the country, you ARE responsible for it. You may not be the reason, as per your logic, but that doesn’t mean that you are not responsible in truth.

You need to know that unless you take responsibility, you are neither going to improve the situation, nor are you going to expand your inner space. “I am responsible for myself, other people, the world, Life”.

Your bigness frightens you

You always believe that you are suffocated by your smallness. NO! you are suffocated by your bigness. Whenever bigness is demanded of you, whenever you feel you are being forced to expand, you shrink even further into your comfort zone. Your tiredness, weakness, powerlessness – all these are nothing but the resistance you have to seeing your own bigness.

That is why, when someone tells you that you are weak, poor and a sinner, it is so easy to accept it. But, if someone tells you that you are divine, powerful, you are complete, your whole identity starts trembling with fear !

But, life always demands expansion, because, expansion is the natural law of life. That is why you carry such a deep fear of life, especially life in the form of other people – because people are the most living expression of Life. The more you engage with Life, the greater the expansion that will be demanded of you.

Whenever you are feeling weak, tired, powerlessness, the first thing you should do is this: immediately take on ten responsibilities and commit to fulfill them within a certain time. Shake your inner space so powerfully with that commitment that there will be no way for weakness and tiredness to grow inside you.

What does it mean to feel you are responsible

The moment you hear that you are responsible for everything happening around you, you think, “But if I feel responsible for all the garbage in the streets, I will be stuck cleaning it up the whole day! I will not be able to do anything else”. Please listen: I am not saying that if you feel responsible for the streets, you will need to clean them yourself. I am also not saying that you will not clean them yourself. Anything may happen – but don’t be afraid to dive into the feeling of responsibility just because of your imaginary complications. Don’t stop yourself from feeling it at all. Complete with those imaginary complications. Take a little time to let this feeling sink inside you and sync with your actions. It has to sink inside you and sync with your actions. Then, responsibility will become energy.

Responsibility makes you powerful

We always feel responsibility is a burden. NO! It is a power. Responsibility directly leads you into leadership consciousness. As long as you feel responsible only for your family, you are head of just your family. When you feel responsible for the community, you become leader of the community. As your feeling of responsibility expands, your leadership quality also expands. The decision to feel responsible for the whole of Cosmos is enlightenment.

Feeling responsible for the Whole, and declaring to live by your feeling is responsible declaration, known in Hindu spiritual practice as nidhidhyasana. Responsible declaration unlocks the Power of Feeling in you.

The science of feeling

You can feel anything as joy or anything as pain – it is your freedom. Even the greatest achievement can bring pain to you and even the worst experience can be a joyful learning. You have the ability to decide how you want to feel.

Whenever you feel empowered, you are joyful. Whenever you feel powerless, you experience suffering. All your sufferings- pain, anger, guilt, fear, jealousy, frustration – is nothing but powerlessness expressing in different ways. When you feel responsible for everything that happens in your life, you will feel that everything is joyful – because nothing can make you powerless. So empower yourself with responsibility and unlock the Power of Feeling.

By unlocking the Power of Feeling, you will -

Always act from a space of power and completion.

Start focussing on the solution and not the problem.

Expand your inner space and open up new possibilities.

Gain a high degree of control over your life and raise yourself to the next level of success.

Evolve into a new being.

An Exercise to unlock your Power of Feeling

· Write down all the areas of your life where you shrink from expressing yourself fully, for example, at work, in relationships. For each of these areas of your life, write down the thoughts you have, the words you utter, and the actions you take.

· Identify where you are not taking responsibility for that aspect of your life, where you are waiting for the eternal situation to change instead.

· Choose any one area and declare responsibility for creating that new situation. Identify what has to change for that to happen.

· For one week, follow up with yourself and record your progress.