Self Empowerment - Understand and Use the Emotional Ladder to Raise Your Level of Personal Power

True personal power comes from the art of mastering one's emotions. You cannot operate effectively and joyfully in this game of life, if you have not learned how to work with your emotional guidance system.

Part of developing self empowerment is learning how to move from a negative emotion to an emotion that is of a higher vibrational nature. Feelings can be calibrated. They can also be perceived as being rungs on a ladder; with the lower rungs representing the negative emotions and each higher rung representing a higher emotional state.

The idea of an emotional ladder is useful in understanding where you might currently find yourself in relation to your love life, your career, your finances and overall well being. It will then assist you in understanding which emotions you will need to move up and through in order to get to the higher vibrational states and hence attract more of what you desire, such as joy, peace and love.

Negative emotion is your indication from your Inner Being that the action you are considering is not in harmony with your greater intentions. - Abraham Hicks from The Astonishing Power of Emotions.

Dr. David Hawkins in his work, Power vs Force calibrates the emotions on a scale of 20 - 700+; the lower emotions being those of shame, guilt, apathy, grief, and fear and then moving up the scale to courage at 200 and the all the way up to love, joy and peace. It is important to know that this rating is not an arithmetic type of scale but rather a logarithmic progression. It suffices to say that moving a few points up the ladder is enormous as far as the potential it holds to increase your personal power, and well being.

An emotion that vibrates under 200 is considered a negative emotion, and it has an undesirable impact on the body, mind and soul connection.

The time a woman spends moving up to the next higher emotional state may or may not take a long time depending on various factors and whether she chooses to consciously work through a particular state. For example, choosing to blame others, and not taking responsibility for your life experience will slow your progress through the various states. There are ladies who get stuck at a certain emotional level for a very long time, in fact for many years.

If you have ever lost a loved one and felt grief, you may recall that at a later point in time, you felt better once you had moved up through anger. Those around you may have preferred it when you were in grief, as you might of been easier to handle when in grief rather than in anger. However it was necessary for you to move up through anger to then get to the level of courage, and then further up the ladder still, to acceptance and so on.

When women are experiencing very negative emotions, frequently those around them do not know how to help them, and therefore consciously or subconsciously they try to control and manage the women, and their emotions.

It is important to note that if you do not believe that it is ok to express your anger and therefore you push yourself back down the emotional ladder, you will cause a yoyo effect. Every time you come up to the state of anger you will cause yourself to go back down to states such as fear and grief. You could actually come up and go down repeatedly, keeping yourself stuck for a long time. Be aware that having old emotional baggage come up while working a particular state is normal. You will be well served by implementing strategies that can assist you through your climb up the emotional ladder.

No matter where you might find yourself on the emotional ladder, what you want to do is work at feeling better and experience some relief from the current state.

When climbing a real ladder you would not think of going from the bottom rung to the top rung in one step, you would go up incrementally, and it is the same idea with the emotional ladder. Besides, if you were to try and move through all the emotional states quickly, you would likely be an emotional basket case. Therefore, chances are you will find yourself taking many steps on the way up this emotional ladder.

Each step up the emotional ladder will increase your awareness of self and others, and allow you to navigate your life with greater ease. With greater ease by your side, and by feeling better you will be able to manifest more of what you want and less of what you do not want. You will actually be increasing your personal power.

By Lynette Chartier