If there was ever a time to stand in your power, this is it. We are living through an era of unprecedented global transition, and the world desperately needs the unique light you carry.
Your power radiates directly from the divine spark within you. It flows when you take necessary risks in expressing yourself beyond your habitual emotional comfort zone. You tap into your true power as you radically accept yourself, shadow and all, and deeply trust your feelings. As you do that, you’ll naturally start unleashing the dormant superpowers within your soul.
If enough of us stood in our power at the exact same time, we would create a critical mass of consciousness that would rapidly and positively transform our planet. Yes, even in the face of all the severe, mounting crises facing humanity right now. That is the ultimate power we have as healers, teachers, and Lightworkers.
The Blockage: Why We Fear Our Own Light
One of the biggest, most pervasive blocks to standing in your power is the deep, cellular feeling that it’s simply not safe to do so. So many powerful, highly advanced souls feel intensely inhibited, paralyzed, and stuck when it comes to fully being themselves and openly sharing their deepest gifts.
Could you be one of them? Do you feel a calling but find yourself holding back? This post is about exactly how to recognize and permanently free yourself from that limiting paradigm.
As an instructor, workshop leader, and healer for over 30 years, I’ve worked intimately with many hundreds of holistic health practitioners, physicians, and spiritual healers. I’ve noticed how many of them silently struggle with deep, paralyzing fears of being seen, “coming out” spiritually, or being as successful and visible as they could be. Many have unwittingly fallen into various forms of self-sabotage, creating chronic fatigue, persistent depression, chronically low income, or broken, unfulfilling relationships.
Understanding the Persecution Wound
After taking hundreds of clients through deep Quantum healings, I believe that much of those frustrating symptoms originate from what I would call the persecution wound. This is a profound psychic scar carried across time and generations. As you read the following description, check your bodily resonance to see how much of this you may relate to.
You are a very powerful soul. You’ve lived many lifetimes. In some of your lifetimes, and perhaps earlier in this one, you have stood fully in your power. You may have had a beautifully open heart and easy, unhindered access to your higher seeing, feeling, and knowing. You might have been a revered master healer, a devoted caretaker of the Earth, a Priestess, or an alchemist of the light. You may have been part of tightly-knit groups of advanced, open people, perhaps intentionally working with illuminated Masters. You were deeply excited about awakening yourself and others, working joyfully together to make the world a better, brighter place.
And then, unspeakable horrors happened.
There was so much pain, catastrophic loss, and profound sorrow. Many of us were aggressively persecuted, killed, burned, tortured, or violently cast out of our societies. We simply couldn’t protect ourselves and each other from the relentless onslaughts of those driven by fear and control.
These brutal experiences created deep, lingering imprints on the souls of Lightworkers—imprints which still actively inhibit them today. After going through these terrifying experiences, perhaps multiple times across the ages, most of us understandably didn’t feel safe standing in our power anymore. To survive, we shut down our most loving, powerful, deeply feeling parts and retreated into the safety of our “muggle” minds. Many developed highly self-perpetuating core wounds manifesting as invisible, energetic barriers to our joyful self-expression.
The Fragmentation of the Soul
These unbearable traumas often made vital parts of our soul split off and hide. When that fragmentation happens, you live your life as a partial being, fundamentally unable to fully access some of the most loving, creative, and beautiful parts of yourself.
Fast forward to our current time. It is now completely safe in most places to openly be a healer, a nature lover, or an esoteric spiritual practitioner. In fact, many Lightworkers are now highly respected, licensed practitioners or teachers in thriving fields such as acupuncture, bodywork, or chiropractic medicine. Most of the carefully guarded esoteric teachings of the past can now simply be found on YouTube!
Yet, core, primal feelings of unsafety often remain tightly coiled in our gut. Many of us, myself included, have experimented with countless forms of energy healing, spirituality, or cognitive therapy to release our persistent inhibitions and energy blockages. Many of these modalities have helped in various ways, but rarely do they fully release our deepest core wounding.
Healing Core Issues: Shamanic and Quantum Healing
Based on my own personal experience and the profound transformations of many of my clients, I’m thrilled to tell you that your core issues—including the heavy persecution wound—can absolutely be healed.
However, this profound transformation requires vastly different methods than those used in most traditional holistic healing systems. The most highly effective systems I’m now working with are Quantum catalyst healing and Shamanic energy medicine. These modalities go beyond the physical and mental layers, directly addressing the soul’s energetic blueprint.
The number one requirement for healing your core wounding is to become fully, cellularly convinced that you are safe in coming out and sharing your greatest gifts with others.
7 Ways to Stand in Your Power and Be Safe
How exactly can you stand in your power and be safe in today’s chaotic world? Here are some highly valuable insights into answering that vital question:
1. Recognize That There’s Power in Numbers
There’s an old, wise spiritual story of the father who gathers his children together and picks up a pile of thin sticks. He demonstrates how a single stick can easily be snapped in half, but when many sticks are bunched together, they’re practically impossible to break. In the exact same way, we are way safer when we are part of a conscious, supportive spiritual community. Isolation breeds fear; connection breeds courage. Of course, it’s absolutely vital to join a community of high-integrity people you genuinely resonate with.
2. Clear Your Conditioning from the Radiant Energy Field
The biggest internal factor perpetuating old fear-based, self-sabotaging patterns are negative imprints lodged in your Radiant Energy Field—the field of conscious energy that is the real, luminous “you.” Most people’s energy field contains lots of dark, heavy areas blocking vital aspects of their love, light, and power. Advanced Shamanic healing methods can permanently clear that old conditioning directly through the chakra system. As you permanently remove these negative imprints and allow more of the pure light of your being to stream through, everything in your life naturally improves.
3. Watch Your Sorcery (Source-ery)
Each of us is a highly powerful creator being. You were a magnificent creator long before coming into a human body, and you are still the absolute source of your own reality. Make sure you practice positive “source-ery.” That specifically means visioning, speaking, and thinking intensely about what you WANT to experience and create, not what you don’t want. So many powerful people continue to practice negative source-ery, frequently and obsessively dwelling on what they DON’T want. This traps them in a self-replicating, holographic box of their own making, much like the endless loop in the movie Groundhog Day.
4. Unify Yourself Through Soul Retrieval
As mentioned above, many Lightworkers have had precious, vital parts of their souls split off because of ancient trauma, fleeing into the energetic underworld for safety. When this happens, you feel chronically incomplete, as if a vital, joyful part of you is forever missing. It is entirely possible to recover and integrate those lost parts through deep shamanic soul retrieval work. The results of bringing your fragmented soul back together can be incredibly beautiful and immediately life-changing.
5. Take Full Responsibility for Your Energy
As Spider-Man so aptly said, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Truly powerful people need to continuously take honest, unflinching inventory of themselves and their shadows.
As I’ve done that inner work (reluctantly at first), I had to admit I was practicing selective self-responsibility. I’ve been honest, sincere, and courageous in many ways, yet have subconsciously allowed myself to creep out of integrity in others. For example, I live with my partner Karina in a deeply spiritually oriented relationship. I mostly fit the description of the “spiritual guy,” yet when I’m brutally honest with myself, I can identify subtle ways I still carry a sense of entitlement as a white male. Karina has been incredibly generous in pointing those out! She’s shown me how I sometimes try to quietly control or judge her (and myself). So, truly standing in my power means frequently fessing up, dropping my ego, and making amends for my ego-based patterns. And lots of other things!
6. Embrace Your Higher Purpose
Your soul is constantly calling to you to step up to a much new, expanded level of being and serving. Go out of your way to actively discover your new, higher purpose—your “marching orders” directly from your Divine self. It is no longer enough to just get by; you are here for a reason. Your greatest, most protective power lies in your wholehearted, heartfelt YES to these divine assignments.
7. Give Back to Accelerate Your Healing
The absolute greatest way to fully heal yourself is to actively help others to heal. That’s exactly why so many Lightworkers are naturally drawn into medical, healing, or therapeutic professions. As I’ve learned to move from being just a “skilled practitioner” into functioning as a Quantum master healer, my own personal self-healing has exponentially accelerated. It is a wonderfully generous side effect of the universe!
As mentioned above, one of our greatest possible assets is being an active part of a conscious community. When you find the specific tribe you deeply resonate with, you’ll naturally feel safer, more creatively inspired, more able to boldly share your higher abilities, and have vastly more fun in the process.
Join the Community: I offer community meditations on Zoom as well as highly specialized group programs for healing professionals. You can learn about all of these offerings on my website at www.drstarwynn.com.
Frequently Asked Questions About Standing in Your Power
What does it mean to stand in your power?
Standing in your power means radically accepting who you are, trusting your intuition, and confidently expressing your unique spiritual gifts without fear of judgment. It involves moving beyond your emotional comfort zone to align with your higher divine purpose.
What is the “persecution wound”?
The persecution wound is a deep, energetic trauma carried by many Lightworkers and healers. It stems from past lifetimes or ancestral history where individuals were punished, cast out, or killed for practicing healing or speaking their spiritual truth, leading to a subconscious fear of being visible today.
How does shamanic soul retrieval work?
During severe trauma, parts of our soul or psyche can energetically split off to survive the pain. Shamanic soul retrieval is an advanced energy medicine practice that locates these lost, fragmented parts of yourself and safely integrates them back into your being, restoring a feeling of wholeness and power.
How can I feel safe while sharing my spiritual gifts?
You can create energetic safety by clearing negative conditioning from your Radiant Energy Field, taking full responsibility for your ego and shadow, and surrounding yourself with a supportive, high-integrity spiritual community that validates and protects your growth.
