Confusing emotional power with mental authority disallows happiness.
“Unhappiness is the affect of a disempowered authority”
We all have the authority to make a choice but not all our choices are empowered. It is being disempowered that causes my unhappiness. I cannot be empowered and unhappy.
True authority is called sovereign choice, which is always empowered. We all have the authority of sovereign choice, unless we believe that we do not. With my own sovereign choice, I make empowered choices. When I make a choice from an unhappy state of being disempowered, my choice is not sovereign. When I allow people to influence me and I default to their choices, my choice is not sovereign because it truly is not my choice. I can argue that choosing another’s choice is my choice but people who argue are not happy.
Happy choices are positively sovereign because they feel good. I am happy making my own choices. When I am happy making a choice, it is with my sovereign authority because it feels good and I know it is right.
Authorised choices are empowered and empowered people make sovereign choices. Disempowered choices have no sovereign authority, so whether I believe them to be right or wrong is irrelevant. When my sub-conscious negative beliefs or my need to please others, override my sovereign choice, I will not feel happy. My empowered authority aligns with my intuitive truth, not my intellectual beliefs. My intuitive truth feels good and I know it’s right because I see my choice with clarity.
When my intellectual reasoning is unemotional and I believe it to be right because others have told me so, my choice is rarely beneficial in my long term.
I am intuitively empowered with sovereign authority, unless I am intellectually disempowered by other people’s opinions, fears, beliefs and convictions.