Consciousness

: A pathway to true
power

Melvin Nzefili

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 Consciousness
: A pathway to true
power

Melvin Nzefili

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This is a brief article about the power of just being conscious, being
aware of even the most insignificant looking details rather than
ignoring and staying vulnerable. A number of exercises are included
to lead you into being more conscious of things about you that you
really don‟t pay much attention to, and a first step into knowing
yourself and who you are and then being more conscious of what
could probably be going on with someone else.

For any questions send me a mail at: sipsomewine@yahoo.com or

thavineyard@yahoo.com with the title: question about
Consciousness. You can also ask questions on the other article
“Melvin‟s Version of the secret Manifestation” but with the title:
questions about your secret version, to either of the same e-mail
addresses.

All rights reserved

Copyright© 2009 by Melvin O. Nzefili

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Contents

Introduction 1
Consciousness 5
Taking control 7
Power Sources 10
Seeking Unlimited Positive Power 11
Getting in touch with the power 13
Activities 14

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 INTRODUCTION

As a child, I always thought that one who had powers

would have to be very muscular and have supernatural
abilities like my Marvel and D.C. Comics Superhero-
characters: The Incredible Hulk and Superman. While I was
still at school a fellow boy would roll up his short-sleeve
shirt to expose his bicep saying, “See how big my „power‟
is,” and he would flex his muscles; I assume you get the
picture now: I used to attribute powers to the size of the
biceps i.e. how muscular you are.
As an adolescent, I began to realize that the most powerful
men in the world weren‟t the most muscular and vice versa.
For instance, the star of my favorite Marvel comic‟s
superhero movie of The Incredible Hulk, Lou Ferrigno, was
so muscular, yet he wasn‟t the most powerful man in the
world. Men like Bill Gates, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf
Hitler, even most recently, Barack Obama, do not have
muscles and have at some point in time been the most
powerful in the world. Even Michael Jackson, who people
described as looking very frail or weak, was very powerful
with his music. My concept of power was misguided right?
Then, what is power?

From the dictionary, it‟s defined as either the capacity to do

something, physical strength, physical force, the skill or
ability to carry out tasks, persuasive ability, and you can go
on and on. If that is the case humans as well as animals have
some form of power or the other. From a baby to an adult
we all have powers, now I am not even talking about the
supernatural abilities some of us have like telepathy,
clairvoyance or psychokinesis. Let‟s begin with very, very,
very simple issues analyzing this:
Can you place a pillow under your little daughter‟s head
and cover her with a blanket after she has fallen fast asleep?
Can you take a stone out of the way, so that passers-by don‟t
stumble over it and fall? Well if you can do any of these
simple things then you have satisfied one of our dictionary
descriptions of power: the ability to do something.
Can you, as a man, get a lady‟s attention? Can you as a lady
get a couple of guys admiring you from a distance? If you
can, then you‟ve satisfied another: persuasive ability.
If you‟ve got the ability to do any work at all, from lifting an
empty can off the ground and tossing it into a trash can or
just kicking it out of the way, you have got power, period.

„So I‟ve got power no matter how small, what do I do with

it? Oh I know … oppress others; y‟all better not mess with
me!‟ Well if that is what you have in mind, doing what you
have in mind would be a misuse of power and a sign of
immaturity. Aside from doing and action, there is power in
other aspects of our being that do not require physical action
to be carried out and these include: the tongue, the eyes,
touch, the nostrils and the mind. Have you heard sentences
like: “There is power in the tongue; what charming eyes
you‟ve got; my nose knows; telekinesis”? These weren‟t
made up.
Guys, when a beautiful girl you have been admiring all
night unexpectedly holds a loving gaze at you, doesn‟t it
send chills down your spine? Ladies, when a handsome guy
you‟ve got a crush on smooth talks you and tells you how
beautiful you are, doesn‟t it give you butterflies? When a
member of the opposite sex tries to get through to you on an

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issue, don‟t you finally surrender to their persuasion after
they touch you tenderly? We are able to detect meals that
smell nice and would be good to eat just by perceiving it
from a distance, can‟t we? We always want friends and
family to wish us good luck before we embark on a journey
or take a decision, we like them to, don‟t we?

Believe me, we unconsciously know we all individually have

powers, we just don‟t pay attention. If a child realizes that he
has a talent for singing and resolves to become a singer
when he grows up, that is a first step; he has to work on his
talent, in other words sing more for leisure. He has to look
for ways to improve his singing, eat what can keep his voice
clear, keep away from what would get in the way of his
singing, and do some work-outs. When a man realizes that
he has an interest in a particular field in life, he will be
drawn to finding out more about that field, especially what
many in that field don‟t know if he wants to stand out from
them, he grows in knowledge and skill and in no time
becomes more powerful in that field. Therefore, that field
requires his undivided attention in order to make him a
genius. We are not all born geniuses but become geniuses on
the long run; in the same vein we are not all born powerful
(like the heir to the royal throne) but we become powerful
on the long run through knowledge or skill or both.
All human beings have some innate power that needs
tapping into and the more we ignore it they remain barren,
but when we begin to recognize it and pay more attention to
it, we do something about nurturing it and when we do it
grows, and when it grows it doesn‟t just stay innate in us, it
make us powerful in ourselves.

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We all have to have power over something, that is why it is
innate in us all, and to tap into this power we must follow
the path that leads to its residence …. And that path is our
consciousness; consciousness of our being, consciousness of
other beings, consciousness of how we are connected,
consciousness of the essence of love and consciousness of the
essence of oneness.

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 Consciousness

Consciousness is a condition of the human mind being

aware of specific things or areas of understanding amidst a
pool of things that one can call to mind. If I call your
attention to a hundred dollar bill resting on a stool, you
would realize that it is there, yet it had been there all along
and you didn‟t notice it. I can say that, to you, it never
existed until I called your attention to it.
Now that you are aware of the dollar bill what will you do,
would you take it and use it or leave it there on the stool? I
bet you might go ahead and take it away from there before
someone else does. Whoever takes that dollar bill can finally
do a number of things with it that he couldn‟t do previously
without it, like buying something or paying for a service.
The point is: you can now do something you couldn‟t do
previously because of some temporal power you just got
from a hundred dollar bill. This is just an insight into having
power in any form and using it.

If I told you about a certain kind of African delicacy known

as Tuwo-Shinkafa, you would have no idea about what it is.
I might go as far as describing it and telling you how good it
smells and how good it tastes but you surely probably still
wouldn‟t get the picture and might forget all about it a few
minutes later. But if I brought the delicacy in question, to
you, you wouldn‟t know that it is Tuwo-Shinkafa until I tell
you. By doing this I have called Tuwo-Shinkafa into your
visual and mind consciousness. When you taste it, it has

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become part of your visual, mind and taste consciousness,
the same with when you smell and feel it; it has become part
of you in your mind/thought, taste, smell, sensation and
visual consciousnesses; that is: to an extent a big part of a
collective consciousness; plenty of alternatives to call it back
into your awareness. You can now identify Tuwo-Shinkafa
in a number of ways with or without your eyes. You know
the delicacy, first-hand and you don‟t need someone to tell
you about it. If Tuwo-Shinkafa was a person, your knowing
it in all those aspects, doesn‟t necessarily mean that Tuwo-
Shinkafa knows you, it doesn‟t and that leaves you with
something Tuwo-Shinkafa hasn‟t got: knowledge about you
and your existence. This is an insight into being powerful
and what you can do with the power.

I would like you to think about this: of what good would it

do you if someone was out to kill you, he had all the info he
needed about you, your goings and comings, your
weaknesses and strong points and you have no clue who
this person is, what he knows about you, what he plots
against you and if he even exists? You are vulnerable, that‟s
what it means! If it were the other way round, I‟m sure you
would feel he is like a cockroach that would soon be
squashed by you, and he living or dying lies under your will
power.

With these insights is there a way to actually be in control of

any form of power and staying in control of it rather than
being intoxicated and controlled by it? Well, of course!

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Taking control:

With the above „initiation‟ you can be sure to have a basic

tool for taking control of say … food. If I go ahead to tell you
what benefits Tuwo-Shinkafa could give to your body and
how nutritious it is, you can now decide to add it to your
food table. When you are able to do this with a number of
other foods, you can finally regulate what goes into your
stomach, what doesn‟t and when to eat what. You can say
you have taken total control of food in-take and your body
as well. If you react negatively to a certain food, you can
decide to cut off from it or not if something else is causing a
problem.

You can take control of your well-being and when I mean

well-being I am talking about you as a person. You are a
mind, body and spirit balled up in a human being.
Uncontrolled negative thoughts have a negative impact on
your physical being and your health, even your actions and
relations with your fellow man. A weak physical appearance
might get you thinking that you will never be able to
accomplish certain feats. Put all together, we have a man
living at the mercy of circumstances. To be in control of
yourself, know first that you operate in mind, body and
spirit then understand and take note of what is involved in
each level …

Spirit: emotion, meditation, aerobics, self-confrontation,

detachment etc.
Mind: thought, reasoning, hypothesis, postulation,
nutrition, conclusion etc.
Body: reaction, action, exercise, nutrition, gait etc.

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… that is a start!

Thoughts (when the mind is focused) and physical location

(body) are aspects of mankind which limits him to a definite
point in his existence in the universe at a point in time. The
spirit, on the other hand, is boundless. Great force, energy
and power stems from love and pure and true love stems
from the spirit. Let‟s examine it:

Mind: you may think of showing love to someone by setting

your mind to it, but could that love endure trials of the body
and provocative thoughts and stay true, especially when
your emotion cannot tolerate things certain people do and
you‟re in low spirits and they just got you in that bad mood?
Do you think you can still show love to a certain kind of
people when one of their kind has already betrayed your
love and trust in the past?
Body: you may do works of love, in appreciation to a
gesture, but will you do works of love in equal or greater
capacity just for nothing, for those who constantly provoke
you, make you think you‟re worthless and make you feel
bad and in low spirits and do not appreciate your love and
support? On the other hand, would you consider yourself
able to do things out of love for someone who is always
there for you as equally as you would for someone who is
never there for you or never has your interest at heart?
Spirit: you may always be moved to show love for all no
matter what, but would that love last longer if you were
either in low or high spirits, your body was weighed down
and you thought your love was not appreciated? Would you
still be able to stay back comfortably and watch those who

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pissed you off in the past continue to suffer and you were
the only one who could bale them out, but you want to hold
back because you think no punishment might ever be
enough to atone for all their vices?

If you have ever truly been in touch with how you have ever
taken critical decisions paying attention to if it was mentally
oriented, ability and skill-oriented or spiritually oriented,
and you want to give sincere answers to the above three
aspects cited in mind, body and spirit, you will realize that
options are more likely to be weighed in mind and body but
not in the spirit. The spirit doesn‟t weigh options; it balances
them. The mind and body may control each other but
neither of them can control the spirit.
The mind plays the middle man between material and
immaterial realms of the human being. The body resides in
man‟s physical/material realm; his emotions, thoughts and
spirit reside in the immaterial realm.
The mind has power over the physical using the emotions as
a vehicle to the body; the mind has no power over the
spiritual but connects with it using nothing but the
willpower. If your body is weak you begin to think you
cannot carry out specific tasks; you will also feel you can‟t
do certain things; and this is usually the case if you‟re more
detached from your spirit than in touch with it.

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POWER SOURCES

When we address power sources we should always keep in

mind that it is always from one source that generates it in
two natures; either it is negative or it is positive( yin/yang,
good/evil, light/dark etc). the two complement each other,
they have to be both present before a force or power can be
called into play and be useful. For every male with their
masculine and strong structure, there is always a female
with their feminine and soft structure. They need each other.
Every energy, force and power has a masculine aspect which
is complemented with a corresponding feminine aspect. A
man and his wife who have complementing characteristics
are more likely to find their marriage more exciting as the
years go by and have a stronger love for each other and a
greater bond with each other than a couple who have almost
all characteristics in common. *[This is just a thought and
not a proven conclusion to any hypothesis]. The point here is
that power has two sides to it. A man who is truly powerful
and in control of his power, would fall into either or all of
these categories:
 A leader who is ready to serve, and his followers are
pleased and ready to serve with him.
 A follower who is willing to abide by laws under the good
governance of his leader.
 One who practices what he preaches to his protégés.
 An eloquent man wins the attention of the audience.
#Take note of the contrasts in underlined italics. The first
contrasted with the second. There are two sides to the pole
of an energy field, whether it is electric, magnetic or biologic,
they generate power; not one without the other, but
concurrently.

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There is without a doubt power in the mind, there is no
doubt that there is also power in the physical body but there
is a great deal of it in the spirit! If you are more in touch with
your spirit your body gets empowered and the task is
carried out. In essence the source of great power lies in the
spirit realm, but you cannot have access to even a fraction of
that power if you refuse to be conscious of it. The true
consciousness is in the spirit. The more conscious man is
about what is, the more powerful he becomes; the more
indifferent he is about what is, the more vulnerable he
becomes. You will agree with me that no one wants to be
vulnerable to anything, but wants to be in control of their
own situation, to have power over their own circumstances,
but we must remember that there are two sides to power as
there are to every other thing; there is a good side and a bad
side, there is negative power and there is positive power.
Negative power wouldn‟t do us much good so we need to
seek for positive power; that is where we should centre our
energy consciousness.

Seeking Unlimited Positive Power:

It is true that positive thinking, emotion and mindset

resonates with positive power, circumstances, situations and
energies and negative thinking, emotion and mindset
resonate with negative power, circumstances, situations and
energies but in most cases, it may not be enough to just think
positively, and set your body into action to achieve; you
have to be propelled in entirety to be in high spirits to be
POWERFULLY SUCCESSFUL and stay so.

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Seeking materialism, possessions and all other forms of
vanity limits the individual; it is in seeking for peace and
well-being that abundance, wealth and health of mankind
resides. If we are not in touch in spirit there will always be
chaos, because we all think differently, we all have varying
physical capacities, and we all have varying emotional
responses to different situations; but we all speak one
language in the spirit.

Most psychic healers, make us understand that before an

illness manifests on the physical body, it can be spotted at
the aura. Giving the afflicted a spiritual healing can cure him
before it manifests physically and ways him down
physically. When you are very in touch with your spirit, you
are more in control of yourself in terms of identifying and
resolving problems that are emotional rooted and yet to
manifest physically; you can also identify what your true
stand on an issue is; now how powerful a being is that? No
one can call you names that can succeed in weighing you
down because you know who you truly are.

When you know yourself, according to the book: The Art of

War, you have half victory already, and if you know
yourself and you know your enemy, you have full victory.
But how do you know your enemy, or better still how do
you know your fellow man? It‟s simple, be conscious of him.
When you choose to stay conscious about certain things, you
are capable of taking control of it; you are getting powerful
to it.

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Take a simple problem for instance: ignoring the problem
doesn‟t make it go away; acknowledge or admit you have a
problem, and that is a first step but do not dwell on it. Next
find out how severe it is, what led to it and what it can lead
to, then find out ways to resolved it, permanently. By doing
this you already have power and control over the problem.

Take another example: we know we are all connected,

humans, animals, plants etc., you know what your needs are
as a human and it is identical to all other humans‟. You eat, I
eat, you feel I feel etc whatever, it‟s the same though we
have different attitudes but what can sustain me can sustain
you and what can kill me can kill you. What of the other
things that can happen to us and that we can do beyond the
physical activities that we don‟t pay attention to? If I am
conscious of that, find out how it is beneficial to me and all
beings and go ahead to use it, growing more and more
conscious of it, doesn‟t that give me an edge over you who
are unconscious of it? It makes me more powerful and more
in control than you are, doesn‟t it?

GETTING IN TOUCH WITH THE POWER

I would like to use two tools concurrently for this activity,

my first tool here would be a skill or better still, a talent (it
doesn‟t necessarily have to be a talent you possess, be it
singing, dancing, poetry, comedy, acting, arts and crafts,
sports … anything), because I‟m about to try and make you
discover a talent that could be lying dormant within you.
Before we proceed, I want you to remember that you have to

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completely believe in yourself no matter how impossible
you had previously thought that that talent couldn‟t be one
of yours; put your mind, body, spirit and emotion into this
devotedly, and one more thing make sure it is a positive
talent, if otherwise just throw this manuscript away. My
second tool would be the sub-conscious mind. Let me tell
you a little something about the subconscious mind, the
conscious mind and the universal mind. Have you ever
sleep-walked? Have you ever wondered what you were
doing at a particular place after being shaken by a sudden
noise? These are some works of the subconscious under the
command of the conscious mind or universal mind. The
subconscious takes anything the conscious gives it. For
instance, do you know that when you tap someone while he
is half asleep and tell him, “Hey, dude get up, someone‟s
waiting for you outside,” that the sleeping person obeys
helplessly and when he gets outside he keeps standing
there? You were conscious and manipulating his
subconscious. Try asking someone a question while they are
half asleep, I bet you know they‟ll tell you the truth. The
universal mind is where thoughts of everyone becomes one
thought. Let‟s begin shall we?

Activity 1:

Firstly:
Be conscious of any talent at all, then acknowledge that
talent as yours, then affirm that you have it and it had
always been with you since you were born. This is intended
to help you slowly burn the idea of this talent into sub-
conscious mind.

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Secondly:
Try to be practical with this talent (no matter how badly
your performance seems, do not be discouraged, press on;
do not be a quitter) while you are conscious of it (whether
you have it or not believe you have it). This is intended to
make it slowly slip further into your sub-conscious mind so
that it becomes part of you and when this becomes the case,
you become more proficient with the talent over time both in
your conscious mind and your subconscious mind. If you go
ahead and meditate with it, you gain access into the
universal consciousness and you tap into insights and ideas
on how to improve on that talent. [Remember, geniuses
didn‟t become so in a day, aside from prodigies].

This you can say is a form of staged attunement with the

talent. Therefore, you being you and me being me, becomes
a former status because I remain who I‟ve been with
whatever abilities I had always had, but you become [‘you’ +
‘an additional talent’]. So you become more powerful than
your former status with a new talent you previously didn‟t
tap into. When you do this activity with other talents you
wish or hope to develop, you become more powerful in
relation to the number of newly developed talent. When you
try meditating and allowing your mind to tap into many
other possibilities you expose yourself or rather attune
yourself to the possibility of becoming one of the most
powerful beings in the world.
Humans are capable of anything, all humans have to do is
believe with their mind, body, emotion and spirit.

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 Activity 2

Know yourself; only then will you be at the threshold of

your journey into being very powerful. When you know
yourself, you begin to understand others, then have you
started your journey into being very powerful. When you
know yourself and understand others, you begin to
appreciate mankind; when you do you appreciate what adds
to man‟s well-being [air, water, trees, plants, vegetation,
animals, elements and peace]. When you do, you are in the
state of Love and when you are, you are already powerful.

The journey into power, must take place in mind, body and
spirit, unless you miss the path. The journey starts from the
spirit, down to the mind, then the physical body. You can‟t
see the mind or the spirit, but you can see the body. The
most powerful realms of existence are the unseen, and only
they have a true influence over the seen, not the other way
around.

Never let your mind or your body try to govern your spirit,
it‟s futile and trying to do so gets you growing weaker and
weaker. Examine this carefully. The mind is like, the mid-
way, it has to be silenced for the spirit to be in animation. As
long as it is unsettled the body remains detached from the
spirit, and the mind reasons according to the dictates of the
body. The mind should reason according to the dictates of
the spirit, in order to propel the body into carrying out the
most powerful and effective deeds.

We have the keys to mapping the route to true power, we

only need to know how to use them; when we do we find

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God and when we find God we find the true power. So here
is another consciousness pathway: attunement.
How does one get attuned?

Attuning
Literally, attuning is like trying to adjust something to be
receptive to something else; more or less like balancing or
harmonizing. Like the common physics experiment with a
tuning-fork, when you strike it somewhere it begins to
vibrate and when you place it on something else that is
static, it raises the vibration of that static object and their
vibrations begin to match up giving off a fine tune. Our next
activity will be more like this tuning-fork experiment.

Activity 3

For this exercise you can use the speaker of your stereo or
c.d. player or the voice of one who has a bass voice.
Firstly
Play a musical especially one that has a strong bass-line (like
the Hip-Hop song „Mo Money, Mo Problems‟). Next, place
your palm on top of the player or preferably on the woofer
part of the speaker. Notice how your palm vibrates as the
bass plays along; not just your palm but the entire arm and
in most cases the entire body.

Secondly
Take your hand away from the player or the woofer and
leave it somewhat in front of it without contact. Notice how
your hand still experiences vibrations going through it and

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your body, even though it‟s not as much as when your hand
was in contact with it. Notice also how you feel the vibration
on the chair you are seated and on the wall in the house.

Thirdly
Walk as far away from your house as you would not hear
the song anymore and notice how the vibration stops going
through your body.
*when people are farther from your circle you have little power
over them but when they come into your circle you have immense
power over them.
I‟m sure while doing this experiment your body also felt
some kind of warmth and if you are not used to heavy
sound you might begin to feel some strong headache. This is
something not new to you, you know it ordinarily but you
don‟t put much consideration into it, but when you decide to
make a little deal out of it you would be able to infer an
analogy from it on some other puzzles in life and get
answers. This activity with the speakers is something you
know subconsciously, but as I have called it to your
consciousness, I‟m sure you wouldn‟t even need to put on
your c.d. player to have a feel of what I‟m trying to make
you achieve, you already know. [but do it anyway].

When you are in the midst of choristers when they are sing
especially the bass singers you will notice how where you
are seated vibrates. We send out very pronounced vibrations
when we sing, talk, shout, quarrel, hum, whisper etc. we
also send out vibrations when we think, dream, daydream
and reason. Try something with a friend, one of you should
begin to hum and then the other should join later. You will
realize that there is harmony, because of a variation in voice

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texture and there is a higher quality of sound and you both
feel it, that when one stops it has a sudden effect on your on
sound and voice; you were both attuning to each others
voice when one person stopped it stopped. We already
know that a cool music can be a pacifier for certain ailments
while lousy music could only make your situation even
worse.
You should realize now that in order to attune with anything
that thing has to have a higher vibration than ours and high
vibrations of the best quality produce sounds that the ears
cannot pick up. So our instrument for attuning to the source
of great power would be none other than our minds. The
minds have to be silenced to pick up this high vibration and
resonate with it; you can sum this up in one word:
meditation.

In the above activity, we voluntarily used our mind to feel

the reverberating stimulus, which is just part of what every
living creature experiences everyday. We know that just as
energy has a negative side and a positive side we also have
voluntary and involuntary aspects and our voluntary aspect
springs from our conscious minds, while a number of our
involuntary aspects spring from our subconscious. So if we
can attune with the conscious literally, how can we attune
with the sub-conscious? One thing has always been for sure,
the mind is the major tool.

Let us do another practical thing:

Do the previous activity again, if necessary and then take
note of how your entire body resonates. Now for this next
activity we will use the actions carried out by parts of the

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body that we have no control over [breathing and the
heartbeat].

Activity 4:
Firstly
Place a glass of water in front of you, make sure it is half full
so you can see the level of the water when looking sideways
at the glass. You may place this half-full glass of water on
either a table or a stool and this should be directly in front of
where you will be sitting for this activity.

Secondly
Sit comfortable on any stool or even a sofa, relax yourself by
loosening every tension in your body, beginning from your
toes to your angles then gradually up your shin and calves
to your knees, then your thighs, then your hip (this place
especially, as you are seated) then your upper torso, your
neck and then your face.

Thirdly
Place your palm on your chest where you can feel the
pumping of your heart; get a feel of the tempo and note it _
note how your body vibrates and shakes with every
heartbeat because this happens every second of our lives.
Breathe on it real slowly and make sure you are still totally
relaxed.

Fourthly
Now, remove your hand slowly from your chest as you still
pay attention to the tempo of your heartbeat. Take your
attention to your ears and attempt to hear your heartbeat as

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you are seated, by now your hand is carefully placed beside
you and continue to feel how your body is still shaking.

Fifthly
Next, point your index finger at the half-full glass of water in
front of you until the tip of your finger touches it gently. You
will notice that the water which used to be still will
suddenly begin to shake and remain unsteady as long as
your finger remains on it.

The next activity centers solely on breathing. For this we

must breathe properly: when you breathe in make sure your
diaphragm goes down and your tummy protrudes outwards
and when you breathe out make sure your diaphragm rises
and your tummy moves inside.

Activity 5

Breathe in very slowly, and as you do let your thought

follow the in-flow of air (pay attention to how air flows into
your nostrils, through you‟re your throat and down your
tummy, all the way to the base of your spine). You must
realize that some air also goes to your head as some go
down your throat into your chest. Hold the breathe for a
second before breathing out and as you do let your thoughts
follow the out-flow of air from your body. You may use any
sweet-smelling flower for this exercise, if you wish, as you
breathe.

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With every intake of air it feels as though your entire body,
from sole to crown, tries to expand and with every outflow
of air it feels as though your entire body contracts and tries
to squeeze out toxins. This implies that your body needs
everything fresh going into it and everything stale going out.
The fruits, vegetables and food we eat should all be fresh
because they go into our bodies, so also should the air we
breathe. The water we drink should be clean and the juice
we drink should be fresh. It‟s not only inside the body that
needs refreshing but the surface as well. When it is time to
pass feces, do it; when it is time to pee, do it, don‟t hold it
back they need to leave your body because they are stale and
toxic as the carbon-dioxide you breathe out. I won‟t forget to
mention your mind; all those ideas, emotions and thoughts
need to be expressed not locked inside. Anything produced
inside the body has to be let out at an appointed time and
anything going in isn‟t meant to stay in forever. Be dynamic,
think of happy events ahead and forget the past events that
weigh you down but learn from them though. [This could
probably keep you younger].

For this next activity being in an airy environment would be

perfect, but you don‟t have to worry if your location isn‟t
airy.
Knowing that air is all around us and the human skin has
pores, air could probably not get in through them but waste
sure comes out from them in form of sweat. Keep this in
mind for this activity.

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 Activity 6

As you take in air, imagine that it not only goes in through

your nostrils but it also goes in through every aspect of your
body i.e. your hand, your feet, you arms, your sides, your
back, your front, the crown of your head, everywhere. Hold
it for a second, and as you breathe out imagine everything
stale (be it air, water, negative emotions and thoughts,
annoying past memories and everything toxic that you no
longer want inside you) flowing out through your nostrils,
hand, feet, arms, front, back, crown and everywhere. [doing
this exercise is expected to rid you of bad energies and
refresh you with clearer and rejuvenating positive energies.
Anyone coming around you will feel good and also feel
energized unlike a previous time when they must have been
feeling irritable with no good reason when they come
around you as a result of weak energies].

Energy and its forms

We cannot talk about power without referring to energy and
neither can we talk about consciousness without energy
being involved. Power needs energy in order to be called
into play and everything re-energizes. If you were a science
student in your college days or high school days, you will
remember that energy has different forms e.g. light, heat,
chemical, sound, etc. There are other forms you may not
know about such as color and thought energies.

Our potential energies

Heat is a form of energy we give off more than any other
form and I want you to pay more attention to yours right
now. Place your left hand on your right arm, right now,

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what do you feel? Warmth, right? That is heat energy. When
you walk into a spacious room that is completely empty, you
get the true room temperature of that room, but when
enough people walk into it, that there is no space for one
more person to get in, just imagine the heat that is built up in
about five minutes, especially if everyone is dancing; I bet
you if the extra person who couldn‟t get in just places his
arm from outside into the room, his arm would warm up.
You can try it, if you doubt.
The heat you feel around your body, and that of other
people is your initial contact with the human energy field.
When the body gets rid of negative energy, the heat of the
energy field rises. For instance, a man who is worried-sick
can sweat profusely in an air-conditioned room. When the
body is filled with positive energy the energy field maintains
a normal body temperature.

Energy can be felt in form of either, heat, vibration,

something cold, tingling sensations, pulse or magnetic
repulsion; this also applies to our energy fields. It can be
perceived through the eyes, the nostrils, and for some others
at times through the fingertips. It can be heard in form of
buzzing and any high or low frequency sounds. It can be
tasted as well.

Let us do one more activity for consciousness

Activity 7

Scratch the back of your hand. Usually when you do this,

you notice the sensation for about that moment and then it‟s
gone, right? But if you pay attention when you scratch that

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same spot on your backhand side, you will realize that the
sensation lasts even longer than that moment (as long as one
minute or more). To help with the observation: note that
same spot you scratched on one hand and weigh it with the
corresponding spot on the other hand that you didn‟t
scratch.

This can be a step into being more conscious, more loving,

more aware and more in control of how you think of
yourself. Now you no longer need to wonder why a faithful
wife values her husband‟s attention more than she would
value the jewels and trinkets he buys her. Attention is what
we all yearn for. It makes us feel loved, it makes us feel
power, it makes us feel important and it makes us feel
significant; all the attributes a powerful man requires to be
powerful.

There is immense power in attention, in taking notes, in

observation, in noticing, in details, in fact in consciousness.

Activity 8

Sit in front of a mirror or stand in front of a standing mirror

where you can see yourself from sole to crown. Stare straight
into your own eyes and take note of how you feel about
yourself. Does it feel pleasant or unpleasant? Do you feel
ashamed of yourself or proud of yourself? Do you feel
worthless or useful? Take notes. What, about you needs
fixing?(I‟m not referring to physical appearance fixing, I
mean from your behavior). Write any information you get
about yourself down on paper. When you succeed in being

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happy with yourself and satisfied with what you get and
love yourself, you have succeeded in the first phase of your
journey to the true power. When you know yourself, begin
to understand that whatever flaws you have, some others
might have it as well and what ever virtues you have some
others may have it as well and wherever you may be going
wrong is where others may be going right and wherever you
may be going right may be where some others may be going
wrong; virtues, vices we all have them, no one‟s perfect,
understand that. We need each other to journey towards
perfection.

Appreciate your fellow man and every living creature. Show

them respect as you respect yourself. You don‟t have to be
worried if people don‟t want to understand you, as long as
you know and understand yourself and try your best to
appreciate and overlook their flaws: you are more powerful
than they because you have begun building a strong heart, a
heart that won‟t be weighed down easily by negativity
because there stopped being room for negativity in your
heart, can‟t say the same for them since they are always
about negativity which keeps pulling down their hearts.

We ought to concentrate more on people‟s positive side than

their negative side, this is best. When you know yourself
and you know others, you will be victorious. A powerful
man is a victorious man. No matter how unknown you are
yet to the world, you are a powerful human being. I would
like to tell you all who are fathers that you are like
Superman to your children even if the whole world sees you
as nothing; and I would like to tell you ladies that you are
like Wonder Woman to your children even if you feel you

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are nobody, your kids know they are powerful as long as
you show them love and attention. And all you who are
single and unmarried, you are powerful to a bunch of people
who you don‟t even know if they exist. Someone out there
has been drawing some inspiration from you and
appreciates you a lot, even when you think you are a failure.
I‟m not saying these things to make you feel good, if you
haven‟t noticed things like this yet, you will sooner or later
and might overhear it in a couple of people‟s discussions;
you will, as long as you pay attention to yourself and your
environment, remember that that is how you truly get
empowered.

May God, Allah, the Supreme Being be with you in all you
do and bless you with the best things forever. Thank you for
your time, stay strong!

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