Empowerment is a continuous, self-initiated growth process of self-discovery perpetuated by questions that facilitate the deepening of self-knowledge in our ever-changing environment. Since the outer world is constantly changing, you need to maintain a steady, non-changing but flexible center in your mind/body system to continue your inner evolution. Your self-identity will broaden as you continue practices for growth through meditation and empowerment processes in your life. The goal is to remove disempowering frequencies from your mind/body system.

Learning to live from a place of intuitive mind rather than imposed analysis is opening for all of us. As you go through the empowerment process, you are giving yourself the opportunity to refine your sensibilities. You begin to “feel” into situations. You actually do have physiological responses to your thoughts which you can attend to or not. Messages come through you all day long, and when one is obvious enough, you will pay attention.

It is amazing to me that every time I take someone else through the Empowerment Process, I always learn something new. Those gifts of knowledge also appear in each transformation that takes place during the Inner Guidance and Chakra courses.
What we are all coming to understand at a very deep level, is that when we facilitate the process, we are creating an open and trusting relationship with our client. Our job is to hold that healing space and facilitate each question, one at a time until you and your client are satisfied to go on to the next. One of the students this month called this patient inquiry, “a license to pry.” Although this phrase has a humorous side to it, we want to feel that we are reaching deeply enough to access the true issue or discomfort. The most effective way to be sure you are in the right direction is to always check in with the client. Phrases we can use are, does that seem right, how does that feel, or do you mean?…and repeat it back in slightly different language. You will be surprised at how well this works and how delighted the client feels to get it. We never coach, counsel or suggest something that comes from our experience or knowledge as we are only present to allow for our client’s shift. In other words, stick to the questions – they do work to unfold the transformation in a very simple way.

During any moment in the day, you might recognize yourself feeling the need to resolve an old thinking pattern or energy block. If you’re doubting yourself in any way, feeling anxious or negative, you might consider taking yourself through the Empowerment Process. That might be once or twice a week, or more, depending on circumstances and desire. I’m often in a conversation with one of my friends and they say, “I really wish I could commit to…., but…” At this point, if they’ve taken the Empowerment Process, I remind them to give themselves a session.

Holding the healing space for yourself or for someone you are working with is an important process in order to allow burdens from the past to surface and be released. The results will be a feeling of exhilaration and sense of freedom and often an immediate healing experienced as a
--Physical release in the throat, heart, solar plexus, or head for example.
--Emotional release, feeling light, calm, blissful, free
--Spiritual expansion bringing forth a sense of unboundedness that “absorbs” the individual self and creates a feeling of unlimited potential, new perspective, and universal support for your entire Being.

You can follow the points below in order to successful hold that healing space for transformation using the Empowerment Process.

The Empowerment Process®:
Following Your Inner Guidance for Energetic Transformation
Developed and taught by Janet E. Swartz

The Universe is ready and willing to support our evolution. Everything in available to us and Nature will guide us when we tap into the infinite reservoir of intelligence within. Our inner guidance can carry us to that place of knowingness, a place of healing. When we are in the evolutionary flow, life gets supported at every turn. At every moment, we can transform according to our needs and desires.

Guiding Your Inner Process for Energetic Transformation
Finding Your Unique Gifts

Probably our greatest gift in having a human body is that we are able to function as an integrated whole to progress toward our loftiest desires. By recognizing our innermost essence, connecting to it, and following our intuition, we can move with the flow of life without getting stuck.
Anytime we get out of the flow and meet resistance, we can lose clarity of purpose, and meet suffering on some level. How to regain balance, move through and process our “stuff” is a skill worth pursuing.

Inner messages: Where do they come from? How should we respond?
Did you ever wonder if a decision you are about to make is the right one or not?
How can you tell?

For most of us, even if we have a feeling about the future, we cannot predict its outcome with certainty. We don’t know whether to trust it or not. (Is this the guy I should marry? How come I get nervous around him? I then ask myself if this message is warning me of a poor decision, or actually taking me to my edge of growth on my evolutionary path.)

We all have an intuitive sense, the ability to receive information from the environment, internal and external. We can learn and practice how to scan our bodies as well as our energetic fields beyond the physical realm and receive information visually, auditoraly, and kinestheticaly By using our intuitive third eye, our sixth chakra, we can gain information from this place of neutrality, a place where our own emotions and gripping stories are not honored. Our interpretations of what we notice are free of personal bias, and from here we can set our healing energy in motion.

A positive intention is a future hope that something will happen. An empowering statement embodies the transformation that you are looking for. This transformation occurs spontaneously after the investigation steps that we follow in the Empowerment Process. We simply answer the questions and look back to make sure the empowering statement encompasses all the issues and concerns that we address in the 7 questions. The statement will be simple, subtle, and, very powerful.