LETTING GO OF 
HOPE

Hope… distracts you from the Now. Hope is a process in which you want things to change to suit your wishes.

This may come as a surprise to you, but, did you know hope actually depletes your personal power? "What?", you say. What have we, if we do not have hope? I'll tell you what you have. You have personal power as opposed to a power leak and you have awareness as opposed to imagination. Hope is nothing more than imagining things are other than they really are.

Hope can blindside you. Hope is the enemy of perception. It is surprising that hope is so prevalent, but explains all of the dis-empowered people on the planet at the present time. They have virtually no influence over their own lives. None. They are waiting for the government, their employer, their spouse, or their church to make their lives better for them. Think about it. You'll begin to see, hope is a major, major power leak.

A warrior cannot afford to engage in the practice of hope. Hope obstructs the warrior's ability to perceive her surroundings, disabling her, so that she is no longer decisive when she needs to be.

A common form of hope is prayer. Most people pray as an "act of hope instead of an act of power". Most affirmations are ineffective for this same reason. In effective prayer, you must pray with awareness and intent.  Not just in emergencies, but from the very essence of your being. You do this by praying consciously and by not repeating a poem/prayer that someone else wrote. Although prayers and affirmations can be useful, most of the time they are nothing more than hope. Hope prevents you from taking action, thus draining your personal power and creating illusions.

What is there if not hope? The answer is ACCEPTANCE and AWARENESS.

The warrior chooses to be aware of herself and aware of her world. She accepts what she finds and does not wish it would be different or that it would magically change. Wish and hope are not in her vocabulary. If she decides to change things, she does it. As don Juan told Carlos, "A warrior's joyfulness comes from having accepted his fate, and from having truthfully assessed what lies ahead of him". Acceptance allows you to proceed with direction in your life without wasting power resisting who you are or what is.

Hope is the enemy of perception. Acceptance, awareness, and controlling your imagination go very far in plugging the power leak of hope.