IAAP Newsletter: The Unified Field
Christine Kenyon
More Thoughts On The Right Use Of Power
As part of the October conference "Attunement in Our Daily Lives", Andrew Shier and I offered some thoughts on the right use of power. We all know from experience how Attunement has worked in our lives: sometimes I think we forget how powerful we really are, for "good" or "bad". When we realize the impact we can have on our world, we need to consider the quality of that impact.
So, how does one use power in the "right" way? That responsibility, for me, is partly determined by my own unique answer to a question asked many years ago by Martin Cecil: what are my values? What I value, "where the heart is", influences how and in what circumstances the power of Attunement appears in my life. For example, I treasure kindness, loyalty, and compassion. That's a nice list. But what do those words mean in concrete terms? How do I use Attunement to put them into practice in my daily living? My response to the question is my own, but what do you treasure? What are your principles, and how do you put them into practice?
Nearly 50 years ago, Uranda beautifully defined some ethical values in terms of the Beatitudes from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. One of those is usually translated (depending on your version of the Bible) as "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." Now, we've all heard about righteousness. "Oh, look at those awful people over there. , I certainly would never (fill in the blank)." We're "righteous" folk because we don't do/say/think whatever would fill in that blank. But when Uranda spoke of "righteousness", he called it "right-use-ness". In the booklet The Beatitudes, Volume 2, Uranda said of right-use-ness that " its purpose (is) the right use of our capacities, the right use of our own bodies and minds and hearts, the right use of our talents, the right use of intelligence, the right use of the feeling or emotional pattern of perception, the right use of time and opportunity, the right use of our privileges of relationship one with another " .So, what is the "right" use of the power that we share in Attunement? In practical, everyday living, what does "compassion" look like when I practice it? How do I use Attunement to make kindness a verb, not just a noun? I want to stay as conscious as possible about the quality of what I am putting out to my world.
What "right-use-ness" looks like for me may be very different than what it looks like for you. I challenge you to ask yourself, what are your values, and to give yourself the full answer, not just the easy one. Then we may each rephrase that Beatitude as "Blessed are they who accept their responsibility and rightly use the power of Attunement in their own lives to help bring the world into alignment with the Creator".
— CK
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