We were given authority and dominion over the earth and yes, that includes the darkness we pretend isn’t there. But here’s the truth no one tells you at the protest rally or the highlight reel: dominion isn’t about loudness, force, or waiting for someone to rescue you. Dominion is an inside job. It’s soft power. It’s the quiet reclaiming of your body, your boundaries, and your breath so you can meet the world from a place of alignment not wound driven reaction.
If you’ve tried yelling, organizing, pushing, or performing righteousness and still felt hollow afterwards, you’re not broken you’re human. Resistance hardens you. Presence heals you.
Why “Hard Power” Fails (and What It Costs)
Hard power looks impressive: rallies, campaigns, arguments, grinding. But there’s a catch. When you push from a place of being fractured or triggered, the very thing you’re trying to change gets fed because what you resist persists. Anger begets more anger. Control begets more fear. Effort without alignment becomes another performance of survival.
Hard power tends to:
Outsource your healing (waiting for a savior)
- Re-enact trauma (fight or flight on repeat)
- Lock you into identity (I am the fighter, the fixer, the victim)
- That’s exhausting. And spiritually? It’s not co-creation it’s reactivity.
Soft Power: Divine Authority Starts Inside
Soft power isn’t weak. It’s fierce and tender. It’s the practice of returning to your body, honoring the wound, and choosing to lead from the healed center. This is how you step into your authority without force:
1. Spot the Trauma Script Notice the ways your nervous system reacts. Are you immediately defensive? Do you try to control outcomes? Trauma spotting is the new litmus test for spiritual maturity
2. Heal the Wounds, Don’t Numb Them Healing is messy. It requires curiosity, patience, and practices that regulate the nervous system (breath, boundaries, somatic work).
3. Clarify the Vessel Who are you when you’re not pushed by shame, people-pleasing, or adrenaline? Clarify your values, your body rules, your spiritual language.
4. Receive Guidance Through the Body Divine guidance often arrives as felt-sense, not text messages. Learn to translate sensations into wisdom.
5. Co-Create From Alignment When you act from that aligned center, your influence ripples without force. That’s true authority.
When you do this work, you do more than survive you co-create heaven on earth.
Practical Steps to Start Reclaiming Today (No Ceremony Required)
Pause before you push. Two deep breaths between stimulus and response changes the chemistry.
- Label the feeling. Name it: anger, grief, fear. Naming reduces the amygdala’s power.
- Set one tiny boundary. Say no to something small. Practice the muscle.
- Do a 3-minute body scan daily. Notice where you hold tension. Breathe into it.
- Journal one question nightly: “Where did I give my power away today?” and “How might I take it back tomorrow?”
- Small consistent acts of sovereignty beat heroic gestures every time.
A Word to the Skeptics
This isn’t woo without muscle. It’s spiritual work with nervous-system science behind it. You still show up for justice, you still act boldly when needed but now your actions come from a healed core. That’s the power that sticks.
Reclaiming Is Revolutionary
Reclaiming your divine authority isn’t passive. It’s radical. It will change your relationships, your leadership, and your inner climate. It will expose old patterns and ask you to do the hard, holy work of inner sovereignty. And yes it will feel wild to finally be anchored in yourself instead of chasing validation.