There is a variety of powers in this world: monetary power, muscular power, political power, social power, intellectual power, to name some…all of that are external to the wielder of the power.
For one to possess any one of those external powers, or perhaps all of them, and then apply it without a care, devoid of conflict, or bereft of struggle, completely diminishes the value of its effect. Moreso, its impact on the person who wields it.
Internal Power
1. Sexual Power. Everyone needs a sense of personal power, or agency over their own sexual well-being. This is about knowing you can affect and direct what happens to you. You know what you truly want, so you can communicate it clearly.
You are keenly aware of how one can wield sexual power in order to dominate and control. Both overindulgence and repression can deplete your vital force, so exercising tantra, with or without a partner, sustains you by harnessing the sexual power in the middle path of restraint.
2. Power and Emotion.
The primary emotion in coercive power is fear: people do what others want because they fear that the consequences of non-compliance will be physically or emotionally painful.
The main emotion in benefit power is desire: the subject of power has desires that the controller can satisfy by providing security, prosperity, or power over others.
The main emotions that fuel respect power (in charismatic people) are liking, admiration, and trust.
The power to influence or manipulate the complex array of emotions of human beings is terrifyingly impressive. Knowing one can and choosing not to, is honorably majestic.
The Power of Self-Restraint.
The greater is the capacity to restrain oneself, the greater also is the power one feels within one’s own self. The one who is capable of self-restraint knows of this.
