Who Or What Do You Give Your Authority To In Your Life?

Shannon O'Flaherty
5 min readMar 10, 2022
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Authority can be perceived in many different ways. It can mean permission, the upper hand, or giving your power to someone. It can also mean your personal sovereignty. Whatever kind of mode of authority you’re in, most days all of us are giving up our authority (as an umbrella word), to different people, aspects, and things all around us because of our circumstances.

“Me, Myself and I,” we are the master of our own authority. We are the ones who create our reality around us, call in what we want and our conscious connection to source all comes down to us.

Sometimes we give up our authority to the government when we have to file taxes in order to stay within the law. When we’re in alignment with ourselves with that ‘me myself and I’ and have personal sovereignty, (consciously think about what I want, where I’m going, what I’m doing, and am in alignment with myself), then we are absolutely connected to our source energy, our higher intelligence.

And yes, we can give up our authority to higher intelligence, but I don’t see it as giving it up, I see it very much as co-creating with higher intelligence.

If ever you’re saying yes, when really you mean no, you’re giving up your power or authority to another person, situation, or thing. And this happens all the time to varying…

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Shannon O'Flaherty
Shannon O'Flaherty

Written by Shannon O'Flaherty

Shamanic practitioner, therapist, coach, writer, speaker,educator & group leader on trips to Peru. https://shannonoflaherty.com

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