Claiming what is yours

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This one seems so obvious; as soon as you put a lock on your door ~ a chain and padlock on the fence ~ you have claimed it as yours. And sent a clear message to passers by: Stay out! This is mine.
Unfortunately this doesn’t always mean that your claim is also respected ~ but whichever way you look at it, the intent is clear.

It becomes a more difficult issue when you want to claim ~ and in a sense protect ~ an idea you have. In other words when it is not about physical property but about intellectual property.
After all, how do you prove that you came up with that idea first? Or, if people start talking about your idea, sharing your idea, even improve upon your idea ~ at which point is it no longer your idea as it has evolved into a new concept?

The hardest one seems to be when you want to claim your own energy; the space for you to breathe in... There is no clear boundary that can be set around it. An argument can be made that everything is energy and as such, energy is everywhere. So how do you know what is yours to claim? Is it even possible to ‘own’ that energy? Or has Chief Seattle been right all along when he wrote: ‘If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?’

And yet, as your energy defines and expresses who you are, claiming the very energy of yourself is important. It permits you to know who you are. It assists you in determining what is important to you and what is not ~ to set your priorities. It helps you to recognize those aspects of you that are uniquely yours ~ not to lock them away in a private place, but to share them with the world around you.
In claiming the energy that is yours, you may become conscious of your potential which you can then allow to unfold. In claiming the energy that is yours the awareness of what you ~ as a unique individual ~ have to offer to the universe is enhanced.

Claiming the energy that is yours may well be so important that we should encourage those around us to embark on that same journey of discovery and to do the same.
And by the same token we should never take our own energy, our own space ~ or the energy and space of another ~ for granted.

It is time to claim what is yours!
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