Burn to ashes

Have you ever heard story of a phoenix bird? Legend tells that it's a bird that once dead rises again from the ashes few days later. What can you learn from that story? A Feng Shui master tells that phoenix bird represents:

"A mythical bird that never dies, the phoenix flies far ahead to the front, always scanning the landscape and distant space. It represents our capacity for vision, for collecting sensory information about our environment and the events unfolding within it. The phoenix, with its great beauty, creates intense excitement and deathless inspiration."

- The Feng Shui Handbook, feng shui Master Lam Kam Chuen

However for me phoenix bird mostly represents the true form of inner strength. The truly strong are not afraid to take emotional or even physical punishment. They know that even if the experience burns them to crispy ashes, they have the strength and the will to pick themselves up from the ashes and to rediscover themselves in the process. That is the secret to personal power first you have to have the will to push yourself out of your comfort zone. Call that girl you like, make that business call to a nasty client, call your friend that just hurt you or start your own business. Whatever it is that makes you uncomfortable do more of it. Secondly if and when you get burned by the experience allow yourself have the strength to rise from the ashes a new like the phoenix bird, you will see that you have emerged stronger.