How Much Power do you REALLY think we have over our Lives?

If I lived in the poorest slum in the poorest country in the world, I would have to say NO.
Here in the US with a college education, probably yes.
So in other words, your circumstances play a part in how much you can affect which way your life goes. But if your circumstances are not terrible, your attitude and drive can affect it a lot.

I do believe that we can create what we strongly feel. Desire is the thing that can change the way we live, they create actions and without desire we will not be where we are now.

I think we have a lot of power over our own lives. Yes I believe God has a plan for my life, but it's me that makes the choices in my life. I am t he one who makes the choice whether or not to follow his plan or not. Many times people don't.

I think that you have whatever power that you give yourself. With the power of technology increasing, it will also increase an person's individual power, or potential power.

With the right kind of power comes hard work and will. Of course, you can't will your shoes into a pair of rocket boots that will prepare you to the moon. Although maybe one day in the future, shoes with a similar ability may be created. A pair that, at least, will send you airborne above buildings.

If you want to be able to run seven miles a day, more than likely you won't be able to just get up and do it without prior training. And, no one is going to give that to you. If you don't have disabilities or other problems that would hinder you in this goal, then you can make it. Some people with disabilities can even push themselves that far.

Power depends on how far a person is willing to go to get it.

Okay, this is physics right? It helps explain how things work. Which means you have to take all the other bits of science with it.
If all human beings' thoughts and feelings affect the reality around them, obviously this means that other human beings can effect eachothers' realities...and so on and so forth, like a ripple affect.
This says that there's a measure of control, we all have, on how we live, but the rest is left to variables that we all create which make up the mass equation which is humanity and its many societies.

I suppose in this way it would be similiar to weather patterns. Slight changes in temperature or atmosphere...even something small like a butterfly, can change it.

A measure of control, yes. But ultimately we are part of a larger equation which means unless we know all the data (and we never will be able to) then we can never have complete control over our lives.

^_^ I love science, what can I say? I do believe this though. It's the very basis science can have on religion (I never believed the things had to be separate).

I'll take that measure of control any day though. It's better than no control at all, which is what scientists have argued was the truth for ages.
Even with this though, I'm cautious. It's like a kind of power almost, and those variables...that equation that we're all apart of, makes me cautious. Because you never know what little variables your exercising of what control you have might set off some big ripples.

We ARE the creators of our own lives. As you probably already know, most people create their lives by default. I intend to be a Deliberate Creator. This is in fact what I am using meditation for right now... to change some of the beliefs that have created the more unpleasant aspects of my current circumstances.