Ase ( or ashe) is an African philosophical concept through which the Yoruba of Nigeria conceive the power to make things happen and produce change. It is given by Olodumare  (Higher Power or Alpha & Omega ( to everything -  ancestors, spirits, humans, animals, plants, rocks, rivers, and voiced words such as songs, prayers, praises, curses, or even everyday conversation!)
 Existence, according to Yoruba thought, is dependent upon it.
In addition to its sacred characteristics, ase also has important social ramifications, reflected in its translation as "power, authority, command."
A person who, through training, experience, and initiation, learns how to use the essential life force of things to willfully effect change is called an alaase. It is something we can all come to be.
Ase is the issuing forth of your will, which, becoming one with energies in the universe that vibrate with your own, set forth action, applying the Law of Attraction.
Your mind, the vibrations of the life force within you, is energy and is powerful. Everything is made of energy,  Kindreds, and energy can be directed.

--K. Somadi--