I really do not like the thought I am powerless over anything
Powerless is not inherently good nor bad, it is strictly a value judgement our mind places on a word.
I am powerless over death, someday I will die. This is neither good nor bad. It just is.
A simple example that injects reality into my thoughts on the word powerless, is my breathing. I can decide that I am not powerless over this silly idea that iI need to breath and to prove it, I hold my breath. The experiment goes alright for maybe a minute and then things go sideways. By the two minute mark, I have realized that I am powerless over my need to breath and that in this situation powerless is not such a bad thing.