Our Human Superpowers

You have more capacity than you realize.

We all do. We have incredible power within us. We access this capacity when we shift our awareness to a place within us, because from this point of inner orientation, we can see more clearly, we feel ourselves, we align with our inner being, and our nervous system is plugged into our body’s amazing ability to heal itself.

Your power is inside you. It really is like in the movies. Remember Captain Marvel? She was listening to some outer voice coming from somewhere in the distance and things weren't going well. Eventually she had a breakthrough and realized that she needed to claim her own power, to make decisions from inside herself. Then things started to get way better.

A patient recently reminded me of the phrase “a still, small voice”. Have you heard this before? This is our place of inner wisdom, inner knowing, a fulcrum of awareness from where we connect with our truth, our inner Being, our Power, our Wholeness. 

It really isn’t about what everyone else is doing, it's about what we’re doing. We can learn to let go of everyone else's judgement, behavior, and actions, and it's super helpful. 

But it's even more helpful when you can “get yourself together”, to connect with your own Self, your own inner world, and your own power. You do you.

Those gut feelings are in there for a reason. How many times have you not listened to your gut feelings and regretted it? And if we can learn to listen to them, they can help us make decisions. We can be guided by our inner knowing so we can go where we want to go in our lives. 

Another way to think of it is “The Force” from Star Wars. “May the force be with you” means that it’s with you. There isn't something else guiding that light saber. Luke Skywalker’s capacity in the battle comes from within. Yoda taught him to “feel the Force” and to use it for good things.

There are a lot of amazing “influencers” out there. There are things that are really good and helpful, but also things that trick us to buy something that won't work or won’t really help us to feel better or that will try to make us be or look like something that we are not. 

Our capacity to “know” is inside us. It isn’t in our head, it's in our Whole Self! It's in those gut feelings. This is our power. We all have to learn to find it for ourselves. We have to feel it. We have to claim our power. Because who we are isn’t an idea. We aren’t a list of descriptive words, a certain kind of outfit, a profession, or anything else. 

The truth of who we are is more of an essence. It's not about thinking, it's about feeling. Or perhaps a better word is sensing. We access our human superpowers by using our “spidey sense”. It’s a kind of awareness that we access through our perception. Aldous Huxley said it pretty well, “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception”. 

In my own personal experience, and in everything I’ve seen happen when I work with my students and patients, the doors of perception are within us, in the center of our being, and a great place to access them is from the vantage point of the lower half of our body. In my courses I call it “The Center of Gravity of Attention”, because it gets us out of our head and more into our center, our wholeness. And it can hook us up to our awareness of the spaces in between, and this is where we connect with our human superpowers. And it feels good.

Luke Skywalker was who he was because of the work he did, the inner training, the consistent practice. Yoda said, "In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are." This is so true and so important. There is so much in the world pulling us out of ourselves. We’re trying to act a certain way, live up to an expectation, even push to a goal that isn’t really what we want.  

What I’ve found through over 25 years of digging and searching through the science and the spiritual, for things to help myself my patients, is that when we connect to our whole self, feel our feet on the earth, listen to those gut feelings, we access more of ourselves. I call it Self Centering. When we do this everything works better. I’ve seen it help so many things…anxiety, pain, decision making, trauma healing, chronic illness, palpitations, shopping addiction, and depression. It may sound crazy but it's true. It blew my mind when I realized it, and it continues to blow my mind every day when I teach someone to do it. This is because we become more whole. It's simple and we don’t need to make it complicated. Connection to our whole self connects us to our Human Superpowers, and we get there (or here really) through simple steps of centering, sensing, and knowing.

What I’m talking about is simple but not necessarily easy. It's a process. And it takes practice. The more we practice in bits and pieces every day, the easier it gets, and the better we feel. Life is a process and we’re here to live into and become who we truly are. We do it by living in and truly embodying ourselves. What does that mean? Like I said, what I’ve found to be one of the best ways to be embodied is to remember to get out of our head and into our body. We’re mind, body, and spirit, and our whole self includes all of these. How do we get in our body? We feel, we drop in, we center. We become aware in a whole new way and it feels wonderful.

Try it for just a minute. Drop into the lower half of your body. Feel it. Feel softness in your feet, legs, or pelvis. Now keep your attention there. You might notice that if you start to think here, your thoughts can very quickly take us out of the moment, and pull you back up to your head. So if this happens, just drop down again and stay connected to the feeling. And sense and feel and notice, do things feel a bit more calm? Do your shoulders feel a bit less tense? Did your thoughts slow down for a moment? That’s a starter lesson on how to do it, and that’s really the gist of it. The more you do it the more you activate your own superpowers.

Ready for another superhero example? In the movie Ironman, the character played by Robert Downey Jr. wears a big red robot suit. When he gets inside it, he clicks in and makes connections to all of the robotic parts and then he can fly, fight evil, and do all kinds of amazing things. Now I’m not suggesting we all fly around in the sky. But, when we get into our own body, when we drop in, it's like we click into our nervous system and it's like a huge sigh of relief.  So often when I teach people to do it, they take a deep breath, feel more relaxed, and the tension falls away, and they feel better. As I teach in my Mini Course, Living in a Body, when we get centered, we’re in the driver’s seat, the seat of our own power. This simple work gives us more control of how we feel and where we’re going in our life. Not that different from Ironman, right?

So hopefully it's starting to make a bit more sense. Our human powers are built into us, wired into the perfect design of our body. And they aren’t just in our brain. Our brain connects to our entire nervous system which goes deep into our gut and to the tips of our toes. Often things don't work well simply because the connections are loose. When we’re plugged in our inner superpowers are activated and can do their thing.

So try it again, feel your feet on the ground, your seat in the chair, or your breath dropping into your belly. Tune in to the gut feelings, find that “still small voice”. This gets us into the present moment. To truly be who we are we only need to learn to sense and feel. The more we do it, the more we claim our superpowers. Drop into your superpower suit that is the body you live in. Be Still and Know. It may slow you down for just a minute and that isn’t a terrible thing. If we can drop in and center, we plug into the part of our nervous system that puts us in a more healing, wise, and creative mode. From here, within, we are in the moment, we know ourselves better, and we can claim our own power and transform our lives.