I like stories, movies, etc. about superheroes or wizards, or people with some kind of power to affect the world around them. I like the idea of that kind of "magic' existing out there somewhere, even if it is only in my imagination. I could go on a tangent about why psychologically that might be but let's not digress. What I have been thinking about off and on over the last few days is what makes someone in the everyday world able to embody that kind of strength. What is it that can make us a formidable force in our own lives? How do we become such a thing?
Do we chant mantras all day or practice elaborate rituals? Do we meditate until we become like the master Yogis? Do we bow our head in prayer and contrition until at last we are forgive all our sins? Do go find some radioactive waste?
I don't think any one of those things done out of a sense of desperation to free one's self can really achieve much of anything. I don't think any act has any more power necessarily than any other in and of itself. What we do is more profoundly connected to the place we are coming from. Achieving results is more profoundly connected to our thoughts and our emotions than anything else. Our intention is the key to anything really. I believe this is never more true than when we are choosing to travel a road less traveled, the road not taken by many. Never more true than when we are trying to become a formidable force to affect our own world.
What does this have to do with Superman, Wolverine or Gandalf? Well, the characters we so often love represent something on some level we wish to embody. But even in the stories those characters had to make a choice at some point. Do they do the easy thing? Do they hide their "magic" or fail to use it to battle against the proverbial darkness? And in making this choice there were no magic dances done. To bring them to a place where they could stand in their own power, their own truth, there was no act. They did not shrink back into a cave for a decade contemplating the nature of the world but do nothing to embody the actions or morals or ethics they believed to be right. It was simply choice, and intention to be exactly as they are.
So today I am considering something I have always believed on some level... We all have a superpower. We all have a thing, an action, a way of showing up in the world, that no one else has. And I think in standing in that uniqueness we give more potency to our little superpowers. When we stand in life coming from the intention to bring forward the inner truth of who we are we activate this flow of force.... As in may the force be with you lol...No, but seriously if our intention is to not pinch off the truth of who we are with the ideas of who we "should" be there is no more resistance. Without the resistance to being uniquely who we are, laced with this superpower of ours, we become that formidable power to affect the world around us finally.
Go out today and put on your cape, let go of who you "should" be and stand in your truth. You might just find that is the necessary ingredient that makes all the difference.
Do we chant mantras all day or practice elaborate rituals? Do we meditate until we become like the master Yogis? Do we bow our head in prayer and contrition until at last we are forgive all our sins? Do go find some radioactive waste?
I don't think any one of those things done out of a sense of desperation to free one's self can really achieve much of anything. I don't think any act has any more power necessarily than any other in and of itself. What we do is more profoundly connected to the place we are coming from. Achieving results is more profoundly connected to our thoughts and our emotions than anything else. Our intention is the key to anything really. I believe this is never more true than when we are choosing to travel a road less traveled, the road not taken by many. Never more true than when we are trying to become a formidable force to affect our own world.
What does this have to do with Superman, Wolverine or Gandalf? Well, the characters we so often love represent something on some level we wish to embody. But even in the stories those characters had to make a choice at some point. Do they do the easy thing? Do they hide their "magic" or fail to use it to battle against the proverbial darkness? And in making this choice there were no magic dances done. To bring them to a place where they could stand in their own power, their own truth, there was no act. They did not shrink back into a cave for a decade contemplating the nature of the world but do nothing to embody the actions or morals or ethics they believed to be right. It was simply choice, and intention to be exactly as they are.
So today I am considering something I have always believed on some level... We all have a superpower. We all have a thing, an action, a way of showing up in the world, that no one else has. And I think in standing in that uniqueness we give more potency to our little superpowers. When we stand in life coming from the intention to bring forward the inner truth of who we are we activate this flow of force.... As in may the force be with you lol...No, but seriously if our intention is to not pinch off the truth of who we are with the ideas of who we "should" be there is no more resistance. Without the resistance to being uniquely who we are, laced with this superpower of ours, we become that formidable power to affect the world around us finally.
Go out today and put on your cape, let go of who you "should" be and stand in your truth. You might just find that is the necessary ingredient that makes all the difference.
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