Do You Know That You Are Capable of Truly Amazing Things?
Don’t sell yourself short.
One of my favorite lines from the original Star Wars, though Han Solo said it at the time in extreme arrogance, in another context resonates with me.
“Sometimes I even amaze myself.”
Here’s the thing. Do you have even the slightest inkling of what you’re capable of? Beneath your conscious mind, but not entirely connected to your subconscious mind, you have truly incredible capabilities.
For some, this manifests in obvious ways. Such people are empaths, energy healers, mediums, and other sixth-sense-attuned individuals to a greater or lesser degree.
Ah, you might be thinking, hooky-spooky bullshit. Yet, no, that’s the point of this. That’s because this is about the brain, or maybe more specifically the mind, and how it interconnects everything that you are.
All human beings are comprised of four elements when it comes to our health, wellness, and wellbeing. They are the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. The latter three tend to get lumped together as mental health, as all are intangibles. I separate them because, ignored or unaddressed, they can cause unnecessary harm.
It is in the latter three realms in particular where you are capable of truly amazing things.
What kinds of truly amazing things would that be?
Recently, in therapy, I made a most unexpected and incredible discovery.
Psychology, folks. Science, not the hooky-spooky. I’m going to get really personal here.
There are many gaps in my memory around my childhood. Many of them, unsurprisingly, are tied to my parents’ divorce when I was 5 or 6 years old. Given the trauma of divorce on the psyche of a child, this isn’t shocking.
For a long, long time now, I’ve been questing to uncover some of these missing memories. Why? Because I suspect they are a large part of the root emotions of anger, resentment, and guilt that have manifested as a displaced fear of abandonment within me.
Still with me? With this current therapist, I’m working within a different therapy framework than I ever have previously. It’s called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Employing this, my therapist had me dig into one of the early blank spots in my memory, right around the time of my parents’ divorce.
This is where I made an amazing discovery. No, I didn’t find a missing memory, or the cause of the impression of anger, resentment, and guilt (impression, FYI, because emotion can only genuinely be felt via conscious awareness in the now). Instead, I made a most amazing discovery.
I nuked those memories from orbit. Six-year-old me, or rather my psyche in that unique space below the conscious mind but not entirely connected to the subconscious mind, nuked those memories.
In other words, to protect myself at the time from the pain of the divorce in my conscious mind, and all the negativity therein, I removed those memories.
An act of empowerment
What the actual fuck, you might be asking? Here’s the biggest wow factor of this discovery. This was an act of incredible empowerment that my psyche – in that unique space below the conscious mind but not entirely connected to the subconscious mind – performed. It created a black hole and a lot of confusion in my mind, and some other issues I’ve been contending with mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and even physically. Yet, it empowered me.
How do I know this? When I discovered that my psyche, at 6 years old or so, erased those painful memories, it was done to make me strong. How? Because at the time, and during most of the rest of my childhood, it kept me from worse places than my depression took me.
Specifically, this is why no matter how awful I felt, how alone or disconnected I’ve believed that I was, I’ve never been suicidal.
Please note – I am in no way, shape, or form, blaming my parents here. However, the reality is that they were both so caught up in their own lives and navigating them, plus having not just me but my five-years-younger sister, that they only had a limited amount to give of the bonding and other emotional connections a child craves. I developed resilience to hold my own in the face of that.
It was not entirely subconscious because it involved elements of my conscious mind working with my subconscious to affect my memory.
Learning this might seem disconcerting to you. It might even appear scary. However, when I realized this, I experienced a sense of utter calm, freedom, and like a weight I had no idea was on my shoulders had been lifted. It is almost indescribably empowering.
Mindfulness of truly amazing things
Human beings are capable of truly amazing things. That applies to us all.
Don’t believe me? Can you explain the device you’re reading this on, how it works, and the science that lets it work? What about the science of the internal combustion engine of your car? How about the science of how deodorant is made and why it works?
Even if you can explain one or all of these, each is an example of how we’re capable of truly amazing things. Look what humankind has created to live like we do on this planet, unlike any other animal. Truly amazing.
Beyond the material, look at how we can think, feel, intend, and act to create and manifest both the tangible and intangible.
This is where the unique power to create truly amazing things lives. What’s more, the amazing things that I desire might be utterly different from what you seek and desire. Yet they’re equally valuable and equally empowering in that we can create them, tangible or intangible.
This isn’t about something world-changing. This is about you recognizing and acknowledging that you are capable of truly amazing things. Then, using that knowledge to take charge of your life experiences.
That unique space below the conscious mind but not entirely connected to the subconscious mind exists in everyone. You can access it via active conscious awareness, via your conscious mind, with mindfulness.
That’s done by questioning – in the present – what you’re thinking, what you’re feeling, how you’re feeling, what your intentions are, and what you or aren’t doing. When that gives you the control that is your birthright, it also empowers you to do truly amazing things.
Why does any of that matter?
One of the biggest problems with our fear-based society is how disempowered the average person is. Too many messages are everywhere that you’re not good enough, smart enough, or worthy enough to have, be, or do what you would find most fulfilling. Then, to add insult to injury, the drive to conform to overwrought societal norms further tears you away from your own capabilities.
We’re not actively taught self-awareness. Frankly, I think we’re shoehorned into accepting less than what we are capable of on many levels. What’s more, certain forces, hell-bent on retaining and expanding utterly false “power”, weaponize self-awareness and the freedom that it brings with ludicrous notions like it being bad being “woke”. So, what, remaining unaware and asleep is better? It’s not.
Your mileage may vary, and you might be in a good place. If you’re content, happy, and overall living a life of your choosing, more power to you. But if not, why not? What’s holding you back from doing the truly amazing things you’re capable of?
Legitimate reasons or not – and there can certainly be situations and circumstances legitimately keeping you from doing truly amazing things – you have lots more power to shape your life. To do that, however, you alone can take action and make choices and decisions to drive life in that way.
That’s the primary reason why I share my Pathwalking philosophy. Because each of us has a finite time alive in this world, in these bodies, and that time is meant to be worthwhile. This is what we are here to do – to live. To experience. We’re meant not to be drones merely surviving, but amazing creators thriving.
Please believe that you are capable of truly amazing things, and you have every right to manifest them into your life.
Do you see that you are capable of truly amazing things?
This is the six-hundred and twenty-sixth (626) exploration of my Pathwalking philosophy. These weekly essays are my ideas for – and experiences with – applying mindfulness and positivity to walk along a chosen path of life to consciously create reality.
I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world and empower as many people as I can with conscious reality creation.
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