Do we have superpowers?
When you’re talking with someone, and you open your mouth to speak, how often do you know exactly what you’re going to say?
When I say “exactly what you’re going to say,” I mean to the point of having precisely planned the sequence of words you’re going to say.
That’s probably not a question you’ve ever asked yourself, but if you stop and think about it, the answer would probably be, “almost never.” In other words, this is an area where most all of us are able to trust our ability to come up with the words we need exactly when we need them, not a moment sooner, not a moment later.
If you’ve never thought about this miraculous ability each and every one of us has, now might be a good time to give it a look. It’s a perfect model for just how dependable our real-time responsive wisdom is because having a conversation is something we do all the time. And the strange thing is, the words are almost always there when we need them.
There’s an exception to this, and the exception is the other part of this instructive model. Those times when we become tongue-tied, when the words simply don’t come, happen when we start to question our ability to formulate the right words.
At which point, we become self-conscious. It’s a downhill spiral from there because self-consciousness leads to overthinking, and overthinking makes an easy flow of speech absolutely impossible.
Another way to talk about this is to say, when I trust my wisdom, I can compose, edit, and speak what’s on my mind without a hitch. If I question my wisdom, that ability is lost to me.
But it’s only lost for as long as I stay with those self-doubting, self-questioning thoughts. The instant I let those thoughts settle, I regain my superpower, and my speech is unimpeded.
That’s true of all the miraculous superpowers we possess as humans. We can do complex tasks that incorporate speech, or better still, singing, and physical movement. If you’re able to sing and dance at the same time, I can absolutely guarantee that you can’t do those things simultaneously and be thinking about doing them at the same time.
And if you’re not thinking about doing them, but instead are just trusting and doing what your body already knows how to do, then you’re using your superpowers in exactly the way they were designed to work.
I’m at a complete loss to identify any of the superpowers we can “do” and think about doing at the same time.
If you want access to your superpowers, trust them. That’s all; just trust them. Doubt is the kryptonite that renders our superpowers unusable. Trust is what enables us to go beyond what we may have thought ourselves capable of.
When you trust your wisdom, will you occasionally be wrong? Without question, yes. But the more you learn to your trust that wisdom, the more you’ll discover the times your wisdom turned out to be right far outnumber the times you were wrong.
Wouldn’t it be a shame to lose access to a superpower you already have just because you haven’t learned to trust it?
