You’ve Always Had the Power, My Dear

Glenda shares this line with Dorothy at the end of the movie, and it is one of my favorite lines from the Wizard of Oz. I know the movie unlike most. I’m a Kansas native, born and raised. My blessed travels have taken me across the United States and across oceans to Italy and Peru. In so many of these places, I would hear people say, “looks like you’re not in Kansas anymore.” If only they knew. I was born in small town in Kansas that celebrates the Wizard of Oz with a festival and a museum. I’ve met some of the munchkins from the movie before they passed away at said festival, too.

I always liked the movie, and I sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow to my baby girl while she was in my belly almost everyday. Now, we sing it together in the car, but it wasn’t until I started learning bout mindset, quantum physics, and sound that I began to see this line as a kernel of truth about existence.

“You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.”

I’ve been going through some stuff, stuff that has felt tough…draining. My partner has been such an angel of support, and he started showing me short videos steeped in science. As a certified yoga instructor, I believe in some “woo,” but I have my limits as an academic. The videos that he showed me were the perfect blend of both.

I could get into it all, but I don’t hold a degree in physics. I’ll spare you the details (that I would likely get wrong), and simply say that we are such powerful magnets for what we believe and what we think about. As some say, “where the attention goes, energy flows.” I’ve got big dreams for my life and my loved ones, not because I need big things but because living my life doing and being these dreams feels good. It is living my purpose. No matter what is happening, I’m going to keep the vision of doing and living those dreams as a reality that I can feel, taste, see, hear, smell right now, even if they are not happening just yet.

It is easy to get fixated on the outside like the concerns of others, the latest social post, etc. The doubt, impatience, fear, unworthiness are natural players in this game we’ve decided to be players in. But if you think about it, all of the time you spend thinking about the past or the future is nonexistent because all we have is the exact present moment. So the memories are present memories and the plans for the future are present plans because nothing can be except what is now, which is the present. Most of the time, in the present moment, we are actually just fine, possibly even great, dare I say…extraordinary.

The real question is are we brave enough to believe that everything is working out for us? Are we strong enough to trust that we are exactly where we are meant to be? Do we have faith that the other shoe won’t drop, that joy, happiness, and abundance are for us to be steeped and washed in every single day, even all day?

If all we have is this exact moment in time because that is all that really exists, then why not be brave, strong, and have faith? Why not allow ourselves to let the sound of our hearts relaxing into getting exactly what we want be the soundtack to our lives.? Why not emit that frequency without the expectation that it has to happen this way or that way or even at all. Why not just be in that power? That frequency is sooooo powerful, and science backs this up.

With studies on the behavior of sound and matter and energy and particles, there is no doubt that our observation of a particle impacts the behavior of the particle. In other words, our thoughts about how something behaves may cause it to behave that way. I know, feel free to take a moment to read that again.

The videos my partner showed, loaded with scientist doing mega research in their fields, suggested that it is the natural biological state of our body to vibrate at a frequency that draws what we need to it. This makes sense to me. Our bodies were more drawn to look for food when we were hungry or look for shelter when we were cold. There was a biological drive to envision what we needed, and if we combine that with the research that says our observation of a particle impacts the behavior of the particle, then it is safe to say that our need for shelter or food may have helped it appear.

I know you might be thinking of something appearing out of thin air, aka a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat and saying, “vwah-LAH”, and that might seem too science fictiony for you. But instead, maybe, it is not about learning how to resonate at a frequency to get what we want, but rather, to stop blocking the natural flow of what we need from coming to us.

Think about it! Have you ever tried to think of a solution to something but been stressed out? Then you go on a walk or talk with a friend an voilà the idea you need appears. I want to suggest that this is no coincidence. You are biologically wired to find the answer. To have your needs met.

So, this brings about the bigger question which is, what have you been blocking?

Admittedly, I’ve been blocking my dreams with thoughts that are not only not very positive but also straight up untrue. Anyone relate?

Like Glenda says, “You’ve always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself.”

I’ll be brash. Perhaps I wrote this more as a reminder for myself, than for you, but I’ll be darned if I don’t think it is worth sharing. If reminding the world that they create their own world for better or for worse until death do us part is not worth sharing, then I’m not sure what miracle is.

I’ve got the power! Do you?