Podcast: What's Your Super Power?

This is the first episode of The New Superheroes Podcast. Today I'll talk about Energy Superpowers and how we translate energy. Do you see energy? Feel it? Taste it? Smell it? Tune in to find out what your superpowers are and what to do if you get overwhlemed with other people's energies.

Transcript

Welcome to the new superheroes.

Ordinary people who do extraordinary things.

What's your superpower?

My name is Joanna Albrecht and welcome to the new superheroes.

On today's episode,

We're going to talk a little bit about your superpowers and what I mean by that.

I've been doing energy work for a little over 20 years.

And during that time,

I have learned so much about different forms of energy work,

The way people process energy,

The way people understand about psychic abilities,

About the way that that shows up for different people.

I used to actually teach Reiki,

Which is a form of energy healings.

And every time I taught a Reiki class and gave people attunements,

What I realized is that each person ran energy in their own way,

Which means they tapped in to universal life force energy.

But the way that they used it was totally different.

Every single person is totally different in the way that they access energy and were able to perceive it.

And I thought this was fascinating because I'm like,

Well,

You know,

It should come out this one way since we're doing this one thing.

But everybody has a superpower in their own way.

Everybody translates energy in their own way.

And so the way that I do is I'm an intuitive empath.

So I will feel people's feelings.

And that's how I help people.

If people are feeling anxious or overwhelmed or sad or depressed,

Or lonely,

What I do is I help them to go into their energy field and find the places that have these feelings and have this emotion.

I help them to either clear it out if it's not theirs,

Or we go into it and we find out why.

And it's usually the body asking for a specific thing about what the body needs.

And we just go in together and I help them to create a safe,

Relaxing place in their body so that they feel good about being in there.

Other people will experience energy in a different way.

Sometimes people see the energies that are stuck in someone's body.

And so they actually tune in,

And they can see different colors or different shapes in someone's energy field.

Then they help them in that way.

They can go in and they can help clear that energy in that way.

Some people can just kind of sense things are different and off.

They'll help people in that way.

Some people can actually taste energy.

They'll see colors and they'll taste it,

Or they'll smell it.

There's all these different kinds of ways that people experience energy.

You might think,

Oh well that's weird,

But it's actually not.

It's actually more common than you might think.

I've talked to so many people,

So many different people that are like,

Oh that stuff's just woo woo and that's weird.

And then I'll talk to them for longer and then it'll come out,

Oh that's weird,

But I did have this experience this one time when.

.

.

And I'm like,

Uh-huh.

And people are like,

Oh you know,

I don't see the energy or I don't feel energy except for,

You know,

I feel that one energy and it's blue and it's round and it's sitting there on my left shoulder and I'm like,

Oh okay,

But you don't experience energy.

Okay,

Got it,

Right.

What I want people to know is that this is actually normal and normal people feel energy.

They see energy.

They experience energy.

It's a superpower.

Sometimes it doesn't feel like a superpower if you get super overwhelmed with other people's energy.

And that has happened to me in the past.

I get overwhelmed with too much of someone's energy if they're too emotional or going through a lot of things and I'm not ready for it.

But if I'm ready,

I kind of shift into this gear where I just see it and feel it outside of myself and I say,

Okay,

Here's what we do and here's how we clear it and here's how to get this person more grounded into their body.

But it didn't always used to be that way.

And a lot of the clients who come to be now are dealing with this experience where they'll go out into the world and be overwhelmed if they go into a store or a shop or the mall and they'll just be too overwhelmed with that kind of energy.

If you are one of the people who get overwhelmed with other people's energy,

If you have trouble going into stores or being in crowds of people or just get overwhelmed,

Maybe at parties with other people's energy,

I want to give you a few tips on what to do and why that happens so that you can feel more safe and grounded in your body when you're in these situations.

As someone who feels a lot of emotions of other people,

I kind of wondered why.

I wondered why I chose this specific thing as a superpower.

And there's a couple reasons that I researched and figured out about people who are emotionally sensitive to other people's energy.

One,

Growing up,

You had to kind of figure out how people were feeling around you to make sure that you could keep the peace at home.

So whenever that started,

Whenever that started when you were a little kid,

You just tried to kind of feel out how people were doing so that you didn't make them upset.

You kind of sent out these energetic streamers just to kind of feel,

Okay,

Like,

You know,

You know,

How are they feeling today?

How can I act and react to them so that to keep them calm and relaxed,

Right?

So they didn't freak out.

And this happens really young and sometimes it's automatic.

The problem with this coping mechanism is that if you are going out into,

Let's say,

A store or a mall,

You do that with every single person at the mall automatically.

It's just,

It's like your go to.

And so people will get overwhelmed with the thoughts and feelings of everyone at the mall because they just send out all these streamers everywhere.

And it's overwhelming.

It's absolutely overwhelming.

I noticed this because not everyone gets overwhelmed going to the mall.

And the difference is grounding,

Grounding in the body.

There's a lot of martial artists who do this practice of grounding into the body,

Becoming more physically strong in the body.

And a lot of the people who are emotionally sensitive and overwhelmed with other people's energy are not grounded in the body.

They have like two toenails in the body,

Right?

Energetically.

So they're,

They're much more sensitive and open to the fluctuations of the energy around them,

Of the energy of the planet.

Yes,

Feeling the energies is a superpower,

But it becomes a detriment if it overwhelms you and you can't deal with daily life.

And so how do you deal with this?

How do you make it so you can be open and sensitive when you want to and be grounded and solid when you need to?

What I've found and the techniques that I use are releasing the energy that isn't yours.

So sometimes we take on energy of other people and we're not fully present in the body.

And so I help people to kind of go in and take out that foreign energy that's not theirs and then bring them back down into the body so that you feel grounded and solid and centered and balanced and strong.

Right?

So if you're fully in the body energetically,

Your physical body and your energy body are one.

You feel safe.

You feel grounded.

You feel peaceful.

But if you're not fully in your body and you have other foreign energies in there,

You can feel anxious.

You can feel overwhelmed.

You can feel depressed and sad.

And here's an interesting side note about that.

Sometimes people feel depressed and sad and they think if I just had another person with me,

If I had a boyfriend or a girlfriend,

I wouldn't feel sad.

I would feel really happy.

But oftentimes this sadness and this loneliness is actually you perceiving your body being sad and lonely because you're not in it.

And that's a trippy thing,

Right?

The way that you stop feeling sad and lonely is to actually come back to your body and start interacting with it and speaking with it and really feeling at home and peace inside of your own body.

And when you're energetically present fully and completely,

That sadness and that loneliness goes away,

Whether you're with a partner or not.

And the thing is,

And I see this in so many relationships,

Is that we'll blame our partner for our sadness and loneliness.

We're like,

Oh,

Well,

You're not here with me.

You're not doing enough with me.

You're not present enough with me.

But it doesn't have anything to do with them.

It always comes back to you and your relationship with your body,

You and your relationship with yourself.

Because if you're whole and complete and calm and peaceful within your own body,

Your outside world and your outside relationships are going to reflect that.

And if you're not fully complete and whole and calm and peaceful in your body,

Your outside relationships are going to reflect that too.

And so it always comes back to your relationship with yourself,

Your relationship with your body,

And how you're feeling and how you're feeling present.

It's a mirror.

And sometimes people hate that,

Right?

You're like,

Oh,

If my outside world was just more loving,

Like I would feel better.

But actually,

If your inside world is more loving,

You're going to feel better.

And you're going to track in people that are going to treat you in that way.

We are taught,

Oh,

If you find that partner,

You're going to live happily ever after.

But it's actually,

If you're living a happy life,

Then you find someone who's going to match that.

And if you're not living a happy life,

You're going to find someone who's going to match that.

It's taking responsibility for your life and your emotions and what you want to show up in the world.

People don't necessarily like hearing that.

They're like,

No,

I had a bad childhood.

And I'm going to blame my parents for the rest of my life or the way my life is.

And I get it.

I get it.

We all had kind of crazy childhoods,

Right?

And if you had a great childhood,

Awesome.

But for the most part,

I haven't really met that many people that have had awesome childhood lives.

And when you go back and you look on it,

Your parents were just people that were trying to do the best they could with what they had in the moment.

And you went through it and it's over.

And now you've been living your life for as long as you have.

Maybe that pain and suffering wasn't your fault.

But the healing of it and the way that you live your life now is 100% your responsibility,

Not theirs.

You can't go back and blame the past for what's happening right now.

You have 100% control over your reactions and how you heal your own life and your own emotions.

That's on you.

And the thing is you can blame everyone outside of yourself for what's going on.

But in the end,

It's your responsibility to be able to deal with your own mind and your own way of being and blaming someone else is never going to heal you.

It's just not.

The only thing that's going to heal you is you coming back to your body and re-parenting yourself,

Giving yourself what you've needed this whole time.

So maybe your parents didn't give you the kind of love that you decided you needed.

Well,

You can give yourself that love now.

You can tune into your inner child,

That part of yourself that was like,

Oh,

I didn't get enough hugs.

I didn't get enough love.

They didn't tell me this and that.

You can make a list of the things that you always wanted,

That you always wanted to experience,

And then start giving yourself that thing.

Whatever that is,

Whatever those feelings are that you wanted to experience,

You can take those parts of yourself that are sad,

Maybe hurting,

And you can go into them,

Tune into them and give them the love that they need.

This is your responsibility now.

And so as a conscious being on the planet,

It's your job to just tune into this body and to love it.

And when you do,

It takes the responsibility off of other people to have to love you the way that you need to be loved,

Because you can love you the way that you need to be loved.

And when you do,

When you love yourself the way that you need to be loved,

When you're fully grounded into your body and can feel that state of peace,

No matter where you are,

No matter what you're doing,

Then you attract to yourself people who love you at that level.

You're not clingy,

You're not needy,

You aren't thirsty,

You're just present and loving.

And that person who comes to you is present and loving.

And it's a whole different ballgame than I need to find someone to love me in the places where I haven't been loving myself.

Putting that responsibility on another person is too much and it's not sustainable.

There's not going to be anyone on the planet who could love you 100% of the time and give you what you need all the time.

Like,

You know,

They have to like,

Go to the bathroom.

They have to like,

Live their life.

So you can't put that on another person.

And if you don't have to,

Think about how amazing that is.

What if you could just sit in an empty room and feel calm and peaceful and 100% loved all the time.

You know,

I used to be emotionally hemorrhaging on a daily basis.

I was super emotional,

Looking for someone to love me and really wanting that fairy tale relationship.

And one of the reasons why is because I wasn't grounded in my body.

I didn't know how to love myself.

I didn't know how to go into my body and love those parts of myself that were needing love and needing attention.

And now I do that on a consistent basis.

And the tape loop in my head used to be super negative.

And I was hard on myself all the time.

But now I come to a place of peace and a place of love within myself.

And I love those places.

And those parts of myself that might be a little sad might be a little needy.

But that automatic tape loop in my head is I love you,

Everything's going to be okay.

And that's a big shift.

It's a big shift.

And it takes a while,

But you can come to that place.

And so these are very basic things that you can do as an intuitive.

And we are all intuitive,

And we all have different superpowers.

And it doesn't really matter what your superpower is.

But the base that you give yourself,

The groundedness inside of your body is the most important thing that you can do to be able to feel grounded and loved and safe within your body is the most important thing you can do as any superhero as any superhero on the planet.

Because if you have that base,

Then you can go out and you can share your love with other people and not be overwhelmed and freaking out.

You can actually be emotionally clear and grounded and loving.

And it's a great place to be because the energies on the planet are just going to keep getting more intense.

And it's our job to stay grounded in our body so that they don't overwhelm us.

And so that's what this series is all about teaching you tools so that you don't get overwhelmed so that you can feel peaceful and relaxed in your body and have an awesome and amazing life.

So thank you so much for tuning in.

If you'd like more information,

You can go to the new superheroes calm.

That's where a lot of my classes will be one on one sessions,

And also the show notes for each show.

Thanks again for tuning in and I will talk to you next time.

Reviews

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Lol- people can't be there to love you all the time they have to go to the bathroom sometimes haha! I love that I can love myself! I only feel lonely because my body is missing me- so simple aye 🙏🏻 thank you Joanna ❤️⭐️👋

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