Cinthia and Michelle talk about what superpower are, what each of their superpowers are, and how they help clients find and deploy their personal superpowers for growth and healing.

• What do you think about superpowers? 0:01
• Can you have one superpower? Or can you have many? 3:11
• My superpower is that I combine an expert level of understanding of human nature with an ability to help people find their inner strengths. 6:50
• Sometimes you need help in order to see a different perspective. 10:19
• How do you work your superpowers with people that you love? 14:16
• How do we help our clients discover their superpowers? 17:10
• What it’s like to help people discover their superpowers. 20:45
• Cynthia’s superpower is that she can spiritually matchmake. 23:58

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Cinthia Varkevisser 0:01

Hi, and welcome to Mind power meets mistake with mind power, Michelle Walters, and me Cinthia Varkevisser. Today, we have a great topic for you, which is all about superpowers. So Michelle, let's get going since we got so much to talk about. What do you think about superpowers?

Michelle Walters 1:50

Well, I love the idea of superpowers, I think superpowers are in part sort of fueled by cultural interest in Batman and Superman and spider man. And really, in my mind, the word we might have used years ago for all of this our strengths, or sort of extreme strengths. And this is a big part of sort of where coaching comes from. It's a big part of where I come from in terms of how I help people. But what I really think of superpowers is a cooler name for strengths. What about you? Do you feel the same way?

Cinthia Varkevisser 2:30

I do, the thing that I love about superpowers is we get to be outside of ourselves, meaning that this strength that we have is greater than ourselves. So it's important that we use this superpower for the better of humanity, right to lift up people. And so by using the word superpower, instead of strength, there's something about strength where people get a little bit weird, like they'll either try and dumb it down or demit. Or, or feel a little bit ego about it, but superpower. It's a little bit altruistic. So if you got it, you got to use it.

Michelle Walters 3:11

I like that. I do like that. And I do agree superpower does have an element of altruism, that strengths doesn't necessarily carry with it. So that's good. And when we were talking earlier, you mentioned you know, can you have one superpower? Or can you have many, right? I'm a believer that you can have many, just like you can have many strengths. And sometimes it's the combination of some of those strengths or superpowers that working together really makes makes an individual shine makes the magic happen.

Cinthia Varkevisser 3:48

Right, right. I agree. I can't remember. But it's about using the minimal amount of force by maximizing your superpowers. And I love that because we're in a time right now where people can mistake force for something else, or someone will feel like force means it's an aggression. And here, when we're talking about super powers, again, it's a minimal amount of force with a maximum amount of response, or reasonable. It's like

Michelle Walters 4:23

levers, you know, right levers, sort of simple human machines that have made life a whole lot easier for us levers and wheels. And, you know, how do you how do you get the most out of something with without having to necessarily put an inordinate amount of energy into it, really. So we wanted to talk a little bit also about sort of how to utilize superpowers or how to maximize them. And so I thought you could start to deal with talking about an example of sort of what is your superpower and how how do you You deploy it?

Cinthia Varkevisser 5:03

Well, I have my superpower is something that got me in a lot of trouble growing up, and that is being a shit disturber. And I always thought it was fun because people would, they would laugh, of course, that kind of response. But also it, it helped people look at things in a different way, because they were always a little bit on their toes. And so you had to be a little bit more aware. As I got older, I realized just recently that I'm still a shit disturber but I'm assured a spiritual shit disturber meaning I poke you and poke around and let's see what what plops out. plumping is such a weird word, isn't it when I talk about superpowers, but But you know, the beauty of is intuitively you know, I can see and I know you do this as well, you can see the best in our client and your client, I can see the best in my client, I can see just how amazing they are. And so it's it's the the prodding and poking, and then backing up as they feel as they feel a little bit stuck, you know, so it's kind of like an intuitive sparring in a weird way, so that people can figure out what their stuff is and grow. So it actually is a superpower. It sounds like an illegal and inappropriate thing. And I and I think and it probably is, in its lower level, but but on a higher level it is it's a way to get people to see just how amazing and brilliant they are. So that's my superpower. Now I know yours is much sweeter, I love your superpowers. So share with the world with your superpowers are.

Michelle Walters 6:50

So my superpower is that I combine an expert level of understanding of human nature with a an ability to help people find their inner strengths, and to use that to help them with personal or professional transformations. And I got this beautiful description of my superpower earlier this year from an astrologer who came up with this looking at my birth chart, I'm not really sure how all that happened. But it does an amazing job of describing who I am and what I do. And I am presently in the purpose of using this superpower to help people. And so sometimes that superpower comes about by helping people to reframe a particular trouble that they're they're working on. And sometimes it's a matter of sort of reminding people or using hypnosis to to find and rework that superpower. So I just love it. I finally had words to describe what it is I love to do.

Cinthia Varkevisser 8:04

You are and you're amazing at that. I want to bring up I know it's a little bit early in our conversation, but it just seems so appropriate. How you reframe because you are the most positive reframe or that I know, and you know how to use these absolutely wonderful words, everyday words, but in such a way and with such energy, that the the least emotional busts, shed tears. That is that is a phenomenal superpower. I've seen it myself. I've been that person. And and so you combine the two which makes for x. outstanding work.

Michelle Walters 8:46

I thank you for that. for that. For that expression. I recently had a chance to do with to do this with a friend of mine. My friend was looking ahead she had an upcoming surgery that was going to happen on her eyes. And this was mostly a medical procedure, although once they were getting into it, she also had some some personal things that she was working on in this particular surgery, but she had been anticipating the surgery for weeks and as the date of the surgery approached, she was having more and more trouble. And so we got on a zoom call and I brought her into a state of hypnosis. And whereas she had been thinking about this as surgery, surgery surgery, I talked about it in hypnosis as you're getting help. You're getting help, you're getting help for this. And so after hearing this over and over again while she was in that receptive state of hypnosis, she ended that session with kind of a new perspective on this upcoming surgery. She wasn't thinking of about it as, as a scary thing, she was thinking about it as help. And this reframing of the surgery really, really helped her to get through the few remaining days to sleep well at night, and to go into that surgery feeling much more positive. And as we all know, it's critical to approach, you know, scary medical procedures with with the right positive attitude for for best results. So I thought that was just an easy little example of of that. And sometimes you can do that on your own. And sometimes you need help in order to kind of see, see a different perspective on things and think about things differently.

I agree, we all need help. The trick is to, to decide when you're going to ask for help. And when you're going to, you know, explore on your own, there's no wrong answer. It's more important that you commit, right, and and you have the ability to change your mind. Right, like, yeah, right, they try something

I have seen you do this for years, in terms of your spiritual shit disturbing, Cynthia, you have a real knack for how to poke poke, poke at somebody in a way that is deep, but also usually makes them smile a little bit to see that, see that piece of things. And to, to as you're kind of setting them a little bit off balance, to rethink and approach things rethink how they might might do that. share an example of what

I do you know, what's funny is, as you're talking I thought, That's so weird. I didn't say intuition is my superpower. And I, and I believe at this moment, because you know, 100% doesn't mean 100% every day. So my truth for this moment is, I don't believe it's a superpower, because we're all intuitive. Right? So my superpower is helping you use your intuition. People use their intuition, there's so many different ways. So my quick story has to do with our pals, Santana, who was having some weird stuff going on, and just talking about it in conversation. And what happened is, I could see the patterns going through. So even it had to do even though it had to do with part of it was their personal life. Part of it had to do with their work. And part of this story had to do with just a little weird thing that happened on their own, I could see the connection. And then just in conversation, I said, Hey, have you thought about this, this is what I'm seeing. And at the same time, throwing a bunch of absurd examples, which makes people laugh. And what I find is that when people laugh, and they're on their toes, you have to be a little bit more nimble, which means that you're much more open to so many other possibilities. And that's where your intuition lies. What I've been telling people and it's a new thing for me is there's the emotional you. And then there's the analytical you. And everybody knows these two pieces really well. There's a whole big thing in the middle. And that's where your intuition, that's where the woowoo is. Woowoo is right there in the middle between the two. And looking for the perfect elixir of thing a little bit emotional but detached, being a little bit analytical, but detached, and then all these opportunities are in the middle. So the thing that was great is that Santana, you know, loves to, you know, cracks up big laughs big, you know, clap their hands when when they when they have an aha moment. So, in this just moment of kinships I got to use my superpower to help Santana see something that they hadn't seen, you know, a moment before, but it's been you Yeah. And it's fun.

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That love that was good. So I have a question for you. So here we are. We're both professionals. We do these four for our clients and our friends, how about in the home life? How do you find it? I mean, it is tough in the home life because you're so emotionally bound to the people that you love, obviously, right? But have you found ways to work? Your superpowers with people that you love?

Oh, absolutely. And let's actually start with the person that I need to love the most. And that is me.

Oh, yeah, there you go.

I've had a number of I've had huge joys in my life. And I've had a number of trips and a few falls, to be honest. And I think the most important usage of my superpower has really been to help me in terms of finding a way to reframe, to focus on strengths, to think about human nature and think about sort of time and find other people to support me that find ways to be resilient, and to get through those tough times. And I love doing this for other people. But if I didn't do it for myself, I wouldn't be here to help other people. And so, honestly, I think that's a really important usage of my superpower.

Yeah, no, that's beautiful. I am not as willing as you are my friend. When I'm down and out, that's when I asked for help. And you know that because you're one of my key people, right, my my re framer and sunny outlook now I should just that should be your, you know, if you ever decide to be a drag queen, that could be your name, Sunny outlook. I like it.

Okay, I hadn't really thought about being a drag queen, but sunny outlook. Does this characterize me? It's true? It does.

Yeah. I love that. So when it comes to people that I love, the first two people I think about are my kids. And they're, they're adults. And yet, you know, we still have this mother daughter dynamic. But it's different. So I use my intuition my superpower, when I talk to them, because it's really important to give them my best, without putting in any of my fears are my concerns, and making sure that that I hear whether or not this is their journey, and I kept to shut the fuck up. And just listen, right? Or right, offer something? Or, you know, go that is just redonk. Right? That's just silly. I haven't been to the silly place lately, because they're going through some big things. And they're good things. But at the same time, it's, it's been a wonderful superpower to have. Because my long term relationship with my kids is so much more important than the concerns I have around their journeys.

Right. Right. Absolutely. So the next thing we wanted to talk about is how do we help clients discover their superpowers?

You want to go first? Sure,

I sometimes I can just see in talking on a conscious level to my clients what their superpowers are. But more often, I help clients discover their superpowers in hypnosis. And by getting so relaxed, that they can access different memories access different parts of their minds, it becomes in for me pretty natural, to help guide them to see what those superpowers are and to figure out how they can use them with whatever objective we're working on. So for example, I recently had a client who came to see me she, she drinks alcohol and realize that she was drinking more alcohol than she wanted to. She is confident that she's not an alcoholic, but wanted to find a way to reduce her alcohol consumption, for personal and for health reasons. And in our work together in hypnosis, she recalled being a younger woman in her early 20s. Prior to her marriage, and how that version of her had no need for alcohol. That version of her was an adult with access to alcohol could have been a drinker, but didn't drink And by finding this part of her, that was within her all the time, she had a new way of seeing herself. So it's, it's both kind of a reminding, and finding, as well as, as watching her internally reframe that she didn't need to see herself as somebody who drinks a lot. But she could see herself as somebody who didn't need to drink or almost never drank. And this is a huge pivot point for her on her journey and her new desire to grow in a way where she drinks much less. So it's, it's fantastic to be able to help people really discover those superpowers. They're all within us. But we get we get clouded by current events, we get clouded by things that have happened along the journey, as you say, and, and so part of my technique is really helping people to peel a lot of that away, in order to see it. And then when they see it, it's such a strong factor, because they are remembering these things. They see this, this isn't me, this is me just guiding and opening the doors to these things. But it's, it's so rewarding to be able to help people like that.

Yes, and you? Oh, well, at the end of the day, each one of us here on Earth are teachers, students, and healers. And we're coming we are all of these things at the same time. And so I love going in and seeing what people's superpower is as a healer, as a teacher. And the fun part, and it's not so fun for the clients is that they have certain notions on what that supposed to do. And what does that mean? Here's an example. People would say, I just had a client say, hey, you know, you told me that I'm really good with my hands, that, you know, it calms me down, and that, you know, that I can help people with my hands. Does that mean I should be, you know, playing cards, and I said yes. And but that doesn't mean that they need to be a dealer at a card at a card place. And it doesn't even mean that they need to play cards, it means that they can shuffle and that gets them to a calm place. And then they can go back and do their normal work. And healing happens in all areas. So I also have a client, who's an amazing domine knows how to move energy and, and shift things. She also happens to be in human resources. And so, you know, it was hard. It really was hard. It was it was difficult for me to say, yes, you're an amazing shaman, you're an amazing healer, and your world is really out there in corporate. And she was sad. And she says I know and, and so it was about really bringing the shamanistic part of her to work every day, even though you know, she can't say she's a corporate shaman because she is, you know, the corporate shaman, you know, I wonder if there's a new set, if someone didn't take that, I'm gonna take that because that's a good, that's a good name. So it's about really helping people find their superpowers and then letting them settle into their placement of choice. So that they will be a benefit to you know, the greater the greater cause

a Grade A grade. It's so fun working with superpowers, isn't it?

It is it is. It's lovely. And when you can know what what more than one is, then it's less effort and and more results which is even better.

So Cynthia, if somebody wants to discover his or her superpowers through you, how would they go about that?

Oh, it's a quick phone call or an email somehow just connecting to me Instagram Facebook, and of course all those are in the show notes and then we have a quick a quick chat to see what's the best way how do they best respond to to opening up some people don't want to do one on one some people are so private, they want to do it one on one and then we work within their comfort level. And we either have a group session or or we do

a one on one a great group sessions and I always meet the funnest people there

is yeah, you know why? Because we're all just a bunch of assholes, you know, which is hilarious because you're not an asshole, but you can show your role with the asshole parts of everybody If you're not assholes, right, we're just smart asses. Gases.

I think that what characterizes a lot of your group events are people who are spiritually sinking or seeking and are open minded. Looking for friends and companionship that are like minded. Right?

Right. But there's a grit to them too. You know, there's a great like, we got to get down, you know, we don't, they don't mind getting dirty. I think that's the part that I love them. I love the most. What about you?

The best way for people to reach out to me is to get a hold of me on my website, there's a link you can book a 30 minute consult with me and it's a great way for us just to have a conversation one to one about what's going on and whether or not you are the kind of person I could help. And if not, what can I do in terms of of fostering, fostering your journey?

That's the other thing I love about our work is if you know, like like I was once told if Jesus Buddha and Krishna are not for everybody how the hell do I think I should be? So I love that my channels yeah my channels are not so flowery and lovey dovey but but effective right and and so that's another superpower I believe, is that we can spiritually matchmake

Yes, absolutely. Spiritual matchmaking or hypnosis matchmaking are both still Helpful. Helpful activities because I I get with an awful lot of people, not necessarily 100% same with you.

Yeah, nobody's for everybody. How boring would that be? That would

be pretty boring. But I don't think we're very boring. Cynthia, I think we're actually kind of exciting people. Actually think

so too, even though you know, I don't know about you. I go to bed at 10 o'clock. So maybe that part's not exciting, but the rest of music silence.

Come to an age where going to bed at 10 o'clock is not what makes me boring. There are other things thank you to our listeners for hanging in with us on this wonderful episode of Mind power meets mystic again, we want your ratings and reviews please send them to us ASAP. Bye bye, bye.