We’re convinced if we process or observe things long enough, the solution will simply appear. But by taking this approach we’re only using a fraction of our potential abilities by leaving some of our most tangible tools rusting in our toolboxes. Embodied tools that are always there if we learn to use them.

These are the tools and approaches I teach and we’ll use in whatever we are working to achieve.

“Personal power” is the ability to control yourself and your environment, while maintaining your safety to achieve your goals, needs and desires. When you have it, you’re “Empowered,” you feel stable, energized and secure. Then, “Life Happens” and things beyond your control leave you feeling lost, or at the mercy of other people or things leading to stress, fear, anxiety, physical pain and sometimes trauma. So, how do you regain your power or achieve a power you may never have had?

People often fail to realize the loving power of a mother or father calming their hysterical child, the relaxed power of talented athletes or the warmth created from a child wholeheartedly helping a friend. These actions are examples of true emotional and physical Power.

They are expressions of an open, caring power that can be felt in yourself and the people you touch whether you’re a parent, first responder, caregiver or friend. It’s the physical and mental strength that enables you to be present in times of need, ready to wisely respond instead of blindly reacting.

It’s also a power that is physically stronger, faster and more balanced than the stereotypical hard bodied, rage fueled approach many believe is the best way to tackle life’s challenges.

But how is such a calm, confident, caring power attained? This is the heart of my work.

My close friend, collaborator and teacher sums things up perfectly.
Power without love is brutality. Love without power is ineffective.
– Paul Linden

A powerful, stable place to stand, work and move from to achieve your goals, needs and desires.

The ability to be calmly present while choosing the appropriate action without freezing, or later questioning and doubting your actions.

To truly know you have choices, with the ability and confidence to act upon them in a calm, respecting, caring way.

Learn to embrace conflict or challenges as an opportunity for improvement.

To not be overwhelmed by physical or mental hardships.

To understand that power and control are neither good nor bad but neutral and are given their purpose by how we decide to use them.