Get Up Under the Root
How can you get up under the root? In this episode of The Science of Superpowers, host Tonya Dawn Recla welcomes guest Amy Eliza Wong to the show. Our root is the center of ourselves, where our energy connects. Almost like a gut feeling. In this episode the two talks about how you can get up under the root to release negative energy or trauma, and how to use the root strength to empower yourself. Tune in today to learn all about how to get up under the root!
Tonya Dawn Recla:
Hello, everyone, and welcome back to The Science of Superpowers. I am delighted about today’s conversation we’re gonna be talking all about getting up under the root, right? What? Okay, what are you talking about Tony, right? So, you know, through the CEFA process, we talk all about the importance of staying rooted in staying rooted into the sense of self and ourselves into our connections with each other on the earth. Right? If that’s our thing, and beyond that, if we, if we can envision beyond that, how important it is, for us to remember the bigness and vastness of who we are, especially in moments when we want to constrict and pull it all in and go, Ah, this is crazy, you know, and freak out and lash out at people. That’s when it’s most important that we choose to stay embodied and choose to remember that not only do we expand deeply into ourselves, but we connect them with each other in ways that we do not totally understand still. And those connections are really, really important. And so today’s conversation is really exciting with Amy Wong joining us. She’s the founder of always on purpose. She’s also the author of Living on Purpose: Five Deliberate Choices to Realize Fulfillment and Joy. And in her work, this was where the synergy really lit me up. What is she focuses on the fact that look, we can’t just look at the surface, right? We all know this to be true. Many of us tried, right? Many of us have tried to skate the surface and stay on top of things and not dig too deeply into those dark places that we’re like, ah, you know, and only to come to find out that they’re the most brilliant and beautiful, embracing whole and authentic aspects of ourselves that were robbing us of the experience of were robbed, robbing each other of, and that’s what we’re going to get to talk about today is how do we make the choice to stay in those spaces that are our greatest strength, our greatest wisdom, our greatest connection, right? Our greatest sense of self and purpose, really, really beautiful things happen when we make the choice to be wholly and fully who we are. And so that’s what we’re going to be talking all about today. With Amy Wong, please join me in welcoming to the show. Welcome, Amy. We’re so glad you’re here with us.
Amy Eliza Wong:
Tony, thank you for having me. I’m so excited about this conversation. We’re gonna have fun.
Tonya Dawn Recla:
Very cool. For sure. For sure. So let’s start with what are your superpowers. And how do you use them for good?
Amy Eliza Wong:
Oh, well, I got two I think. And the first is I and I think this was due to just my big time, passion, and obsession with math growing up. So I studied math all through my life. And in the process of that, I realized that my superpower is to be able to listen for all the stuff that people don’t know that they don’t know, that’s getting in the way of true seeing or clear seeing. And that, you know, something I think I honed really early on in the process of teaching math. But and I recognize Well, it’s not just math is one language, but we do this, I can do this with really any language, whether it’s the words we’re using right now or body language, it’s, it’s really listening for that stuff that people that are blind spots. And so how I use that for good, for sure. It that’s the stuff that really gets in our way of true thriving because it’s not the stuff we know, it’s not the stuff we don’t know, because we can address those two buckets. It’s the stuff we don’t know that we don’t know. So I can hear that. And I can not only hear that, but then the second superpower is to be able to translate what it is that I can understand in a way that’s actually heard. So it’s the ability to come to translate complex concepts into very digestible, understandable packets of information that are heard and just the way they need to be heard.
Tonya Dawn Recla:
Yeah, beautiful. I love that. You’re singing my song there. It’s the synthesis right in the ability to take and I think I dare say that you know, those of us who have superpowers, if I will, as we call them, that, you know, these abilities to kind of see beyond what’s obvious and hear beyond and feel beyond sense beyond. And I think that’s what we’re expanding into as humans as humanity with our willingness to entertain the notion that there’s something beyond what we previously thought was possible. And every time we expand into those spaces, we discover more about ourselves and each other. And there’s a richness in that, right? There’s messiness, there’s messiness, and clearly, that’s what the world is saying, Hey, we see this now, right? We see the messiness in our exchanges. We see the faulty foundations, we’ve used to build our relationships with each other, and a lot of that comes from not having a strong sense of self by not being able to hear that, see that know that for yourself. And, you know, that’s, that’s, that’s a delicate line, right because we some of the stuff we can’t see without reflection.
And so that leads to a lot of the application and stuff that we see in the coaching arena of like, okay, well tell me how to do it, it’s like whoa like we have our own innate guidance and inner abilities to, to follow our own path you know, that’s what’s in our estimation a God-given right like that’s part of that part of being human right whether you were into the God thing or not like however, we explained to ourselves that we came to be, it is part of the makeup, right, all of the human operating systems come ready built with it. And so once we can understand that about ourselves, we start interacting with each other very, very differently. And so I love that you talk about languages and math as a language and the patterns that you’re able to see, how did that first start? Like you speak that as though like, it’s easy to say, oh, yeah, I have these abilities. And I could do these things. And that’s a walk in and of itself in this world? How did you come to even give yourself permission to say, wait, I think I’m good at this, I do this thing, and it’s valuable? But what was that like for you?
Amy Eliza Wong:
Oh, well, you know, it’s very young, is starting at a really young age, I was super fascinated with all things, consciousness studies. And I remember, you know, my, my mom and my grandma, very metaphysical. And, you know, as young as seven, eight years old, some of my best, most cherished memories are the three of us sitting around my grandma’s kitchen table, up at their farm, and all we’re doing is talking about just the nature of the universe, how thinking is causative how, you know, we are all connected, and I just was so enthralled. And so I think starting at a really young age, very reflective, just very, very, very curious and very reflective on just what the heck’s going on here and how this thing called existence might really work. And when, when I when, when math really became a big focal point for me, and I just, I don’t know what it was about math itself, that just I think it was really well ever maybe here it is, it’s the language of the universe. And I think my soul knew on some level that getting really good at this was going to serve me in the long run. And I became so enamored with just the art and the science, just the elegance of mathematics itself. And what I was really passionate about was getting other people excited about it. But I couldn’t do that by talking about it had to do it by teaching it. And so starting in high school, I started a tutoring business. I also had I play piano as well. So I also had my own, I was a piano teacher, and I had my own, I had, that was another business that I did. So teaching was a very big part of my life in high school. And then I went to UC Berkeley, and I taught there at UC Berkeley as a huge GSI for math. And, and I recognized it was, it was in high school, I recognized that you know, as I was tutoring these kids, that it wasn’t what wasn’t lighting me up so much was that they got the concept, it was helping them break through a block that they didn’t know that they had. And it was recognizing that wow, you know, in listening to their logic and listening to their argument and just watching their body language, I can discern what’s missing in their thinking that’s keeping them from asking the right question. Because the moment they can ask the right question, they’re golden. The moment they get with this, they don’t get their golden, and I can create that bridge. And so I think I just started getting really good at and very artful in how I created those bridges, recognizing that every person was different, and how people heard and how they were how they needed to be presented, information was different. And it just became such a, it was almost like breathing for me. It wasn’t, it wasn’t effortful, it just kind of flowed. And it was there was so much flow in the process. And so then when I went to Cal, I’m doing this at Caltech, and it became even more evident, as is that, as I was, you know, playing with this, and then I ended up in the tech industry, I worked at Sun Microsystems for about 10 years. And I was I did a lot of many roles in that, in that phase of my career. And again, I was always I would always find myself in these roles where I was translating between, you know, say development and end-user or and so it’s this role of translation role of and recognizing why all of this is happening in language. All of this is happening in this medium of communication and so today, you know, I’ve been a coach for over a decade I founded always on purpose in 2011, and I mainly work with leaders and teams, and my sweet spot, it really is. It’s all things communication. And I focus really heavily on all aspects of it because it’s so interesting for folks. And it’s so everybody wants to get better at communication. And whether that’s public speaking, team dynamics, interpersonal interactions, pitching or negotiation, or just trust, how we build trust. And that became just, I was so interested in the ins and outs, the arts and science of all of this, because I recognized you know, what, this field of communication, this is where everything happens. And if you get this right, we can do so much. And so but then, because of what I know about just how we operate, because I, my master’s is in transpersonal psychology, I’m also very, very clear that communication is a symptom. And it’s a symptom of the relationship we have with ourselves. So if we and so I see communication, not only as a medium for transformation, it truly is an entry point for true evolution and transformation. So depending on where a client is, or where I’m at, with an engagement, and how far I can kind of push, now how deep we can go, like, you know, it’s we can catalyze transformation at all levels. And so, you know, to me, I kind of see it’s communication language roots that we’re talking about, it’s all totally related in this incredible web of just elegant complexity, but it’s not really that complex, you know, at all.Â
Tonya Dawn Recla:
And I love that at a functional level, you know, we’re identical, we function the same like our human operating systems are pretty easy to comprehend when we’re willing to look at them. I think from that vantage point, that’s why I like the conversation around math. You know, doesn’t it doesn’t surprise me that we’ve danced in some of the same circles from the tech industry, to you know, in my world, it was more electronic warfare and stuff, understanding antenna theory and teaching human energetics because and it’s all everything you just got done saying because it was deconstructing these constructs that we built up around us, that really kind of blind us to our innate abilities in a sense. And when we’re able to dig underneath that now we can use those constructs in service to and in stewardship to our own innate brilliance, which is sort of flipping things inside out, which I love, we’re gonna take a quick break. Amy, I love everything that you’re talking about, make sure you go check out AlwaysOnPurpose.com. Check out her book Living On Purpose, we’ll have links to that on the episode page. And if you want to know what it feels like to feel those roots to really understand your own inner communication, to remember what it feels like to be guided by your own innate knowing is your own intelligence, make sure you go sign up for our next experience over at CEFA. We want to make sure that you know how it feels to get back into the center of you. And we’re excited to see you there. Go to AlwaysOnPurpose.com and check out Amy’s work go get signed up at superpowerexperts.com for the next experience. And stay tuned because we are going to be right back talking all about getting up under that route with Amy Wong.
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