What Gentle Power Feels Like for Me

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My favorite pastime in my early twenties was watching endless Japanese anime featuring epic superheroes and supervillains. In almost every episode, these superheroes and supervillains would blast their powers, showing neon-colored power blasts destroying everything in their paths.

I could sense energies intuitively, but I didn’t know then that this could be made so tangible. I was so excited to see these subtle energies visible through the animations. Seeing it confirmed this truth for me.

I choose to ‘blast’ away life dramas

But I felt disturbed and disappointed whenever I saw these fighting scenes where powerful energies are used for destroying. Why would I want to destroy my world if I had this power? That feels so meaningless to me.

There are also other scenes where energy is portrayed as magical, light, and joyful. These energies make people float in delight and see their world through the lens of Wonder. Ah… This is the kind of power I’d love to have.

I don’t want to blast my power to destroy everything and everyone in its path as it ripples out from me.

I prefer to have a shimmery and twinkling ‘blast’ of power, helping people detach from their…