The Truth About Empowerment
in my life
i have been a complete overachiever
i co-starred in my first hit series at
the age of 22
and my last one at the age of 56
with hit series every decade in between
i have had a number one record i have
co-starred
in many films i have hosted
award-winning shows
i’ve won scholarships to college i’ve
won awards for everything
from acting to stunts and academics
in music and it was the same thing at
home
i was the mom who would choreograph all
of her kids plays
and make all of their costumes and put a
little flower in their lunchbox and a
zip line in the backyard
i was the wife who learned how to run up
a wall and do a backflip
or drop in on a 10-foot wave on an
8-foot board and pump down the line just
so i could play with my husband and the
big boys
even though it was absolutely
gut-wrenching
i have not been afraid of seeking out
the skills and the knowledge required to
become what i consider to be
empowered enough to achieve
success at the things i wanted to
achieve success in
but the truth is
outside of the experiences i had with my
kids
every success i had
carried with it a low-grade
dissatisfaction
and i wondered why
then in 2015 after 35 years in the same
industry
in 30 years of raising two amazing
children
and managing four impossible husbands
i told you i was an overachiever
the series i was on got bored with my
character and started writing her out
my youngest child went off to college a
year early
and my last marriage broke up
and i knew in an instant
it was over the entire game was over i
was never going to have the family
or the life that i worked so hard for
and for the first time in my life i
didn’t know what to do
i mean after all it was that doing that
got me here
and even if i thought i knew what to do
i didn’t know how to do it better
i didn’t know how to do it better i
didn’t know if i can do
more if i could do it faster or smarter
so i walked down to the beach that had
been my family’s
playground for the last 10 years and i
sat there and i said okay mia
you’re all alone and
you’re free you can be do
or have anything you want
so what do you want
and i couldn’t answer the question
i couldn’t answer the simple question
what do you want
and i sat on that beach and i wept and i
wept
and i wept and i wept because i knew
that contained within the answer to that
question
the real question the question that is
asked on a soul level
what do you want was the essence of the
real nia
contained within the answer that
question was the real
the mia that was capable of being deeply
satisfied and
deeply content and
unashamed of expressing from her state
of
being rather than the incessant doing
that i was so
so good at as the overachiever i had
become
so i sold my house and i gave
most everything out else away and i just
started wandering
with the only goal being
to feel my way through everything with
my heart
rather than my head and to reconnect
with my inner voice
that voice led me from the beaches of
malibu
to the sands of suva to the hills of
bosnia and israel
up to the mountains of peru
and that profound journey
listening to that voice that that voice
that took me on this profound journey
brought me into the presence of kabbalah
masters priests
monks shaman and cutting-edge scientists
and everywhere i went no matter where
these people were from
from what culture what religion what
part of town or
how old they were they all had the same
core message
the answer to everything
is in the heart
with its frequency of love
it is the portal to the truth of who we
are
and what we’re capable of and i don’t
mean just what we’re capable of
achieving i would learn
that the heart is not just a pump the
heart actually has neurons just like the
brain and sends more signals to the
brain
than the other way around in fact it’s
60 times more powerful electrically than
the brain
and up to 5 000 times more powerful
magnetically
than the brain i learned that
every organ in your body entrains to the
heart
which means it lines up with the
patterns of the heart
if the heart is stressed and spasming
out like this
none of the organs in your body can line
up with it and that is the beginning of
all disease
but there’s more i would learn
that the heart gives us access to more
information than our five senses
can detect when i was up at the heart
math institute the scientists were
telling me about a study that they did
where they took a handful of subjects
half of them had been taught
how to drop into heart coherence which
is that
peaceful place right in the heart and
the other half had not
they sat them all in front of individual
computers that were set up so that they
would
the computers would choose random
pictures very evocative pictures
that would revoke very strong emotions
from everyone
and it would do this randomly and what
they found was
yes of course everybody responded to
these pictures because there were
pictures like
you know a toddler cuddling with a
little puppy or on the other side of
that coin
dismembered bodies lying about a street
in puddles of blood
in a war-torn country so what they found
was that everybody responded but the
difference was
those who knew how to sit in the heart
space
knew what was coming before the pictures
actually showed up
in other words working from the heart
space gives us
more access deeper access to our
intuition
and a deeper dive into science and
quantum physics would explain a little
everything is made of atoms atoms and
99.99999
of all atoms what is it it’s frequency
waves of energy and information just
waves of information interacting with
other waves of information
my friend dr teresa bullard who’s a
physicist
explained that so much of what our
bodies are
is frequency that if we pulled out all
the frequency
what would be left over would fit on the
head of a pin
so stop and consider that we are mostly
frequency
we’re frequency we are waves of
information
interacting with and accessing other
waves of information
and the portal to all of it is the heart
and the guidance system is the way we
feel
not the way we think which is why
on this walkabout when i stopped all the
incessant doing and the pushing
to achieve things and just started
feeling my way through things
mystical experiences just starting to
land on me
suddenly i knew things that i had never
learned
i was communicating with animals in the
wild
i had precognizance was the ability to
to know what’s going to happen
five minutes before it happens and i
mean in detail
all of this mystical stuff was so
incredible
but you know the most empowering part of
awakening to this
more of who i am was realizing
that i hadn’t done anything wrong
but there was nothing more that i could
do to create that family
i couldn’t do more i couldn’t do better
i couldn’t do it faster or smarter what
i could do
i could have done it truer
truer to who i am truer
to what i am truer to my true
nature the very nature of who i am
we are so much more so much more
than what we’ve come to believe and
experiencing the more of who i am the
truth of who i am is one of the most
exhilarating and exciting things i’ve
ever experienced
and though it flies in the face of
convention i can’t unsee what i’ve
seen and i can’t unknow what i now know
and in truth have always known it is
what you know
you know that you are more than what is
just sitting in these little bodies
right here and right now you know that
and i am more invigorated now than ever
because i know who i am
and i know why i am here
no longer are all my skills and my
talent and my knowledge and wisdom
and all the energy i can amass in
service to other people’s
definitions of success
all of it is in service to my divine
purpose
and if you’re sitting here right now
it’s because you are a maverick you’re a
maverick
you are a maverick you are a
natural-born revolutionary longing to
serve
your divine purpose but how can you know
what that is if you
don’t know who you are and how can you
know who you are if you don’t know
what you are
how many of you in here want to really
be empowered
do you want to be empowered do you
really want to be empowered
all right then sit up do this with me
just sit up for a second
i want you to feel a little bit
of who you are and the power of who you
are sit up
put your phones down close your eyes
place one hand on your heart
take a deep breath in
and exhale follow the breath
through your heart take a deep breath in
and exhale one more time
through your heart take a deep breath in
and exhale now sit with that for a
moment
and be present at present
and repeat after me i know who i
am
i know what i am
i know how i serve
i am here i am
here i
am here
take a deep breath in and let it out
with your voice
open your eyes and take a look at the
screen we’re going to watch a little
something
to access our full potential we must
first understand
our true nature then give it authority
99.999999
of our bodies is made of frequency
love is a frequency so is fear
love is the optimum frequency of our
nature when we give it full authority
we are fully empowered
96 of the universe is made of frequency
operating from this frequency of love is
how we add our unique life to all that
want to is this
is how we change the world
you guys are powerful beyond what you
know
you are beautiful and powerful and you
have something very unique and important
to add
to the world to the sum of all that is
that’s what we need you to do
so be brave brave enough to stand in
your own
truth be brave be
bold be bold enough to continue
learning who you are and expanding into
the magnificent being that you really
are and be true
true enough to let every word that comes
forth from your mouth
and every step that you take first be
rooted in the frequency of love
because together that’s how we change
the world
thank you