5 Steps to Claim Your Authentic Power
- Brainz Magazine
- Dec 11, 2025
- 5 min read
Agnes Chau is an award-winning transformational life coach, PSYCH-K® facilitator, brain health trainer, writer, and speaker. With her training in various life-transforming modalities and her prior experience as an aerospace engineering executive, Agnes helps clients succeed in all aspects of life.
If you’ve ever doubted yourself or experienced uncertainty about your role in life, it may have affected your sense of self-worth, your self-esteem, or your self-confidence. Instead of letting these fear-based emotions control you and hold you back from realizing your potential, it may be time to discover and align with your authentic gifts.
This means moving beyond the imposter syndrome. View these feelings of inadequacy as signposts pointing you toward your greatest potential. Here are five transformative steps to move beyond self-doubt and step into your authentic power.
Step 1: Deepen your intuition
The journey begins with awareness. When you are filled with self-doubt and uncertainty, consider where those feelings have come from. Get really curious. Do those feelings belong to you, or did you pick them up from others? Are those feelings truly valid, or is it conditioning from an unhealthy mental diet? Honest examination of the negative messaging you’ve absorbed, whether actively or passively, is needed. These drama storylines often run so deep that you may have mistaken them for truth.
Where did these beliefs originate? Often, they stem from outdated belief systems, fearful projections from yourself or others, or societal limitations that have nothing to do with your actual potential.
This requires practicing excellent discernment. When negative self-talk dominates your inner dialogue, it is a sign of imbalance. This is a call to replace criticism with compassion. Transform the automatic negative thoughts into automatic nurturing thoughts.
Step 2: Believe you are capable
Building this self-awareness naturally leads to believing in your capability to grow. When learning something new or facing a challenge, adopt a growth mindset. Be comfortable with uncertainty and the unknown. Congratulations, you have moved beyond unconscious incompetence (you don’t know what you don’t know) to conscious incompetence (awareness of the gap). Here is the paradox, the more you know, the more you know what you don’t know. Now enjoy the journey as you move toward conscious competence.
Think of the last time you learned something new. Did you expect to master it the first time?
In teaching women’s self-defense, we tell people that it takes seeing a technique multiple times with lots of practice to develop the muscle memory needed before you can execute the technique with skill. Often, we see someone perform a technique or a task with skill, and we start comparing ourselves to them. What you see is a snapshot in time, not the journey it took them to get there.
Stop doing yourself the disservice of comparing yourself to others. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday or a year ago.
Step 3: Know thyself
Know yourself at all levels of your being to claim your authentic power. Know what works for you and what doesn’t, and why. Observe your energy levels and moods. Connect the dots with your mental diet, your nutrition, your activities, your exercise, and your sleep routine.
It is also important to understand what outdated subconscious programs are running your life. You may get a glimpse into them when too many automatic negative thoughts arise. One method to communicate with your subconscious is through muscle testing. When you are ready for subconscious upgrades, a PSYCH-K® balance is one of the fastest, most effective, safe, and sustainable ways to proceed. Through postures, movements, or energy work, you tap into your divine heart, mind, and body intelligence to upgrade your subconscious.
Knowing thyself also means connecting with your Superconscious. This is the source of those moments of genius intuition. When you deepen your intuition, you develop sacred awareness, divine clarity, and excellent discernment. This is your divine intelligence at work. This is your Superconscious engaging with you.
Step 4: Apply systems thinking
When you understand yourself better, it is helpful to have frameworks to navigate situations. In complex technical challenges, systems thinking is applied to get to the root cause. Systems thinking means considering all the interconnected elements and viewing a situation or condition from multiple perspectives. This approach can also be applied to every aspect of your life to expand your thinking and make better decisions.
The simple 5 W’s and 1 H approach works in all types of situations. The 5 W’s are Who, What, Where, When, and Why. The 1 H is the How. Use this as a starting point to ask better questions. When you ask better questions, you adopt a growth mindset. Your curiosity will expand your worldview and lead you to more enriching experiences.
Consciously practicing excellent discernment means being able to look at things from different perspectives. This is where root cause analysis tools like the “5 Why’s” or the Ishikawa (fishbone or cause and effect) diagram may be useful to understand the underlying issues. If you have applied these tools in a technical setting, then why not apply them to the rest of your life too?
Step 5: Do it until you become it
Give yourself grace on the journey to becoming your authentic self. When facing a challenge, adopt a beginner’s mindset. Approach the situation with the 5 W’s and 1 H. There may be missteps along the way. There may be times you want to give up. Then there is an “ah-ha” moment. The focus, time, and energy pay off.
The powerful mindset shift is squashing those automatic negative thoughts or reframing them into automatic nurturing thoughts to use as fuel for your inner fire. Reflect on the times when you succeeded, and consider what contributed to your success. Apply those same principles.
Claim your authentic power
You are more powerful than you realize. Remember who you truly are at the core of your being when all the masks have been removed. Really understand yourself at all levels of your being, conscious, subconscious, and Superconscious. Recognize that you are here for a reason beyond your current conscious comprehension.
Enjoy the moments of uncertainty and not knowing. Embrace the journey of stretching beyond your comfort zone. Deepen your intuition. Believe that you are capable. Know thyself. Apply systems thinking to life’s challenges. Do it until you become it because focus and consistency lead to mastery. You will then embody your authentic power. Enjoy the journey.
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Agnes Chau, Transformational Life Coach & Brain Health Trainer
Agnes Chau is an award-winning transformational life coach, brain health trainer, writer, and professional speaker. After retiring as an aerospace engineering executive, she transitioned into guiding individuals to be the CEOs of their own lives, upgrade their human operating systems, and become even better versions of themselves. Agnes is celebrated for her expertise in guiding individuals to upgrade their lives by tapping into the heart, mind, and body intelligence that she calls the human operating system. She teaches her clients to tap into their Divine Intelligence and align their conscious and subconscious minds, restoring balance and clarity. Agnes helps her clients eliminate outdated subconscious programming, overcome limiting beliefs, transform stress and trauma, optimize brain health, and gain a competitive edge in life. Her deep transformational work has earned her recognition as the Top Transformational Life Coach of the Decade, awarded by The International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP). For more resources, visit here or Empowered-Heart.org.
