Books That Change Lives: My Best Friend’s a Superhero by Indra Singh
I’ve heard people say so many times that our generation hasn’t had a war. We have lived in times of security, abundance, endless potential and benefited from a technological age that has brought us all closer together. Yet, we have not experienced true global trauma, we don’t understand just how lucky we are. The trials of the pandemic over the last few years have been this for us. We have been broken down, spun around and our lives have been dictated to us from outside. No group of us will be as impacted by this as our young people. They have nothing to compare it to and with the radical changes to their support structures and ways of living and growing in the world, they like us are being forced to become resilient in a way they were not prepared for, and we adults are often unable to teach as we struggle to do that work for ourselves.
Indra Singh saw this and wanted to help. As a lifelong student of yoga and a teacher, she understood that young people needed to find the superhero within them rather than look to be rescued by someone else. She created the book ‘My Best Friend’s a Superhero’ to be a way into themselves through fiction they could easily relate to. Knowing how important embodied practice is to integrating new truths, throughout the book, there are activity pages that encourage the reader to experience the journey of the character and make it real for themselves in their own lives.
The more you fear, the darker and twisted the path becomes. You’re affecting your outside world by the thoughts you are thinking. Does that make sense? Your world is also affected by those around you if you allow it to be. Not all this darkness belongs to you, but you have chosen to accept it instead of rejecting it. The good news is, now you can start to change it.
This is a book to read to your youngest children while you soak up the message together and talk about the strength, beauty, and power we all hold. It is a book to leave on the bedside table of your teenagers for them to be drawn to in their own time. And it is a book to pick up yourself because we all need reminding of who and what we are.
Where self-worth goes, wisdom flows.
Image from Indra Singh.
Indra Singh saw a need and has placed this book into the world to meet it. We all need help to focus and increase the positive thoughts in our internal chatter, we all need support to harness our creative power to build the life we desire for ourselves, and we all need to be reminded of the keys to our self-mastery. Sometimes it takes the right words at the right time to enable us to realize what we thought we had lost was right there in our pockets this whole time.