What To Do When Your Mind Says No But Your Intuition Says Yes

by Jenna on June 29, 2009

What do you do when your mind says No, but your intuition says YES?

Do you ever feel a surge of positive energy about something, but then your mind quickly jumps in and says “That’s not for you,” or “Who do you think you are?”

We have glorious visions for ourselves and our lives. These visions come from our intuition. Our inner guidance KNOWS what it is we are here to do,  share, and create, and who we are here to be.

Think about that book you’ve longing to write. That project you’ve been dreaming about. Or that business you’ve been wanting to start FOR-EV-ER. Your intuition is saying YES!

But your mind keeps saying No. Uh-uh.

This is the surest path to life dissatisfaction I have ever seen.

If you are called to write, you MUST write.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t think anyone wants to read it (that’s none of your business, by the way). Your job is to create what you were put here to do.

If your Spirit says paint, draw, lead, operate, learn, grow — you MUST!

Your intuition is a channel of Divine Guidance. This means you must treat it with reverence, and take action on whatever it is you are called to do. (Need help with this? Reclaim your dream from your mind’s grasp with a Dream Illumination Session. Only 6 left. Click here to find out more.)

One of my coaches used to say, “The first step is always illuminated.” In other words, you’re guided to your first step. All you have to do is take it. Are you listening?

So now, what do you do when your mind says No, but your intuition says Yes?

I know you know what to do. :D

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Are You Making Excuses Instead of Pursuing Your Dream?

by Jenna on June 19, 2009

I‘ve been hearing an awful lot of “excuses” lately.

  • “It’s always been this way for me, so I can’t do it any differently.”
  • “I don’t know how.”
  • “I’m not qualified to do that” or it’s slightly better version, “I’m not qualified to do that yet.”
  • “I can’t do it where I live.”
  • “I don’t have enough time.”
  • “I have to support my family, so I can’t take the risk of starting a new business.”
  • “No one will want what I have to offer.”

In the deliciously parallel way the world operates, I can relate, because as I’m exploring new directions for my own life and work, some VERY interesting excuses are coming up. I know it’s just my fearful ego-mind and my gremlins saying, “No, no! Run away! Change is not safe! What are you thinking?!”

The problem is that we allow these excuses to stop us dead in our tracks from pursuing our dreams. Sure, these naysayer messages will come up. But it’s our choice to decide whether we listen or not.

Remember, these excuses are like a code — if we pay attention, they point us to what’s really going on. We are afraid, and usually that we “aren’t good enough.” We’ve been trained to think that way by our less-than-supportive cultural model that programs for conformity.

Here are five tips to help you get your thinking-cap on straight:

1. The first step is awareness. Notice what you’re saying to yourself and other people about why you can’t do something. Is it REALLY true? Or is it just an excuse in disguise?

2. Appreciate your true brilliance. Learn to see how valuable, special, and important you really are. You have a unique take or approach to what it is you do, and there’s no one else like you.

3. Get a new story. It’s time to let go of all your limiting thinking and get a new story to tell. Aren’t you tired of listening to yourself saying the same things over and over again?

Start telling a new story about how you are inspired to create the life you want, and even if you don’t know how yet, you’re determined to find the way to get there.

4. Find your courage. When I saw my teacher Sonia Choquette recently, she shared a story about the courageous heart of a mother lion, leading her cubs to an oasis,  looking neither left nor right at all the safari paparazzi around her, but focusing straight-ahead on her goal.

Let your courageous heart guide you, let nothing deter you. Use your courage to focus only on where you want to go.

5. Wonder instead of making excuses. Any time you find yourself tempted to use an excuse, wonder instead. “Ask your intuition to run wild and free” (as astrologist Rob Brezney said recently) to help you discover your path. Say, “I WONDER how I can learn what I need to know,” and “I WONDER how I can create my dream successfully.”

Give up making excuses, and give yourself the chance to pursue your dreams.

Find a new way, find out how, get training, open your eyes to the possibilities, start small, but start now, plan, research, learn, transition, and find your true audience. (Want help claiming your dream? Join me for 30-minute “Dream Illumination” session. Click here to claim yours right now. Only 10 available.)

Pursue your dream. Remember: the world needs you, and all your brilliance, right now.


What’s Jenna doing?

~> June and July. Jenna will be facilitating Sensitive Souls Support Sessions and private Laser Coaching Call-In Hours for her Embrace Your Essential Self program and her Mastery Circle.

~> Friday, June 26th, 12 noon Pacific Time. Jenna will be attending Elaine La Joie’s “Empathy TeleCall.” Elaine is one of Jenna’s colleagues, a masterful teacher and shaman, and a true expert on all things empathic. Find out more, here.

~> July <~ Jenna will be vacationing in Mt. Shasta, California.

~> Thursday, July 17th, 5 p.m. Pacific, Jenna will be attending Baeth Davis’s “Life Purpose MasterMind.”

~> July 28th to July 31st, Jenna will be attending a private Platinum “Leverage Your Brilliance” retreat with her coach, Kendall Summerhawk.

~> August 2009, Jenna will be facilitating a two-part teleseminar series on “Self-Acceptance for Sensitive Souls.” Watch this space for details! Dates to be announced soon.

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Are You Undervaluing Your Sensitivity?

by Jenna on June 3, 2009

On Monday evening, hundreds of listeners heard me talk about three critical mistakes I’m seeing many sensitive souls make these days. I want to share one of them with you right now because I think it’s so important.

It’s that we are undervaluing ourselves and our sensitivity.

One way I see this showing up in people’s lives is that we continually put ourselves last, always taking care of other people or responsibilities before we take care of ourselves. Another way that this shows up is that we don’t value the gifts of our sensitivity, or invest in developing them.

We write off our gifts as being unimportant or unwanted, and we don’t use or rely on our intuition, artistry, spirituality, or empathy in our daily lives.

This is huge mistake.

It’s a huge mistake because these sacred gifts you’ve been given are part of the key way you can do what you were put here to do. And if you’re not using your gifts, you’re not doing your true soul’s work.

When you use your gifts, you become a true expression of the divine in the world.

In my Embrace Your Essential Self program, I show you how to unearth and reclaim your true, innate gifts, along with your true essence, purpose, passions, and power, so you can discover the Authentic Work you were put here to do, craft a lifestyle that actually works with your sensitivity, and truly shine.

The program starts next week, and I’d love to have you with me for this powerful, illuminating journey, so if this calls to you, please join me.

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No More Excuses — Your Life is Calling

by Jenna on May 30, 2009

Some recent notes I’ve posted online about Authentic Work have stirred up comments that have me concerned. I’m seeing how many sensitives desperately WANT to find their Authentic Work, but are not even willing to give themselves a chance to figure out what it is. (Are you doing this to yourself, too?)

Even worse, often those who know the work they want to do write it off as not being feasible, not available, too hard, impractical, or not lucrative enough.

Layered on top of this, not only are many of us not taking our sensitivity into account when making career choices, we aren’t even creating work that incorporates our sensitivity. We justify this by saying things like, “Well, there’s no place for emotions in the workplace,” and “It’s not okay to be open about spirituality here,” and “I can’t make any money that way.”

From my perspective, this is all crazy talk.

I know, I know, the economy, right?

Sorry, I’m not buying it. I’ve been coaching long enough to know that you were making these SAME excuses (along with a few others) back when the economy was doing quite well, thank you very much.

These excuses are code for what’s really going on: Fear.

Fear has you worrying that you aren’t good enough.

…that you aren’t capable enough.

…that others will judge you, and maybe even find you or your work lacking.

Here’s the good news: It’s none of your business. Stop trying to do the Universe’s job. Your job is to discover the specific form of the divine light within you and LIVE it in the world by doing your Authentic Work with the powerful gifts you’ve been given. (Want help to find your true work? Click here to join me on Monday, June 1 for my free informational preview TeleSeminar. )

It’s not to work in a crummy cubicle with crabby people and fluorescent lights, dreaming of other worlds.

Remember, you were given these GIFTS for a reason. Do you really, honestly believe that the Universe is so screwed up that it gives you gifts and a calling that you can’t support yourself with? Uh-uh. I don’t think so.

Here’s the truth: When you are living your Soul’s Essential Purpose, you’ll be doing your Authentic Work, using your gifts (including your high sensitivity), you’ll feel good, AND you’ll making good money.

If you’re NOT living your purpose and using your gifts, you won’t be making money, your soul will be sick, or your sensitivity will be strained to the maximum.

I know you’re worried about the economy. But as a leader of light in this dawning new era, don’t you at least owe it to yourself to get clear about who you are and what you were put here to do? The fact that times appear troubled is all the MORE reason for us to individually get ourselves in alignment so we can do our true work bringing the planet back into balance.

Honestly, I see this as an urgent care crisis. We don’t have time to wait around for you to finally figure out how powerful and amazing you are — the world needs you Right Now. Let’s get going.


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What’s Jenna up to?

~~> Sunday, May 31st, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jenna will be appearing at Sonia Choquette’s “The Answer is Simple: Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit” event in San Francisco.

~~> Monday, June 1st, 5 p.m. Pacific Time. ***It’s finally here!*** This Monday Jenna will be hosting a FREE informational preview TeleSeminar for her Embrace Your Essential Self program. Learn about three critical mistakes that practically guarantee you’ll keep struggling with yourself and your sensitivity, AND never find the Authentic Work you were put here to do. Click here to sign up. The call WILL be recorded, so even if you can’t attend live, please register to receive information about how to access the recording.

~~> Friday, June 5th, 5 p.m. Pacific Time. Jenna will be attending Elaine La Joie’s “Empathy TeleCall.” Elaine is one of Jenna’s colleagues, a masterful teacher and shaman, and a true expert on all things empathic. Find out more, here.

~~> Wednesday, June 10th, 4 p.m. Pacific, (LIVE call + mp3 recording) The Mastery Circle TeleConference Topic: “Knowing the Voice of Truth” Do you doubt your inner wisdom? How can you KNOW when you’re experiencing truth? Free for Mastery Circle members. Click here to find out more.

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Five Tips to Live an Intuitively-Guided Life

by Jenna on May 20, 2009

As a sensitive soul, not only is it your birthright to be intuitively guided, your intuition is the greatest tool you have to help you live masterfully as a sensitive being in this less-than-sensitive world.

Hundreds of you took my recent survey and said that you need help with accessing, trusting, and using your intuition to be divinely guided in your life. Today I want to share some important tips with you on just this subject.

If you aren’t using your intuitive gifts, you are probably giving away your power by looking for answers outside yourself.

You might do this because you were been “taught” that your intuition isn’t real, polite, appropriate, correct, etc. Were you ever shamed by adults around you for saying what you knew to be true? Or somehow knew that they wouldn’t be interested in hearing what you had to share? These messages cause us to push our intuitive gifts deep into our “shadow” and to repress it.

We also get out of touch with our intuition when we’re empathically swept up into other people’s lives. I just read that up to 90% of what we are experiencing may not even be ours. No wonder we can’t connect to our own inner knowing!

Unfortunately, this means that you’re stranded without the most powerful source of information available to guide you. Trying to navigate life without your intuition is like trying to fly a jet plane without using radar. It’s doable, but so much harder.

Here are five powerful tips to help you live an intuitively-guided life:

1. Work with your Essential Self and your guides.
You may not know this yet, but you are not alone. You are divinely supported by so many guides, they could fill a whole room!

Of your many guides, your very best and highest guide is your Essential Self. Your Essential Self embodies the essence of who you really are, when all the stories, history, labels, and old patterns are dropped away.

This is the part of you that always remembers the truth of who you are, knows your spiritual master plan (what you were put here to do and learn), and knows how to get you there. (If you want to learn more about working with your intuition and your best guide, your Essential Self, click here to register now for my free “Embrace Your Essential Self” Preview TeleSeminar on June 1 at 5 p.m. Pacific.)

2. Ask for guidance about EVERYTHING.
If you want to receive intuitive information, you have to ASK for it. Your Essential Self and your guides are there, just waiting to help you out, but they can’t do so without your permission. All you have to do is ask for help. You can ask out loud, in the car or the shower, or just ask in the quiet of your own mind, but be sure to ask.

For example, ask for guidance on things like: the safest highway lane to drive in, the quickest supermarket line, finding the closest parking place, finding your lost keys, choosing the best class to take, or even for clarity on the guidance you are getting.

3. Know the difference between intuition and fear.
Here are some clues to help you tell if you’re picking up intuitive information or fearful thoughts:

* Intuition has a quality of clarity, simplicity, and peace that comes with it, even if it’s something you don’t want to know.

* Fear is agitated, confused, jumbled, and complicated. We can get confused if we draw conclusions about intuitive information and have resulting emotions that are fearful — but that’s not the intuitive information itself, it’s what we’re doing with it.

* Keep an eye out for impostors. Sometimes fearful thoughts masquerade as intuition — but those are the voices of our gremlins, self-doubts, and egos trying to keep us playing small so we don’t take risks. (Gremlins have a motto: “Change is bad.” They don’t care if we’re making positive changes, it’s all bad to them.)

Fear also masquerades as logic too, so be vigilant. Your mind is a great tool, but it’s not your best guide. Fear-pretending-to-be-intuition can stop you from taking the exact growth steps you most need to take, like working with a mentor to finally find your right work and create a life that truly works for you. Don’t let these intuition-impostors hold you back from the life you deserve.

4. Be grateful for all intuitive guidance.
If you want to receive intuitive guidance, joyfully express your gratitude for EVERY piece of it. Your Essential Self and your guides want to know they are helping you, and they love to make you happy.

Expressing your gratitude can be as simple as saying, “Thank you!!” out loud. Remember, you get more of what you pay attention to. So if you want more guidance, celebrate what you are getting already.

5. Take action on the guidance you receive.
Similarly, if you want more inner guidance, when you receive it, show that you value it by taking action on it. Don’t shop it around and ask for input, don’t argue with it, doubt it, or downplay it. Just do it. Your guides are watching, they want to help you, and they’ll be patient with you. AND, they’ll be THRILLED to know you value their efforts and will be excited to help out more when you treat it reverently.

Stay tuned for the next installment of this tips series coming soon, and don’t forget to post your comments on this article, okay? I love reading your notes, and I know you all learn so much from each other in this amazing community of sensitive souls.

Until next time.

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