Enjoy these tips for living a wildly happy, highly sensitive life.
1. Know Yourself Deeply
As empathic sensitives, we get disconnected from our deep selves because we merge with other people’s visions and energies, and because we buy into the mainstream ideals about the “right” way to be in the world.
When you know yourself deeply, it’s easier to stay on track and to find your own deep sense of inner rightness.
2. Design a Radically Different Lifestyle
Go ahead, be different. It’s who you are. You’re wired differently, you have different needs, and you’ll do best with a much less conventional lifestyle.
Forget trying to fit into the mainstream box. Work different and minimal hours. Do what you love. Say, “No, thanks” to superficial socializing. Avoid the news.
3. Embrace Your Gifts
Your sensitivity is a beacon of light in the darkness, guiding you to your highest and best choices. Use it to select, define, and create your path.
Understand that your deep compassion, intuitive understanding, all-encompassing spirituality, and refined aesthetic sense are gifts not shared by the rest of the population. Welcome them, draw on them, develop them.
4. Go Boldly Into Your Purpose
Without purpose, you are lost. Discover your Soul’s Essential Purpose and LIVE it. Why on earth would we even consider doing anything else but living our purpose?
5. Be Mentored
To experience accelerated results in your life, work with a masterful, experienced coach or mentor who can guide you in creating what it is that you want.
Partnering with someone who believes in you, holds you accountable to your highest self, and knows how to help you to clarity when you’re faced with doubt or indecision will help you stay motivated you to take action on your visions and dreams.
Design Your Life to Work WITH Your Sensitivity
and in Alignment with Your Deep Essence
Bottom line, design your life — and your lifestyle — to work with your sensitivity rather than against it. Being true to your sensitivity is part of being true to yourself, which is where all great success and satisfaction springs from. Look first within to create without.
More To Come
Coming soon, watch this space for five more tips on living a wildly happy, highly sensitive life.
What’s Jenna doing?
~> Friday, August 21st, 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.
~> Wednesday, August 26th, 4 p.m. Pacific Time. Jenna will be facilitating an Open Q & A Call for her “Quiet Your Inner Critic: Learn to Love Your Sensitive Self” TeleSeminar series. It’s not too late to join in; all the calls have been recorded. Register here.
~> Thursday, August 27th, 4 p.m. Pacific Time. Jenna will be holding Laser Coaching Call In Hours for her Mastery Circle members.
NEW ~> 1st & 2nd Weeks of September. Jenna will be interviewing candidates for her new Platinum Private Mentoring Program. Applications will be available early next week. Interested? Click here to send an email that will add you to the announcement list for the program.
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hello… yes that sounds all good… following your inner self… but how do you do something if you moved to a city without any work in the first place? how do you really learn to develop your talents if you dont have experience in what you want to do? you have experience working with kids, but never leading anything, let alone workshops on Reiki, Colors, Auras, etc….hello— why are people soooooooooo about having millions of Fantastic and “Accredited” Credentials? and how do you gain experience if you never have the chance to try? hmm???
thanks for your insights though— they are quite helpful… just frustrated that is all….wanting to work with kids- in massage school- which is fine for now… kids are my calling though…. i know it…. Sarah
Yay! Just when I was feeling a little down,I got to read this lovely reminder! Yippeee! You are so kind and the Best!
ThankYou from the Bottom of my heart!
Bows
Well, this is timely. Thank you Jenna. Am feeling v lost after receiving my own home and spending the last month looking into myself, living with or rather through the dramas, fears and childhood hurts. It was as if they were waiting for me to be in a stable place to be released.
So much to do to create my own life. ‘Now what do I do?’ I had asked. I don’t want to haunt myself. There is too much to do. What you have said is timely because I feel lonely venturing on from here. Yet again, money is an issue for me, but I will do as you advise.
Peace
With thanks
Sarah – Massage Envy is nationwide and they offer scholarships to massage school if you work for them for some period (6 months) after graduate. Look for scholarships. I paid only $450 cash and worked off the other over $2000 for massage school here in Austin. You can do it. Create an opportunity for yourself with your mind.
The comment “Your sensitivity is a beacon of light in the darkness that is guiding you…” such words are just not spoken in this worl of aggression and dictate with detail it seems. I have wondered if it is our conscience – what do you think?
Hi Jenna
Just wanted to say excellent E zine this week, really hit home to me.
Isn’t it bizarre that you can do a job in an office for around 13 years, feel really unwell, tired, generally not happy. Then train to go in completely another direction, feel absolutely full of beans.
I have recently finished my training to become a Massage Therapist, I absolutely love treating my people, it’s more physically demanding than ofice work, but when I get to bed I feel as though I have had the treatment and sleep really soundly.
I think that is where no.4 Go boldly into your purpose comes in to it all. On the whole all of your E zine relates to me at the moment.
It is so reassuring to know I’m not nuts!
Thanks Jenna
Take good care
Melissa
Dear Jenna,
I just thought I’d share a few things. I’ve been a subscriber to your newsletter and I find it invaluable. I want to thank you for sharing your thoughts and advice!
I also just wanted to express one concern though. I’ve noticed that HSP’s are advised to “avoid the news” repeatedly and I find myself reacting strongly and negatively to this suggestion. I agree that sensationalized or “trashy” news that disproportionately focuses on crime should be avoided. But, as an activist and an HSP, I think it’s important for all us living in the West to know what happens in other parts of the world, particularly those places that are war torn due to the actions of our governments. It is an act of privilege, I think, to just turn away. What do HSP’s in Afghanistan and Iraq do? They have no choice but to live what we don’t want to see.
Thank you for listening. And again, thanks for all the great advice throughout the years.
Cheers,
Rashmee