How to Access Your Intuition (and how to practice doing it)

Who says you can't bottle up motivation?

Or put inspiration in a pill?

Actually..they're right. You can't. You've actually got something even better.

Yes, I'm about to tell you something that you may have never realized.

In fact, you may experience a lot of resistance to this idea.

Your ego may begin to throw all sorts of ideas at you:

"Too good to be true". 

"Yeah, it's just not that easy". 

"That sounds great, but I don't have that!"

"This is a crock of new age b******t!!"

Yes, I get it. I know exactly what it feels like. I'm also on a first name basis with tons and tons of ego thoughts that have gotten in the way of accessing this part of myself.

I also was never taught this growing up or even in young adulthood.

Soooo I'd like for you to practice this resistance antidote for the next few moments.

Resistance Antidote

Pause for a Moment Right Now + Get Centered

Take in a deep breath, exhale.

Do it again.

Ask yourself, “would you be able to listen without judgment for the next few moments?”

Ok... Here we go:)

So what is this magical place that we each have unlimited access to?

That contains all of your drive, all of your passion and all of your purpose?

Well it's literally been right in front of you all along.

Actually it's even better than that. 

Your inner drive, passion, and motivation is literally located in your body. It is tangibly located.  

You, just by the nature of being a human being, are born with a visceral  experience of your INTUITION.

My experience with tapping into this place inside

Years ago, I heard a snippet of an energy exercise from Kristin Morelli where she was leading everyone to tap into the magnet in their stomachs. 

While I missed most of the exercise, it gave me a hit and instantly drew me  deeper to the physical experience in my body that I am literally being pulled by something inside me to the next moment, level, and energy in my life.

When I checked in, I could feel a motor running, a solid energy source that was intently and gently, pulling me from a gut place into the next course of action in my life.

This force was strong in a solid, dependable, secure and safe way. And really deepening my awareness of this core energy gave me that always beautiful aha recognition that..ahh yesss... Here I am. This is Me.

For some of you, this may be a bit far out right now and that's okay. 

Everyone has intuition and if you are feeling frustrated or confused right now about how to access this know that is completely normal.  Because this skill is experiential, practical, and real. And you will be able to tell this by practicing to it over time, getting to know it better, and watching how it guides you in your life.

There is a catch

The key though is that this drive, passion and motivation cultivated by your intuition does not work for just everything.

It works when what you are experiencing and moving toward is aligned with you.

No amount of tapping into this inner place within (The True Self) will make any difference if what you are trying or forcing or convincing yourself that you “should” be doing is not really what is resonating and aligned with your heart and your intuitive higher self.

The good news is this is a positive thing! This means there are certain things and experiences and passions and people that are aligned with us and as we keep fine tuning this radar, we will flow into what is meant for us more and more.

How does this apply to life and biz?

Once we understand that we have an internal guidance system inside, an inner radar, we can use it to our advantage. We can use this place within us that we have unlimited access to as a compass that can guide us. We can depend on it. We can use it’s intelligence and 6th sense.

When we start feeling stressed, burnout, anxious or doubting, we can check in and see what our internal guidance is saying.

Do we just need some rest?

Do we need to change directions?

Is our daily schedule in line with our values?

Permission to Practice

It takes practice. Despite having heard this exercise years ago, I still am training my mind to let go and allow access to this guidance within me. I use to think I could just do one exercise and instantaneously “I’d get it.”

Ha! Boy was I wrong, It was even harder for me because growing up I wasn’t allowed to process things, or learn things, or grow. Judgment and shaming comments and lack of awareness kept me trying to push forward into adulthood when what I really needed was permission to breathe and course correct and fail and then learn as a child does.

I needed to be nurtured in a way that allowed me to access my own inner guidance. To trust myself.

This is root cause of self doubt. Learning we can’t trust our internal guidance, our reactions and responses to life.

A Quick Meditation Practice for Accessing Your Unlimited Guidance (Your Intuition)

So I am going to guide you through a little experiential practice: 

Take a moment to sit back and relax your body.

Create a willing posture with open arms, feet flat on the floor, palms open, and taking in a deep breath in and out.

As you continue breathing, start to bring your attention to the place a couple inches above you belly button.

You can even touch it lightly with your fingers for a moment or rest the palm of your hand there.

Start to generate a feeling of warmth there that feels like it is directly inside the center of your body.

Allow yourself to notice a solid feeling right in that spot and notice that the more you put your attention on it, the more solid it becomes.

Start to be aware of a "motor" running inside you. You may even notice a pulsing.

Breathe.

Just notice this, allowing any thoughts or judgments to be there and gently guide yourself back to this solid feeling inside your core.

Breathe.

Try this several times throughout the day. Maybe throughout the week.

Practice checking in with it as well and seeing how it feels in different situations.

Get to know it, patiently. With curiosity.

Let me know how it goes! Now that I’ve rediscovered my intuition I love geeking out on it :)

Love, Jen 

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Why the Work Hustle Doesn’t Work and What to do instead

As I sit here pondering what to share with you this week, the words stillness and surrender seem to keep arising in their many forms.

In a world that teaches us that we have to continually be doing, racing, chasing, forcing, making things happen, hustling . . . I have found quite the opposite to be true.

The more I do all of the above, the worse things get for me. It’s definitely an addiction. I’d say it’s my biggest one. Doing. And the telltale signs of it? Noticing how my inner critic jumps in when I practice doing nothing. It loves to dish out the shame and get me thinking I need to be more productive and show something for myself.

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“The more I do all of the above, the worse things get for me. It’s definitely an addiction. I’d say it’s my biggest one. Doing.”

The more I let go of busying myself with the outside world while simultaneously listening to the inner callings within, the more my true self becomes who I identify with.

I remember reading stuff like what I just wrote and being fascinated, enthralled and at the same time mystified with a WTF is this person talking about?

The true self, (what same may call enlightenment or being awakened) seemed like this esoteric, exciting pinnacle of existence that I wanted to achieve.

I’d see humans with their writings online and I’d absorb their teachings. People like Burt Harding and Adyashanti and Pema Chodron.

And at the same time I felt they were special. I remember the first time I read an excerpt from Pema which described an experience she had where she was enraged from finding out her boyfriend was cheating on her and she took an expensive household item on display and threw it.

I remember reading that Adyashanti was married.

Or that Ram Dass decided to be single because being in a relationship was just too challenging for him. He didn’t like how relationships pulled him out of his communion with God and honestly shared, he wasn’t up for the challenges required of being in a romantic relationship .

It was comments like these that had me at first feeling confused, these spiritual teachers have feelings and problems and relationships?

Eventually I understood more deeply the very real and accessible nature of the true self and how it’s a journey for everyone. That it’s right here. It’s in this day, in this body, in this moment.

That spiritual teachers are just humans.

That it isn’t an all or nothing experience- it actually is full of levels and spirals and different shades.

That the true self isn’t an experience to be achieved or attained- it is who we really are and we don’t have to do anything to get to it. All we have to do is keep looking at what isn’t the true self with compassion and nonjudgment.

It is right here, in this moment.

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“It does not mean that I don’t take action.

It means that I take action from a place of nondoing.

At first this nondoingness is a literal need to just sit here and not move from this spot until I get my nervous system regulated.”

This is why I teach a different approach to assisting women in stepping into their calling.

It’s one that includes a lot of rest, a lot of contemplation, reflection and nondoing.

I find that as I practice the teachings I share with others, this is the way for me.

It does not mean that I don’t take action.

It means that I take action from a place of nondoing.

At first this nondoingness is a literal need to just sit here and not move from this spot until I get my nervous system regulated.

It could look like sitting in a meditation or visualization for an hour as I wait for pains, aches, skin crawly sensations and gut wrenching feelings to pass.

It could be throwing my legs up onto stacks of pillows as I let fresh oxygenated blood come into my core as I can feel the energy returning to my body.

Eventually, this physical nondoing, or what Pema Chodron refers to as, holding your seat, starts to emerge even while I’m doing.

I can pause in the middle of something, and feel the spaciousness, stillness and presence.

I can notice when it doesn’t feel that way and realize I have to stop, pause, potentially for long lengths of time and trust that I will be guided to act again once the awareness of my true self returns.

I do believe that we have to take actions in order to live according to our deepest calling.

However, I do not believe that those actions are in our own timing.

What do I mean by this? I mean that it is the timing of our true self.

When we are aligned with our True Self, actions will feel open, spacious, uplifting and warm.

When we are aligned with fear, or our over or under regulated nervous system, we will feel tense, forceful, driven, exhausted or rushed.

We can take whatever actions we want, however, when we take actions that are aligned with our true self, they will be actions that reap the longterm reward of peace and outcomes better than our surface desires.

When we take actions outside of this centered self, we often find ourselves more stressed, run down and potentially out of commission for days, months or years. You can find out more which areas of your life and biz these actions are showing up by taking my simple Confident CEO Assessment here.

This is not to judge when we do make choices outside of the true self.

It is a natural human journey to keep deciding and then to get to know our true self better.

This is what I teach in my upcoming course, Confident CEO Mastery. It is not another course to arm and guard you to move forward on your journey with more steel to protect you and make the outside world “work” for you.

It is a course that will allow you tap more deeply into your innermost strength, your foundation of Self so that you can develop a life and business that is aligned with who you truly are and what you truly want.

We will discuss the natural progression of stepping into your calling, so that you have a roadmap to understand what is going on.

We will learn how to trust our highest selves through finding out what our highest self is not. We will discover how to make choices without draining energy.

We will take the shame and judgment off of self abandonment and soulbreak which keep us disconnected from our lifeforce and our calling.

We will understand the archetypes of the empowered woman and how to embody these energies while living lives in relationships, professionally and with our to- do lists.

It is a course not to do more, but to release more. It is meant honor you, your rhythms and nurture you from the inside out.

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You can also reply with a comment and I am happy to answer any questions!

Lot’s of love my friends,

Jen

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