One of the emotions we all experience from time to time is fear — fear of rejection or being humiliated, fear of public speaking, fear of making a mistake or a bad decision or failure, fear of getting in trouble, fear of getting hurt. I could go on and on. When it comes to fear, people generally have one of two responses: Flee (i.e., stop and give up on your current project/endeavor) or suppress the fear and push through it. Neither is Sentelligent ( utilizing and honoring the intelligence of your six senses). If you allow fear to run your life and stop you from proceeding, your dream won’t become a reality or you’ll never make a decision to go in one direction or another. If you force yourself to push through the fear, likelihood is you will make some progress but it will be hard and fraught with obstacles.
There is so much we can learn from watching the Olympics. A great example of that is Shaun White, the gold medal snowboarder. I saw an interview with him and he talked about having a big fall at the X-games before coming to the Olympics where he missed his landing and crashed and cut his face. I saw a video of it and I can tell you that fall would have devastated me. Of course, I wouldn’t be doing 360 flips in the air on skis to start with. My talents lie elsewhere <grin>. Anyway, he immediately went back up the hill and tried again. Shaun said the reason he did that was because he knew that if he waited it would mess him up mentally and he would be thinking about the bad landing and the time when he fell.
What would it look like to live your dreams Sentelligently?
Whether or not your are currently living out one or more of your dreams, it is likely that you understand the concept of living your dreams.
It is taking a vision of what you want to see happen and putting that vision into reality … Taking the steps to move it from a dream or vision into a reality.
You may not be as clear about the concept of Sentelligence. Sentelligence is a word I created, which represents our highly functioning and intelligent sensory system, which includes all of our senses; our touch, our smell our taste, our hearing, our sight; as well as our sixth sense, which is our intuition.
Creativity comes in many shapes and sizes – from creative problem solving to visual arts to writing your thoughts to generating new ideas or a new spin on an existing idea.
I believe that we all have the innate ability and were put here on this planet to create. What we create and how we do it looks different for each of us.
To access our creativity, it helps to get quiet and allow what wants to emerge to come forth. From that inspired place it is important to act on it without concern for other’s or self judgment. Unfortunately, it is that last piece, that keeps so much of our creativity under wraps.
I believe that accessing creativity is especially important right now for several reasons:
Our vibration is in part, a reflection of our mood. How are you feeling at this moment? Are you happy, said, worried, anxious, hopeful, depressed? So often we are not in touch with our emotions. We push them down so we can get stuff done. But this is really not the most efficient way to work. What’s that you say? You think that if you actually felt your emotions, you would get nothing done. That could be true, but not if you did it with an intention. Think of it as checking in.
I was watching American Idol tonight. (okay, I admit it) And one of the contestants was mad because he had to wait all day for his chance to try-out. He brought that anger onto the stage and it spewed out all over the judges and was evident in his singing. The judges actually told him he had bad energy. He was taken aback. He had no idea how strongly he was feeling and how that came across to others. It’s not that he has bad energy or is a bad person, it’s that he had anger that he was not in touch with and it got mis-directed. That mis-directed energy cost him dearly.
Lately I have been talking about Sentelligence – a highly functioning and intelligent sensory system.
According to Elaine Aron, (author of The Highly Sensitive Person) 15-20% of the population is highly sensitive, but I wonder if that is based on those adults that are able see themselves as highly sensitive.
What if we all came out of the womb with a highly functioning and intelligent sensory system and that system very quickly got shut down?
Think about it – we all come out of the womb crying. In that instant – our tears are considered a good thing. It is a sign that we are alive and well and breathing. Everyone celebrates that first scream.
Did you resonate with the traits of “Sentelligent People” in my last post?
In case you missed it, a few of the 23 traits mentioned are:
* been told “you’re too sensitive”.
* can sense other’s emotions,
* feel emotions deeply,
* smells, sounds or changes in temperature may be felt at heightened levels
* prone to be overstimulated
Sometimes we set goals because we think it’s what we should do or what we should achieve. Sometimes we like the idea of the end result, but not the daily to-do’s involved. So many times I see people who go into a particular field because they like the money that they can make and the freedom it will buy them. But they don’t like the things they have to do to get there. That’s not a great way to live our lives.
Sometimes we change and what was important to us before is not what is important to us now. And sometimes we have a million ideas and are not sure which ones to do first or we want to do them all at one time and feel like we’re spinning our wheels.
