What is your Inner Genius?

July 10, 2009 by Iyabo Asani  
Filed under Newsletter

One of my favorite things in the world is to share with others, how I see them. Yes, it sounds funny but really that is what my calling is.

You see, from the time I was a child, I had the ability to perceive beyond my five senses of what I could see, touch taste, hear or smell.

I have always had the ability to see people beyond how they see themselves. It is so easy for me to see the value in others. This is the key to my love of coaching.

I do not care who you are and where you are and whatever you do, you have all the solutions to each and every problem you have ever faced within you.

My job is to remind you about who you really are.

In these times, with all the news about the economy and everything else that we hear, it is easy to feel down and look at the external circumstances as others interpret it. Your greatest problem is not the stress you are facing. It is understanding how wonderful and valuable you are.

Within each and every one of us as a unique, incredible human being that deserves all that you can imagine.

The Solution!

If we humans could just understand how much lies within us, we would be shocked and we would never look at problems the same way. We are incredible multifaceted beings with amazing resilience within us and we just have to learn to tap into our Inner Genius to create wonderful life affirming solutions.

Fear holds us back from achieving the things we want. We stop living because fear clouds our judgment and inhibits our wisdom.  Fear is a natural protective response. When our brain processes information that threatens our survival or our family, the fight or flight response is activated.  That system is still active in our lives although we do not live in the wilderness among tigers and lions.

Modern day stresses of financial issues, health issues, relationship issues, and work stress all trigger that flight or fight response. When our brain and entire body is flooded with the chemicals triggered during the flight or fight response, we are reactionary and not proactive. We are unable to call upon all of our wonderful resources within to create the life that we want.

This is the key point for you to understand. You have been unable to create what you want because your brain is flooded with the chemicals that are telling your entire body to fight back or to run. You are in survival mode. When last did you not feel that you should do something or that something just needs to happen? That is survival mode and you cannot create beauty, luxury and calm from a place of stress.

Please understand: Fear can be wonderful. It helps you when you are in danger. However, when you are not in danger, fear is not your friend.  Listening to the news and talking about how awful things are will trigger the flight or fear response in your body.

We know to turn off the TV and not read the news papers. We know to focus on what we want, not what we do not want. We know to use the law of attraction to our benefit. We know to make lifestyle changes that we know will help us.

However, we find it impossible to make these changes. Why? Because everything in your body is saying it is time to run or time to fight. Turn your body chemicals into your friend. Tap into your Inner Genus and create authentic change in your life. Easily and gracefully move from fear based reactions to proactively creating a lifestyle that nourishes your total person.

Your incredible Inner Genius has all the wisdom you will ever need for your life. The key to activating your Inner Genius is awareness.  As you dwell and live in the awareness of this space within you, you will thrive and prosper in every area of your life.

As you live from your Inner Genius, your energy becomes very clear and clean. Your vibration becomes naturally higher and you discover incredible capacity to manifest what you want. Living from your Inner Genius shifts your focus to what you want, not what you do not want and you thereby cause the Law of Attraction in your favor.

Your Inner Genius is the Intersection of five key components of you:

1.    Your left brain:  All the knowledge and reasoning you have accumulated experientially and academically. This includes your organizational and analytical skills.

2.    Your right brain:  Your creative, imaginative and holistic side.

One side of the brain is not more valuable than the other side of the brain although you probably have a tendency towards one side of your brain. It is important to note that the goal here is to have whole brain synergy. When you have both parts of your brain working in cooperation and concert you produce wonderful results.

If you are a left brained analytical person, make sure you take time on a regular basis to be creative and to appreciate music. If you are a right brained person, you may want to read more and listen to audio recordings more often. Activate your analytical side.

We all tend to be a little too rigid. The left brainers think the right brainers are airey fairey and are not smart and the right brainers can be rather condescending to detailed analysis and sequential thinking. However, both parts are in all of us and we honor our Inner Genius when we support both sides of our brain and when we are more aware of which side we are leaning towards.

3.    Your emotional heart: This is the center of your feelings. Your emotions are a guidance system. They are not who you are.  We tend to identify the sum total of who we are by our emotional expression. We say, “He is an angry man.” However, anger is an indicative emotion. Our negative emotions are there to let us know that whatever we have experienced is not positive and does not help us. However, many of us hold on to negative emotions and identify ourselves with those emotions. Our positive emotions are to us as sunlight is to plants and flowers. Our positive state is our natural setting. We are meant to be happy and to feel good. When we feel good, our bodies are healthier and others are happier around us.

Listening to your emotions and factoring how you feel and how you want to feel in designing the life that you want is a powerful tool.

4.    Your Somatic body:  This is your physical being and chakra system.  Your body is also intuitive. It speaks to you. You feel a lot of feelings in your body but you may not be aware of it. The Chakra system is an Ancient Sanskrit tradition that addresses the flow of energy in the body. Each of the seven chakras speak to where emotions can lodge in your body energetically. As you understand the seven chakras, you will understand the wonderful hidden messages that your body is communicating to you.

Your Chakras are corresponds to critical components of our lives that we may often overlook.

This is not an in depth study of the Chakras. However, regardless of your spiritual background, it is important to study the body and how it holds energy. Prolonged stress, fear and negative thinking have a negative impact on the corresponding Chakra. Allowing negative emotions to flow through the body and discharge is important to your emotional  health

5.    Your God connection:  This is your spiritual and non-physical consciousness. This is sacred. Regardless of your religious background, we can agree to this mysterious connection that we all have with Source, Universe, The Divine, God, Divine Intelligence and whatever name you may choose. Inviting the sacred into your daily life and tapping into that Universal Intelligence has to be a part of your daily life to design the life that you want.

In Conclusion

Now that you are aware of these various components of you, be aware that together, they want to communicate with you and help you create a life that is filled with goodness and wonderful things. As you gain awareness of all these parts of you, and deliberately engage them, you are living and creating from your Inner Genius.

As you meld your right brain and your left brain and seek whole brain strategies, check in often with your emotions, listen to your body speaking to you and factor in the Source component of your life, you will have amazing courage and abilities.

Remember, we have just described you: This amazing wonderful synergy of all those five parts. Keep your Inner Genius in mind when you want to create powerfully and raise your vibration. Pay constant attention to your Inner Genius. Do not leave any part out.

I ask that you contact me for a complimentary coaching session to further understand your Inner Genius and how to create an absolutely amazing life living from this place.

Here is to your greatness!