I’ve been teaching and coaching a lot lately about how to find your Zone of Genius and how to spend as much time in that Zone as possible, once you find it.

This mostly requires that you understand your Divine Coding: the unique pattern of power, motivations, strengths and challenges you were wired with when you arrived here on Planet Earth.

My students are learning how to identify their unique powers and stand in them, unapologetically.

There’s one particularly powerful thread of Genius that we all possess, but give short shrift to:

You possess the superpower of knowing whether a relationship, person, job, project, conversation or experience is in alignment with your highest potential or not.

And you possess this power right now.

You know.

As children we were taught to be deliberate or politically correct about these things.

We’re taught to be rational, reasonable, strategic, or talk ourselves out of what we know in the name of obedience or social harmony or some other nice name for domestication or letting somebody else’s priorities trump our own Inner Genius, our Inner Guidance.

But you knew back then when something was in alignment with your Inner Guidance or not.

And you know now. 

You are not confused.

Stop saying you are, if that’s a thing you say.

Because, real talk? Confusion is just a case of competing priorities.

Let me rephrase: Confusion is almost always a case of you trying to prioritize something or someone else’s feelings or approval ahead of your Inner Guidance.

Confusion is almost always a case of you doing an inner calculation of the cost of following your own Inner Guidance system, and getting all hung up because your logical, rational, verbal mind — your domesticated mind —  is trying to talk you out of going in the direction your deepest wisdom, your Inner Genius, is pointing.

Your logical mind and your trained, domesticated thoughts are trying to convince you that the cost of following your Inner Guidance is too great or that the payoff of going the other way is worth shouting down your Inner Genius.

So when we talk about tuning to yourself utterly unresistant, we’re not just talking about utterly unresistant to the callings you hear with clarity.

I’m talking about tuning yourself to be utterly unresistant, fully in surrender, to the Divine urgings and callings that are softer or that you’re not allowing yourself to hear with clarity because you’re focused on that feeling you’re calling confusion but is really just letting someone else’s opinions or priorities matter more than they should.

You know what to do. 

You might not hear it clearly yet.

But you do know.

Your Spiritual Self knows.

Because you know what feels good when you think about it, envision it or daydream about it.

You know what feels like bliss.

And despite all the talk we do about all of this, you really can boil down a huge piece of this enterprise of awakening to the order our old Uncle Joseph Campbell once gave us, when he said FOLLOW YOUR BLISS. 

Follow your bliss.

Your bliss is your Genius.

Your bliss is your Inner Guidance.

And your Inner Guidance is Infinite Intelligence.

Infinite Intelligence is a Divine Resource.

And that deep down feeling of friction, of ARGH, of “that ain’t right”, of disconnection, or shame or guilt or shackles on?

THAT IS INNER GUIDANCE, TOO.

That is how the Divine, Genius path for your life lights up, step by step.

When a step feels like bliss get after it.

And when a step feels like shackles, move away from it.

It doesn’t always have to be more complicated than that.

In fact, making it more complicated than that, practicing the story that you don’t know what to do or you’re confused or whatever… that’s the same thing as talking yourself out of listening to your Inner Genius: the voice of Divine Intelligence that speaks to you, through you.

And making the commitment to listen to that still, small voice that speaks through your bliss on one end of the spectrum and through your angst on the other?

That’s standing in your power. 

Head up + heart out,

Tara-Nicholle Nelson, MA, Esq.
Founder + CEO of SoulTour

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