There's a point where you realise that the pursuit of happiness is about more than just feeling good — it's about resonating with the world around you on a profound level. That's the epiphany I experienced on my quest towards a high-vibration life, and it's a revelation I'm eager to share with you.
Today I want to tell you all about the benefits I did not expect to experience since creating The High Vibe Guide. What exactly did I expect from trying to live a high-vibe life, you ask? Lower anxiety? Yes. More positivity? Absolutely! But I have been keeping track of a few extra things that have been changing for the better, things that have pleasantly surprised me.
So tune in! I can't wait to hear what your unexpected benefits from living a high-vibe life might be.
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There's a point where you realise that the pursuit of happiness is about more than just feeling good — it's about resonating with the world around you on a profound level. That's the epiphany I experienced on my quest towards a high-vibration life, and it's a revelation I'm eager to share with you.
Today I want to tell you all about the benefits I did not expect to experience since creating The High Vibe Guide. What exactly did I expect from trying to live a high-vibe life, you ask? Lower anxiety? Yes. More positivity? Absolutely! But I have been keeping track of a few extra things that have been changing for the better, things that have pleasantly surprised me.
So tune in! I can't wait to hear what your unexpected benefits from living a high-vibe life might be.
Subscribe to my premium content here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2286124/supporters/new
Please feel free to get in touch with me with any questions you may have:
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Welcome to the High Vibe Guide, the podcast where I demystify the concept of raising our vibration. I'm Jenna, a yoga teacher, mum of three and passionate advocate for helping others to just feel happier. Let me explain to you how we can all live more contented and fulfilled lives and how it's so much easier than you think. Welcome back to the High Vibe Guide. So I have been adding these thoughts to a list I made in my notes on my phone over the last few months, and it's all just the little things that I'm experiencing that have surprised me when I've started to live a higher vibing life or adopted a more positive mindset, however you want to refer to it, and it's been surprising in this amazing way. It's been such a lovely little revelation to discover that I have improved in some ways. I have better perspective. In others, I have more clarity. You know, apart from just generally feeling happier, more of the time, there have been these little gems where I realise, wow, that's so amazing that I now feel this way or I can deal with this better, and I've been noting them down to share with you guys, as I thought it would make quite a nice little episode. But before I start, if you are just tuning in and you come across my podcast for the first time. Welcome, I am so happy you're here.
Speaker 1:I've been trying to reach more and more people with the message that you really can feel happier. It isn't out of our control and you do possess the power and the tools to do so. You really do. I promise you do Trust me on this one. Trust me, I'm a yoga teacher. I don't know whether that would make you trust me or just run in the opposite direction, but you are here for a very good reason Feel proud of yourself for already having this level of self-awareness that maybe you can change something. Because you can. And one practice I will always continue to support and bang on about, one that literally can take just three minutes out of your day, and that's meditation. Meditation is something that can literally change your life. Once the benefits sink in, after that first very trialing period where you feel like nothing is happening, it changes everything.
Speaker 1:So what you can do now is subscribe to the High Vibe Guide and receive exclusive access to my guided meditations, to my guided meditations. Every Friday, I'll be releasing a new guided meditation, each with a different focus or a different visualization. I've very carefully designed and scripted these to make them enjoyable and easy for you to commit to. So join me every Friday, meditate with me and discover how amazing meditation really can be. And I wanted to make it really affordable. So it's only $4 a month, which works out to around $1 per guided meditation. I've been a yoga teacher for nearly a decade now and I've helped many people on their meditation journeys, because it is always hard in the beginning and that's where people tend to give up before they've given it a real chance to work. But if you'd like a little taster, I've given you a free guided meditation on the High Vibe Guide, if you haven't seen it already. Episode 17 is my guided meditation for manifesting abundance with intuitive strength and gratitude. So have a listen and then go and subscribe to get your exclusive access. I will put the link to the subscription page in the show notes. Please feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions. You can DM me on Instagram my handle is thehighvibeguide or you can email me hello at yogawithjennacom. Again, I'll put that all in the show notes for you.
Speaker 1:So what would your average person expect to achieve when listening to a podcast like this, taking on some of the advice given. What benefits would most people think they could gain? What benefits would most people think they could gain? Most likely you'll get people saying I want to sleep better, I want to feel less anxious, maybe I want to find more motivation and inspiration, I want to improve my relationships. I have specific goals I need or want to work towards. These are all pretty normal things that people will want to address when they're beginning on some kind of personal growth journey or self-improvement.
Speaker 1:So we are still a relatively new podcast. I say we, it's just me Right now. It's just me. It's just me Right now. It's just me. And remember, I am basically sharing my journey with you, the things that have worked for me and I believe, could work for you too, because I feel I'm a fairly ordinary person, ordinary just as everybody is extraordinarily ordinary. You know, I'm a mum, a wife, a daughter. I'm self-employed. I have many goals I've set for myself that I haven't yet achieved. I'm definitely on my way to achieving them, but I am a human being. I suffer just like every single other human being on the planet. And my light bulb moment, my revelation, the reason for starting this podcast was to reach more people who I knew were struggling just like I was. So that's me, that's what I want to do here. So that's me, that's what I want to do here, because I believe I can, and if I can do it, you can do it.
Speaker 1:So let me start by sharing with you these few things that felt like amazing, extra and unexpected benefits to following the High Vibe Guide and endeavouring to live this happier life among the crazy. So the first thing I noticed was I was having fewer intrusive thoughts, if any at all. Actually, now, I was a person that used to suffer quite badly from intrusive thoughts, and it wasn't always just everyday, mundane things that stress you out about work or you know, just everyday stuff. It was really dark thoughts I was having and, horribly, it was always about my kids. You know something happening to them, something that was out of my control and would just completely ruin my life, and once or twice it was so bad it ended up in what I think were panic attacks.
Speaker 1:With hindsight, I think I can actually say they were panic attacks, and a friend of mine who's qualified in tapping you know the EFT tapping told me about this one specific point on your body, which is on the outer edge of your palm, what they call the knife hand point, and with your fingers of the opposite hand, you just tap with the tips of your fingers and the opposite hand. You just tap into this, that meaty knife hand part, and after a couple of minutes it was honestly like someone had just flipped a switch in my brain and it was like I could see the sun through the clouds again. It just reset everything and I felt some element of calm. Not completely, you know. It doesn't completely bring you back down to zero, but it brings you down and out of it just enough to allow some common sense to come into play, some perspective. You know enough to let you then use some other tools to keep calming you down, like deep breathing, Because before, when I was in the thick of this panic attack, nothing I did with my breath would help and I know a lot about breath work and using it to kind of reset the nervous system, you know and use it for relaxation purposes. But nothing I did with my breath would help because my brain just kept bringing me back into the intrusive thought and I was stuck in like this endless loop. It was very scary, very horrible.
Speaker 1:So if any of you ever suffer from intrusive thoughts. Try this tapping technique. It's very powerful. And always remember that the intrusive thought is not you, it's not part of you, it's not the real or authentic you. It's your anxiety, like the little devil on your shoulder that wants to keep you down. The bad emotions have this very interesting way of wanting to keep you in this state. I think it may have been last week or the week before when I said that misery really does love company, or so does anxiety, so does fear, so does jealousy, so does anger. Remember it's all about fostering this level of self-awareness to what's going on in the body, and that was honestly the first step for me, allowing this level of self-awareness, where I could just watch my thoughts and emotions as they arose, and it didn't necessarily stop them or decrease their frequency at first, but what it did enable me to do was eventually create a little bit of space between the bad thoughts and me. A crucial first step on your road to personal growth is self-awareness. To personal growth is self-awareness. But I did realize recently I haven't had one of those intrusive thoughts for a really long time, thank God. It's such a great feeling. I feel very grateful and happy because it's proof that it's all working. Everything I'm doing within the High Vibe Guide is working. Remember the High Vibe Guide? Yes, I'm telling you guys about it, but it's stuff that I am doing.
Speaker 1:The second thing I've noticed is that I have lower social anxiety. So I used to have quite bad social anxiety. This may surprise some people that I do know, but it was mainly around new people, people that I didn't know Like. If I was meeting up with a friend and they were bringing another friend I hadn't met before, or if I was going to some kind of group occasion where I only knew one or two people, I would normally end up cancelling these things last minute. I would, you know, feign some excuse. I remember doing this a lot, especially in my teens and twenties, and I know that I annoyed some friends because it looked like I was just really flaky or unreliable. But I was honestly just terrified of these situations and would often do anything to get out of them.
Speaker 1:But this feeling definitely lessened the older I got, definitely into my 30s, but it was still there to a certain extent. But this year it's gone. I actually really love meeting new people now. Maybe it's a maturity thing, maybe it's as you get older you kind of give less fucks, but I also think it's partly because I've been doing a lot of what you call realigning this year, so the energy that I'm therefore giving out is very different and I'm consequently attracting more people into my life that are just amazing. But maybe it's also not just attracting these new and amazing people into my life, but opening my awareness to them, just being around. It's perspective, it's the spin that you put on life. It really does determine your happiness levels. I'll tell you it does. It really does determine your happiness levels. I'll tell you, it does.
Speaker 1:No-transcript, even kind of the rude or unkind people Now, not all the time, but I think this new quality, I think it might actually annoy some people. I notice it definitely when something comes up in conversation among a group of friends. You know if someone's complaining about something or someone, and then all I can do is see the good side of it. Even when people have been really rude or unkind, I find myself now always trying to see their side. I feel compassion for them. I sit there and I'm like, wow, what happened to you to make you behave like this?
Speaker 1:There was recently this conversation about some kind of nasty argument between two women that I know, and one of them reacted in this argument quite nastily, you know, sending horrible messages and stuff like that, but rather than the instant kind of group reaction, that was aghast, you know, oh god, that's so horrible, isn't that awful? I just felt really bad for her. And whenever I explain this to people, this new kind of perspective I have, it makes me think of when I watched the Fall, you know, that drama with Gillian Anderson and when Jamie Dornan played the serial killer. And looking at Jamie Dornan's character and just thinking, god, what happened to you that was so bad that made you now need to do this and kill all these women, that's just what I remember feeling looking at him. What happened to you? And I felt the same way watching that other drama what was it Not Line of Duty, happy Valley, that one, the bad guy in that? Just looking at him like, god, god, your childhood must have been so awful.
Speaker 1:And I feel bad for them because I know inside they must be so sad, so scared, and they're behaving in ways that, for some reason or other, their brain, their mind, has told them is how they need to operate to survive on some level to protect themselves. And I'm not excusing bad behavior at all, especially murder, but it's just opened up another level of awareness for me, whereas a year ago, two years ago, I would have been straight in on the bitch session, you know. But now I feel like I've got this. I've got this deeper layer of compassion. It's like another perspective that goes beyond myself. It feels like a deeper layer of understanding. It's compassion. That's exactly what it is. It's compassion and sometimes in a group setting with friends, when someone just wants to bitch about someone and you're there just feeling all the feels, feeling bad for the person they're bitching about. It doesn't always go down well, but nonetheless it's a really great feeling for me because it really just does make me feel like I'm continuing to grow as a person.
Speaker 1:The next thing I've noticed is that I'm no longer as I'm no longer as scared or anxious of new things or new tasks. So for the last God knows how many years, I've always felt like I only have a certain amount of room in my brain for all the things in my life to keep operating smoothly-ish. I have to keep them at a fairly low, maintainable amount. Otherwise it felt like everything would just hit the fan and I think a lot of it was wanting control, you know, limiting my pool of tasks and new things, which, when you think about it, ultimately reduces your sphere for new experiences, good experiences and opportunities. Maybe it was because the kids were young and, you know, babies do take up a lot of brain space. But since this podcast, I've noticed I am much more open to incorporating new things into my life, taking on more, and I only noticed this one very recently, because a friend of mine has been making her own kombucha.
Speaker 1:I don't know how you say it, is it kombucha or kombucha? I'm going to say kombucha, which is quite a process by itself, you know, by the looks of it. I mean, it's not rocket science. I think anyone can do it, but it takes time and attention and a level of commitment to do something like that, and before it would have been an absolute no, like nope. I have no time to add something extra, something else into my daily task list, absolutely not. It was this element of don't give me another thing to do, another plate to start spinning, because I will drop them all. But I feel really open and excited to learn how to make kombucha, kombucha, kombucha and to start doing it.
Speaker 1:Another example I mean these are fairly silly examples, but it just demonstrates how much I was limiting myself before because of my anxiety. But another example is that I supply my own candles to a lovely shop, bosley Patch, down in Henley-on-Thames where I used to live. I now live in Shropshire, which is a good like two or three hours away by car. Now, my sister up until very recently she used to deliver them to the shop for me because even though she lives up in Shropshire where I live, she used to still work for half the week down in Henley so she'd take them down for me. But she's finally moved all of her wonderful business back to Shropshire so she doesn't go down there anymore. Hence she cannot deliver them for me anymore.
Speaker 1:Now, before the idea of just simply having to figure out something else, to use up more brain space, to talk to couriers, arrange delivery, tell, tell Bosley Patch, oh, you won't get free delivery anymore, you know, find the right boxes, the right packaging it would just send me into a right tizzy. I'd real panic and I'd hate it. But now I don't feel that that stress is gone and I really do think it's because of all my high-vibing activities I've been doing, especially meditation. It really has rewired and restructured my brain, because that is what it does. It does restructure it. It does rewire it for new ways, new patterns of thinking and behaving. So that is this other wonderful, unexpected benefit A little brucy bonus, if you like. I now have all this extra space in my brain and I'm excited to take on new tasks rather than feel scared or stressed about something else just being added onto my plate, you know. The next benefit is I notice the sky and I notice birdsong more. The sky and birdsong have become two big things in my life and it might sound really silly, but I do. I notice the sounds of birds singing so much more, and it's because of all these high vibing activities I've done. They've shifted my focus. They've shifted my focus towards the good stuff.
Speaker 1:Remember that confirmation bias. I've talked about it quite a few times. Your brain will keep looking for proof and evidence that supports your current beliefs and your current focus beliefs about yourself and the world around you world around you. So if I'm believing that life is always a test or a battle, that I'm a victim and good things aren't available to me, then sure as hell, that's what I'm going to see in the world, but if I believe that every day is a blessing, that there is beauty and opportunities for happiness all around me, then that's what I'm going to see and I do, and it's fabulous. I see the good so much more now, everywhere, rather than always being on guard for the bad. That's actually a really good way of describing how I used to feel always being on guard for the shit stuff. What are you doing if you're always on guard for the bad? You're watching out for it, which means you're looking for it.
Speaker 1:Another thing I noticed is that I was using the let them theory without knowing. Now, who has heard of Mel Robbins theory? Without knowing? Now, who has heard of Mel Robbins? Check her out. She has this theory and it's called the let them theory. Let them Very simple but extremely powerful, and she explains it this way If your friends aren't inviting you out to brunch this weekend, let them. If the person that you're really attracted to isn't interested in commitment, let them.
Speaker 1:Someone saying mean and untrue things about you, let them, because what this is doing is encouraging you to detach emotionally from situations that are out of your control, by accepting others actions and choices without trying to change them. When you let them do whatever they want, it creates more control and emotional peace for you and then a better relationship with the people in your life. And this was something, again fairly recently, that I've been adopting, without knowing it Not all the time, I admit, but I have noticed it now and again and I've realised that it's not exactly about caring less and less what people think of me. It's not about that, because I always want to be kind, I always want to be compassionate and hold space for the people around me, but I realized that I will not be everyone's cup of tea, and that's actually really okay as long as I know that I've tried to be the best version of me possible, and if they still don't like me, then that's okay. But we get so caught up in thinking what other people should and should not be doing or saying or thinking, when really you can't control what someone else does, says or thinks. All you can do is be present, offer what you can to a person in any situation, but what they do, what they think, what they say will ultimately be their own decision, and it gets to a point where it's got nothing to do with you. So the next time you feel caught up in what someone else is saying or thinking, just think to yourself, let them. If you want to know more about that theory, go and check out Mel Robbins. Just google Mel Robbins, let them theory. There's so much out there about it now it's really interesting.
Speaker 1:The last thing that I want to tell you guys about that I've been noticing, I've been doing, is that I can spot inauthenticity in other people almost instantly, and it's quite creepy this one, because it almost feels like this spooky superpower. But I've realized what it is is that when you start to know yourself better and when you start to align your life, your values, your beliefs, to your real self, to your real self, you ultimately start to have less doubt in yourself, less uncertainty, less questions, because you've got this clear access to your inner self, your true self, whatever you want to call it. It's that inner wisdom, that deep part of you, that's unwavering. It's that inner wisdom, that deep part of you, that's unwavering. It's calm, it's centered, it's free and unaffected by the chaos, the uncertainty, the doubt that's pressed upon us by life. And when this happens, when you come across someone who's not in touch with that inner wisdom, their inner self. You can really sense it, you can see it, you can feel it. You can see that uncertainty, the almost desperation in trying to figure out who they really are, and you see that as desperation because they're portraying a person that is not really them. They're portraying a person who they think they should be.
Speaker 1:And I was thinking about this recently because I've had a couple of situations and a couple of people where I've really seen this and, if I'm perfectly honest, a few years ago, when I would have come into contact with these people, I would have felt annoyance, maybe even a dissonance, to put it nicely. But now I just have empathy because I understand what's going on. Christ, I'm making myself sound like Gandhi. I'm sorry if I sound like an arrogant knobhead I really am but now I just react differently towards it and I think it's most likely because I've been there. I have been that person and I know how difficult it is not knowing who you are and being totally clueless about how to find out. Always feeling like the person that you're putting out into the world does not resonate with who you really are. You're full of feeling like you should be this way, that way, behave this way or that way and I just now feel a really deep sadness for them.
Speaker 1:One person I know, who I do feel this for, is someone who is just always at war with the world. You know they file complaints left, right and centre. The world is always against them, even though they do have a lot on their plate. This person they like to talk about it all the time. It's their focus, it's all they can see, and even when they've just experienced something amazing, it's always clouded with the negative. And I always feel whenever I see this person, I just wish that I could make them see that just a simple shift to their mindset, their perspective, would make such a huge difference to the way they feel on a day-to-day basis. But not just this, but how they experience their life would change so drastically.
Speaker 1:Another person I don't know personally, but I met briefly at a social gathering recently and just being around her for a few hours I could just see that by the way she held herself, the language she used, the way she explained reason, she actually was physically imposing herself over me. We were just in a kind of a circle kind of formation having a group conversation, but it was almost like she was trying to not edge me out of the conversation, but she was trying to make herself seem bigger, to the point even where the gestures she was making with her hands were almost hitting me in the face. And she was standing in such a strange way next to me, almost in my personal space, but talking to someone else across me. Now, the kind of person I was years ago, this would have pissed me off. My blood would have been boiling. But on this day it actually, even like I am now, it made me giggle a little bit internally.
Speaker 1:Maybe it was the awkwardness a little bit as well, but I really did feel this sadness for her and I didn't want to do anything or react to her and make a scene and make her feel worse. And I think I know it doesn't make sense that I was giggling, but I felt sad. But I think it was this realization of how I was feeling. It almost made me giddy while feeling sad for her. It was just the difference to how I used to deal with this situation, how it used to make me feel, compared to how it was making me feel in that present moment. But I didn't want to retaliate and treat her the same way she was treating me. I just wanted to keep my light on, I just kept that sense of compassion going Because, I won't lie, there was a tiny ember of annoyance, but it wasn't like I was really feeling it. It was like it was lingering from the person I used to portray, the person I used to project on the world, because you know, they're old patterns of behavior and thinking that are still lingering somewhere.
Speaker 1:But the fact that I did feel this compassion for her and that was stronger than the annoyance I felt, it changed the way I thought and behaved in that situation and it actually made me feel quite proud of myself, because I'm growing, guys, I'm growing as a person. But that's what it's all about, isn't it? So the next time you come across someone that initially is acting in a way that really gets under your skin, really riles you up, rather than react, use angry words or punch them in the face, pause, just pause, take a breath and then fire up from somewhere. Some compassion, because, honestly, you are capable, even in those really hard moments where you just feel like you're going to explode, I promise you that you do have the capacity to react differently, to come from a place of calm and it is really bloody hard at first, but once you manage it, just once it gets easier and easier, you're breaking the pattern, you're breaking a habit. Basically, that's what you're doing. That is what you're doing. You're breaking a habit and your whole world around you will start to change. The encounters you have will change, your relationships will change, your experience of life will change. And it's a little bit selfish as well, a bit self-serving, because it feels really good when you can see the change happening and that you are growing. There you have it for today Some unexpected but incredibly rewarding benefits of living a high vibe life.
Speaker 1:They're just mine. I can't wait to hear what yours might be, your unexpected benefits. So start small, be consistent and, most importantly, believe in your own ability to create a vibrant and joyful life. Every step you take towards raising your vibration is a step towards a happier existence. When you're listening to this, I will have just gotten back from hosting my first yoga retreat. So tune in next week and I'll tell you all about it, how you can book on for my winter retreat that's coming.
Speaker 1:But if you enjoyed today's episode, please share it with your friends. Anyone you think might benefit too and leave a review. Please take a minute or two to leave a review. Reviews do so much more than you know. I never used to leave reviews, but now I know how much they really do help me to reach more people who are looking for this information. So now I leave reviews everywhere. I'm a review maniac. I leave them for people all the time. But please stay tuned for next week. Remember you can now subscribe to my weekly meditations the link is in the show notes and keep shining. I'll see you back here next week. Thank you all so much for tuning in. If you enjoyed today's episode, please share with your friends and family to continue spreading that positivity. You can find me on instagram at the high vibe guide. Get in touch. I would love to hear from you. Thank you all so much for listening and I'll see you back here next time at the High Vibe Guide.