[S63] 4 SoulSmart Skills That Will Help You Create Your Dream Life

In this episode, I share with you the 4 pillars of being soulsmart, i.e. the 4 key skills that you must master to create your dream life. These 4 things are the foundation of all of my work, and the secret behind my own manifesting success. Get good at these and you'll find that your dreams come true a lot sooner than you think possible!

Here's what we'll cover:

• how intuition is the voice of your soul
• how to not just hear it, but learn to apply it
• why it's also important to get guidance from sources other than your intuition
• how your energy and mindset affect your success, and what to look out for
• what it means to co-create your reality, and why I dislike the word 'manifesting'

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Hello, hello. Welcome to episode 63 of The SoulSmart Podcast. This is your host Joanna Hennon.

This episode is kind of like a new beginning for me. I've been away from the podcast, and to be honest, from a lot of my business as well, for over a year. 

Basically, what happened is that I manifested my biggest dream yet, so I moved my family from Belgium where we were living to magical Ireland, which is our dream dream location in the world, and, well, I thought that when we when we arrived here, I thought that as soon as I moved into my new house, I would just pick up my business where I left off. But the universe had other plans for me and hit me over the head with perimenopause. 

I'm not going to go into what that is, I will probably do another episode about it anyway because I feel like there's just so much to say about it. But, basically, I was out of for months and months and months, and those months turned into pretty much a year now. So I'm really just coming back. 

Part of the time that I was in this weird phase of my life, I used to tweak my message, my work, and decide how I want to talk about it from now on. Because what I found when I manifested my biggest dream yet, this big move to Ireland, is that it was accompanied by this really huge change of identity, which I just wasn't expecting. I kinda thought my reality would shift and that everything else would just continue. But, in fact, I became this whole other person in the process of moving, and I kinda had to redo things in my life and and rethink a lot of stuff in my life as well. 

One of the the things that I explored and and did a lot of thinking about and restructured was the whole concept that's the foundation of my work in the world, and the secret behind my own manifesting success. That concept is called soulsmart. It's a word that I made up, and I’m actually finally in the process of trademarking it. What it means is using what the soul knows to be true to make your life as good as possible. I now understand that soulsmart can actually be divided into 4 key skills, four key concepts. And those are the 4 things that we're going to be talking about in today's episode. So this is why today's episode is called 4 soulsmart skills that will help you create your dream life. These are the four things that I think are the most important skills to master if you want to live in a soulsmart way, using what the soul knows to be true. 

And what does the soul know? Well, the soul knows that the physical space isn't all that there is. The soul knows that there are spiritual realms that we can call on, that we can connect with, that we return to. after our physical body dies. The soul knows that you can get guidance from those realms. The soul knows that everything is energy, and therefore malleable, that magic exists and that we can shape the world around us in various ways that maybe can be seen as impossible if you're not tuned into this energy side of things. 

So soulsmart is a really, really different way of living your life,  in a way where you co-create with spirit, where you work with the magic of the universe, where you use your manifesting ability to shape your reality, where you follow your soul path where you live your soul purpose. And at the end of the day where you find not just success, because success can be created through simply hard work, but you also find fulfilment and meaning. And I have found that those are really worth pursuing. 

The soulsmart way, as I said, is based on these 4 key skills, which are: intuition, working with guidance, managing your energy, including your mindset, and being an active participant in the manifesting process or the co-creating process so that you can create your version of a dream life. So this is what we're talking about today. Let's just go through these 4 skills in more detail. 

#1: INTUITION

The first one is intuition, which I think is the best place to start for a whole number of reasons. I think of intuition as the voice of your soul. It's the part of you that knows what the plan is. It's the part of you that's eternal. It's the part of you that chose to be born into this particular lifetime, into your particular life, with your particular family, your particular challenges and sets of skills and all that stuff. So I feel like that's just a really important part of yourself to connect with, the part of you that has those answers that maybe your ego self, your personality, doesn't always have access to.

Your soul is also the part of you that knows who you really are, and therefore what's truly right for you. It knows why it came here. It knows what needs to happen or what the goal is or what the path is, what the purpose is. It's the part that connects with where you came from and the whole purpose of you being here in this lifetime. Working with your intuition is working with that part of you. 

I look at working with intuition as a twofold process because a lot of the time we think about intuition as just this one skill, and it's not. There are at least 2 skills. The first one is hearing your intuition, first of all, you need to make space in your life, and in your head, because your head gets in the way, space to hear the voice of your intuition, to hear the voice of your heart, your soul. You can do this in a number of ways. My favorite are oracle cards, tarot cards, and intuitive art. But, really, the main thing, the main task, I suppose, is to create that space. To tune in, to quiet the mind, to listen to what your heart is saying, to what you truly desire, to what the truth is. You know? That truth comes from your intuition, your higher self, your soul. And that's one piece. 

The second piece is to actually follow the guidance, and a lot of people stop with the first piece. If that's you, that's okay, but you do want to make sure that you're actually following the guidance that you get. This isn't as easy as it sounds because our heads get in the way, because we don't always understand the guidance fully or we don't know how to implement it. That's a skill to learn. We talk ourselves out of it, you know? But the more you do it, the easier it is to to listen to that voice of your soul, your intuition, and to trust that that voice is actually correct and it's going to lead you exactly where you need to go. That it's going to lead you on the right path. Really what you need to do to master this skill is simply to practice. 

Now how does working with your intuition help you create your dream life? Because that's the goal, and that's what we're talking about in this in this episode, that’s the whole reason to want to be soulsmart in the first place. Think of your intuition as your own personal GPS. What you see as your dream life, your version of your dream life, because that'll be different for everybody, is actually a download from your higher self, I believe. So it's where your soul wants you to go. It's like the master plan for your life. You wouldn't have your particular dream if your soul didn't want to go for that particular dream. You'd have some other dream. So your connection with your soul, the part of you knows where to go and how to get there, is your GPS. That's the part of you that that knows where to turn left and where to turn right. If you listen to it, then you will get to your destination, your dream life. 

As a bit of an aside, your dream life might not be exactly what you think it is. And I'll talk about that a little bit later as well, but it seems appropriate to mention it here already. Like, what you think your dream life is might have different aspects to it than what you can currently imagine because you can only see a certain amount of information from your current vantage point and things might be added, and things might change. You might also be served up a nice big serving of what you need rather than what want. All these moving parts are involved as well. 

But in any case, your intuition is that energy GPS system. It is the part of you that knows which way to go, not just, you know, not just the destination, but also the way forward. So listening to your intuition, even when it doesn't make sense, even when logic says something else, is a really, really important skill to master. 

And you can start small. You don't have to start on the big things, but it's a really good idea to start listening to your intuition and just start practicing listening to what it's saying and start practicing following what it's saying so that you can develop that trust. 

#2: SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE

The second soulsmart skill that I want to talk about is working with guidance from other parts of the spiritual realms or other parts of the universe, because it's not just your soul that is steering you in the direction of your version of a dream life, the kind of life that will bring you the most joy and fulfilment. I feel like there is guidance all around you. So things people say, Spirit sometimes speaks through people, or songs that you hear in the supermarket, or omens in the physical space, thinkgs that just pop up or even animals, Abraham quotes on Instagram that you happen to come across. I just feel like there is guidance in everything. And I can tell you that that my life became so much better and I was so much better equipped to start creating the things that I wanted to experience once I decided or realized that everything has meaning, that nothing is coincidental. I decided that the universe is on my side and wants me to succeed and wants me to live my version of a dream life and that it's constantly sending signs my way. And my only job is to notice that guidance and follow it. 

Sometimes it's really difficult to do in your everyday, but I can really, really see that it's definitely true when I look back on things and analyze how they unfolded. And then I can see that the signs were there, you know? And some of them, I followed, and some of them I ignored because I'm human, and I'm sure you have you have that same that same issue. Sometimes it's just easier to ignore the signs or you're not sure it's a sign and all those kinds of things. But in the end, looking back on it, it's very, very clear what the signs were and how the universe was guiding me in a particular direction that ended up being exactly the right direction even if sometimes it didn't make sense. If you want to hear my full story, I actually have a manifesting case study, called ‘Manifesting: The good, the bad, and the ugly” and you can get that on my website if you're interested. 

Also, when you're not seeing or when you're not understanding the guidance that's all around you, you can actually ask. You can either work with your own guides or work with other entities in the in the universe. You can work with with the fairy people or with with archangels, there are just so many possibilities. Or by getting a reading from someone else. 

I do both of these things. I do a lot myself, obviously, I’m a I'm a channel, and I'm very skilled at working with energy and downloading guidance from the spiritual realms and all those things. But sometimes, I'm just too emotionally involved in what I want the answers to be. And then I get readings from other people, and I do so several times a year, in addition to all the readings I do for myself. 

There are just so many opportunities for us to receive guidance, either from the world around us or to ask when necessary. Just remember that getting the guidance isn't actually what matters, it's implementing the guidance that matters. It's what you're going to do with the guidance that comes through for you. I always say, when I do readings for people, and even for myself, I always remind myself that I am not an information service, I am not a broadcasting system. The information isn't supposed to come through me and stop there. It comes through for a reason, it comes through so that the recipient can do something with it, can use it in some way in their daily life to make their life better and happier and more joyful and to manifest their dreams and all those things. So just remember that that implementation is a really, really important piece.

How will the skill of working with guidance from the universe and the spiritual realms help you create your dream life? Well, you won't be trying to do it all on your own, right? You'll be tapping into the magic of the universe, the wisdom and the power that's available to us all in the universe, in the spiritual realms. And in my experience working in this way, working with spirit and energy in the universe, makes things a lot quicker than the usual logical ways we're taught. I feel like when we do this, we tap into just a totally different way of living, really. And we bypass a lot of the physical laws that we've agreed on collectively. And just let some extra magic into our lives. I have certainly found that working in this way has been super helpful. 

Now you may notice that working with your intuition and working with spiritual guidance have similarities, and they definitely do. bBut they're not the same thing. Note that one is internal, and the other is external. I like to think of it this way, that my soul, my intuition, is like an older version of me. It's an older and wiser version of me with some more experiences, other lifetimes to draw wisdom from, but it's still me. It's still me. But my spiritual guides and teachers are like physical guides and teachers. They'll have a different perspective to even older and wiser me. They'll have something to add. They'll know something different. They'll have different lifetimes to draw from. They'll have other experiences. So although working with these 2 things, intuition, and guides of some kind, they're similar, it seems clear that you would want to seek help from from from both sides. Because you want to get as much guidance and as much wisdom and as much of this energy on your side as possible. 

#3: ENERGY & MINDSET

Next up is the skill of working on your energy and your mindset. So mindset is your belief system, your subconscious, the lens through which you look at the world. This is really, really important because your brain filters things based on what your mind believes to be true. So making sure that your mind believes that what you want is actually, you know, possible is really, really important because it'll literally filter out information that you might need if it doesn't believe that what you want is a possibility or true in the world. And the mind only believes what it has seen before, so it's not necessarily correct. So working with your belief system and not taking your beliefs and what you think to be be true as ultimate truth and always correct is a really important part of the process. I'm sure you know this already, but just remember that whatever you believe has a way of being true or becoming true. So if you believe that people are friendly, you're likely to come across or notice more friendly people. And if you believe that people are mean and unhelpful, then you're probably going to to come across those in a  situation where you need customer service or whatever. 

My favorite quote illustrates this really, really well. My favorite quote is by Henry Ford, and Henry Ford said: “whether you think you can or you think you can't either way you’re right”. And I just think this is so simple, but so, so, so profound. And so true. If you think that you can't do something, you probably won't even try or if you try, your heart won't be in it. So your results won't be what you would like them to be, and you'll end up being right. Whereas if you think you can do something, like, if you really, really believe that you can do something, then you'll find a way to keep going, and you won't give up. And so your behavior, your actions will change based on whether you think you can do it, or you can't do it. And therefore, your results will be different. That mindset piece, is really going to affect your ability to create your dream life. 

Your energy includes your mindset, and it also includes your emotions, your identity, the way you look at yourself, the way you see yourself, all those sorts of things. And so making sure that your energy is high means doing whatever you need to do to feel good. It's not about always being positive. It's just making sure that you're taking care of yourself and how you view the world, so that you can stay positive about your ability to create what you want, so that your confidence level can be optimal, so that you can believe in yourself and tackle self doubt and fear. It doesn't mean ignoring self doubt and fear and other kinds of unhelpful emotional states, but rather addressing them, working through them so that so that they don't have such power over you and your decisions. 

Working on your energy and your mindset will help you create what you want simply because they are your internal landscape, and your inner world is reflected in your outer world. Essentially, you can't have your dream life if your inner world isn't an energetic match for it. So the more you can do to keep your energy and mindset pointing in the direction of where you you want to go, the better. You certainly don't want to decide that you want to go somewhere and then let your mindset keep you from taking the right action or have your energy so low that you can't be bothered doing anything or get stuck in a belief that it's not worth it because you doubt and you fear and you have all these emotions coming up. So make sure that you're working on that piece as well. 

#4: CO-CREATING REALITY

And lastly, the 4th soulsmart skill that I feel is essential to being able to create your reality or your your dream life is co-creating that reality. That's really the opposite of the energy and mindset piece where you're working on your inner landscape. It's noticing what's happening in your external reality, and creating the changes you want to see. I don't like to call it manifesting, although that's what this piece is often called. I just don't like that word anymore really because it's become synonymous with achieving goals and pushing forward, and this kind of no-matter-what ithinking, whereas I think of it more like a dance with the universe. Working with the energy inside you and externally so that it rearranges itself into the reality that you want to see, and that's not necessarily just pushing through. It's essentially co-creating your reality, this soulsmart skill is about looking at everything around you as energy and, therefore, malleable. Looking at anything that shows up as temporary, if you decide that it's temporary, because you can change it by working with it at an energetic level. 

This piece will include a lot of the things that are usually included in a manifesting practice. It'll include like, knowing what you want and being intentional and a lot of external things like behavior and action, taking inspired action on the things that you want. It is essentially the external representation of the previous skill, energy, and mindset. Here, you're paying attention to what's showing up in your external reality and either claiming it, saying yes to it, or going back to the drawing board because it didn't quite manifest like you'd intended. It's really working with that external world, but still knowing that it's all energy, and that it's not set in stone.

There are a few things to be aware of here, and the most important is that co-creating your reality doesn't mean that you can have or create anything that you want. I say this a lot, that our wants often come from the ego self, sometimes they’re shoulds, sometimes we want things because we want to prove something to ourselves or to somebody else. but they're not actually what the soul wants to experience. And co-creating your reality is not just about what you want. It's also about going with the flow of your soul path and following the signs and your intuition and understanding that you're creating your best possible life, but also that you don't always know what that is. I mentioned this before, but it's true, you don't always have all the information, or all the awareness. You might think that that this is what you want and that that's right for you. But in fact, the soul knows that something else is right for you. Even if you think you have all the answers, you don't always. And so that co-creative process that we call manifesting can be a little bit messy and can be a little bit uncertain because it's not just about your ego personality, it's also about your soul and probably some other moving parts that we can't fully understand from our current vantage point. 

I'll just give you an example, when we moved to Ireland, I knew exactly what kind of house I wanted. I could see it in my mind. I was a 100% sure. And when we arrived here, that kind of house just wasn't available to us. The market had changed, and everything was different to what we expected. We ended up buying a house that's great, but it's in a rural location, it's older than what I wanted, it just requires some TLC. And it just took me a while to understand that it's not that I failed, it's not that my my manifesting failed or that there was something wrong with me. I actually now understand that this house is exactly what I needed, it wasn't what I wanted, but it was exactly what I needed to support me through what I ended up going through after we moved in. And now I can really appreciate the location, the rural location, and the peace, and all the positives that come with it. But I couldn't see it at the beginning. You know? And I was really getting stuck in ‘I'm a failure’ kind of energy, until I realized that my soul knew exactly what was right. And thankfully, I knew to follow it and trust that eventually, I'll see it hopefully. Maybe that trust wasn't there a 100% of the time. But I do obviously live by these these 4 skills, that I swear by, to the best of my ability. And also, you know, I'm human just like you. So it's not always it's not always easy. 

So that’s it. From my experience, these 4 skills are the foundation of of being able to create your dream life, of living in what I call a soulsmart way, in alignment with your higher self, living out your soul's plan, your soul's purpose in a way where you create a life that's full of joy and meaning and fulfilment, and also success but I’m underlining the joy and meaning and and fulfilment. So really living life from the soul's perspective, not just the human perspective, and allowing in all that magic and wisdom and power that we have access to as essentially spiritual beings. 

These are the 4 skills that I think are the foundation, from my experience that has certainly been true. As a reminder, those 4 skills are working with your intuition, working with other guidance from the universe, paying attention to your mindset and your energy, and co-creating with with spirit, co-creating your reality. If you're interested in any of these particular things or these these specific skills. I have courses on pretty much all aspects of them, and always more coming, I create a lot of courses, and you can find them all listed at joannahenon.com/everything. 

I hope that this episode gave you something to think about. I hope that it gave you a structure to work with. So whatever it is that you're going through, if you take yourself through those four areas of intuition, guidance, energy/mindset, and co-creation or manifesting, then a lot of things would be solved. You'd get a lot of insight, a lot of answers, and a lot of pointers as to where to go next or what to focus on next in order to create your version of a dream life. So I hope that this has given you what you need right now to take your next step, your best next step, 

And remember that if your heart truly desires something, then it's possible for you. It's meant for you. So keep going. Keep going, and I will see you in another episode. Goodbye.