Here’s our most popular article to date over at O! Lila…

Your Inner Child is adorable, precious and always putting things in its mouth that it shouldn’t. These are simply the things kids are and do. But did you really mean to sign over your bank accounts, wallet and earning power to the little munchkin?

Probably not.

So what do you do when your inner child has run off with your pocketbook?

In this article you’ll learn how to identify what’s going on… and then we’ll tell you what to do about it.

Click the link below to read the article over at O! Lila:

4 Signs Your Inner Child Ran Off With Your Money

Meditations, recipes, exercises and adventures. Actionable guidance on love, money, happiness and health. Uh huh… you’re getting goosebumps already.

Along with my business partner, Angela Hartman, exactly 30 days ago, we launched our new Life & Spirit company: O! Lila.

I’d like to personally invite you to visit me there and continue to enjoy articles on health, meditation, money and the inner game, along with deeper immersion into other topics I’m passionate about:

• Spirituality
• Enlightenment
• Healing and Integrating our Shadow, and Fully Awakening to Our Light
• The Path of the Urban Mystic: Balancing complex truth and spiritual journeying alongside modern everyday life and responsibilities
• Archetypes & Sacred Symbols
• Psychology, Neuroscience, and the search for a Unified Field Theory in Physics

Discover How to Change Your Life & Live Your Love: Sourced From Spirituality, Science, Ancient Texts & Daily Living ~ O! Lila

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Here’s a quick question that could provide some revelatory and life-changing answers:

What inspires you when nothing else can?

It might be a certain passage in your favorite book, a verse from your religious text, something a loved one once said that stuck – or a timeless scene from a movie, like when Will Smith tells his son to always go for his dreams in Pursuit of Happyness.

It could also be a place you go, a song you listen to or a type of meditation you do.

I’m on the search to collect these powerfully inspiring passages, pieces… poems and places… and turn them into brief 1 MIN inspiring videos that Angela and I will start publishing to provide free nuggets of inspiration that you can count on when times are rough.

It seemed like a good idea to select inspiring things that have already proven their weight in gold to YOU. So please post the passage, lyrics, place, etc. in the comments, or send it to contact@jaimemintun.com.

Please also include a brief story about what it did for you.

Also please attribute your inspirational selection to whomever created it.

If we select your passage and/or story to feature in one of our videos, we will give our gratitude to you in the video. So yeah, you’ll be immortalized as well as inspired!!

We truly appreciate your help in this.

Also feel free to let us know what kind of inspiration you’d like to see in these 1 MIN videos… on a certain topic, for a certain purpose (like every time you don’t get a call back as an actor… or for getting through the breakup blues).

Thanks so much!

So don’t forget to post below, right now (we know something’s popped in your head!)…

Tell us what inspires you when nothing else can!

Comment below or email us at contact@jaimemintun.com

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What is going to happen in 2012?

Have you found yourself or those around you asking this question lately? It seems harmless enough, but what if I told you that such a question is a massive mistake? And perhaps even dangerous?

Don’t get me wrong – I caught myself asking this after Obama signed off on the NDAA and basically nixed all our personal rights. However I find that as I begin to stumble down the rabbit hole of fear… around our economy and a failing US dollar… around a possible police state… around all the natural disasters that have become commonplace… I (and all of us) must remember one vital thing:

This year is marked with intense transition energy.

And energy is not good or bad. It simply is. What is done with it, where it’s directed and what it does, is up to us.

Transitioning also means that what came before must end, and what is coming must be created and built. Transitions always require destruction. They also require creation. And both require action if we want such destruction to serve us and such creation to reflect what we want.

So this is NOT a year where we can idly ask “What will happen?”

Because now more than ever, what will happen depends precisely on what we do, individually and collectively, right now. Transition energy means massive change, momentum and movement. Things will inevitably change this year, and change fast. How they change and to what end – isn’t a question, it’s a directive. Simply: It’s up to us.

They always say that each of us has a Heart Song.

The movie Happy Feet made it particularly and adorably popular as animated penguins found their lifelong loves through singing their Heart Songs.

But real life isn’t quite that Disney is it? Human beings aren’t so simple and neither are our hearts.

I would venture actually to say that we don’t have Heart Songs at all. Instead, I submit that we have Heart Playlists.

I discovered this somewhat by accident this weekend and I’d like to take you through this impromptu exercise I did…

Because many of you ask me what Intuition is, how to connect to it, and what it feels like when you receive it, so you too can take action on it.

I hope that in sharing how my intuition throttled me smack dab into a Heart Playlist… that you’ll have something tangible to grasp (plus a fun exercise to try!).

You game? Good.

First, let’s tackle what I mean by a ‘Heart Playlist’ and then I’ll take you through how I created mine and the deep integration transformation it gave me…

What IS a Heart Playlist?

Your Heart Playlist is a series of 3 to 20 (and maybe sometimes more) songs that penetrate you so deeply that you 1) have an emotional reaction and 2) feel that it speaks of your heart or to your heart.

But here’s the key: your Heart Playlist is NOT a series of songs that all say basically the same thing. That’s just a Heart Song with Remixes… you know those singles albums with 4 remixes that all sound basically the same? That’s not what we’re going for, and you’ll see why in a moment.

Something very important and very deep is happening over at Dare2Rise.com: our 60-day challenge.

So important, I had to share it here on my blog. It is the question: Is there danger in a woman’s sexuality?

My answer to our community became somewhat of a personal manifesto…

Here is what I wrote:

The Question: Will a Woman’s Demonstration of Her Sexuality Inspire Predators to Harm Her or Take Advantage of Her?

A woman close to me, whom I love dearly, emailed me last night. She was concerned at my playful but blatant sexuality in yesterday’s Luv Tap. If you didn’t see the email, it mentioned a cupcake place we found called “Lick It, Bite It, or Both.”

Due to my personal history of being molested and raped, she was worried that such a demonstration of sexuality could be misconstrued by predators and call them out of the woodwork to bother me.

This called to me and Angela as a major concern we needed to discuss here with all of you, because relationships (including romantic AND business), our human sexuality and even attraction are all based on polarized power dynamics.

If we women hold a collective fear that we can be harmed, taken advantage of or victimized whenever we display our sexuality… imagine how that holds us back in every area of our lives?

What this tells us is that we women naturally go to a place of limiting ourselves, shutting down parts of ourselves that others may use against us… we choose to live only a part of our being in order to stay safe. This is not a woman’s fault – we are taught that we must do this by society and the world we live in. But it’s not society’s fault either. We are human beings, and unfortunately violence against women is part of the darkness we are attempting to evolve beyond as a species.

Here’s the deal though: Ladies – I’ve been there. I’ve lived a life of timid fear of being victimized and I’ve survived the reality of being victimized. I’ve experienced a belittling of myself in order to stay safe and seen that it doesn’t work.

I’ve also brazenly lived from my total self, spoken my truth, unashamedly celebrated my sexuality and sensual nature as a woman… and I can tell you that only when I started living life in this last way, did the predators STOP coming around.

So if you (ladies) have ever feared being your total wild, complex, feminine self… if you ever watched your every word, stance, or non-verbal cue to make sure that no part of your sexuality leaked out… if you’ve ever feared being taken advantage of or harmed if you did not keep some part of you silent…

Please know that it is very rarely a woman’s sexuality that calls a predator to harm her. It is NOT our demonstrations of elegant sensuality, or an empowered, tasteful sexual comment that triggers a predator. Why? Because these demonstrate power in a woman. Not weakness. When a woman tastefully and openly speaks her total truth (and yes, our sexuality is part of our total truth), she is owning her power as a woman. This does not mean that a woman’s sex is her power. No, it means that our freedom to express our sensual nature comes from stepping into who we are and owning our total self… and THAT is power.

For those of you who fear triggering a predatory response, or who don’t want to be harmed or mistreated by men, let me explain what does trigger a predator.

Predators actually don’t respond to sex. It has nothing to do with sex or a woman’s sensuality. It’s all about power dynamics. When a woman displays a lack of power… that’s when the predators come out. And we women can display a lack of power when we demonstrate a lack of self-trust. It happens when we repress our sexuality in order to stay safe. Our repression actually signals to the predator that we’re afraid of sexuality – and now he knows how to gain power and leverage over us… he uses our sexuality against us.

But when we own our sexuality in a healthy way (not overt or in your face, just as an integrated part of our total, whole self), we have not created a shadow form of our sexuality that can be wielded against us.

Lastly, I want you to know that this entire conversation… all these concerns… aren’t really about a woman’s sexuality.

It’s about a woman’s right to fully speak her truth.

And this is why Angela and I are here, delivering daily free advice and support through Dare 2 Rise. It’s why we’re building our women’s transformation company. These are the ways we are choosing to speak our truth, and to give women everywhere a voice to speak theirs.

Because several years ago I came to a crossroads where I could choose to heal, or choose to die. And I realized that if I did not commit myself to fight for a better world, to lead the charge for women to heal and feel comfortable being our natural, wild, sexual selves… then my only alternative was to stay broken, stay scared, and stay empty. And then why live at all at that point? So I chose the harder path to heal, to fight, to love and to unashamedly be my total self.

That was the only thing that got me through. And now I’m living that mission. No woman or man should ever be afraid to speak their truth. None of us should reduce our radiance and total self just to stay safe.

Today, ponder all of this. Where does it sit with you? How does it make you feel?

And perhaps ask yourself: How are you not currently living and speaking your truth? Might you be living small in some way… or attempting to kill off some part of you that feels dangerous to you… or that opens you up to some perceived weakness?

And then tell yourself, under no uncertain terms, that when you are ready: You can and absolutely will stand for your own truth. In totality. And in complete acceptance and love.

We also stand for you and your total truth.

As our tribe grows here, we will stand together for each others’ truth. Unanimous. Unshakable. Unyielding. And we will not be moved.

My original post at Dare2Rise is HERE.