You Must Learn This Before You Can Connect With Spirit

For years Jenny lived in medical sales. Seventy hour weeks. Early mornings. Cocktail dinners just to hit a number. And underneath all of it, something was trying to get her attention. She could not hear it. In this episode Jenny tells the full story of the ultimatum that changed everything, the four months of fear between deciding to leave and actually walking away, and the moment a medium confirmed something she had said out loud in her car, alone, months earlier. Her grandfather repeated it back to her word for word.

This episode breaks down why you cannot connect with Spirit from 3D energy, no matter how badly you want to.

• The medical sales life that left Jenny exhausted in a way sleep could not fix
• The ultimatum that forced the decision she had been avoiding
• 3D versus 5D versus 12D, explained in a way that actually makes sense
• The car ride conversation her grandfather repeated back to her in a reading, word for word
• What 3D energy does to a reading, and why it is the biggest wall between you and your own intuition
• How to actually start hearing your intuition clearly, without a three hour morning routine

Your intuition is the portal Spirit uses to communicate. This episode is the bridge.

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Welcome back to Seriously Dead, My Friends. Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart if you have taken time, number one, to listen to all these episodes, but sent me fan mail, dropped me a note somewhere in the ethers where it landed in front of me. I am so, so grateful for each of you. And I love continuing to be this voice of spirit and to share these stories behind spirit and me. So let's dive in today. Today we're going to talk about what you must learn before you can connect with spirit. Imagine this. There's a version of your week where you get a random thought to change plans at the last minute. And instead of following it, you talk yourself out of it, only to realize later you should have changed those plans. There's a version of your week where you get a knowing that you should pick up dinner, but you ignore it and justify it because there's food in the fridge, and you get home and you are exhausted. And so guess what? DoorDash it is. There's a version of your week where you feel a nudge to call a friend, you ignore it and find out later that she needed you. That nudge, that knowing, that random thought that turned out not to be so random at all, that's your intuition. And it's been talking to you your entire life. The question is not whether you have intuition. Every single person listening to this has intuition. The question is whether you've learned enough to understand how your body is being used by your intuition to communicate to you. And then you trust it. And whether you understand that because without your intuition, the connection to spirit you are looking for is going to be really, really hard to reach. You cannot connect to spirit from this 3D energy. And most people are trying to do exactly that. I know that because, well, I was one of them. And today I'm going to dive in and share that story with you and then help you redirect so that you can always keep the lines of communication open with spirit. For years, I lived almost entirely in 3D energy. And I did not have the language for it at the time. I just knew I was exhausted in a way that sleep didn't fix it. I was in medical sales, traveling constantly, working 70 plus hour weeks, early morning appointments, afternoon follow-ups, dinners packed with cocktails just to hit a number. Only to wake up and do it all again the next day. My body was exhausted. My nervous system was completely fried. I was getting sick more often than I should have been. And somewhere underneath all of that was something trying to get my attention. But I was so deep in the 3D that I couldn't hear it. I couldn't feel it, and I definitely couldn't see it. Because that's what 3D does. It keeps you so busy managing and pushing and chasing that there's no space left for anything quieter to come through. And the thing I was chasing more than anything was the money. It was the income, the lifestyle that came with the title and the territory and the company car, the ego that followed all of it because everyone wanted to hit sales like I did. And then the company went through its third sale in a few years. And this time the ultimatum they gave me was not a restructure or a new territory or a change in compensation. It was to completely uproot my entire life or lose my job. And I sat with that for a long time. I sat with that. Not because I wanted to comply, but because the fear that lived underneath the decision was enormous. The fear of inconsistent income, the fear of what would happen to our lifestyle, the fear of what my husband would think if the steady paycheck disappeared and he had to carry more of the weight. Those fears are purely 3D, every single one of them. The ego trying to protect what it can see and measure and control, the logical mind running every worst case scenario in a loop. And then my husband looked at me and said, four words that cut through all of it. We got this, honey. This is the time for you to actually start your business. So I resigned. This was the beginning of me learning to operate from a completely different frequency. Because the decision to leave was not 3D. It couldn't be. The 3D math didn't add up. The 3D logic said, stay, protect the income, don't risk the lifestyle. The decision came from somewhere quieter, somewhere that had been trying to reach me for years through the noise of those 70 plus hour weeks and the cocktail dinners and the alarm clocks pulling me out of bed before I was ready. The quiet place is the 5D world. And learning to hear it can change everything. Okay, let me break this down in a way that actually makes sense. 3D is the human world. And when I say human world, I mean the full weight of it. The logic mind, the materialistic things, the physical experiences, the ego, and everything the ego is trying to protect. The schedules, the deadlines, and the to-do list, and the news and traffic and the conversations you keep replaying in your head from three days ago. 3D feels like resistance, like pushing, like managing, like trying to control outcomes and explain everything and make sure nothing slips through the cracks. Most of us live primarily in this world. Not because we are doing something wrong, but because the human world demands this. And there's nothing wrong with being in the 3D world. It's a container for the human experience. And as I remind many people, I am still human, and so are you. But 3D is not the only frequency available to us. There's 5D, and 5D is something entirely different. 5D is not really a place, it's a way of being. A frequency you operate from when you have released enough of the 3D weight to move and trust instead of resist. In 5D, you're not fighting the current, you're moving with it. You stop doing things because someone told you to, and you start doing things because your inner knowing is pointing you there. You stop measuring your worth by the 3D metrics, and you start feeling the freedom that comes from just being. 5D feels like relief, like exhaling after you've been holding your breath for a really long time. Like the moment you stop trying to control something and it starts working on its own. And here's something you must know about 5D. You don't have to earn it. You don't have to meditate for years or complete the spiritual curriculum before it becomes available to you. It's already right there within reach. Every moment of genuine connection, every time a sign comes through and you felt it before you thought it, every time you trusted something you couldn't explain and well, it turned out to be right, that was 5D. And then there's 12D, and 12D is the full awareness of your soul's purpose and connection to the highest light and love. The dimension of complete knowing, of total alignment between who you are and why you are here. Most humans touch 12D in the moments rather than living there permanently. It is the state that spiritual practice is always moving towards. Spirit, the loved ones who have passed, the loved ones who came through in readings, they are operating from dimensions we don't have full access to, which is why the connection requires a bridge. And your intuition is that bridge. And you cannot build that bridge when you're operating from the 3D energy. Now, something that might surprise you because I want to share moments, my intuition became completely undeniable to me. And I want you all to know that sharing these little pockets of moments in my life are there to also help you know that should you have similar pockets or maybe even the same pockets, that it's completely normal. I was on one of those long drives alone in my car, and I started talking out loud to myself the way you do when you've been alone long enough that the thoughts just start coming out. One of those drives in my territories that I take all the time. I started to say things like, something's starting to shift, and it's okay. And if you become uncomfortable, that's okay. New opportunities are coming. Do not deny yourself the gift you have with your intuition. I thought I was just processing, talking to myself, making sense of everything that was happening. However, months later I went to see a medium and my grandfather came through. My grandfather passed away when I was 16, and our relationship was layered. My dad had a complicated history with his dad and his sisters. And at times, my grandfather's presence in our families felt unsettling because of the tension that was created amongst my dad and his parents and the siblings. But as I got into high school, I started visiting him on my own. And I genuinely enjoyed our time together. So when he came through in that reading, I really wasn't expecting him, let alone what came next. He recited that conversation back to me, the one that I had in the car, almost word for word. Things are shifting and it's okay, even though it's uncomfortable. New opportunities are coming. Do not deny yourself the gift you have with your intuition. I sat there in that reading, completely still and slightly shocked, because I could not explain that away. I could not file it under, oh, that's a coincidence, or a lucky guess, or that was a random reading. My grandfather had been in that car with me on that long drive. He had heard everything. And he chose to come through in a reading months later and play it all back to me as proof. That was not the first time my intuition had spoken, but it was the first time I could not talk myself out of believing it. And that's the moment that everything changed. Not because a medium told me something, but because Spirit used a medium to confirm what I already knew. What I had been saying out loud in that car when I thought nobody was listening. Well, somebody actually was. And here's what I want you to take from this story. Your intuition has been speaking to you your entire life. In the car, in the quiet moments, in the nudges that you brushed off, and the knowings that you explained away. Spirit has been listening to all of it. The question is whether you are ready to start listening to. Let me tell you what happens when someone comes to me operating entirely from the 3D energy. They want to know what to do, specifically, logically, with a timeline attached. They want spirit to confirm the decision that already makes sense on paper. They want a yes or a no answer to a question that spirit does not answer in yes or no's. They want validation from the outside because they have completely lost access to the knowing on the inside. And underneath all of that is almost always one question driving everything. What will people think of me? The question is purely coming from a 3D energy. It is the ego trying to manage outcomes and protect itself from judgment. And it is the single biggest wall between a person and their intuition. Because intuition doesn't care what people think. Intuition only knows what's true. Your intuition will only guide you to truth. And when someone is so deep in what people will think, that frequency can't hear or feel the frequency of your intuition. Spirit lives in what is true. Spirit doesn't operate in the space of other people's opinions, logical timelines, or material outcomes. Spirit operates in love and truth and the specific knowing that is available when a person gets quiet enough to receive it. When a client comes to me in a 3D state, I can feel it immediately. The reading becomes harder, the channeling becomes tougher. And it's not because spirit isn't present, but because the client can only receive information that fits the logical framework they already walked in with. Anything outside the framework gets filtered out before it has a chance to land. The connection is there. The signal is strong, but the receiver is set to the wrong frequency. And no medium can fix that. Only you can. How do you fix it? You fix it by learning how to shift from 3D and into the space where intuition actually lives. So how do you actually start building this? Your intuition already speaks to you every single day. The question is whether you've built the conditions that have allowed you to actually hear or feel or see it. I say hear, feel, see because your intuition comes in a way that isn't always the same to others. And those conditions do not require a complicated practice or a three-hour morning routine or anything that feels like one more thing to add to my already full life. What it requires is something really incredibly simple. Two things quietness and trust. Your intuition is not loud, it does not compete with the noise of your 3D life. It waits for the space between the noise. And if your life has no space between the noise, your intuition has nowhere to land. So the first step is building a spiritual toolbox. Not someone else's toolbox, yours. The things that calm your mind enough that you can actually feel what your body is telling you. For some people, that's breath work. For others, it's a walk outside. For some, it's a slow morning with a cup of tea before the phone comes off the nightstand. Maybe it's meditation. The specific practice doesn't actually matter. What matters is that you reach for it in a way that you'd reach for your keys when you need to leave consistently. The second step is to stop outsourcing your knowing. No calling three friends to ask if it means something, no Googling how to tell if it's my intuition at midnight. No purchasing another course or an app to help you determine if that was spirit or just your imagination. Your body already knows. The feeling that told you to change plans, the nudge that said call my friend, the knowing that said you should pick up dinner, that was real. And the more you act on it, the stronger it gets. And the stronger it gets, the cleaner the line to spirit becomes. Because your intuition isn't separate from your spirit connection. Your intuition is the portal spirit uses to communicate. And learning to trust it is not just about making better decisions in your 3D life. I want to paint a picture for you of what the other side looks like. You wake up without immediately reaching for your phone. You have a slow start to your morning. And when a thought comes in to call a friend or take a walk or change plans, you follow it instead of talking yourself out of it because of your to-do list. You stop asking everyone else what they think you should do because, well, you already know it. You no longer need proof that that was your intuition. You no longer need a reading to confirm what you've already felt. You no longer need someone else to tell you what spirit is saying because you have learned to hear it for yourself. That's not a fantasy, that's a skill, a practice that is actually yours. I went from 70-hour weeks and cocktail dinners and alarm clock pulling me out of bed before I was ready to slow mornings with a cup of tea and my dogs, and a business built entirely on trusting the pull, the nudge to rest instead of push, the quiet voice that'd been trying to reach me the whole time. That voice was always there, even in the car on that long drive in my territory when I thought I was talking to myself. My grandfather heard every word. And when he brought it back through in that reading, he was not just confirming my intuition. He was confirming something bigger. That spirit has been listening the entire time, that the conversation has always been happening, that the only thing that needed to change was whether I was finally ready to believe it without needing proof. You were ready. You have always been ready. You just have to learn to listen. I sure hope this episode landed for you. And I hope that if you take anything away, it's that you cannot connect with spirit in the frequency of 3D. But you don't have to stay in the 3D. The shift to 5D is available for you right now. In this moment, through the quietness, through the trust, through the willingness to follow the nudge instead of talking yourself out of it. Your intuition is the bridge. And every time you trust it, you make the bridge stronger. Start there. Build your toolbox, get quiet enough to hear or feel or see what your body's been trying to tell you. And watch what spirit is able to get through when the frequency finally matches. All right, my friends, if this landed for you or you know someone that would love this episode, don't keep it in the spirit ball. Share it with someone who's been trying to connect with spirit and wondering why it feels so out of reach. As always, if you feel inspired to leave a review, I would be honored. I read them all and I love them all. And if you're someone who is struggling with understanding how to build your intuition, I've got you covered. Head over to jennieshanks.com slash five. That's F-I-V-E for my five ways to develop your intuition. I'll be back next week with another episode of Seriously Dead. Until then, stay open, stay curious, and remember the dead are not quiet. You just have to learn to listen.