Pure Intentions and the Path to Empathy: Sister Jenna on the Your Messy Brilliance® Show

It’s not every day that I get to sit down and have a conversation with someone like Sister Jenna, our Featured Truthteller on this installment of the Your Messy Brilliance® Show. That’s why this was an amazing opportunity to engage in some deeper investigation into everything from the power of living from our hearts to acknowledging how we can personally contribute to the healing and transformation of the world.

In case you aren’t familiar with this remarkable woman, Sister Jenna is someone who has given her life to improving the conditions of people all over the world. She is a spiritual leader, author, radio host and TV personality, renowned speaker, and founder of the Meditation Museum I & II in metropolitan Washington, DC.

Selected by EBW2020 as one of the 100 most influential leaders for 2015, her mission is to decode critical current issues and offer a perspective for folks to find clarity, power, and insight. Despite the many life challenges that we face on a global scale, Sister Jenna has an uncanny ability to connect us back to where our problems originated and shift our awareness toward the solutions. She has traveled to over 80 countries where she continues to provide practical life tools and solutions that empower people to foster and build stronger relationships.

Her wisdom, peace, and compassion for humanity are expressed through the variety of initiatives she spearheads for youth, women, governments, and communities. She has collaborated with Fortune 500 companies on key issues and her syndicated radio show, America Meditating is a popular global online show. Sister Jenna is also the recipient of numerous awards. She has served as a principal partner with the Oprah Winfrey Network and Values Partnerships on the Belief Team, a community of individuals from diverse spiritual, cultural, and faith backgrounds.

As Sister Jenna told me about the state of the world today, “We must be concerned, but we must also be prepared…But without self-honesty, the soul cannot find its way through the muck we are dealing with…it’s no longer outside of us. It’s inside.”

Sister Jenna and I also talked about how we can take accountability for the ripple effects of our behavior and (my favorite word!) choices, and how this is key in creating the world all of us deserve. Be sure to find Sister Jenna at www.americameditating.org and www.themeditationmuseum.org.

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Timestamps:

2:34: Sister Jenna’s story, from the world of nightclubs to the realm of spirituality

4:50 Sister Jenna’s spiritual awakening

6:50 The epidemic of suffering and the power of love, preparation, and presence in responding to it

8:40 The power of truthfulness with yourself, first and foremost

11:23 Redirecting our anger to shift the world

15:30 Discovering the authenticity within ourselves

16:20 Clearing the “algae”: anger, lust, greed, attachment, ego

18:15 Detaching from our attachments to our labels (and why detachment isn’t the same as not caring)

21:20 Sister Jenna’s vision for a healed and transformed world, and her Inclusion Revolution

25:30 Extracting truth in the midst of the deception

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About the Author | Sister Jenna

Sister Jenna is a spiritual leader, renowned speaker and founder of the Brahma Kumaris Meditation Museum in MD & VA. She serves as one of the Evolutionary Leaders and was selected by Empower a Billion Women 2020 as one of 100 Most Influential Leaders of 2015. She served as a principal partner with the Oprah Winfrey Network and Values Partnerships on the Belief Team.

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6 comments to "Pure Intentions and the Path to Empathy: Sister Jenna on the Your Messy Brilliance® Show"

  • Jan Du Plain

    A remarkable story of a woman whose mission is to transform the world……. All of us are fortunate Sister Jenna lives in the nation’s capital and that we know her personally…she’s a gift to  everyone!

  • Sister Dr. Jenna

    Jan Duplain, thank you very much for your kind words. We are so in need to practise being more
    empathetic with ourselves and each other.

  • Portia Davidson

    Dear Sister Dr. Jenna: You are here at this time in history to make positive and inner change in our Nation and this world! I am so proud of the work you accomplish on a daily basis directing 2 Meditation Museums outstanding Meditation programs, seminars, and workshops! Bravo to you and all the cherished Brahma Kumaris Community who work so hard to support your efforts promoting peace, empathy and understanding!
    Portia Boggia Davidson
    Owner, Diversity and Inclusion. Strategic Planning, LLC

  • Sharron Watson

    What a wonderful interview with a remarkable woman. I attend the museum in McLean, so have never had the opportunity to meet Sister Jenna, but the work that is being done here is truly transformational. I am at the beginning of my journey and have already received answers to questions I’ve had my entire life. I’m so grateful to have found this place. Thank you Sister Jenna. Om Shanti.

  • Brigitte

    I need inner right now going thru some changes in my personal life

  • Rodney Shapiro

    A big appreciation to Sister Jenna for her mission to make this nation a people of positive inner intentions. Despite the challenges and the negativity that comes, we need someone who can remind us that what we need is the power of choices. We need focus, a clear mind, and thoughts in finding a solution for every problem rather than dealing with the issue as a burden. We need a nation where people are optimistic, solution-makers, and also have pure intentions. Feel free to visit this page for more power of intention articles.