“The question has gone from, ‘How do you want to feel'? to ‘What do you want to embody?' because feelings really come from the unconscious – from the subconscious. We want to embrace those feelings; we don't want to overidentify with the feelings because we are not our feelings. Your happiness, or your sadness, or your sorrow cannot take you out of the game of enlightenment…
…I am not my misery; I am a soul having this experience and these clouds called emotions are coming and going. I'm going to look at them and love them but I'm not going to be the rain cloud; I'm going to be the sky.” – Danielle LaPorte
Wellness + Wisdom Episode 429
Member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 and Author of several books including White Hot Truth, The Fire Starter Sessions and The Desire Map, Danielle LaPorte, shares how to know God's perfect love, how to heal the offended ego, why suffering helps wake us up to what is happening for us, how to hold space for sacred anger and face the tyrant within.
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[click_to_tweet tweet=”Embrace your feelings but don't overidentify with them because you are not your feelings. Your happiness, or your sadness, or your sorrow cannot take you out of the game of enlightenment. – @DanielleLaPorte” quote=”Embrace your feelings but don't overidentify with them because you are not your feelings. Your happiness, or your sadness, or your sorrow cannot take you out of the game of enlightenment. – @DanielleLaPorte”]
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Listen To Episode 429 As Danielle LaPorte Uncovers:
[1:30] Knowing God's Perfect Love
- M21 Wellness Guide
- Paleovalley – Save 15% on your ACV Complex with the code ‘JOSH'
- Wellness Force Programs
- Danielle LaPorte
- Heart Centered Membership
- The Heart Centered Facilitator Program
- The Desire Map
- 332 John Wineland
- Where Danielle and her community are at right now with everything that has happened over the last 2 years.
- Why she is suggesting we bring more compassion into our relationships and society.
- How Danielle's relationship with God has shifted and has become more intimate.
- Her personal healing journey with religion and why she decided to leave Catholicism.
- The mission she is on now to know God's perfect love and to be that perfect love.
- How we misuse technology and it can disconnect us from the heart.
- The dangerous territory we are entering with immorality, playing God, and separating from true consciousness through technology.
[17:30] Healing the Offended Ego
- Understanding the difference between good technology and ones like Metaverse and Oculus that are trying to steer us away from love, harmony, and connection.
- How suffering wakes us up and helps us be aware of what is truly happening around us.
- The fact that humans and our planet have been suffering for decades yet our focus is on other areas that don't help but continue to hurt us.
- Why the pain that the world is suffering now is actually a call for us to forgive and take care of each other.
- Ask yourself this: What would your life look like if you forgave everybody?
- The fact that we're all going to suffer at some point along our life journeys but we get to choose how we approach that suffering based on how we see ourselves.
- How we can handle moments when there is a power struggle or conflict between you and another person or group.
- Why she is currently working on her ego and helping it not feel so offended plus what you can do if you find yourself in a similar situation.
- The fact that forgiveness is actually more about asking for it and giving ourselves forgiveness rather than telling someone that you forgive them.
[29:00] Facing Our Own Tyranny & Holding Space for Sacred Anger
- Exploring the needs of other people and how we show up depending on if we're more healed, healed, or not healed.
- The different levels of healing, backgrounds, and purposes we see in relationships.
- How to be the counter-balance in a war by choosing peace.
- Why it hurts us to rile up and attack another person because you then become what you're fighting vs standing up for love, compassion, and inclusivity.
- How we can face our own tyranny and the violence we have against ourselves and other people.
- What we can do to shift our mindset and actions to help us live a more meaningful life and be of service to the world.
- How we could have used the CV19 experience to be there for one another and focus on our health and wellness but it just divided us even further.
- The fact that wisdom has nothing to do with intelligence; intelligence can be an ego play that is setting us back.
- Creating a space for sacred anger as we work on being better people in our modern world.
- Why anger is only sacred if it's including the benefit of others. When it's “eye for an eye,” anger – it's not sacred, it's profane.
[42:00] Drawing Up Your Own Desire Map
- Her book, The Desire Map, and how her own map has profoundly changed since she wrote the book 5 years ago.
- The mission she has to help people recognize that their feelings matter and create goals with their souls.
- How we can allow what emotions we want to feel be our driving force for completing goals in life.
- The power of showing up and doing something good for someone every day no matter what kind of day we're having even if it's a horrible one.
- How we can embrace our feelings but not over-identify with them because we are not our feelings.
- What higher consciousness actually is and how to tap into and embody it.
- Paul Chek | All is God
- Eckhart Tolle
- The truth that we don't have life all figured out and that's okay; just do your best every day.
- How we can honor the mystery of life and be okay with that.
- The power of creating space for your joy and not allow what is happening in the world to bring you down.
- A deep dive look at the little happiness vs the great happiness.
- What spiritual maturity looks like and why there will be days when it's more difficult to show up as your best self.
[52:00] How to Become More Heart Centered
- How Danielle has personally grown and how her focus in life has shifted to help her focus on what she really wants.
- The evolution of her business and why her mission has changed from The Desire Map to Heart Centered.
- Why Heart Centered is what we need now for our modern times to help us hold polarity.
- How simplicity can be a spiritual practice as we work from the outside in to let go of things or relationships that no longer serve us.
- Why we don't have to check in all of the time with the people in our lives to let them know that we love them.
- Danielle LaPorte on Spotify
- The fact that it's inevitable that we're going to be disliked by some people and we have to be okay with that plus how we can cultivate courage around this.
- Why it's important to not take praise or rejection personally.
- The fact that the negative thoughts we have about other people are a reflection of how we see ourselves.
- What it means in Danielle's words to live a heart-centered life.
- Embracing the unique life journey you're on now and accepting what you're being called to do with the life and gifts you have.
- How different opportunities and outcomes occur because your soul is trying to get you to expand in a different way.
- Why life hacking and biohacking are not the same as being heart centered.
- Oprah – Mantras That Get You Through Your Toughest Days
[1:13:30] Finding Meaning In Your Own Life
- Exploring what helps Danielle feel most fulfilled and find meaning in life.
- How to tap into what makes you feel good and what brings you feelings of love.
- The anxious thoughts, panic attacks, and Dark Night of the Soul journey that Danielle has experienced in her own life.
- Why her mission goes beyond just making money.
- Her thoughts on goals and why she thinks they're absurd especially now with the world falling apart but what really rocks is vision.
- Experiences Danielle has been through that have helped her find her true self including divorce, motherhood, and entrepreneurship.
- What plant tools from Mother Nature she uses consistently in her life including essential oils and why it's a big part of her wellness regime.
- 418 Nick Berry
- Why meditation is a must in her daily practice no matter what.
- Her advice for meditative practice and why she has found it most beneficial to have 1 practice ideally before the sun comes up for no more than 20 minutes and then she moves into prayer.
- Why she is currently taking a break from reading any spiritual material because it was making her anxious.
- Adyashanti
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Mooji
- Danielle LaPorte – The Heart As Your Power Source – Commune
Power Quotes From The Show
[click_to_tweet tweet=”I’m not trying to save the world anymore. Not because I think that my actions don’t matter—every action by every one of us counts. And I’m not giving up on the world—we’re at a fantastic threshold of awakening. – @DanielleLaPorte” quote=”I’m not trying to save the world anymore. Not because I think that my actions don’t matter—every action by every one of us counts. And I’m not giving up on the world—we’re at a fantastic threshold of awakening.- @DanielleLaPorte”]
Knowing God's Perfect Love
“My prayer to God now is, ‘I want to know your perfect love and I want to be that perfect love.' To do that, first, you have to believe that perfect love exists and that it's possible. I don't think you have to believe that you're worthy. Does perfect love exist? I think conceptually we all believe it does but does it exist for you? If it exists for you can everyone else wake up to it existing? That's my current shift with God and creation; that I am perfectly loved.” – Danielle LaPorte
Humanity's Fantastic Threshold of Awakening
“I’m not trying to save the world anymore. Not because I think that my actions don’t matter—every action by every one of us counts. And I’m not giving up on the world because I believe it’s a lost cause—we’re at a fantastic threshold of awakening.” – Danielle LaPorte
Exploring Sacred Anger
“The energy of the heart is inclusive; so, anger is only sacred if it is including the benefits of others. So, if it is vengeance to right the wrong and has an ‘eye for an eye' dynamic, it's not sacred; it's profane. If your anger's energy is on behalf of humanity and it helps bring justice with something like clean drinking water, all children are protected, and everyone has medical freedom – that is sacred anger. If your attitude is, ‘You gotta go down so that I feel justified,' that is not sacred.” – Danielle LaPorte
Links From Today's Show
- M21 Wellness Guide
- Paleovalley – Save 15% on your ACV Complex with the code ‘JOSH'
- Wellness Force Programs
- Heart Centered Membership
- The Heart Centered Facilitator Program
- The Desire Map
- 332 John Wineland
- Paul Chek | All is God
- Eckhart Tolle
- 418 Nick Berry
- Adyashanti
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Mooji
- Danielle LaPorte – The Heart As Your Power Source – Commune
- Fighting for your joy.
- Danielle LaPorte on Spotify
- Oprah – Mantras That Get You Through Your Toughest Days
- Wikipedia: Danielle LaPorte
- Good Life Project: Danielle Laporte – Living With Fire And Desire
- Leave Wellness Force a review on iTunes
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About Danielle LaPorte
Danielle LaPorte is an invited member of Oprah’s Super Soul 100, a group who, in Oprah Winfrey’s words, “is uniquely connecting the world together with a spiritual energy that matters.”
She is the author of White Hot Truth: Clarity for keeping it real on your spiritual path—from one seeker to another. The Fire Starter Sessions, and The Desire Map: A Guide To Creating Goals With Soul—the book that has been translated into 8 languages, evolved into a yearly day planner system, a top 10 iTunes app, and an international workshop program with licensed facilitators in 15 countries.
Named one of the “Top 100 Websites for Women” by Forbes, millions of visitors go to DanielleLaPorte.com every month for her daily #Truthbombs and what’s been called “the best place online for kickass spirituality.”
A speaker, a poet, a painter, and a former business strategist and Washington-DC think tank exec, Entrepreneur Magazine calls Danielle, “equal parts poet and entrepreneurial badass…edgy, contrarian…loving and inspired.” Her charities of choice are Eve Ensler’s VDay: a global movement to end violence against women and girls, and charity: water, setting out to bring safe drinking water to everyone in the world. She lives in Vancouver, BC with her favourite philosopher, her son.
You can find her @daniellelaporte and just about everywhere on social media.