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HOW TO BE LOVING
When you turn to the heart, you uncondition your mind of all kinds of social programming.
The intelligence of Love dissolves eons of dogma that tells us to prove our “worth” and sort who’s superior or inferior.
Spirituality is really the practice of thinking with Love. And we can effectively train ourselves to keep returning to Love via our thoughts over and over again.
Being Loving doesn’t necessarily mean feeling more. It means feeling everything with more Love.
It’s the ultimate inclusiveness. Because in your heart, it’s ALL IN—your light and your shadows—and everyone else’s. This is the non-dual place where complete Self acceptance has room to grow.
This call for gentleness is counterculture. And it’s what we’re yearning for. We do not need to focus on “fixing” ourselves. As we focus on living from our heart center, anything that’s not in alignment with that Light falls away.
How To Be Loving is a nuanced perspective on the life changing power of Self Compassion, shadow work, and being more receptive to Higher Guidance. This is a guide on how to use the genius of your heart to create conditions for healing.
What would change if you saw yourself––and others, through a Loving gaze? Everything. Everything would change.
You will consistently choose higher quality thoughts—which is ideal because our thinking is magnetic. This is how we use the intelligence of Love to calm our nervous system and experience peace.
Your ego—which is just an exaggerated sense of a separate self, will begin to calm down. You can’t life hack your way through fear—that only creates more fear. Instead, you can invite every part of yourself into the heart to rest in Love.
You’ll stop talking yourself out of your natural inclination to Forgive. The heart is for… giving. It’s such sweet relief to opt for the power of Love and move on.
You will create conditions for healing in your life. Accepting yourself and situations as is, will free up so much of your life force—energy you can use to grow in new directions.
Your personal ambitions will include the collective—because the days of self-centered bucket lists are over. Your happiness (and sadness) will become more woven to others’. And you wouldn’t have it any other way.
We’re here to awaken to our Divine Nature and interconnectedness—not to identify as small selves in a hostile universe. When we use our heart’s mind to make every choice, we realize that we are not the wound… we’re the healer.
Acceptance, Consciousness + What Love Does.
Hello, Friends…
It turns out that the path to being more Loving is through a Loving process itself.
Here it is. Heart centered, soul powered, and divinely timed.
A place for nuance and Compassion, where self-acceptance has room to grow.
This is How To Be Loving…
4 Parts
ALL HEART
The Wound to Healing Sequence + Self Acceptance
THOUGHTS + FEELINGS
Unconditioning your mind and engaging heart intelligence
VIRTUES
The process of getting into alignment with your Soul
REFLECTIVE LIVING
Receptivity as true power + Unity Consciousness
7 Virtues
DIVINE LOVE: the ultimate inclusiveness. Neutralizes energy and makes space for everything to be what it is—our Light AND shadow.
COMPASSION: the wish for all beings to be free of suffering—and the causes of suffering. Dissolves judgment into Love, and division into interconnectedness.
FORGIVING: the heart is for… giving, every time. A Divine Power that restores Divine Order. The heart’s natural inclination.
WISDOM: always looks for connections, commonalities, and how to bring energies and situations together. Wisdom always leads to the Truth.
LOVING KINDNESS: warm, unconditional friendliness. When we use our freewill to express our True Nature… that’s Loving Kindness, and it deepens our capacity to be with the Light and shadows in others.
RESILIENCE: our ability to respond from the heart. It’s not about toughening up or enduring more suffering—it’s about adaptability, the energy of expansion.
RADIANCE: the result of the experiences that burn away our false sense of self and obstacles. We become aware of our True
Self: Radiant.
PRACTICES + PRAYERS
REFLECTIONS
PRACTICES + PRAYERS
- Inner Balancing
- How to Choose Loving Thoughts
- Love Remembers
- May All Be So Blessed
- I’ve Done That Before
- The Ho’oponopono Prayer
- Dedication of Merit
- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
- The Virtue Blessings
- Prayer of Saint Francis
- Metta Bhavana Prayer
REFLECTIONS
- The Golden Child + Needy Child
- Soul + Safety
- Acceptance + The Shadow
- Emotions + Reverence
- A Feelings Experiment
- Thoughts into Energy
- Magnetic Thoughts
- (Un)original Thoughts
- Soul Radiance
- Asking for Forgiveness
- Nourishment
THE HOW TO BE LOVING COLLECTION
The How To Be Loving Book
is available in hardcover + digital + audiobook
is available in hardcover + digital + audiobook
The How to Be Loving Journal
clear your mind and connect with the Divine…
A deep journaling tool for becoming less reactive, more responsive and open to love. This journal is a resilience tool. Sprinkled with reflection prompts, tear out mini-posters + micro teachings guiding you to the portal of your inner knowing.
The How to Be Loving Deck
inspiration for kindness, resilience and all kinds of idealism
AUDIO LOVE: CHAPTER SAMPLE
Chapter 5 | YOUR TRUE IDENTITY
Focus on what you have the immediate power to control: how you perceive yourself.
When a problem arises, what will you ask yourself?
THIS: What am I identifying as?
A small self, or my Higher Self?
As my thoughts, or my heart intelligence?
As the wound, or as the healer?
ENDORSEMENTS
Danielle LaPorte is a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 a group who, in Oprah Winfrey’s words, “is uniquely connecting the world together with a spiritual energy that matters.” The former director of a future studies think tank in Washington, DC, where she managed a team creating global scenarios. She now speaks about the intelligence of the heart.
Her most recent book, How To Be Loving… when your heart is breaking open and the world is waking up, is also an audiobook + ebook, with a companion deck and journal. Danielle is also the author of The Fire Starter Sessions, The Desire Map, White Hot Truth, and producer of dozens of meditation kits and online programs for spiritual support.
Danielle is the creator of the Heart Centered Membership and the Heart Centered Leadership Program with 400+ leaders in 30 countries hosting conversation circles, retreats, and workshops in all kinds of communities and businesses.
Her podcast, With Love, Danielle, often ranks in iTunes’ top 10 for wellness. Most of her offerings—from the Heart Centered Membership to her online classes—are on a pay what you choose basis. Named one of the Top 100 Websites for Women by Forbes, millions of people a month visit DanielleLaPorte.com.
Marianne Williamson refers to Danielle “as a bright light.” V (formerly known as Eve Ensler) calls her “a force field of energy, wonder, humour, and love.”
Her charities of choice are Ally Global Foundation, helping survivors of human trafficking to rebuild their lives (@allyglobal), Trees Sisters’ reforestation projects (@treesisters_official), and VDay, a movement to end violence against women and girls (vday.org).
She lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her on most places on social media @daniellelaporte.
#daniellelaporte #howtobeloving #heartcentered
My life used to be guided by the question, “How do I want to feel?” I built my career on that with The Desire Map. But I began to notice that even if I wasn’t experiencing my core desired feelings, I was still in touch with a greater purpose. Temporary unhappiness––and a dark night of the soul, didn’t hold me back from helping a friend or feeling close to The Divine.
A new question emerged. “What do I want to embody?”
The answer was clear: Love. Love no matter what.
