How to Be Loving: Exploring Unbounded, Loving Awareness with Danielle Laporte

In this episode of the Unmistakable Creative, we explore the latest book from world-renowned author and spiritual teacher Danielle LaPorte, How to Be Loving. In it, she explores the importance of letting go of labels and focusing on one’s true identity in order to live a more meaningful and purposeful life.

What is Enlightenment

Enlightenment is a state of beingness and presence. It is a divine state beyond the constructs of thought and time. It is a state of unbounded, loving awareness. To reach this state, one must open up the mind and let go of labels, social and psychic conditioning, and blocks to life.

Meditation, earnest questions, honest prayers, and intimate conversations can help to confirm how beautiful life really is. It is important to focus on what is working and to celebrate the self. Through aligning thoughts and actions with one’s highest values, a life of meaning and fulfillment can be cultivated.

Responding vs Reacting

So the mind is always dividing — This is wrong, this is right; I am safe, I am unsafe; I am me, you are other — it’s all super useful, but when we’re not aware, when we’re not heart-centered, where the real intelligence is, we are prone to reacting. We…