Love in the Time of Quarantine: The Gift of Desire
Express Your Deep Desires
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1h 14m
Desire may feel elusive to you. You may not be in tune with what you truly want or even how to find your desires. If you are in touch with them, you may not know how to share them with those you care about most in a way that they can receive. Some desires may feel like they can never be met, while others may feel too vulnerable or frightening to admit. You want to become deeply connected to your desires, in such a way that you can easily communicate them and express them through your body, but you don’t know where to begin.
In this video from the fourth of four "Love in the Time of Quarantine" community support calls with John and special guest, Danielle LaPorte, on May 12, 2020, John and Danielle explore desire as a present-moment experience of your heart speaking through your body, which can be distinguished from what you think and have been programmed to want. From this place, in which what you want originates from desire speaking through you, your desire is a gift.
If you want desire to become an intimately connected expression of the divine moving through you, this 75-minute video will offer some clear and supportive guidance.
You'll also learn:
- An "Ego Eradicator" Kundalini practice with a visualization to deeply and meticulously celebrate what it is that you are here to create and experience in the world
- The truth of your heart, which is divine, has a signal that emanates through your body. The more tuned into the signal and the more open your body, the more you can feel your own desire
- Part of why you practice is to clarify and develop the wisdom between what you think you want, and the impulse moving through your body that life is presenting to you
- It takes a while to discern the desires programmed in you versus the ones that emerge when you connect to the divine
- The difference between the 'hungry ghost' desires (never fillable, drive you crazy, ravage your life in the worst way) and desires that are virtues of the heart
- There is a different vibration between virtues of the heart, and feelings, which come from the subconscious
- Ways to love inclusive of all feelings
- Filter your desire through devotion; there is no devotion without desire
- Your desire is magnetic
- Staying in your desire without the expectation of it being met can be painful because you connect to the possibility of not having it
- The gift it can be for your child to witness you as a parent in your feminine
- Why Danielle describes this time as the greatest call to the heart that humanity has every had
- How you can create a practice to honor your own heart as an act of self-love
- You can honor your feminine by letting yourself be witnessed by others and softening into their attention on the expression of your heart; this allowing yourself to be witnessed is you trusting the masculine
- Creating a gateway to your feeling body through pleasure (i.e. a long bath, oils, etc.) will help you transition into your feminine after you are in your masculine all day
- This is the time of groundlessness; relaxing into it and accepting it is a beautiful practice
- For the times you want & need to make grounded decisions, ground the root of your heart into the earth, strengthen your spine, smooth out your spine, and then allow everything else to soften, almost like melting butter. When you start to choose the next right thing to do from that place, you're going to make better decisions. It's hard to make decisions when you are not anchored.
- It's almost impossible to overthink when you ground, breathe and relax
- Anchor into a vision as a North Star and then move toward it
- How to start a women's group to create connection from your yearning for sisterhood
- Feeling pain deeply allows you to offer it to the Divine. Through that, you're met by something greater than yourself
- The gift of fully owning and embodying your shadows
- The difference between shared responsibility and mutual devotion
- How you can take baby steps to practice trusting the masculine
- The honesty of being messy and not knowing what to do is radiant and magnetic to the masculine to hold you
- The myth of needing to trust before you can open keeps you closed
Disclaimer: Although anyone may find this video to be useful, it is made available with the understanding that we are not engaged in presenting specific medical, psychological, emotional, sexual or spiritual advice. Nor is anything in this video intended to be a diagnosis, prescription, recommendation or cure for any specific kind of medical, psychological, emotional, sexual or spiritual problem. Each individual has unique needs and this video cannot take these individual differences into account. Each person should engage in a program of treatment, prevention, cure, or general health only in consultation with a licensed, qualified physician, therapist or other competent professional. Any person suffering from a sexually transmitted disease or any local illness of his or her sexual organs should consult a medical doctor and a qualified instructor of sexual yoga before practicing the sexual methods described in this video.
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