The DEEP Life

 If everything we need in life is already within us, why do we experience problems in our lives? 

This is a fair question, but maybe what we have labeled as “problems” are just the lessons we need to cultivate the perfection that is already within us and prepare us for what comes next. 

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Within the self-development community, it seems as though everybody is always talking about the ego.  Unfortunately, they aren’t all saying the same thing, which can make it even more confusing.

Do we need to embrace our ego? Outsmart our ego? Integrate it? Transcend it? Kill it? Is the ego even real?

For as long as we have a body, we will have an ego.  

Some of us will experience the ego differently, and as our level of awareness changes, so will the way we relate to our ego.  But it’s not going anywhere, and if the ego is always going to be a part of our lives, we might as well get clear on what it is and why it matters.

This week on The DEEP Life Dan & Elise go DEEP on the ego, specifically looking at what they mean when they refer to and discuss it.

Throughout the conversation, they do their best to make sense of and explain a very nuanced topic and explore different aspects that have helped them to make sense of this reality.

This episode refers frequently to the philosopher & spiritual teacher Alan Watts (specifically episode 2 of his 1972 series ‘The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts’ titled Ego) who has had a strong influence on how both Dan & Elise view the world. 

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 We talk a lot about consciousness on this show, but what does it actually mean? In this episode we take a DEEP dive into consciousness, what it is and what it means for consciousness to evolve.

If you’d like to connect with Dan & Elise
You can find The DEEP Life at LivingTheDEEPLife.com

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If you’d like to connect with Dan:
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where he provides virtual fitness & holistic lifestyle coaching

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This week on The DEEP Life, Elise is joined by Erika Bélanger

Erika was previously on the show, featured in episode #34: Lessons from a Stress Coach. 

Since being on the show in 2022, Erika has niched her coaching business to highly sensitive women. 

She is an HSP somatic coach and yoga teacher working online and hosting international retreats. She’s the host of the top-ranking podcast On & Off Your Mat and has a membership of over 500 yoga classes that her members can stream anytime, anywhere. All of her work focuses on empowering highly sensitive women to trust themselves to feel fearless, be themselves unapologetically by embracing their sensitivity, and create a life of deep love, connections, and joy.

In this episode, Elise & Erika dive DEEP into what it means to feel your feelings, especially when you are a highly sensitive person, and how important it is for a regulated nervous system. Erika goes in-depth on the autonomic nervous system, and how it is broken down into parasympathetic & sympathetic states, but takes it further, discussing the Polyvagal Theory and the different levels of the nervous system and how they affect our bodies. 

Elise and Erika share many commonalities as HSPs and not wanting to “feel” their emotions and how detrimental that can be on the body and what those effects look like so that others may be able to uncover or identify if they are experiencing any freeze state nervous system symptoms. 

Erika emphasizes how important it is to move emotions, which are 'energy-in-motion’ through the body, and leads Elise through a useful exercise at the end of the episode to show what it means to work with any feelings that arise from an emotional situation, and how to release them from the body. This segment of the show is also on The DEEP Life YouTube page so you can view step by step how Erika coaches Elise through feeling and releasing an emotional response. 

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All you have to do is write a review for The DEEP Life show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, take a screenshot of that review and email it to [email protected]. 

The (2) winners will be selected on Sunday, February 18, 2024

To connect with Erika visit her on Instagram: @erika.belanger 

Listen to her podcast On & Off Your Mat: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-and-off-your-mat-yoga-podcast/id1335221698

Listen to Erika’s previous appearance on the The DEEP Life:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-life/id1595477996?i=1000567355572

If you’d like to connect with Dan & Elise
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If you’d like to connect with Dan:
You can find him at MomentumStrengthWellness.com
where he provides virtual fitness & holistic lifestyle coaching
Or through
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 If everybody we meet is a reflection of ourself than what can we learn about ourself from the way we speak to others? 

If you’d like to connect with Dan & Elise
You can find The DEEP Life at LivingTheDEEPLife.com

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YouTube: https://bit.ly/3ScoOWS
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If you’d like to connect with Dan:
You can find him at MomentumStrengthWellness.com
where he provides virtual fitness & holistic lifestyle coaching

Or through
IG @MomentumStrengthWellness
YouTube @MomentumStrengthWellness
Facebook @MomentumStrengthWellness

Change is a fascinating topic, it’s all around us all the time.  Everything is always changing, but for some reason, as humans, we think we don’t have to or even aren’t supposed to change.

This episode is titled “Allowing Yourself To Change” but it might as well be titled “Allowing Yourself To Be Yourself” because through change we discover who we are.

The only constant in life is change, yet we tend to try to resist that change and essentially resist life by clinging to who we have been or who people expect us to be.   But, what if instead of resisting change we embraced it and allowed it to happen freely?  What if we celebrated change? 

In this week’s episode, Dan & Elise talk about just that.  They look at ways in which they have changed, places where they have resisted change and how the more they allow themselves to change, the more clear they become on who they truly are, which in turn makes it easier to continue to give up the things that are holding them back or no longer serving them.

They also discuss and attempt to reconcile the “consistency paradox” and explain how they can champion both consistency and change as vital aspects of living our best life.

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If you’d like to connect with Dan & Elise

You can find The DEEP Life on social media
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If you’d like to connect with Dan:
You can find him at MomentumStrengthWellness.com
where he provides virtual fitness & holistic lifestyle coaching

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YouTube @MomentumStrengthWellness
Facebook @MomentumStrengthWellness

So often, we are in such a hurry to reach our destination that we forget to enjoy the journey.  Always onto the next thing, always seeking, always searching, never realizing that the thing we are skipping over, avoiding and taking for granted is Life itself.

If you’d like to connect with Dan & Elise
You can find The DEEP Life at LivingTheDEEPLife.com

Or on social media
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YouTube: https://bit.ly/3ScoOWS
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If you’d like to connect with Dan:
You can find him at MomentumStrengthWellness.com
where he provides virtual fitness & holistic lifestyle coaching

Or through
IG @MomentumStrengthWellness
YouTube @MomentumStrengthWellness
Facebook @MomentumStrengthWellness

Judgment is such an interesting concept and something that is everywhere in our society.  It seems like we are always judging something. We judge ourselves, we judge others, we judge our surroundings, we judge in secret and we get together and judge (gossip) as entertainment.  But what kind of effect is all this judgment having on our lives? Is our judgment serving us, or is it holding us back?

This week on The DEEP Life Dan & Elise go DEEP on judgment.  They discuss why we judge and how judgment affects our frequency and even lowers our consciousness. 

They also open up and share their own experiences with judgment and what they have learned about themselves by bringing more awareness to their own judgment.

If everything we experience is a reflection of ourselves, then what do our judgments about the world tell us? 

Rooted Rhythm
Tuned In Course For Parenting Highly Sensitive Children
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If you’d like to connect with Dan & Elise
You can find The DEEP Life on social media

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YouTube: https://bit.ly/3ScoOWS

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If you’d like to connect with Dan:
You can find him at MomentumStrengthWellness.com
where he provides virtual fitness & holistic lifestyle coaching

Or through
IG @MomentumStrengthWellness
YouTube @MomentumStrengthWellness
Facebook @MomentumStrengthWellness

 When it comes to making changes in our lives, nothing can compare to the impact of being consistent. 

If you’d like to connect with Dan & Elise
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If you’d like to connect with Dan:
You can find him at MomentumStrengthWellness.com
where he provides virtual fitness & holistic lifestyle coaching

Or through
IG @MomentumStrengthWellness
YouTube @MomentumStrengthWellness
Facebook @MomentumStrengthWellness

So often we go into this time of year full of excitement, and high hopes & loaded with big goals.  But then, at the first sign of a challenge, we throw up our hands and say “I guess this isn’t my year” and we put all of that hope and excitement on hold until next January when we inevitably repeat the same pattern.

So, how do we break this cycle and start living the life we know we are capable of?

It starts with our intentions.

By setting and staying true to meaningful intentions we can set ourselves up for success and begin to co-create our reality.

Instead of setting “resolutions” and make-or-break goals, we can instead focus on the process,  choose a direction, and then periodically reflect on our progress.

In this episode Dan & Elise discuss the idea of setting intentions, share the ways that it has helped them on their journey and they share their intentions for this New Year.

Rooted Rhythm
Tuned In Course For Parenting Highly Sensitive Children
Access the Tuned In Course: https://rooted-rhythm-parenting.teachable.com/a/aff_g4c9vwsc/external?affcode=1246514_ao2wnibr

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If you’d like to connect with Dan & Elise
You can find The DEEP Life on social media

Instagram: https://bit.ly/3TTuUfW

YouTube: https://bit.ly/3ScoOWS

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If you’d like to connect with Dan:
You can find him at MomentumStrengthWellness.com
where he provides virtual fitness & holistic lifestyle coaching

Or through
IG @MomentumStrengthWellness
YouTube @MomentumStrengthWellness
Facebook @MomentumStrengthWellness