628: The Inner Work That Awakens Your Highest Self with Danny Morel

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Podcast Summary: Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Episode 628: The Inner Work That Awakens Your Highest Self with Danny Morel

Date: March 11, 2026
Host: Hal Elrod
Guest: Danny Morel
Theme: Awakening, healing, and transforming into your highest self through inner work, healing family wounds, responsibility, and plant medicine.

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Episode Overview

Hal Elrod sits down with transformational coach, speaker, and author Danny Morel to discuss his new book, Awaken Your Highest Self. The conversation goes far beyond surface-level motivation, diving deeply into the real inner work required to break through limiting beliefs, heal generational wounds, and access one’s highest potential. Danny’s personal journey from external success to inner emptiness, the importance of questioning everything, healing family dynamics, embracing responsibility, and the transformative power of plant medicine—all feature in this open and vulnerable discussion.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Real Meaning of Awakening (00:37 – 03:06)

• Success Isn’t Fulfillment: Danny describes reaching the pinnacle of material success—wealth, family, status—only to find himself empty inside.
  • Quote (Danny, 02:13): “You reach this mountaintop that you thought you needed to reach your entire life and then you get there and you realize, oh my God, like, I’m still empty.”
• The passing of Danny’s mother catalyzed his spiritual awakening, prompting uncomfortable self-examination and spiritual questioning.

The Book and Event: Bringing Inner Work to More People (03:07 – 05:06)

• Danny started his “Awaken Your Highest Self” events which quickly gained the reputation of being more transformative than “30 years of therapy in three days.” He decided to write the book to make these breakthroughs accessible to those who couldn’t attend in person.
• Quote (Danny, 04:48): “I am not a writer. I’m like, just put the people in front of me and I will let it rip. So packaging all of that into a book was a process for me.”

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Inner Child, Family Wounds, and the Roots of Limiting Beliefs (05:19 – 15:16)

• Danny explains that much of the work at his events (and in the book) centers on helping people excavate the unconscious wounds inherited from their parents, even in “good families.”
  • Quote (Danny, 07:39): “It all has to do with your mother and father. I build the event and the book to get you to that place where the book is going to change your life because it’s going to take you to all of the parts of yourself that you’ve been resisting.”
  • Memorable story: A woman connects with her powerful lineage (Alexander the Great), realizing she has unconsciously lived “lower than” others—a metaphor for all of us forgetting our inherent worth.
• Fear vs. Love: The idea that humans are born in wholeness and love, but quickly learn fear and separation; the lifelong work is remembering our true essence and returning to the oneness of love (08:12 – 08:43).
  • Quote (Hal, 08:12): “Now you’re separated for the first time from oneness and wholeness, love, to fear and separation... That begins a lifelong journey of trying to remember who we really are.”

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Three-Part Framework: Awaken, Heal, Transform (08:43 – 12:03)

• 1. Awaken: Begins with radical self-questioning—getting brutally honest with where you are and how you feel about every aspect of your life.
• 2. Heal: Examining your roots, especially parental relationships, to discover sources of self-doubt, fear, or patterns holding you back.
• 3. Transform: Integration and creation from a new paradigm after healing.
  • Quote (Danny, 12:03): “With awakening, you’ve got to question everything. Then you discover... where the root cause of a lot of what’s holding you back actually comes from.”

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Parent-Child Dynamics and Breaking Cycles (12:34 – 15:16)

• Even children of “good” parents can inherit limiting beliefs, stress, or a model of “settling for mediocrity.”
  • Hal: “You could have a wonderful mom and dad. But they settled for mediocrity.”
• Healing is about accepting that your parents were doing their best, recognizing what was unconsciously passed on, and taking responsibility to heal it before passing it on.

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Victim vs. Creator Consciousness (15:16 – 19:46)

• Victim Consciousness: Believing life “happens to you,” you have no control, and responsibility lives outside yourself.
• Creator Consciousness: Taking total responsibility for your experience; shifting from blame to ownership, and from pain to power.
  • Danny, 18:03: “Once you take ownership, it leads you to acceptance…most of the time, the way that we transcend consciousness is through pain.”

Importance of Forgiveness

• Lasting freedom only comes through forgiveness—of self and others—by recognizing everyone, even your “villains,” are wounded children acting from pain.
  • Danny, 22:01: “It’s not about them... It’s about you. What are you gonna do for the rest of your life? Carry that?”
  • On resistance to responsibility: “If you get to own this and you get to transmute this, guess what else you get to own...your whole entire life. So it literally shatters people’s entire paradigms.” (22:43)

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Oneness, Separation, and Spiritual Truth (23:34 – 25:25)

• True oneness means recognizing everyone’s story mirrors your own—dissolving judgment, comparison, and racism/classism.
  • Danny, 23:54: “Oneness is understanding that they are you and you are them…we’re not separate, we’re all one.”

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Danny’s Personal Awakening and Plant Medicine (25:25 – 31:46)

• Danny’s transition from a high-powered business leader to a spiritual teacher was driven by an insatiable “desire for the truth,” no matter where that journey led.
  • Plant medicine, particularly ayahuasca, played a generationally healing role, pushing him beyond the boundaries of his comfort zone, belief systems, and childhood fears.
  • Danny, 28:26: “I found it seven years ago or so, right after my 40th birthday. But I just came back this weekend from taking my son, who’s 18, for his first journey.”
• Deep dive into other plant medicines (cannabis, psilocybin, combo) and their particular roles in spiritual awakening, healing chemo side effects, and emotional breakthroughs.
• Key insight: Many practices, including Danny’s “Awaken” events, aim to replicate the transformational power of plant medicine without requiring it.

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Plant Medicine, Judgment, and Reclaiming Spiritual Experience (33:08 – 38:24)

• Hal shares his own paradigm shift after using cannabis to finally relieve excruciating chemo pain that pharmaceuticals could not touch.
• Both discuss the broader purpose of plant medicine and challenge the stigma created by Western drug policy and religious dogma.
  • Danny, 37:09: “Anything that grows from the earth is literally from God…anything that grows from a lab is literally from man. It’s a really beautiful divide to see, where are you actually living and putting your trust?”
• Emphasis on shifting from being “human thinkers” to “human beings”—using intuition, feeling, and direct connection to the divine.

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Moving from External Belief to Inner Knowing (38:35 – 41:40)

• Contrast between living “outside in” (dependent, powerless) and “inside out” (connected, sovereign).
• Hal and Danny explore how much of religion is inherited belief and external authority, rather than direct, inner experience.

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The Teachings of Jesus, Leadership, and the Book’s Purpose (41:40 – 43:15)

• Discussion of Jesus as an example of radical inner power and oneness—not as a guru seeking followers, but a guide pointing toward your own divinity.
  • Danny, 41:59: “Jesus didn’t want followers. He wanted you to become the highest version of yourself…someone that becomes the highest version of themselves, the last thing on earth they would want is a follower.”

From Fear to Love—The Core Takeaway (43:15 – 47:04)

• Danny emphasizes the book’s central lesson: You can either live in fear or love. Much of humanity’s struggles are rooted in fear and dependence on external systems—now is a time of awakening out of this.
• Freedom is attained by severing attachment to outside influences, unraveling heart-based blockages, and empowering yourself to be guided from within.
  • Danny, 46:13: “Freedom looks like going into the depths of who you are and disconnecting yourself from any fear energy within you... and disconnecting yourself from anything external that you are currently dependent on. That’s when you’re free.”

Practices and The Inner Work of Heart-Opening (47:04 – 49:10)

• Danny encourages the audience simply to start the “unraveling any blockages around your heart”—the practices may vary, but the commitment to this work is universal.
  • The Awaken, Heal, Transform framework closes the loop: awaken with honesty, heal with responsibility and forgiveness, transform by integrating a new self-led, heart-based paradigm.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “You don’t bow down to anyone because no one is higher than you. The truth is, we are the physical manifestation and representation of the divine.”—Danny (06:54)
• “Either we’re in the energy of fear and separation or the energy of love and oneness.”—Hal (08:12)
• “You are the guru. Now there are guides that can help you remember that, but any guide...trying to get themselves to be your guru isn’t coming from love or truth.”—Danny (09:39)
• “Once you start questioning everything...it alone is going to start breaking some shit apart.”—Danny (10:02)
• “The only way you can actually change your life is to grab that power back...feel it, process it, and then uncover all of the parts of yourself that created it. That’s the part we don’t like to hear.”—Danny (17:02)
• “If you had lived another person’s life, you’d probably be exactly the same as them.”—Hal (23:16)
• “What kind of human being is being murdered and still loves his brother and sister? That’s someone that had discovered that his power was in here. Jesus didn’t want followers; he wanted you to become the highest version of yourself.”—Danny (42:00)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:37 – 03:06: Danny’s journey from external success to spiritual emptiness
• 05:19 – 07:40: The role of parent-child wounds in self-limitation
• 08:43 – 12:03: Three-part framework: Awaken, Heal, Transform
• 15:16 – 18:03: Victim vs. Creator consciousness
• 22:43 – 23:47: The responsibility of ownership and true forgiveness
• 25:25 – 31:46: Plant medicine in personal and collective awakening
• 33:08 – 38:24: Hal’s story with cannabis and healing, reclaiming plant medicine
• 41:40 – 43:15: Jesus as a model, not a guru—the path of self-realization
• 47:04 – 49:10: Practices for heart opening and personal transformation

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Final Messages & Call to Action

• Awaken Your Highest Self is described by Hal as a “life manual”—not a one-and-done read, but a guide for continual deep work.
• The conversation encourages listeners to turn inward, question everything, heal past wounds, and embrace direct spiritual experience over inherited beliefs.
• The book is available at awakenbook.com.

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Summary in the Spirit of the Episode

This episode is a no-nonsense, deeply compassionate exploration of what it really takes to break free from limiting patterns and beliefs—to awaken your highest self. The answer isn’t external achievement or mindless positivity, but honest questioning, healing of generational stories, taking radical responsibility, forgiving deeply, and choosing love over fear—sometimes with the assistance of plant allies, but always with a commitment to the truth within.

Transcript

[A]

Hello and welcome to the achieve your goals podcast. The show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. I am your host, Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves. And we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same. Ready? Here we go.

[B]

Foreign.

[A]

The achieve your goals podcast. I am sitting down with my friend Danny Morrell to talk about what it really means to awaken your highest self. Not the Instagram version, not the motivational quote version, but the real inner work, the healing, the identity shifts, the moments where you're forced to confront the beliefs that are quietly running your life. We're diving into his new book, awaken your highest self. His three part framework of awaken, heal, transform. And yes, we're even talking about plant medicine, specifically ayahuasca, and how that has transformed his life. This one is deep. Let's go, Danny. It's good to be with you, brother.

[B]

Glad to be here. Remember when I had you on my show?

[A]

So, yeah.

[B]

So this is cool.

[A]

Yeah, it's a full circle moment. Well, I'm a fan. I'm a fan of you as a person, as a friend, your work now. I'm a fan of the book. I just, I finished this a few days ago. I'm on my second go around. I mean, dude, if you look, I don't know if anybody can see, but like the amount of underlines, wow. It's pretty much the. It's just, it's, there's like more underlined, encircled than there is not. So. Yeah, man, I was excited when I heard this book was coming out because of who you are. So, yeah, thanks for putting it out, number one.

[B]

Thank you. Thank you for having me, man.

[A]

Before we dive into this, I want to know a little, for those that don't know you particularly, and of course you share a lot in the book, but your journey, what led to you personally realizing you needed to awaken your higher self? And then beyond that, of course, we'll get into what led to you writing the book.

[B]

Yeah, I think it's reaching the best way I can describe it. You reach this mountaintop that you thought you needed to reach your entire life and then you get there and you realize, oh my God, like, I'm still empty. And that's what happened to me. I'D achieved success in business. I had all of the stuff.

[A]

Million dollar real estate company.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Married.

[B]

Yeah, married. Three beautiful boys. Had just built this beautiful Tuscan Italian home. A custom. The whole thing. The whole thing.

[A]

And so from the outside.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

In the dream. Yeah.

[B]

From the outside, I was living the dream. And then. But then my mom passed away, which I share in the book. And I think it opened me up spiritually. And questions started showing up that I. I wasn't really. I didn't have the courage to answer because I knew the answers. And that's when everything began for me.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So, you know, I mean, so for years, you've done your Awaken events. You hosted the Higher Self podcast, which you mentioned that I was on that. So you've been doing the work and you're. I mean, you have 2.2 million followers on Instagram. Like, you. You have a huge following. You impact a ton of people. What prompted you go, all right, now's the time to write the book?

[B]

Yeah. So when people come to awaken your highest self, the event.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

To me, and I think to the people that show up, it is the most beautiful thing to see, because it is. It's literally like taking them on a. A plant medicine journey without the medicine. Because we're just starting to. We unravel all of the cocoon that they've built around their mind, their heart, their spirit, their soul for three days. And that's why people literally call it, like, more powerful than 30 years of therapy in three days, because we're going into the depths of who they are and opening that up, causing a metamorphosis, quite frankly. And so I just started getting so many people from all around the world who were like, I wish I could come. I wish I could fly there. But look, the stuff is expensive.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You gotta get your flights and your hotels and.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So I started understanding that, and I just started seeing so many transformations that I thought to myself, like, I just gotta get this out to more people.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And so that's where the book journey began. And listen, I'm just gonna share with everyone. I am not know. I was about to say, I'm not an author, but I am an author. I'm not a writer.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, I'm like, just put the people in front of me, and I will let it rip. So packaging all of that into a book was a process for me.

[A]

Yeah. Well, it's funny because you went the opposite way. Most authors, like, they write the book and then they're Like I should do events now and I should, you know. Right. Like I should have a podcast. And you did all the. What I love about that is it's one thing to write a book because it's all theory and maybe not theory, because you've done the work and you're like, I'm like, miracle morning for me. Like, I'm sharing. I know this works.

[C]

I did it.

[A]

I shared it with some other people. Work for them. But you and I actually want to hear. I'd love an example. Like you've been doing the work in person. Three day events with human beings. Watching them transform.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

Watching them in tears break down. Like, right. Go deep and then come out better on the other side. Do you have any, any A favorite story of someone that at one of your events that went through what you teach in the book and actually came out a better version of themselves?

[B]

Yeah, you know, there's one.

[A]

I have so many. Yeah, yeah.

[B]

So many. And I, and I. The reason why I have so many is because it all has to do with your mother and father. So I build the event and the book.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

To get you to that place where the book is going to change your life. It's going to change your life because it's going to take you to all of the parts of yourself that you've been resisting. Yeah. And part of what we resist is our power. So what just popped in my mind was there was this woman that came from God, I don't know, Egypt or, I don't know, somewhere in that part of the world. And she was saying, like, you're not going to believe what happened. I said, try me, because I've done like 20 of these. She said, I was standing there, you know, I take her through a spiritual journey and Alexander the Great was standing in front of me, okay. And she says, and I realize I'm his ancestor. And she says, my whole life I've felt powerless and smaller or lower than others. And I walked up to Alexander the Great and I like, put my head down and I bowed down to Alexander the Great and I already knew what was coming because I understand when spirit gives you these messages, what it's trying to teach you. And she says, and all of a sudden, Alexander the Great grabs me by the chin and like by the shoulders and lifts me up and says, you don't bow down to anyone because no one is higher than you. And I think that's one of the biggest things that the book is going to help people with. We spend our lives Comparing ourselves to others, judging ourselves, being mean to ourselves, not being loving to ourselves, thinking that we are lower than other people. And then as a result of that, all of that energy creates life that we live. And the truth is, is that we are the physical manifestation and representation of the divine. Like, we were perfect from the moment that we were born. And we're actually here to remember that.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And what keeps us from remembering that is resistance.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And the energy that allows us to like, embody how beautiful and powerful we actually are is allowance, which is the feminine.

[A]

I love the part of the book where you walk through. You have us imagine being born. Right. Imagine a baby being born and you're born into. For. Into this from a perfect place of love and safety. And now you're. You're separated for the first time, right. From being oneness and wholeness, love and oneness, to fear and separation.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

And that. And that begins a lifelong journey of trying to remember who we really are.

[B]

That's it, man.

[A]

Remember the divine within us. And you talk a lot in the book about the premise of either we're in the energy of fear and separation or the energy of love and oneness. And that that birth example is kind of where it first breaks off. How do we get back to living in a state of love and oneness? What are the obstacles? What's standing in the way? How do we get back to that place?

[B]

Yeah. So I like to take people through a three step process. And the first one is awakening.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Right. And part of awakening, the first thing you have to do is to question. And I'm talking how? Question everything. Like, I started to.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I started questioning, am I happy? Do I love what I do? Do I love who I'm in a relationship with? Like, am I living my purpose? Right.

[A]

The answers were no, no, no, no,

[B]

no, no, no, no. A lot of nos, a lot of no's. I think that's the first step and the most important step because it's the step we're most afraid to take. We love to believe what the news feeds us. We love to believe what the preacher feeds us. We love to believe. We love to believe us what we're feeding you right now.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But that's not where your power is. It's why what's happening right now is happening when it comes to gurus is we're starting to realize that, like, there is no guru. You are the guru.

[A]

Yeah. Right.

[B]

Now there are guides that can help you remember that, but any guide or any teacher that is Trying to get themselves to be your guru isn't coming from love or truth.

[A]

No.

[B]

Because the real teachers, the real healers, the real spiritual people, they just want you to remember that you are the one that you're seeking.

[A]

Yeah. Like Jesus when he said, the kingdom of God is within you.

[B]

That's right. That's right. So once you start questioning everything, you really just start to unravel. And I. And I would recommend we take you through this journey, but I would recommend, like, really question everything. Like, are you happy with the money that you make? Are you happy in your relationship? Are you happy with your body and your physical condition? Right. And that alone is going to start breaking some shit apart.

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[A]

It's a brutal honesty that Awaken, awaken, start. So it's awaken, heal, transform. What are the other parts of the framework?

[B]

Yeah. And then with awakening, you've got to question everything you've got. Then you discover, and you start to really discover where the root cause of a lot of what's holding you back in life actually comes from. So you start to look at your childhood, you start to look at your relationship with your mother and father. You start to look at your masculine and feminine energy and, and how really afraid you are, quite frankly. And then you decide, yeah, you decide what you are going to do with the information that you just got.

[A]

One of the things that I. So as I'm reading the book and the book is like, it's deep. It's, you know, it's like, it's gut wrenching, like having you go so deep and into your past and looking at your parents. And one thing I'm reading it as is not only me looking at my parents. And I am very blessed. I had a really supportive mom and dad. And there's a line in there where you say something like, even if you had a good mom and dad, right, there's still stuff that. And so it really caused me because at first I'm reading, I'm like, nah, my parents were cool.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

And then I get to that line, I'm like, okay, let me really be really honest, you know, and then thinking about my mom and dad. And one of the things though, that as I'm reading it is I'm not just thinking about my mom and dad. I'm thinking I'm a dad and I've got a daughter. And so this is. I'm going to have my daughter read this book as soon as she. She's 16 and she's in a phase of like, you know, she's resist like, dad, I don't read your self help. Like, I want to read what I want to read. And so I'm like, all right, I'm not going to push hard. But it's like, I have a note in there. Have Sophie. This is one of the first books she will read when she's finally ready for personal development.

[B]

Thank you.

[A]

Spiritual development. Yeah, it's a good book. And as I'm reading and I'm going, I'm just thinking about the trauma that she has from us or the, you know, like from me and my wife Ursula, and how hopefully she'll read and go, oh, my mom and dad did the best they can and they love me and what did I adopt from them, what did I take on from their unknown wounds that you talk a lot about in the book that. Yeah, so it'll help, help her heal. And I want her to do it now and not wait till she's 40. That's the thing, right?

[B]

That's it.

[A]

I'm like, I want her to read this book, awaken your high self, and start doing the work now before she has to look back and be like, oh, I screwed up this relationship and this relationship and my marriage because of what mom and dad didn't know they were doing or imparting onto me.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

That's it, man.

[B]

And that's. You know, a lot of what's happening right now in the collective is we're all on that journey of unraveling all those wounds.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And the reason why I put that in the book is because you have no idea how many people we've helped unlock their fullest potential where they had a great mom and dad, but their mom and dad were just constantly, like, stressed out.

[A]

Mm.

[B]

Something as simple as that.

[A]

Totally.

[B]

Or their mom and dad unconsciously put their emphasis and energy and love into the sibling that was sick or potentially maybe favored somebody. Like.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know what I'm saying?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Or I think a big one is you could have a wonderful mom and dad. But they settled for mediocrity.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

Like, they settled for so much less that they did not see the extraordinary limitless divinity within themselves. And so they just went to the work job they hated. Right. Great mom and dad. But, like, they weren't. They weren't living as an example of what's possible.

[B]

Yeah, that's right. That's right. Yeah, that's right.

[A]

You talk in the book early on, and it really sets a great tone. And I got a lot from this because it's a great frame, the journey to consciousness. And you talk about two types of consciousness, victim consciousness and creator consciousness. Break those down.

[B]

Well, victim consciousness, it's not something that you think. It's not something that you, you know, like, consciously decide. It's just this overarching energy that you embody and live from unknowingly, where you believe that life is happening to you.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And so you look at everything from that lens. The wrong person gets elected. Fuck.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Somebody breaks up with you.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You lose a client.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

In other words, all of life is

[A]

happening to me, and it's not my fault.

[B]

And it's not only not my fault. I don't control it, and there's nothing I can do about it.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

And when you awaken, you actually start to realize that the opposite is true. You start to realize that you are literally creating the attachment to the guy that got elected. You created the situation when that relationship. You're creating the financial situation that you're in. And it's all Based off of the energy that lives inside of you. And that, my friend, when that happens, it's like you just. It's like you just turn a light switch on.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because your entire life, paradigm shifts forever.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And you can never go back. And it's really one of the beautiful things about awakening. And this is where the second part comes into place, is healing. I like to use the example of narcissists.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It's a hot topic right now.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And a lot of people are in the energy of calling their exes a narcissist, which I just want to say I'm not in any way devaluing your pain, any abuse, anything you went through. But just hear me out here for a second. When you are in victim consciousness, then the pain that you felt from that relationship, you place that pain out there. In this case, you are placing it in a label and in a box called Narcissus. Guess what you're unconsciously doing. You're giving it your power. The only way you can actually change your life is to grab that power back and. And the pain, bring it right back in here where you've been avoiding. Own it, go into it, feel it, process it, understand it, and then uncover all of the parts of yourself that created it. That's the part we don't like to hear.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You take ownership, and once you take ownership, it leads you to acceptance, where instead of, like, blaming, you accept it as a beautiful part of your life's journey. Yes, I said beautiful. Because most of the time, the way that. That we transcend consciousness is through pain. Not all the time, but most of the time. And so then when you're able to do that, that leads you to the next layer, which this one for sure as heck. Most people don't ever want to mess with forgiveness, because when you could see the quote, unquote, narcissist as not a narcissist, remove the layer as a wounded little boy or girl preach, someone that also must have experienced trauma, a broken heart, their heart shattered. And when you can realize that that person now is only being to you the way someone was with them when they were a little boy or a little girl, well, then, guess what? You get to find the parts of yourself that sees them. Not for this evil human that hurt you, but for a beautiful little boy or girl that was once hurt as well. And when you do that, guess what then? You get to thank them, forgive them, honor them for the lessons that they taught you in your life, and you're free and you get to move on. And that's the difference between victim and creator consciousness, man, is that when you stay stuck in victim consciousness. I'm just gonna say it. You'll never be free. You will never find peace. You will never find real love, because real love allows. It allows you to feel, to process, to thank, to. To let go. And fear controls if you struggle to

[A]

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[A]

Love that. The forgiveness I. I see just the way that you explained it as as that is the thing that frees us.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

When we're. I am the way that I am right. Victim consciousness because of that person. Either that narcissist that was my parent or an ex, you know, whoever. And it's like you're hanging on to this pain that it's pain you're holding toward them, but you're holding it. You're holding it, you're recreating it. Every thought that you have about that person as the victim that you are as soon as you forgive. And I love the. The way to get there is to realize that was just a scared they were a wounded boy or girl that grew up and then projected their wounds unconsciously onto other people. Not because they were evil, because they were flawed, hurt.

[B]

By the way How? I'm not even saying, like, I'm not even, like, making them right for the pain they caused you.

[A]

No, sure.

[B]

It's not about them is what I'm

[A]

trying to get to.

[B]

It's about you.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It's like, what are you gonna do for the rest of your life?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Carry that.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Remember it. Join Narcissist Anonymous coaching club. Or, like.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And what good is that gonna do?

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

Versus you can let go.

[C]

It's about your freedom.

[A]

That's not about them.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

That's so often when we're hurting over someone, it's like they're not even thinking about us.

[B]

No.

[A]

Right. Like they're living their life and you are recreating the pain and perpetuating it indefinitely.

[B]

And that's why people hate it when I say this, because what people actually hate is the responsibility. They hate that they can own it. They hate that they can transmute it. Understand how deep this is.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

If you get to own this and you get to transmute this, guess what else you get to own. And guess what else you get to transmute your whole entire life. So it literally shatters people's entire paradigms.

[A]

And they don't like it. Yeah. Because it's like, it's responsibility, which is weight, which is fear, which is what if. You know, like, I've been able to blame them, which is a really safe place to be.

[B]

And it's easy.

[A]

Yeah, it's easy. It's painful. Right. But it's easier. But it's easier. It's easier. I don't have to look within.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

Right. I just keep. It's their fault. So I get to stay in my story, get a little bit of attention from other people for it.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

For me, what helped me bridge the gap with forgiveness was this paradigm that if I had lived another person's life, I'd probably be exactly the same as them. Like, we judge other people as well. Like, I would never do that. That's horrible. That's wrong. That's evil. That's bad. It's like, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. You didn't go through what they went through.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

And if you had, you would have. And if you had their brain and literally process things the way that you. You'd be them. And so from that place, I feel like we can forgive and love all people. Because you're like, oh, yeah, if I had been them, I'd be them.

[B]

And that's oneness. Oneness is Understanding that they are you and you are them.

[A]

Unpack that. Expand on that.

[B]

Well, it's either we're separate. When we're separate, we get to look at how as separate than me. And we get to look at who he is and we get to judge him, we get to criticize him, we get to compare ourselves to him, we get to look up to him, down to him, we get to classify him in a box. We get to judge him based off of the color of his skin, how much money he makes, what he does, all of that stuff. When we live in oneness, none of that exists because we realize that Hal's just doing the best that he can with the cars that have been handed to him. Exactly. Like you're doing.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And when you actually sit face to face and you get to meet other people and you get to tell them, like, tell me about your life story, you're going to be astonished by how much their story is similar to your story. And that's when you finally realize that we're not separate. We're all one.

[A]

So talk about how you got to this place of higher understanding, higher consciousness, your own awakening in terms of your journey. For those that don't know, even those that do. I want to hear it. I know it, but I want to hear it in this moment, which is. You were running a billion dollar real estate company like you said you had. You'd built this Tuscan home. You're living the dream. Your mom died, you got a divorce, you went through some pain. But how did you bridge the gap from real estate business guru guy to spiritual awakening? That's talking right now about oneness and healing. Trau and what you're.

[B]

All of this ayahuasca. Okay, yeah, plant medicine. But no, no, that wasn't it. Forgive me.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

It was the desire for the truth. The desire for the truth is what led me down a path of doing whatever was necessary for me to discover the truth.

[A]

Now, when you say the truth.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

What do you mean by that?

[B]

I mean the truth about myself. Okay. The truth about life. I was highly religious, so the truth about God, I didn't want to believe anymore. How I wanted to know. I wanted to know. I wanted to know and hear. And since I didn't know how to get there, I actually turned to the thing that I was afraid of the most, which was plant medicine. And the thing that I avoided the most and the thing that I criticized the most, and I think that I rejected. It's the same thing we do with the plants. What we do with people because it's a frequency that lives inside of us, and that's what most people don't realize. So when I actually realized that I was rejecting and judging ayahuasca, I actually realized that that was the energy that I was living inside of me. And ayahuasca was literally just mirroring back to me who I was as a human being. And once I saw that, I thought to myself, okay, I gotta go do it.

[A]

So this was on my list of topics I wanted to talk about. And for me, personally, I have not done ayahuasca. It's on my list of. I thought about going to rhythm. I want to take my dad. I just. I've. You know, I've heard about amazing breakthroughs, but I've also heard the opposite side, which is I've heard the. The pros, the cons. So I want to hear. You're a huge proponent of it.

[B]

Yeah, don't go there.

[A]

So talk to you about it. Get to get the. Get the spots to go to. That's the commercial spot.

[B]

Well, look, before we started, you were mentioning that the founder does it every single day.

[A]

And I don't know that idea. Yeah, but whatever.

[B]

I. I just. I just. I just think that, like, you want to be in small, intimate settings where you can trust, where there's love. Okay, that's it.

[A]

So let's start here. For anyone who is not familiar with ayahuasca, maybe they heard of it. Maybe they've never even heard of it. What is it? And why are you. How did you discover. How old were you when you discovered it? And why are you such a proponent, such a fan of it? Yeah.

[B]

Ayahuasca is a plant medicine that comes from a vine in the Amazon jungle that, when you drink the medicine, gives you direct access to the divine. Direct access to. In this case, ayahuasca is the feminine energy of God.

[A]

And they call it mother. Right. Or grandmother.

[B]

The mother. Grandmother energy. Yeah. So imagine being held, being taught, sometimes being reprimanded by the feminine energy of all of creation. That's how profound it is. I found it seven years ago or so, right after my 40th birthday.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

But I just came back this weekend from taking my son, who was 8, who's 18.

[A]

Wow. For his first journey.

[B]

His first journey.

[A]

Oh, wow.

[B]

Yeah, he did.

[A]

What was that?

[B]

He loved it, man. Yeah, he loved it. Yeah.

[A]

I have my. One of my friends, he actually, he's the. Was the director of the Miracle Morning movie, and his mom was so against any. Anything plant Medicine, drugs, you call it whatever you want. Right. And. And so she was resistant. He finally took her and she's. And like, it was just transformative. And I want that for my dad. Let me ask you this, this is personally for me because I've done very high dose of psilocybin. Mushroom magic mushrooms, for those who don't know. Right.

[B]

How many grams?

[A]

I think I did eight one day.

[B]

That's big.

[A]

Yeah. And what I did is I read it some. I can't remember how I got there, but when I was going through chemo, some either. Maybe it was my own idea in a meditation, I don't know. But I was like, I got the idea. I read it somewhere when I do chemo to do psilocybin, to do mushrooms, to help kind of offset the effects of the chemo. And I was like, I'll try it. And I had this chocolate in my freezer for like a year that somebody gave me. So I have a gram and I'm laying there feeling just, oh, the chemo. I feel so terrible. And like an hour later I'm like, whoa, I feel great. And I spent the whole day in nature and journaling and praying and meditating. Right. And I was like, wow, that was amazing. And I can't wait till chemo next month now because I'm going to do it again. And I kept ratcheting up to 2 grams and then 3 and then 4, and then eventually it was either 6 or 8, one of the two. And that was like full blown talking to God. So my curiosity is doing high dose heroic doses of psilocybin. How does that compare to ayahuasca? Because I've read it's very.

[B]

It's similar. It's similar, but very different.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Because every medicine plays a certain role in your spiritual evolution.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

So mushrooms is more like mental mind. Thoughts. Ayahuasca is more feminine.

[A]

Heart, heart, body.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

All of that. Cannabis, by the way, is another great one.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I used to judge cannabis and now it's the medicine that my wife and I use. Like when something's coming up and we want answers.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I'll be right back. And we go with that. We have a room and two hits with the right intention. That's the key. And we go deep into journey.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Combo, which is this little dot right here, because I just did it is the serum from a frog.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

And it actually. I've seen people actually purge out chemo from their eyes. Like the energy of all of it just gets released.

[A]

I might need to follow up with you on that one, man.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

I've done a lot of chemo, and it messed me up.

[B]

Yeah. Campbell, Campbell, Campbell. Will. Will Campbell will help you.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

And. Yeah, man. And, you know, if. If I'm honest, I'm glad we're talking about this, because all of these journeys, the way that it changed my life, that's what actually made me start awaken. That's what actually made me do this.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I remember being ceremony thinking, every human on earth needs to experience this.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then I remember thinking, but there's no way I'm going to get every human on earth to do this, because it's scary. I understand that.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And then I thought, what if I made an event that, like, made people feel like they were getting the experience of plant medicine without the plant medicine? That's what awaken us. That's what the book is like.

[A]

Wow. That's incredible.

[C]

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[A]

What if you could replace all of

[C]

them with just one app?

[A]

Yes.

[C]

It is called the Miracle morning app and it is essentially seven apps in one. Hundreds of guided meditations and breathwork tracks, A full library of affirmations, plus tools to create your own visualization prompts for 10 key areas of your life. Guided workouts from 2 to 10 minutes long. Book and audiobook summaries of top personal and professional development books. And a journaling tool with guided prompts. The wheel of life or a blank page to write freely. It simplifies your morning, saves you money, and helps you start every day with clarity, purpose, and energy. And it's one of the only apps in this space with a 4.9 out of 5 star rating. Try it free for 7 days. Just search Miracle Morning in your app store or go to miraclemorningapp.com to get started. All right, back to the show.

[A]

Now, for anybody listening, that's like five minutes ago we started talking about this. They're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. What? Like, this took a turn. I wasn't expecting this. Let me share my opinion on it. The way I explain it, like, so couple things. One is you know, the U.S. government classified this thing drugs, of course, right? And they're like, made in lab meth. It made in a bathtub. Horrific. And then things that grow in the ground that God or Mother Earth created. And they're all in the same category, right? So that's, like I always say, there's. That's why they call it plant medicine. And I'm glad there is that category now versus it all being lumped into drugs. That's number one. Number two, when I had. When I was getting chemo and I was on Death's Doorway, man, I was 125 pounds. I lost. I mean, 40 pounds less than this. And I'm already thin, right? I'm like. And they accidentally. A nurse one day was supposed to inject chemo into my spine to keep the cancer from going to my brain stem, right?

[C]

Just.

[A]

It was horrible. And she missed my spine and injected it into my nerve along my spine. And this caused me to go into these horrific migraines. Like, I had migraines as a kid growing up. I've never had anything like this. And it was. It was 24 hours a day for like seven or nine days, something like that. It was horrible. There's actually a scene in the Miracle Morning movie where I gave my dad my cell phone. I said, dad, I want you to film me right now. He goes, you're in bad shape. Why? I said, because I've been recording all these videos of me, like, my positive mindset around this. I'm like, this is the lowest. I've never felt so horrible. I want to capture this. Right?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Good. So he captured it. So they send me home to the apartment near the hospital of, like, seven days. And they tried morphine, oxycontin, the pin to help the pain. Nothing worked. Nothing worked. And I'm in so much pain, I'm crying. I'm like, I can't eat. I'm losing more weight. My wife is three hours away. We're in Houston. She's here in Austin. And so my dad puts me in a wheelchair, takes me out to the car, drives me to the apartment, and I go. And I'm sleeping, and he's trying to feed me. And I'm like, I can't eat. I can't even. I got an eye mask on. I got earplugs in. I got white noise on high. Blinds up. So much pain. And after a day or so, and so I'm like eight, nine days into this now, my dad finally goes, hal, what about that marijuana that your friend Dropped off for you. And I go, yeah, yeah, I'll try anything.

[B]

Anything.

[A]

And I hadn't done marijuana in probably years. And so it was so funny because my dad had never done marijuana in his life, and he's like, so what do I. I have, like, this pipe and this baggie. What do I do? So I'm telling how to pack a little bowl, and I take two hits off of the marijuana and keep again. So five minutes later, my dad leaves. Five minutes later, maybe 10 minutes at the most, I feel fine. I sit up, I walk out, I go, dad, I'm starving. Make me some food. And his fate. I mean, he just, you know, he's been watching me for over a week, right. In this state of.

[B]

State of. And so how many days was it? Probably seven.

[A]

Oh, is there a spiritual? It may have been seven.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

But, yeah, definitely go back, see if I can find that.

[C]

But.

[A]

So my dad makes me food. I call my wife, and I'm like, hey, sweetie. She goes, what? How are you talking right now? I'm like, yeah, I took two hits of marijuana, a plant that grows in the ground. Well, we'll get that later. Not pharmaceuticals that are damaging my liver that they're pumping me full of. And I'm fine.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

And my appetite's back. My pain's gone. I'm fine. And so, anyway, I share that story as. Like, that was a paradigm shift of. I'm like, so wait a minute. You're telling me that I was two hits away from total relief and the pharmaceutical company. You know what I mean? So that's. That's why I am such a proponent of plant medicine. One of many, many, many reasons, like you, it's been transformative for me. It grows from the earth. It's not made with CH chemicals in a lab. So, yeah, man, that's my. That's my soapbox.

[B]

Just. Just. Number one, I couldn't help but think that the same physical pain that you were in was the same emotional pain I was in that made me say, I'll try anything. Number two, if you think about it, anything that grows from the earth is literally from God.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Is literally from God. And then number three, anything that grows from a lab is literally from man.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So it's like this really beautiful divide to see where are you actually living and putting your trust? Is it in man? Is it in the 3D world? Or is it in God, the divine, the spiritual world? And this is where, like, religion kind of messes with us a little bit, because whether we Realize it or not, it actually has nothing to do with God. It's like man made. It's a man made creation that keeps you up here and so, so much so that it makes you look at everything that I'm discussing right now and goes, no way, it's evil. I was that way.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I would just ask you to feel. That's it. Yeah, I would just say feel. We have forgotten to be human beings and we are now human thinkers.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And we spend so much of our times thinking and in our minds that we have forgotten that we can also feel.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

We can also intuit. And you can feel if what I'm saying is dangerous or evil or bad or if it feels actually safe.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Maybe a little scary.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But safe.

[A]

Yeah. Out of your comfort zone.

[B]

That's right. And that's where you know and you discover your truth and you stop believing is by trusting what you feel.

[A]

Let's talk about that because that is one of my favorite topics when whether it's even just watching your social media videos, you know, or interview clips of you talking about God and connecting with the divine, with. Within us. I like the frame you mentioned, believing, which is most of our beliefs around God are literally beliefs that somebody else told us. What do you believe? Well, I believe what my mom and dad told me.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

And what I heard and what I read and what's like, do you connect with God like directly? Jesus said the kingdom of God is within. Are you connecting directly? Well, no, I just, I read my works and I go to church and I listen to the right. Nothing wrong. No judgment against that.

[B]

No, no, no. And I actually just want to say, like I honor that.

[A]

That's.

[B]

That's where you're at.

[A]

And y. Yeah, yeah. There's value there. So what I'd love to hear you just talk about how the journey, the spiritual journey, in fact, let's just go there for the spiritual journey. You went from, by the book. Very, very religious.

[B]

I was very.

[A]

Yeah. And then to where you're at now and anywhere in between.

[B]

It's the difference between living your life from the outside in or the inside out.

[A]

Okay, talk about that.

[B]

It's the difference between living your life from needing or being free. It's quite frankly the difference between searching and having found in the external. There's always going to be things there for us, waiting for us to take our energy. It could be pornography, it can be drugs, it can be our looks, it can even be a relationship. And it can even. Yeah. Be belief and what we don't realize until hopefully we do, is that whenever we are dependent upon something outside of us to sustain us, in this case, whether it's pornography, alcohol, a relationship. Forgive me for bunching it up into this, but religious beliefs, what we are unconsciously living is a life that is dependent upon the exterior, the outside. The answer is out there.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That means you're powerless.

[A]

Now, what if someone is saying, well, that's blasphemous, that God. Yes, God is out there. God is the creator.

[B]

Hold on.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

I would ask you the question, where did you get the idea that it's blasphemous? Because not taking the COVID shot was blasphemous.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Being a bad boy or girl right before Santa Claus came was blasphemous. It's control. It's control through fear. So if I tell you that something is evil or blasphemous or whatever, and you are not here, guess what you're going to do. Yes, sir, I guess it must be. I'm asking you. Challenge it.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Question it. If it's so right. You're going to find the truth. And that's what people are afraid of.

[A]

Do you know Aaron Apke?

[B]

Yeah, I do.

[A]

Yeah. I love Aaron's teaching on this, right. That he's like, I left the church to follow Jesus. Right? Like actually following Jesus's teachings versus what my pastor told me, that I was separate and that I was bad and that I was flawed and that I was a sinner and that, you know, and it's like Jesus didn't say those things. Right.

[B]

And I'm going to take it a separate further. If Jesus were here right now, he wouldn't want you to follow him. Jesus's actual message was one of discovering the truth, the divine, and your power within yourself. If you think about it like, what kind of human being gets crucified and then says it's okay? Like they don't know what they're doing? What kind of human being is being murdered and still loves his brother and sister? That's someone that had discovered that his power was in here. That's what he kept talking about. Jesus didn't want followers. He wanted you to become the highest version of yourself. Because someone that becomes the highest version of themselves, the last thing on earth they would want is a follower. We're right back to guru. True.

[A]

Because they'd want you to ever. They'd want everyone.

[B]

They'd want everyone to awaken to the

[A]

highest version of themselves.

[B]

Now you got it.

[A]

Yeah. And Then you wrote the book called awaken your highest self. What are the big. I mean, we've talked a lot about a lot of things that are covered in the book that are addressed. What are the biggest themes or messages or takeaways that you want people to gain from this book?

[B]

I think number one is you can either live in fear or love. That's the biggest thing. And I'm just gonna just say that right now, humanity is literally in the process of shifting from fear to love. You're seeing it happen. You're seeing it with Epstein. You're seeing it with, like, all of the stuff that's coming out. It's like the truth is coming out, and it's coming out so that it could finally click inside of you. That everything that you've been dependent on is actually full of shit, living in

[A]

the matrix, that the government's in charge and they're looking out for our best interests, all of it.

[B]

And let's just talk about the energy. The energy that causes you to be dependent upon everything out there is fear. Because you're afraid deep inside of yourself that you are not powerful enough to be the own leader of your own life. Love allows you to be that leader. Love also allows whatever is happening out there to happen, and it doesn't necessarily have to impact you.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Like, I know things are happening out there, but it doesn't bother me.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I don't give it any of my energy.

[A]

You know, it's interesting. I actually. I think it's funny. I've fallen more into the trap of paying attention to what's going on and maybe giving some power away. Meaning. I remember for most of my life, I paid zero attention to politics and people like, oh, this person got like. I'm like, I don't care who gets elected. I create my life. It doesn't matter who's in office and what they're doing. And, like, not that it doesn't matter, but doesn't matter in my life. Like, I am the creator of my life.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

And I will adapt to whatever new regulations or rules are put in place, like, all figured out. And I'll create the life that I want. And your point of thinking about how many people are, like, they give away their power to say it. Who got. Yeah.

[C]

Fixated.

[A]

They're just watching the news. And again, I fell into this 2020. As I started to, like, wake up. I was like, wait a minute, what's going on? I think it was when we got locked in our house. I'm like, oh, this is actually affecting me for the first time ever, like, where I know there were tax policies and stuff before, but, like, this is, like, directly affecting. I'm being told what I can and can't do. I think that's actually what sucked me in. And maybe for a lot of people, 2020 was a shift in so many ways. I think in some ways our consciousness was elevated and expanded and we started to see the veil being pulled back. But I think also, at least I could say I'm guilty of. I was pulled into it way more than I ever had been before. And I'm like, wait, what's going on? Who's Epstein? Who? What is. They're doing what? Yeah. So it's interesting. How do you define freedom? And I want to ask in the context of, like, feel free to share. Like, you're living a beautiful life right now. Not just with the, you know, the success and all of that, but, like, you're married to an amazing woman in Jen, you have a daughter that you received a message during, I think it was a plant ceremony journey, that you were going to marry this woman, have this daughter. But what does freedom look like?

[B]

And my boys.

[A]

And your three boys.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

What does freedom look like to you?

[B]

Freedom looks like going into the depths of who you are and disconnecting yourself from any fear energy within you. The fear of being yourself, the fear of speaking your truth, the fear of loving someone fully, which is a very deep fear for people.

[A]

Rejection. Yeah.

[B]

The fear of being loved. The fear of being abundant and disconnecting yourself from anything external that you are currently dependent on. That's when you're free.

[A]

I love that. And what are some practices to do that? In the book, you talk about life's medicines, and you've got yoga and meditation and breath work and the plant medicines. You know, you cover kind of the whole gamut. But what are some practices for people?

[B]

I legitimately say that. I say this humbly, but I really believe that the book is a great practice in and of itself because it's going to take all of this and make it applicable to your life, and it's going to make you start like you're going to have an experience. Like some things are going to come up.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

But you know, man, I think I'm going to answer that question this way. I think that the only practice you need to worry about is the practice of unraveling any blockages around your heart. How that looks for different people. It's going to look different for different people. But as Long as that's your commitment, then the how will show up, the practice for you will show up. Because maybe it might be different for me than it is for you. And that's okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

So to wrap up Awake it, we've got the three part framework that is central to your work.

[B]

Awaken, heal, transform.

[A]

Awaken, heal, transform. What's left to be said on that?

[B]

Well, we talked about awakening and the final step of awakening is to decide, like decide what you're going to do. Are you going to take the red pill or the blue pill? That's really the moment by the way. And then you go in and you start to heal. And you start that journey by going deep into the parts of yourself that you discovered in the awakening were fragmented. And you go reparent your inner child, you go rebalance your masculine and feminine energy and then finally you transform. And that starts with integration, integrating everything that came up for you during the healing journey. It also goes into you creating life from this new perspective. Not from the afraid version of you, not from the separate version of you, but from this new whole version of you. And I'd like to say that that's, I think the most beautiful part about the journey is that most of the time what we want isn't what we actually want is what the wounded little boy or girl inside of us wanted or was searching for when they didn't get love. And if you are going out living life from that energy, you ain't never going to find it because it ain't out there. It's in here.

[A]

I love it. That was one of my favorite. I was watching, I think it was always you. And on Lewis, how's show? And I think you might share the story in the book too. But, but you were asking God, when am I going to find the one? Where is the one, right?

[B]

And the hand goes literally my hand literally went like this and it comes back it literally how it was like this and I'm like crying my eyeballs out. That's one I like.

[A]

Because you find the one when you realize that you don't need the one because you are the one. And any one that you would add into your life, a partner, a significant other, is just to compliment your wholeness, your divinity. Right? Hold on, let me see it. Drop the book over here. The book is [e-mail] that's right. And anything else that you want to leave people with. Man, I highly recommend this book, y'. All. Again, I'm having my daughter read it. It is awaken your highest self, the limiting beliefs that keep you stuck and the heart work that sets you free. It is deep. It is a life manual. Like I said, I'm going through it again. It's one that I think I'll just keep studying, keep doing the work. It's not the one where you. Yeah. You don't just read it and go, yeah, it was a good one.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's like, oh, wow, this book is deep.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah, I appreciate it. No, I would just say pick up a copy. I think it's going to take you. Yeah. Into the parts of your life that you've been trying to figure out but haven't had. Like that guide. This isn't motivation. This isn't rah rah. This is deep. It's gonna cut and take you to the root. But that's actually what you want because that's how you change your life.

[A]

Indeed. All right, Danny. Love you, brother. Thanks for being on the show, man.

[B]

Thanks for having me.

[A]

All right, until next time. Yeah, thanks for listening. To learn more about the Achieve youe Goals podcast and to get access today's show notes, transcript and exclusive content from Hal Elrod, visit HalElrod.com podcast thanks again for joining us. Be sure to tune in next week for another episode of the Achieve youe Goals podcast.

[B]

Sam.