How to Use Ritual to Make Your Habits (Finally) Stick

WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

Danielle LaPorte

Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Are you waiting on better habits to fix your life?

We’re going esoterically practical today. I’m talking about the difference between habits and rituals. Habits are from the intellect. Rituals are from the heart. One can burn you out, the other can bless your life.

In Eps 174 of With Love, Danielle, I walk you through a handful of practices that have supported me over the years: a ritual for connecting to your inner child, a list of what you trust (to calm the nervous system), chanting your own name (yep, it’s powerful), and looking into your own eyes with loving-kindness.

You’ll leave with real things you can try today—and a personal invitation to my free class:

THE RITUALS CLASS

Practices to help you choose—and stick to, better habits.
Saturday, March 29
9am PT | 12pm ET
daniellelaporte.com/rituals

In this episode:

The real difference between rituals and habits (and why it matters)
Why most habit advice leads to burnout, not peace
How ritual infuses your actions with meaning, energy, and love
Why discipline can numb the mind (Krishnamurti said it best)
How to bless your habits with Divine support

Mentioned in this episode:

Join the free class:
THE RITUALS CLASS
Saturday, March 29 | 9am PT | 12pm ET
daniellelaporte.com/rituals

The Heart Centered Membership – Spiritual direction, monthly soul sessions, beautiful community and practices that help you stay steady.

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0:00.0	My loves, we are going to get esoterically very practical today. I want to talk about rituals,
0:08.5	and I'm going to give you some rituals. And this is all a lead-up to an actual class, a free one,
0:14.7	that I'm giving on rituals called three rituals to make your habits successful. because I believe that habits without soul are going to be
0:26.5	crushing and they're going to give you adrenal fatigue and it's all kinds of misery even though you
0:31.7	might crush your goals. I'm going to unpack that in a minute. What I'm going to do today
0:36.4	is I'm going to give you a handful of rituals What I'm going to do today is I'm going to give you
0:38.3	a handful of rituals that I've used at different times in my life, just really light, simple things.
0:43.8	In the class, I'm going to talk more about the psychology around habit making and rituals,
0:49.3	and you're going to leave with actual rituals that we have in our heart-centered membership around doing a right
0:57.0	and burn and our heart-centering practice and a handful of really beautiful things. And in this
1:02.6	free class, this is a new thing I'm doing. I'm doing these free classes for a couple of reasons.
1:08.6	One is, I need to find a way to invite the whole wide
1:12.3	world into the heart center membership. We have this beautiful community. The membership is about
1:17.3	spiritual direction. I do a class every month. Like the most recent class I did was called How to Make
1:23.4	Good Friends with Your Anger. It's helping people balance their nervous systems and say sorry
1:31.3	to the right people and accept apologies. And anyway, we do really juicy stuff like that.
1:36.1	And then I do a spiritual direction coaching call once a month where we also get really beautiful
1:43.1	input from the community about what is helping
1:46.6	them stay on the path and sleep through the night and think more clearly and forgive the person
1:51.5	they never thought they could forgive. So that's one of the reasons I'm doing that class.
1:56.4	We also want to extend invites to the whole wide world to come into membership pro, which is our
2:03.0	mentorship, heart-centered oriented entrepreneurship community. So that's one reason. But what this
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