{"id":18045,"date":"2014-07-15T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T22:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/\/new\/\/?p=18045"},"modified":"2015-06-02T14:40:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T21:40:11","slug":"soul-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/soul-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"The who, what, why of Soul contracts (Danielle Mackinnon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/soul-contracts\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18049\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-18049\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/soul-contract-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"a woman signs a contract or a will with a fountain pen.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Do you believe that each soul comes in with a life lesson? \u00a0What are the lessons learned in life? How about the idea of soul contract? Join CJ Liu as she interviews intuitive coach and psychic,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #727272;\">Danielle MacKinnon, about her newest book, &#8220;S<\/span>oul Contracts: Find Harmony and Unlock Your Brilliance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Show Details<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DEeg8zdKtVc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/widget\/?showId=25229902&amp;episodeId=26962045\" width=\"398\" height=\"224\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Blog Post by our Guest<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"color: #444444;\">It\u2019s Not Your Environment \u2013 It\u2019s Your Negative Belief<\/h3>\n<p>Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.daniellemackinnon.com\/blog<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-10861\" class=\"post-10861 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-blog category-featured-2\" style=\"color: #727272;\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">In high school I was underweight, in modeling I had to work hard not to be overweight, as a pregnant woman I was underweight, as a mom I wanted to lose weight and as a Crossfitter I wanted to gain weight.\u00a0 For most of my adult life, I\u2019ve had the ability to change my weight, but no matter what the scale read, I continued to be unhappy with my body. A few years ago, I began to take a closer look at these patterns and realized that there was clearly something much bigger than weight driving these negative feelings about myself. And what I learned is that it\u2019s not what you think.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">First, I\u2019ll tell you what it is not. It is\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">not<\/span>\u00a0society telling me I\u2019m fat or thin or imperfect or need to change.\u00a0 It is not magazines. It is not Facebook. It is not other girls, men, women or family and friends. Magazines, fashion shows, and high standards of beauty are not<i>creating<\/i>\u00a0our bad feelings about our body. Instead, they are just reflecting to us opportunities to discover how we really feel about ourselves.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #444444;\">It all comes down to our negative beliefs.<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">As I spent more time looking at my ongoing body-hating behavior, I started to notice an underlying pattern: it didn\u2019t matter what I weighed, what I wore, how good my skin looked or what the scale said \u2013 nothing was able to combat my negative belief that said, \u201cI\u2019m not good enough.\u201d In fact, as I looked more deeply at my life, I found that that belief colored everything I did, whatever I weighed, and all that I accomplished. Imagine that anything that you set out to achieve was met with a little voice in the back of your head that repeated over and over, \u201cnot good enough, not good enough\u2026\u201d Pretty soon, that idea is going to feel like your truth. Pretty soon, you\u2019re going to experience that left, right and center in your world because that belief has become the glasses through which you view the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">And that\u2019s how it was for me. Upon realizing this pattern, my initial thought was, \u201cit\u2019s from being in the modeling industry! It\u2019s from reading fashion magazines growing up! It\u2019s from being around the pretty girls at school!\u201d But as I looked further into my past, I began to see that this belief had plagued me much longer than I had been reading fashion magazine or even watching TV. Instead, it all began when I was much younger \u2013 around the age of two.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">I am a VERY sensitive person. So sensitive, in fact, that I can feel the unspoken emotions of others without even trying. At two years old, my parent\u2019s marriage was failing. My father was absent most of the time and my mother was overworked. Without having the words to explain this, I knew it. I sensed the turmoil, I sensed my mother\u2019s distraction, and I sensed that something was going on that was making my life not feel great. As a young child, I tried to fix this by following the rules and being the best that I could be, but I was not successful and as a couple they still struggled, eventually coming to a divorce. At such a young age, my perception was that I wasn\u2019t good enough to prevent that catastrophe from happening. And since our experiences form the basis for our beliefs, I came to believe that I wasn\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Cut to high school where all the girls wanted to have my body type, my long, skinny legs, my speed and my height. All I could feel was that I wasn\u2019t good enough to fit in with them. As a model, I wasn\u2019t good enough at counting calories to keep my weight where it needed to be. As a pregnant woman, I was endangering the life of my child by not being good enough at gaining the right amount of weight. In my mind, I wasn\u2019t even good enough as a pregnant woman!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">You get the picture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">To shift this, I didn\u2019t cut myself off from society. I didn\u2019t stop reading fashion magazines or pull back from television or work out fiendishly or step to the outskirts of society. That seemed like more work than I wanted to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Instead, I focused on changing the \u201cI\u2019m not good enough\u201d belief. After all, your environment reflects what you believe within. For example,\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">if you believe that you\u2019re not safe in the world, everything you experience will go through the negative belief filter of \u201cnot safe\u201d until you change that filter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">So, I started paying closer attention to my daily experiences to find where my negative beliefs of \u201cI\u2019m not good enough\u201d was playing a role. I found it in some odd places! I saw that I often didn\u2019t speak up about the little things, because I wasn\u2019t sure I was right (after all, if I\u2019m not good enough \u2013 how can I be sure I\u2019m right?). For example, when someone cut in front of me in line at the grocery store, I never said anything because, what if I didn\u2019t have it right? What if I didn\u2019t realize that the line went a different direction? It\u2019s crazy how much dialogue went on in my head, all caused by my belief that I wasn\u2019t good enough!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Finding those hidden areas where my negative belief of\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m not good enough\u201d was controlling my thoughts allowed me to begin to see it as something outside of me \u2013 an untruth. Rather than thinking \u201cI\u2019m not good enough\u201d is my reality, I began to realize it was just that untruth showing up again. With each realization, I felt stronger and more sure of making different decisions and of viewing myself more positively.\u00a0 In other words, the more I realized that \u201cI\u2019m not good enough\u201d was not true, the better I naturally felt about my body, my weight, my clothes and my skin and myself overall!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Had I tried to feel better about my body by changing my environment (eliminating TV, magazines, and even mainstream culture), I don\u2019t believe I would have had the same success. It\u2019s kind of like quitting smoking. If you remove yourself from all smokers and are never around cigarettes again, it seems much easier to quit. However, once you\u2019re sitting next to a smoker, the desire to smoke will show up again since the underlying cause of the smoking (i.e. the negative belief) was never addressed. As we have probably all learned the hard way, we can\u2019t control our environment! We can\u2019t just eliminate all of the images and ideas we don\u2019t like \u2013 that\u2019s really\u2026 impossible. So, wouldn\u2019t it be better instead to shift the underlying beliefs that led you to want to smoke in the first place?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Realizing this about myself became the foundation for my work with others. I now help people find those negative beliefs within so they can work to have small experiences to change that belief. So, rather than looking outside yourself for why things in your life are the way they are \u2013 can you find an underlying belief that may be secretly directing your days? That\u2019s your starting point!<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">About our Guest<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/soul-contracts\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18052\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-18052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/danielle-mackinnon-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"danielle mackinnon\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A leader in the Intuitive Coaching and the Soul Contracts arena, Danielle challenges people to re-think how they view themselves, their strengths and their weaknesses. Combining her intuitive skills with her unique ability to connect with the Soul, Danielle continues to lead thousands of people through their \u201cchallenges\u201d into a world of possibility and brilliance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #727272;\">Named one of the country\u2019s \u201c<a class=\"external\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #14abd1;\" title=\"BestPsychicMediums.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bestpsychicmediums.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Best Psychic Mediums<\/a>,\u201d highly gifted Intuitive, coach, and leading edge animal communicator, Danielle MacKinnon has appeared on national TV and on numerous radio stations around the world.\u00a0 As one of the country\u2019s most popular teachers on soul connections, animal communication and re-connecting to your best self, she\u2019s also an esteemed faculty at The Omega Institute, LilyDale Assembly, and the Kripalu Center as well as many other globally recognized teaching and wellness institutions. Today, Danielle uses her extraordinary skills to lead thousands of people through their challenges and into a world of miraculous possibility and brilliance. Danielle\u2019s book on Soul Contracts is due to be released in June, 2014, but you can\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #14abd1;\" title=\"Pre-order Danielle's newest book!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daniellemackinnon.com\/store\/books\/soul-contracts-book-find-harmony-unlock-brilliance\/\">pre-order it now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #727272;\">Read more about Danielle below:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #727272;\">For as long as she could remember, Danielle MacKinnon felt different. She could walk into a room and \u201cfeel\u201d negativity, she could sense when someone was secretly upset and she could even tell what animals were thinking. Unfortunately, growing up in a small\u00a0Midwest\u00a0town with a family that was afraid to draw attention to themselves, she was not in an environment that supported these differences. And like so many others, instead of exploring her differences, she tried to become as \u201cnormal\u201d as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, with her BA in English and MBA in Entrepreneurship and Marketing in hand,<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Danielle lived a highly successful life in corporate America. However, something always seemed \u201coff.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0No matter how well she did, how successfully she managed her projects or how much praise she received, she still never felt completely satisfied with herself or with what she was doing with her life. \u00a0It took the illness of her family pet to bring her the insight she needed to finally embrace her passion. To a chorus of disbelief from her family and friends,\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">she walked away from the corporate life and opted to create her own version of \u201cnormal\u201d<\/strong>\u2026 which was using her intuitive abilities to assist others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #727272;\">Today, Danielle is a renowned Soul Contract Consultant, Animal Intuitive and Intuitive Coach. \u00a0She \u00a0uses her unique skills in connecting with the soul to assist people in discovering their Light \u00a0by facilitating and inspiring the evolution process within. Her unconventional skills allow her to enlighten, enliven and excite others as they use her insight to make lasting, positive change in their lives. Danielle\u2019s Soul Contract readings have assisted thousands in understanding the \u201cwhy\u201d behind their troubled relationships, careers and personal lives and in breaking through unseen blocks standing in the way of success.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #727272;\">Danielle is also Intensely connected to the animal kingdom. She communicates with pets and their human partners effortlessly at the level of the Soul. \u00a0Using her skills to help animals and their people better understand one another, she helps everyone work toward a common goal\u2026 happiness. \u00a0She delights in revealing the Soul Contract between pet and human which, once determined, often opens the door to a more fulfilling, balanced, and happier relationship and a human who is closer to the brilliant of which they have always dreamed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #727272;\">She has been highlighted in newspapers, magazines, radio shows, and more and her client base spans the globe. She is also featured in Hay House author, John Holland\u2019s book \u201cSpirit Whisperer,\u201d in Elevated Existence Magazine and OfSpirit Magazine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #727272;\">Danielle has been named one of Psychic Investigator Bob Olson\u2019s Best Psychic Mediums. She has also been featured on Afterlife TV; on the Juicy Living Tour with Lilou Mace; a featured teacher at the esteemed Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY with colleagues, Colette Baron-Reid, Robert Ohotto, and John Holland as well as a teacher at LilyDale Assembly in NY, East West in Mountain View, \u00a0CA, Kripalu in the Berkshire Mountains and other highly regarded organizations throughout the US.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #727272;\">Read testimonials about Danielle\u2019s work\u00a0<a class=\"external\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #14abd1;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bestpsychicmediums.com\/Danielle-Testimonials.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0or read Psychic Investigator Bob Olson\u2019s review of his reading with Danielle\u00a0<a class=\"external\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #14abd1;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bestpsychicmediums.com\/Danielle-Article.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to learn how Danielle was named to the Best Psychic Mediums List.<\/p>\n<p>#soul contracts, soul agreements,<span style=\"color: #222222;\">lessons learned in life,soul contracts soulmates,\u00a0soul connection relationship,\u00a0karmic relationship,\u00a0karmic relationships,soul groups,soul group,soul family,spiritual contracts,soul connections.danielle mackinnon,danielle soule,\u00a0danielle youtube,youtube danielle<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you believe that each soul comes in with a life lesson? \u00a0What are the lessons learned in life? 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