Creating A Visual Map of Your Heart Through Harmony, Connection, and Unity

Have you ever felt like you’re in your optimal state? Just in pure bliss doing the things you love minus the pressure. You feel your best and perform your best because you’re happy.This is known as the state of flow, my friends. When you’re in this bubble, you’re just simply in the zone. You are completely present, as if your life is unfolding right now. Often, you even lose your sense of time because you’re just enjoying what you’re doing so much that you forget about the world around you. It's both enthralling and relaxing. Today’s guest specializes in helping people achieve that mental state, bringing them into harmony so they can be their authentic selves. Arnaud Saint-Paul is the founder of Tapuat and also a two-time author. He taps into the power of the heart with the use of The Heartfelt Method. In this interview, you'll learn about how listening to your heart can change your life. --- Listen to the podcast here: Creating A Visual Map of Your Heart Through Harmony, Connection, and Unity Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Today, I want to talk to you about kind of living your life in harmony, in a state of flow. Now, we've all heard something about a state of flow but for a general synopsis of it, it's the time when you're truly present in the moment. It's the time when you're not distracted. And people often describe it as when was the last time you were so involved in what you were doing that you forgot to eat a meal or you forgot that you had to go to the bathroom or something like that. Not that I'm advocating meal skipping or intensifying the pressure you put on your bladder when you have to go, but it is a really beautiful state and it's often a state when we're at our most content, our happiest, and our most productive getting a lot done. My guest today kind of specializes in helping people bring themselves into harmony, into flow, and getting that authentic life. Arnaud Saint-Paul is the founder of Tapuat and also a two-time author and the inventor of something called The Heartful Method. He just brings people in so many different settings into the state of authenticity, the state of being truly who you are. --- Arnaud, welcome to the program. Well, thank you. Hello. Thank you for having me. Thank you so much for reaching out and joining us today on Action’s Antidotes because where the discontent really comes from is the state of not being connected with who you really are. But, obviously, you probably know more than anyone else about this so just elaborate this on where the state of discontent that a lot of people feel, especially in our modern world, comes from. Right. When we observe these troubled times, all the news and you're going -- and plus when we went through, all of us, in the past few years, you obsess with them and, therefore, you forget all the rest. In other words, each time we're obsessing about something, each time we're identifying with something, we lose contact with ourselves, we forget ourselves, and, hence, that discontent that is not really related, per se, to the actual events but more unconsciously, we're telling ourselves we're not going in the right direction. What if a state of presence of harmony, of interconnection, of flow would be our actual essence or birthright and we can actually allow ourselves to live our lives through that? What if, all of a sudden, everything would come to me without an effort because I'm here now and I exist and I am in my state of flow, to take that example, or harmony or congruence or coherence of alignment. And that's what we can all do if we choose to. The moment we start to become conscious leaders of our lives, of our businesses, etc., then we can jump or, better said, embark onto a journey where this becomes the norm. And so when you talk about it being a birthright, does that mean that we're all born with it? If we were to observe, say, a toddler just kind of exploring, meeting the world, I guess, are they in a state of flow, that four-year-old that goes, it's like, “I'm gonna play this piano here. Now I'm gonna go and start coloring. And now I'm gonna go do this and ride that rocking horse --” 100 percent. -- and everything else that they do? Of course. I mean, they are totally fully in that experience. There is nothing else than that, right? As you were describing earlier, I mean, they are so much in that experience that nothing else exists. Now, obviously, they can shift from one experience to another and from coloring the book then, all of a sudden, they are chasing a pirate or whatever, but they are fully in it and that's the gift we have, which is to be totally enthralled in the experience we're having now because it's an amazing way not only to explore ourselves but also to have a journey, and, therefore, it's less about the destination, it’s more about the journey, it's more about being in presence to myself and meet the magic of the world with my own magic and, therefore, be supported and nurtured by this beautiful experience I'm having. What generally takes people out of this state of flow or out of their true harmony with themselves over time? It's a very simple thing and it's one word -- “identification.” The moment you identify with something, whether it's the news on the TV or it's the discussion with your partner or at work, doesn't matter, the moment you are identifying with these emotions, they are being exchanged in that moment and you are totally in that, basically, again, forgot totally yourself and you are in that exchange, like when you're watching a movie where you are, David or Sophia or whatever, is the hero of the movie, you are Sophie, you're not anymore Arnaud or Stephen, you are Sophie. And so, likewise, when we identify with this, we, therefore, separate ourselves from ourselves. So, therefore, we are not any more present to ourselves and we are not anymore in that place where we can be in the abundance of who we are but in that self that is being expressed at that moment that needs expression so it's all good, right? So all okay, as long as we remember ourselves to come back to the fold of that now moment. But you have to take ourselves by the hand, all of us, and we’re taken right to go to that identification and then we, at some point, we need to go back to the left so we can continue straight and that needs practice, that needs awareness and consciousness. That continues to happen but it happens less and less or the recovery happens faster. Does that make -- And so when you talk about identification with something, say, a job title, a political affiliation, a nationality, a certain movement that you're a part of, are they all in the realm of forms of identification that takes us away from ourselves? Yes. All this beautiful journey we are on as human beings and as leaders of our lives is made of identifications.Share on X This idea of I, starts with an I which is the first letter of identification, I'm identifying to myself as a husband, a worker, an entrepreneur, whatever you want, and each moment has its own set of identifications. I'm a husband that has two kids that is driving a car thinking about the next job or whatever. And political affiliations and the brand I'm wearing and the car I own and all that stuff is a collection of layers that, if we are to live in harmony with ourselves, we want to let go of because they are a very small subset of all that I am. You mentioned identification, and I begin with the same letter. In the French language, do they also begin with the same letter or is it different? And in Spanish as well. Well, that's good to see that's pretty common to at least the three most common languages spoken on my continent, I know it's different in other places. And also, it seems like what you're also alluding to is that these diversions from our authentic selves, these identifications, are something that's naturally going to happen, we can't really avoid it, we can't really say, “I'm never gonna say --” one of the things I'll say to people is, “I'm a bike rider, I'm a cyclist, because I rode over 2,500 miles last year,” but it's more about how we respond to it once the identification creeps into our mind and it's okay to watch a two-hour movie and identify with the character for two hours as long as we go back to being our true selves once that movie's over. Yeah, I mean, you have done 2,500 miles, that's amazing. You are a bike rider. Yes, by all means. Does that have to define yourself for the rest of your life? Maybe yes, maybe no. Up to you. Or would it be that next year, you're going to ride 3,000 miles with not a bike but a motorbike and you become a motor biker, etc., so do we want to limit ourselves or not? Is it by constraint or expansion? To each of us, we all have the right answer. And so you help people kind of overcome this identification and live in harmony with your true selves. One of the things I'm wondering about your general program is how much of it is how you respond to when this identification comes into yourself versus controlling your environment? Because it seems to me just from some past episodes and some past discussions that there is some merit behind avoiding certain situations where people will refer to as toxic. So, it is not at all about controlling your environment because there is no way you can. Control is from the ego, it’s from the mind, it’s from the ego mind. And it is about focusing and aligning with yourself inside you. And when that happens, then the magic starts. In other words, less than less, the situation we're talking about comes about in your reality. So, to take an example, let's say that I have an issue with authority on the female side, just to take an example, okay?...