Alignment. The moment when your mind, body and spirit are in sync. Every single piece of you is completely locked in. It feels like both a homecoming and an exploration. Even if for a moment, you’re both returning to yourself and discovering parts that feel new, yet have been true to you all along. You, in complete alignment creates a flywheel. It creates a flow and an energy drawing in what resonates and making way for what does not to fall away.

Alignment is when all things feel right. Things resonate and are filled with ease.They feel authentic to who you are at your core. People, places, the way you move your body and the actions you take when you are aligned can feel like a dance — a song.

According to healers, yogis, and chiropractors alike, a body out of alignment can cause pain. When one part of the body is out of alignment, other parts try to compensate causing discomfort and dis-ease and sometimes injury.

When we are out of alignment we move, operate, speak and act in ways that are everything other than what and who we are. Life can feel clunky, challenging and an uphill battle. Inauthentic.

But when one is in alignment, the body flows and operates with ease. One part does not have to overcompensate for the other. It operates without effort or striving. You don’t have to try or even pay much attention, you trust everything is happening as it should have you are able to enjoy and be present to other things.

Our lives are the similar in that way. When we are truly in alignment, we are able to move with ease — in harmony with all of life, authentically.

A note on authenticity.

Societal programming, conditioning, racism, sexism, homophobia, and trauma has to led to so many of us moving out of the need to survive. The idea of being your authentic self can feel scary and an invitation to harm. So, before we move directly into authenticity (there is a lot to unpack there), I invite you to a pathway to authenticity by way of alignment.

Practicing alignment. We offer a few practices to help you to begin to explore or may get back into alignment, taking note that not every suggestion will resonate. Please, take what feels good and leave the rest.

1. Slow down. We’re more likely to access what feels aligned when we slow down long enough to ground into our body and listen from a place of calm. We achieve this when we become present not only to ourselves and our bodies but also the little moments in our day.

2. Take care. Okay, now that you have explored what it feels like to slow down and be more present to yourself and your day, you might notice there are pockets of time you can reclaim for yourself. Maybe you take a one minute break away from your devices just to breathe. Maybe you work from home and you have an extra 15 minutes to take a midday shower that energizes you and gives you a boost for your afternoon work. Or maybe you can cancel just one thing on your calendar and use that time for yourself instead. 

   It can be challenging to find alignment when we’re not taking care. Sometimes the simple act of taking a shower or bath can be all we need to pause, reset and access our more relaxed version of ourselves.

3. Embrace your interests, passions, fun.  What shows are you watching? What books are you reading? What topics are you curious about? What are you doing when you find that time has gotten away from you? What brings you joy? Who are you with when you say, “oh wow, it’s 11 o’clock already? Maybe it’s doing nothing at all — allowing your mind to wander or just sitting with nowhere to be and nothing to do.

   Engaging in activities that bring you joy, that are fun can be such an eye opening experience that shows you, you. It can illuminate hidden talents, likes, dislikes and help you feel what it feels like to be in a state of flow and ease - our markers for alignment.

4. Let go. Contemplative teacher and guide, Tia Norman states, “You are not what other think or say or feel about you. You are not what you have, posses, control or do. When you untangle any part of your identity from these illusions you return home. You are here as a mirror of love”. Practice letting go of your identify to people, places, possessions, titles or what you do. Who are you without those things? What decisions would you make absent of your attachment to it all?

   Often times, without notice, little by little the decisions we make about ourselves and our lives are attached to maintaining the title or the material things and might be completely different we moved absent of it all. Without judgement, if no one was watching other than you and your divine self, what would you new decision would you make today?

Whether, you practice slowing down, self-care, having fun, or letting go, the invitation is to be a more connected, aligned you. We invite you to try and see how your alignment creates space for more ease as well as open yourself to all the possibilities that could follow. Yes?

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