Via Forte

 Alignment is a key component to living your healthiest life. It’s not just about doing healthy things. It’s more than that. In order to live healthy (physically, mentally, emotionally, all areas of health) you need alignment to get started and to stay with it. It’s internal first. In fact, it’s more internal than you think. What is your focus? If you are focused on something that isn’t aligned with who you are, it won’t work. It’s that simple. For example, if I decided that I want to be a world champion surfer, it would not be aligned with who I am. In this case, geographically it would be impossible to train for surfing while living thousands of miles from the nearest wave. That’s an easy example. But while most misalignment is more subtle, it still shows up in obvious way. And it is taking place internally, which can make it harder to identify and sometimes even if identified, can be hard to listen to. The simplest way to think about it, even before getting started, is to pict...

 Think about a situation, maybe it’s a job, a purchase, or even a social media post. Or maybe it’s about starting a new hobby, or routine. Now think about who is seeing your choices. Who is seeing what’s in front of you. Is it you? Is it really you? Or is it all the people that may have an opinion on “how it looks” or other people that have opinions on “what you should do”. We borrow other people’s eyes to see what’s in front of us. Now, stop and think about what you really want. Turn all the other perspectives off. Quiet all of that. Ask yourself what you really want. That resistance you feel? That twinge you get when you give yourself permission to think about it ONLY as what YOU want? That’s just the layers of conditioning you are pushing against, it’s the resistance of all the other peoples’ voices telling you to listen to them instead of trusting yourself, instead of trusting your own voice. We’ve been trained to listen to everything outside of us. We’ve been trained to borr...