But no matter what you apply the concept of alignment to, it holds an important lesson to help you get out of some of your worst troubles, stresses and decisions. With your health and otherwise.
How so?
Alignment refers to the proper organization of parts. Meaning, that they are lined up or aligned in a way that works. Either a way that works well – works best – or just plain works to get you where you want to go.
How do you know when you are out of alignment? Well, it could be a feeling. You might get where you are going. But the parts – like imbalanced tires on car – took more stress and wear and tear than you would have liked.
The journey was harder, more full of whines and creaking and groaning than you’d hoped – that’s a pretty good sign you are struggling with alignment issues.
Or sometimes it is less obvious – either physically, emotionally, or intellectually. You may not find out until it is too late. The interesting part is that alignment as a concept works across all areas.
Your physical body is out of alignment? The consequences are simple but widespread. Increased (and faster) breakdown. Decreased efficiency.
The saying goes “structure equals function.” If so, then decreasing structure leads to decreasing function. But not only that, decreasing structure leads to more quickly decreasing structure, too, and therefore more quickly decreasing function.
And the same idea happens in the rest of your life. Not sure if you are in alignment with how you live? The final interesting part is that being in alignment with your lifestyle – ie, your life – is also supremely related to how smoothly your life runs.
Want to be fit, have a healthy metabolism and be near your ideal weight? And also want to eat an ice cream Sunday after dinner three nights a week? It’s certainly possible – but you would need to have everything else around those goals aligned very carefully to make it happen.
A balance that would be very easy to upset. Want to be resilient and strong and healthy but also spending 8-12 hours per day at work and at play on electronics?
The same idea applies – you can do it, but not without being smart and strategic with exactly what and how you are doing everything else – ie, these days, if you don’t have an alignment expert on your side, the odds are stacked against you.
Your health can protect you from the over-commercialization of the holidays. More and more, we hear about how the holidays have turned into something different than what they used to be. Instead of the “true” meaning of Christmas and other holidays they have become about consumerization. Buying and selling and big online sales, they had taken over the season.
Your health can protect you from the over-commercialization of the holidays. More and more, we hear about how the holidays have turned into something different than what they used to be. Instead of the “true” meaning of Christmas and other holidays they have become about consumerization. Buying and selling and big online sales, they had taken over the season.
Has anyone told you you don’t need permission to be a superhero? Or that you don’t need someone to tell you it’s okay to help other people? There are some amazing stories of people that decided they didn’t want to wait to help the people around them that needed help. These were people that didn’t have advanced degrees or complicated certifications. What they did have was the sense of action and an overwhelming urgency to start making changes in the world around them.
It’s a classic phrase by Rene Descartes – one that is instantly recognizable. And it comes from a totally unrecognizable world – 1637.
Yet it is still true today. Descartes’ attempt to get to the very bedrock of what he was as a human being is worth looking at as we turn over into the new year. Especially as we examine the beginning of something new – a time when discussions turn to the entire idea of new, and what the idea of new creates – the vision of new possibilities.
Anti-aging is a trick. And like all tricks, it’s not real. We all slow down, grow old, and die. But like all tricks, when done well, they are amazing and fun. Here is how the trick of anti-aging can work for you.
Take the aging progression above and expand it all the way. From the time we are very young, we grow, get bigger, stronger, smarter and generally better at everything as we go.
Here is the solution to understanding an ever-more common anxiety-causing malady. And how the key to solving it is getting two things – knowing what it takes to get healthy – and the power of understanding how to choose the quickest line at the grocery store.
