Aliveness and Free for You!
Aliveness and Free for You!
"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman
What is aliveness?
It's a word used by many teachers, writers, spiritual seekers, and others to indicate the expansive felt feeling of simply being alive. It usually has an element of a life lived fully and feeling it all.
My inspiration behind all that I do, since I started doing anything, really, is the incredible potential we all have within us. When we connect with that space of possibility within, we are fully alive, and conversely, when we live fully alive, we are living our potential.
"Aliveness is the daily choice to show up fully—in my life, in my own skin, in the present moment, and with my authentic voice." - Laurie Buchanan
To me, aliveness is an electric feeling of life running through me that, when I tap into it, takes care of me, the day, my energy. It's the intuitive guidance and wisdom we all have. It's the love and connection between people. It's always there quietly running the show behind the scenes.
When we see it, notice it, and give it importance in our lives, it blossoms and shows up even more. Your body relaxes. Stress evaporates. No matter what happens to be going on in your life.
The miraculous takes over.
In both my transformative coaching practice and my chiropractic practice, I have often wished that the people I work with knew the power of their aliveness and how to reliably access it for themselves. So, I made a video series that is exactly that: what I have always wished everybody knew already.
The results when people do tap into their power inside are insanely effective. And permanently sustainable.
In all areas, life improves. There is much less for any type of practitioner to do. Your nervous system self-regulates. The conversation or work then becomes about what you would like for your life and what you would love to create. Which can have as much depth and width as you want, as there is literally no end to it. Life is now a playground of possibility.
When my transformative coaching clients reorient around tapping into their own aliveness and the power within, magic always begins to happen. Some clients create and start their own businesses, make art, write books, and their bodies start to heal what was previously not possible. Any form of bodywork is limited in its scope of impact because the body is not the causative factor for most things, and you aren't the one seeing it fresh for yourself.
When I first really saw how humans work from the inside out, my body relaxed naturally, and old patterns started to undo on their own. My brain injury pretty much vanished. I wanted to reorganize my shoulder and hip mobility so I could compete better in weightlifting. I no longer needed to manage pain or stress, so it was then about what more could happen? What do I want in relation to my body? Then the exercise, chiropractic, massage and physio were all so much more effective. I competed again just this last weekend after two years of reorganizing my biomechanics so that I could.
When it no longer looked like stress and pressure were needed to achieve or get work done, it became about how much fun can I have? And what else would be amazing to create? What do I want in relation to my productivity? I started a podcast, "A World That Listens: Experiences in Deep Listening", I began writing a lot more and much more effortlessly. All of a sudden, I had much more time (it's amazing how much time "pressure" takes up), even though I was doing far more. It's common to get twice as much done in half the time from this understanding of life.
I have seen clients walk away from all sorts of physical problems, past abuse, nervous system triggers, and take their performance to new, exciting levels. Whether you want more of something or less of something, this is designed for you.
"Wholeness arises when you get out of your own way to come fully alive." - Dr Alex Lovell
With that in mind, I created a free foundational video course that is the essentials of "what I wish everyone I'd ever worked with already knew". It's actually called Alive from the Inside Out.
I made it with all of you in mind.
It's free because I know that it can make a big difference for a lot of people.
You can find it here on my newly redesigned website, LiveYourAliveLife.com (https://www.liveyouralivelife.com/) on the home page (scroll down), and if you know of anyone, anywhere, who you think could benefit from being more alive within themselves, regardless of pain or circumstances, please forward it to them.
I would love your feedback on it, and to that end, I have created a Google form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdd3OlnOMz-2eWA5e_xcCs1NQBWFeJmBYVh7Q-a6uQ39fhE3Q/viewform?usp=publish-editor
One of my favourite quotes is from Joseph Campbell, who wrote the now famous book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which was the inspiration behind George Lucas's Star Wars movies, is:
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." - Joseph Campbell
With Love,
Sara Joy
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