Aligning With Your Heart
What is the difference between intuition and the spiritual ego? How can I tell if something is uncomfortable, but necessary for my growth, or if it is truly not meant for me?
The answer to these questions will be different for each of us because we are each of us unique which is why there is no one size fits all answer when it comes to your personal health and wellness journey. Accessing your higher guidance depends upon aligning yourself with your heart.
And sometimes our alignment is way out of whack. I know for myself, that there have been plenty of times when I could not tell my ass from my elbow when it came to figuring out what was truly in my own best interest.
In Ayurvedic medicine, they say that if the body becomes overloaded with enough AMA (which is their word for imbalance, or toxins) then access to our intuition or higher guidance becomes disrupted. Now AMA can be caused by physical things-like pesticides, plastic endocrine disrupting chemicals, over dependence on alcohol, drugs, and other forms of pollution that our physical bodies are exposed to on the daily. Or it can be caused by intangible things-like a lack of healthy boundaries, watching a lot of TV, negative self talk, etc. The point here is that we get overloaded with too many things from too many sources to the point where we lose track of what is actually good for us.
And all of a sudden our CLARITY is gone and it becomes very difficult to choose things that are actually in alignment with what we truly want. In short, we start making choices based on instant gratification rather than choices that will sustain our long term vitality. We confuse momentary indulgences with actual fulfillment and joy.
How do we break this cycle? Well you can start by asking yourself this question (provided by the lovely Matt Khan) every time you are faced with a choice:
“𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦, 𝘯𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘦𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩?”
As for the rest, it’s never a bad idea to reach out for help. We all deserve to embrace vitality, and the more we choose to care for ourselves, the more we will be able to care for each other, and the planet.
