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🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Manual therapist and movement coach Aaron Alexander knows that better health is inseparable from deep healing. As a result, he helps people align their mind, body, environment, posture and movement, achieving incredible results. On this episode of Health Theory with Tom Bilyeu, Aaron Alexander details exactly how to change a multitude of small aspects of your life to become physically and mentally healthier. Along the way he tells his own family story of a father addicted to crack cocaine, advocates dancing and just hanging, and discusses how to deal with the stress that seems to overwhelm modern life. Pre-order Aaron's book here: https://amzn.to/36NB7hG This episode is brought to you by: ITU. Check out Impact Theory University at: http://bit.ly/ImpactTheoryUniversity2 ButcherBox. Use the discount code: "TOM" at butcherbox.com to get 20$ off and FREE BACON SHOW NOTES: Aaron talks about how body language, posture and dance affect the brain [1:08] Tom and Aaron discuss how music causes physical and emotional state change [3:26] Aaron describes the focus of rolfing, and getting the body into alignment [5:17] Aaron and Tom discuss how changing your facial expression changes your emotions [8:20] Aaron has benefited from psychedelics and they have helped him deal with the ego [11:10] Aaron practices compassion by going past surface level conversation and connecting [13:54] Aaron advocates becoming more childlike in certain ways [16:03] Aaron talks about some of the “diseases of affluence” like sitting too much [19:05] Aaron strongly advocates spending some time each day hanging [23:17] Aaron and Tom discuss “micro-opportunities” to live in a more pre-modern way [25:51] Aaron shares the story of watching his father become addicted to crack [28:20] You can’t teach what you know. You can only teach what you are. [31:20] Aaron describes how he uses stillness and meditation [32:01] Aaron and Tom discuss the importance of admitting what’s going wrong [36:24] Aaron shares the one change he would have people make to improve their health [40:21] FOLLOW Aaron: WEBSITE: https://alignpodcast.com INSTAGRAM: https://bit.ly/38PaXx2 TWITTER: https://bit.ly/38MQ5GE

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Health Theory. Today's guest is Aaron Alexander. He's a manual therapist
0:06.2	and movement coach known for his work with some of the world's most accomplished athletes and
0:10.8	celebrities. He's also a sought-after speaker on the topics of movement and wellness, the host
0:16.4	of the top rated Align Podcast, and the author of the upcoming book The Align Method. Aaron,
0:23.3	there's a lot of alignment concepts in your work and I would love to know what is the alignment
0:30.8	method, what's all that about, and how did it get started? So the line method is, this is going
0:35.6	to be a roundabout way to describe what the Align Method is. There's interesting quote from
0:40.4	philosopher called Alvin Toffler. They said the successful people of the future will be able to
0:45.9	learn, unlearn, and re-learn. And so what the Align Method breaks down is how do we start to
0:52.4	integrate more effective principles of movement and to literally every aspect of our lives?
0:57.1	So that includes the way that you sit, the way that you stand, the way that you breathe, the way
1:00.3	that you walk body language, the way that you communicate, sounds that you have in your surrounding
1:05.6	environment, all effects of physiology, sight, what you're looking at or not looking at. So we
1:10.1	can start to tap into all of these kind of divergent aspects of movement that have been on the
1:16.1	outskirts, but I think are actually the underlying foundation of our health. One of the things that you
1:22.0	talk about a lot that I find super interesting is how our body posture, our body language, is
1:29.7	connected to our brain. What are some of the key notions around that that people may not be aware of?
1:35.0	Yeah. So there's all sorts of interesting research around body language and movement affecting.
1:39.6	One, just obviously, like dance is one of the most effective tools for staving off cognitive
1:45.9	dysfunction. So one, your body processes sound or your brain processes sound and it totally
1:51.3	is a separate portion of the brain that has its own storage house for it. Music is coming.
1:56.3	So it turns these other parts on, I start moving and you have that sensation when you hear
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