E56 - Aaron Alexander: How To Align Your Body and Free Your Mind
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Movement Coach & Author Aaron Alexander reveals how to find true alignment in the physical body through simple lifestyle changes. Aaron sheds light on how our modern lifestyle has led to a profound disconnection between our physical bodies and our mental well-being. He shares insights on how we can rediscover alignment in our physical selves and, in turn, liberate our psychology.
The journey of alignment goes beyond the physical realm, Aaron also discusses the power of a meditation practice, healing sexual shame, and rewriting limiting subconscious beliefs.
Tune in to this episode and unlock the secrets to becoming your most aligned self.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
3:14 The Disembodiment of Modern Culture & Returning to Play
10:18 Using Our Physiology to FREE our Psychology
19:24 How Our Environment Impacts our Well-Being
24:04 The Importance of Movement and Body Positioning
32:31 Rebalancing the Body through Floor Sitting
35:20 The Power of Simple Changes
37:06 How & Why to Sit on the Ground
39:50 The Importance of Going Outside and Connecting with Nature
41:56 Embodied Cognition: Broadening Your Perspective
44:59 Rewriting Limiting Subconscious Beliefs & Healing Repressed Emotions
49:59 Finding Stillness within Yourself through Meditation
54:50 Aaron’s Micro-Moments of Awakening
56:13 Exploring Darkness Retreats
57:46 Shame and Conditioning around Sexuality
1:03:33 Finding Motivation Through Doing the Impossible
1:05:34 Returning to Our True Divine Potential
1:07:29 Seeing the Light Within Others
1:09:44 Self-Validation & Sitting Through the Internal Noise
1:12:12 Becoming Your Most Aligned Self
1:18:36 Conclusion
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Aaron Alexander is a pioneering manual therapist and movement coach, founder and creator of the Align Method, author of the Align Method book, and host of the Align Podcast, which has ranked #1 in Nutrition on iTunes.
Aaron has worked with some of world’s greatest professional athletes, performers, celebrities, and everyone in between, to relieve pain while creating greater strength, flexibility, and ease in their mind and body.
After working with thousands of clients and spending years backpacking around the world, being immersed in various cultures, he has come to the conclusion that the healthiest people are not gym rats. Instead, they naturally integrate the foundational principles outlined in The Align Method to strengthen their bodies, balance their minds, and activate their innate systems of healing in daily life.
Aaron has simplified ancient techniques for cultivating vitality and assimilated them into modernized, simplified, movement-based principles for you to easily integrate into any situation throughout the day. When you do, every moment becomes an opportunity to develop greater strength, flexibility and confidence to truly step into your physical potential and drop the baggage of pain and limitation.
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| 0:00.0 | Ease in the physical experience is one of the most invaluable things any human being can access on this planet. |
| 0:05.0 | We live in a world where we're like continually contained within boxes. |
| 0:08.0 | We're inside of a square room. We sit on these right angled chairs. |
| 0:11.0 | We go from one chair, we go to the bus to the plane. |
| 0:13.0 | The modern world, it's slowly becoming more and more disembodied and disassociated. |
| 0:19.0 | We all collectively don't know how good we could feel. |
| 0:21.6 | We evolve to heal ourselves just through our existence. |
| 0:24.6 | If you would just allow your body to passively move into healing positions with more regularity, |
| 0:30.6 | it will blow health care apart. |
| 0:32.6 | Now do that outside. |
| 0:34.6 | Now do that with people that you care about. |
| 0:36.6 | Now learn how to express yourself so you |
| 0:38.2 | can actually create and bridge relationships that are meaningful. When modern culture gets this |
| 0:42.7 | and actually starts embodying it, it's going to have a nuclear effect on health care. |
| 0:53.8 | Hello, beautiful beings. Welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast where every single week |
| 0:58.0 | we get the honor and privilege to go on this journey of learning and discovering more about |
| 1:02.2 | ourselves at deeper and deeper levels. My guest today is a dear friend, somebody who is a manual |
| 1:08.2 | therapist and a movement coach to some of the world's most |
| 1:11.3 | well-renowned athletes and celebrities all around the world. He is the host of the Align |
| 1:16.2 | podcast and author and creator of the Align Method. And he lives his message. I feel like |
| 1:22.1 | every time I'm in his presence, he's very in his body, he's aligned, he's aware, he's present. |
| 1:26.8 | And we just did a sauna cold plunge and breathwork before this. |
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