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Align with Your Spirit

From the time I was five, I knew I wanted We are taught to be a good person, obey
to be a free spirit. I hated clothes, I loved the rules, do as you are told, work hard
nature, and I found myself allergic to and you will have a happy life. This is the

rules. Each afternoon I would go out beginning to what I refer to as the big fat
in the yard to play with my imaginary lies. This is what causes us to relinquish

friends, my guides and teachers who our authentic self and become slaves to
are still with me. I would eat the weeds, the beliefs that pleases others. Do this
dance with the flowers, and talk to the and you will be happy, do that and you

trees. My favorite was taking off my will be successful, do this and you will be
clothes and dancing in the rain. ... Ugh.

But the rain stops, the sun comes back Doing this is how you lose who you are,
out, and we grow up. We are forced to your authentic self, living a life which

conform, to live by societal rules and you expected to make you happy, as
expectations. We are programmed to you quietly suffer in your confusion

strive for a life to fit in, to impress others, and sadness. You say to yourself, “I did
to make lots of money, and make our everything right, why am I not satisfied?
parents proud. Why do I feel empty? What is missing?“

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