Aligned Within & Beyond

  Why Most People Don’t Stay With an Intention for 21 Days People often start a new intention feeling motivated, inspired, and hopeful. Whether it’s healing, changing a habit, managing emotions, practicing affirmations, meditating, journaling, or shifting a mindset, there’s usually excitement at first. But soon, the consistency fades. This doesn’t happen because people are lazy or incapable of change. Instead, when real change starts, the subconscious mind often pushes back. Most people mistake this resistance for failure. The Mind Prefers Familiarity The subconscious mind is wired for familiarity and predictability. Even unhealthy habits can feel “safe” just because they are known. This relates to what psychology calls **homeostasis**—the mind and nervous system working to keep a familiar internal state. When you begin to change a thought pattern, emotional response, or behavior, the subconscious can see this as a threat to stability.  The resu...

  All of us have experienced moments where we genuinely want to change something in our lives. It could be a habit, a pattern of thinking, an emotional reaction, a fear, self-doubt, procrastination, or even the way we see ourselves. It could also be things we want to manifest - it could be one of the big 5 - money, job, love, house or health, all of the big 5 or something totally different. And a lot of times, we begin with great intention. We feel motivated. Inspired. Ready. But after a few days, something within us starts pulling us back towards the familiar.  It is not that we don’t want change badly enough… But because the subconscious mind takes time to accept what is new. The subconscious mind is deeply connected to familiarity. It learns through repetition, emotional experiences, and consistency. Anything repeated long enough begins to feel normal, natural, and safe to the mind and body. When we have been in a certain state of being for a good p...

We are waiting for opportunities, opportunities that can change our lives, opportunities to make more money, to meet the love of our life, to get healthier, to feel happier etc. And yes, opportunities come and go, and a lot of times we also carry in our hearts the regret of missed opportunities. Should have, would have,  could have fills the spaces of the missed opportunities. But what if I told you that you've an opportunity every moment of your life. The more you notice it, become aware of it , grab it and do something with it, the more you are letting the universe know that I am here, I am ready, and you can bring me more opportunities. I don't even have to tell you what will happen next. But, of course I will.. :) The ever seeing Universe is of course going to notice that you are trying to make the best of every opportunity and then give you more.  So, instead of rambling any further, I am going to take this opportunity to tell you  about how many opportunities...

What is freedom? And what really blocks us from living our lives to our fullest potential? Before we go there, it helps to see something clearly— Freedom isn’t one single experience. It has layers that don’t always show up together. That’s why you can feel free in one area of your life… and at the same time feel stuck, restricted, or held back in another. For e.g.: You may feel free in your relationships and restricted in your finances or vice versa. Or even within the same situation—you might feel moments of ease, and moments of tension. So it’s not always black and white. It’s often a mix. The Inner Blocks to Freedom We may not always be able to control what’s happening around us. But we can begin to notice what’s happening within us. Our response to external situations also determine our own freedom. And one of the biggest blocks to freedom… is resistance. Resistance doesn’t always look dramatic. In fact we may not even realize we are r...

This is for those of who at times feel like we are pushing against an invisible wall.  Not for the lack of trying, but somehow how much ever you try to move forward, something makes sure you cannot move past a certain point.  All the best intentions, clarity and action are unable to take you beyond that point. Even if you do get the success it is limited or short lived or needs too much effort.  It can also feel like a part of you is trying too hard to move forward while another part of you is trying equally hard to hold you back.  But the thing is all it need is a bit of awareness.  The Invisible Architecture of Your Inner World : Much of what shapes your life doesn’t live in your conscious thoughts—it lives beneath them. Your beliefs. Beliefs shaped by experiences, emotions, and repeated messages. Shaped by c...

It has been some time since my last article, and there is a certain irony in writing this one following yet another energy attack. While such experiences are not uncommon in this line of work, my past encounters allowed me to recognize this one early—before it completely took hold. Energy attacks often arrive quietly, slipping in when we least expect them. In many ways, they are as common as a cold, though their intensity can vary dramatically. Unfortunately, the attacks we tend to notice are usually the ones that knock us completely off balance, leaving us physically, mentally, and emotionally drained. I’ve experienced my share of these attacks, and I’ve witnessed many of my clients move through them as well. The reason I feel compelled to write about this now is that my most recent experience—one I am still actively recovering from—brought with it a deeper level of clarity. Certain patterns became unmistakably cle...

What are the indicators of energy release? We work on understanding, accepting, acknowledging and releasing energies all the time.  But how do we know that the energy is actually moving? One of the most common indicators of the released energy leaving our body is through yawning. Whether we are working with tapping, guided imagery, quantum healing or even other modalities of energy healing such as Reiki - Yawning along with feeling physically tired is a huge indicator of energy release.  Other indicators of energy release can include tears, crying, hiccups, burps, feeling very sleepy- to the point of being unable to keep eyes open and in extreme cases it can even include fever, purging ( specially if the released energy is a lot of disgust), and diarrhea.   Unless the release symptoms are very uncomfortable or are not subsiding, all that needs to be done to facilitate better and easier transition of the energy is to drink plenty of healthy fluids and rest. Y...

I recently felt the full impact of an energy attack. I thought I was protecting my energy well, but I realized I had not done enough. We all go through such attacks at least a few times in our lives. But what's most important are the choices we make when such an attack occurs.  These attacks want us to make the wrong choices. It gives them more leverage. When I experienced this energy attack, possibly one of the longest running attacks, it took me a while to realize it.  It felt as if everyone and everything was against me. I was experiencing feelings and emotions that did not feel like mine. All I wanted to do was to rave and rant.  But once I realized that all of it felt unnatural, I knew I've to start moving out all these energies that weren't mine. They felt like iron filings clinging on to a magnet. I worked on clearing this energy out everyday, till the source from where it all...

I want to share a story with you, something that I personally experienced and that left me so spellbound. There was some illegal activity happening in the neighborhood and as residents of the area, most of us were rightly concerned and were trying to handle it legally. But in the process, one of the concerned persons (let's call them person X) vehemently cursed those involved in the illegal activity (let's call the person Y), wishing destruction upon their property.  I was nearby and heard the curse and the instinctively knew that was not a good sign. My heart skipped a beat and I suddenly felt unsafe. Unfortunately, I did not act upon my instincts and reverse the cure. Sure enough, the curse rebound back in less than a week affecting not just the property of 'person X', but also everyone else nearby, including me.  The damage that happened was EXACTLY the same as what 'person X' had cursed 'person Y' with. I was ...

Our whole lives are based on beliefs. Some may take us forward and some may hold us back. But some beliefs that we may not even realize we had, have enough power to turn our lives upside down with recurring patterns, repeated problems and even self sabotages that can wreck havoc.  We are left holding thoughts like 'why does this always happen to me'? 'Things never work for me' 'I am so unlucky' 'I'll never find love' "I'll never have money' etc.  These thoughts further power those beliefs and the loop stays on.  Like I've mentioned in an earlier article about beliefs and patterns  even the smallest of words/experience from our childhood can have a huge impact in our adult lives, especially if it has caught us at our most vulnerable time.  To release a belief, we have to identify it and here are five questions you can ask yourself that can help you: W hat do I believe? W hy do...

Have you ever had one of those days when for some reason you seem to be triggered by the most innocent or simplest of the words. Some triggers can be intense enough to elicit a strong reaction from you, that the other person is left wondering "What did I do wrong? " How often have you stopped and stepped back to ask yourself this "Why was I triggered so much? " "Which of those words triggered me? " "Why am I so affected? "  Once you get these answers you can save yourself and your loved ones a lot of pain.  Because triggers are just that. They point you in the direction of the real emotion that has been still left unprocessed inside. Either emotion that you do not want to look at or emotions that are desperate for an outlet. And they can be incredibly confusing. A situation at work can find a trigger at home, a situation in a relat...

After my last post 'Weave gratitude into your life', one of the main questions I was asked was how to ensure being present. As I mentioned in the previous article, we have no shortage of distractions in our everyday life as every single second, minute, and hour slips away from us before we even realize it is gone.  I also gave a method by which we can consciously focus on being grateful throughout the day.  In this article, I want to suggest another method that can possibly be even more fun in our journey towards a more grateful living. Get a group of friends you can connect with and create a gratitude group. You can help each other and guide each other to stay on the path of gratitude. You can even help each other notice more things to be grateful for.  Even if, in a group of 3-4 people, each can have 2 things to be grateful for twice a week, it is a good place to start.  There are times when some of us feel ...

We all know the power of gratitude. We all know, the more we have to be thankful for, the more we have opportunities to be thankful for. This is possibly one of the most well-known mantras since the time people understood the concept of the law of attraction. But still, the moment we get caught up in our daily life, gratitude more often than not slips way back into our priority lists. Have you noticed that the only time you are holding on to the attitude of gratitude is when you are present in the here and now?  So accepted and acknowledged that we in our daily lives have enough attractions, distractions, to-do lists, not-to-do lists, etc. which all come together from making sure we are all not always in a state of gratitude.  The universe is very smart, it has given us the tool to achieve so many things, but also made sure the only way we can use it is by being present....

When we are born, we come into this life with a clean slate, to be filled in with our experiences, learnings, and understandings. The wonder years as amazing as they are, are also the years when our brains accept all information without question. So they are also crucial years to form all kinds of beliefs. Some beliefs may be from our own experiences, while others can even be formed while listening to a conversation between adults, or even from media. In fact, these days media also counts among the most powerful influencers in belief formation. These beliefs can also start from the simplest of habits like putting on the right sock before the left. Or if the parents use harmless threats to get their child to do something. Maybe something like "If you leave your towel by the door, you'll have bad luck all day." Now the parent would have told that just to get things done, but for the child, one experience of bad ...

One of the biggest topics of interest over forever may be Manifestation. Everyone wants to manifest something or the other, me included. But so very often as we get closer and closer to the goal, something seems to pull us away.  As we start noticing the signs and signals that we are almost there, things invariably start going wrong or falling apart. If it is a relationship manifestation, there may be unexplained conflicts. If it is a job manifestation, the last round of interviews may probably get postponed for no reason. If it is a travel manifestation, something may get canceled at the last minute. If it is a home manifestation, the neighbors may not match your wavelength.  Sounds familiar?  Why does this happen? Why is it that when we are so close to getting something, everything changes? When we are trying to manifest something, maybe a relationship, we get caught up in doing everything to make it happen. ...

I've already covered one aspect of procrastination with respect to the need for perfection. In this article let's see another aspect of it, with respect to our intuition.  Is procrastination always a bad thing? Or is it that intense resistance you feel to do something, is because of a gut feeling that is forcing you to look in a different direction?  Our intuition is extremely powerful, should we choose to listen to it. And it tries to tell us in multiple ways when something is off or just does not feel right. Like maybe the resistance you feel when you've to make an important investment or meet someone or the phone call that you keep putting off or maybe even the resistance you feel when you've to apply for a certain job. Is it all just laziness or is your mind and body trying to point you in a different direction? A better one maybe?  It could help to talk 'to' your procrastination. By now you must be wond...

Cutting energy cords is no longer an exotic term. Most of you would have heard of it and a lot of you may have also tried it and experienced the multiple benefits of this simple exercise.  For the uninitiated, energy cords or etheric cords form as a result of physical, mental, and emotional attachments to others, to various experiences, and even to objects. The cords can be both positive and negative. The positive cords can inspire us, motivate us, energize us, and may even bring out the best in us. But the negative cords can make us feel drained, lethargic, dull, and mostly give us a constant feeling that something is off.  We all have multiple cords attached to us at all times, but energy is always changing, shifting and moving, and a lot of old cords do wither away and fall off with time. There are however certain cords that keep us stuck to the past and hold us back from moving ahead in life. These are the ones that tie us up to our past baggage and need to ...

  When I say the Universe is a good listener, I mean the Universe is always listening. The universe is also listening to all the self-talks I mentioned about in the previous article. But this is about something different. Have you ever tried sitting down and just talking to the Universe? A simple conversation. Maybe when you just relaxing with your hot cup of tea or coffee, maybe when you are just sitting watching the rain or the stars, or maybe even a bird hopping around or swimming lazily in the water. I am mentioning moments like these since these are naturally tranquil moments when it is a lot easier to connect with the Universal energy. And what exactly to talk about with the Universe? Talk about anything, like how you would talk to a friend. Talk about your life, friends, work just anything. Just don't vent, complain or be...