Today’s feature article, by spiritual + fitness guru Alyssa Huntley owner of 11:11 Life Styling.

I’ve been doing a lot of studying lately on yoga philosophy and spirituality….  and it’s got me wondering some of the big “Whys”? in life….

There are obviously the Big Why questions….but also some of the smaller day to day Why’s, that have to do with my lifestyle and occupation.

For example, in reading the Yoga Sutra’s by Patanjali, the text is about purifying the body, heart, mind and then God Realization….. and it has me wondering what is the real motivation behind health and nutrition and personal fitness?

Is it mostly ego driven – to look great and feel great, or is there a hidden motivation that is perhaps much deeper, that maybe we’re not even consciously aware of…?

Are we purifying ourselves in fitness and health, to become enlightened?  We naturally and instinctively know that when we eat healthy and exercise that we feel better – our mood lifts, we have more pure energy and are generally happier and more carefree… These are signs of purification, of detoxing…they are steps to finding our True Nature.  As our body cleans and clears, we can better listen to our heart, our mind can also begin to de-clutter, quiet and truly hear and be present….we can more readily focus and calm and find inner peace….  It’s an interesting thought…..  And personally I think it like it, it has more depth and meaning than just wanting to be fit, firm and look cute.

…For me personally in teaching fitness and nutrition, I’ve had a strong duality within – people are coming to loose weight, and so that’s what I do with them, help them reach their goals…but inside, that’s never been my dream.  I got into fitness and nutrition because I wanted people to love their body’s and enjoy being active, and do so in a healthy and fun way.  After suffering from an eating disorder, weight obsession, and body dismorphic disorder…. the last thing I wanted to do was promote “weight loss” – because to me personally it has been linked to so much pain, both physically and mentally.  I just wanted people to enjoy their body and get active…..so it’s kind of been a strange journey for me, and sets me apart from so many other instructors and trainers, who are very hard core into “loosing weight”.

Anyhow, with looking at fitness, nutrition and health with the possibility of Self Realization, purity and enlightenment, it gives me new hope…..maybe, just maybe, I’ve been unknowingly on the right track the whole time <3

Author: Alyssa  www.eleveneleven-coaching.com

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How many times do you suddenly think to call an old friend and when you do, the person says “I was just thinking about you”?  Then, the moment presents a synchronicity of some kind?

When you feel like you are in just the right place at just the right time, it is to consciously receive important information.  If we look closer at this feeling, there is a noticeable intuitive urge that directs you.  It usually happens at moments of amazing discovery and accomplishments, also is most often done unconsciously.

What is Synchronicity ?

“Synchronicity can be defined as a non-causal but meaningful relationshipbetween events or states of mind within the human psyche and events in the outside world. More simply, we could call it the experiences of “meaningful coincidence”. We have all had experiences that we intuitively recognize as meaningful, though we would be hard pressed to explain them in rational terms. In fact, these “meaningful coincidences” are not coincidences at all but spontaneous realizations of the underlying interconnectedness of all things within the Universe.”

If you bump into someone you haven’t met in a long time then it is advisable to stop and talk to them. Be aware of a message that they might have for you. Follow the coincidence through and you’ll be amazed, on a increasingly regular basis!

Coincidences are often a sign that you are going with the flow of life, doing what your heart desires (divine will) and following your in-tuition (inner guidance – gut feeling).

Meaningful Coincidences fill us with a sense of awe, even shock, as we experience more and more unexplainable similarities with our thought patterns and our experienced reality ! The emergent has it’s seed sown in the garden of thought.

Be prepared to take off!!

The magic of coincidence is the magic of consciousness that creates and shapes all matter in the cosmos. There is meaning in all that comes forth, though sometimes our intellect clouds the message coming through … The random events which bring about a mystical coincidence are something you should probably be paying more attention to as there seems to be amessage coming through from the invisible universe.

Consciousness drives certain unseen forces which create our experience and by living a life that is conscious and with intent, we begin to change at an individual level which affects everything and everyone around us like the domino effect sending ripples of energy across the earth and throughout the infinite cosmos.

So consciously create !

It’s time to wake up and bring this intuitive part of your synchronicity more fully into your consciousness.  Ego thoughts are words we say to ourselves about our situation in order to “logically” figure out how to get things done in the world.  These thoughts come up spontaneously from years of learning to feed the ego.

Keys ways to tap into your guiding thoughts:

• Open up your thoughts and start expecting synchronicity, including the intuitions that are part of it’s process.
• To do this, you must clearly identify such guidance by learning to distinguishing your “guiding” thoughts from ordinary “strategic ego thoughts”.
• If you closely observe, you can begin to feel another kind of thought, one that is usually more spontaneous.
• This thought may feel like it merely drops into your daily thoughts, usually with no direct connection to “logical” reasoning.
• These thoughts usually come with an image of us doing something, or a feeling that urges us to take some action that we feel in our gut.
• These thoughts, are our guidance.  Once followed, they usually lead to an important synchronicity.
• Last but not least, stay in a state of alertness as much as possible for the next guiding intuition to arrive.  Don’t let a hunch or an image go by without seriously considering it.  Ask yourself “Why did I think that now?”. Play with it.

syn·chro·nic·i·ty definition  /ˌsiŋ-krə-ˈnis-ət-ē, ˌsin-/ Function: n
:  the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality —used especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung

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