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13/06/2024

Over the past few years, we have been humbled to receive hundreds of emails and messages from you, sharing heartfelt stories about how social media has negatively impacted your children. You've told us that it has unsettled them, addicted them, depressed them, sexualised them, exhausted them, scandalised them, bullied them, extorted them, abused them, and even driven some to self-harm and su***de.

It is now time for your very real and raw stories to be heard by a wider audience, and particularly our lawmakers - our MPs, Ministers and even the Prime Minister - in Federal Parliament.

You may also wish to avocate for raising the social media minimum age from 13 to 16 years and express your desire to see the introduction of age verification to ensure that rules around age are actually enforced.

Submissions close in three weeks - on 28 June 2024 - so there isn't much time to waste.

You can be certain that Big Tech and its lackeys will be pulling out all stops in the next few weeks to paint a rosy picture of the state of affairs. They will - under the guise of “nuance” - try to obfuscate the essential truth of conflict and misery that social media visits upon countless families around the country.

But while they may be well-resourced and while they may have their quadzillions of dollars, we have an even greater love for our children. We hope to see parents overwhelm the committee with submissions of parental love!

The committee prefers to accept submissions via the online system here: www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/OnlineSubmission.

If that's not your style, we think a hand-written or typed letter can also be very impactful. These letters can be posted to:

Committee Secretary
Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

An email to socialmedia.joint@aph.gov.au is also acceptable.

SUBMISSION TIPS

Begin your submission with a short introduction about yourself and your family.

The best submissions are personal, highlighting your own family's experiences and perspectives.

Submissions don't need to go on for too many pages. One or two pages is fine and a good rule of thumb is to keep them less than five pages long.

You may wish to propose some solutions (as the committee looks to submissions for ideas to make recommendations).

Provide your return address and contact details with your submission (although not in the main body of the submission).

If you are extremely time-poor, then a short email submission along the following lines will still be a great help: "Dear Committee, I am a mother of three children aged 6, 10 and 13 years. Our family resides in Geraldton, Western Australia. We have experienced the negative effects of social media on our family in numerous ways. Our eldest daughter was bullied on social media earlier this year which required the intervention of the school and counsellors. I would like to see laws enacted that will increase the minimum age for social media use to 16 years. Equally important is the introduction of a meaningful age verification mechanism so that children cannot circumvent laws by simply ticking a box. Kind regards, Sarah Freeman."

For more information, please go to the inquiry’s home page at www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Social_Media/SocialMedia

All of us experience some form of trauma in life that requires integration and healing for our growth and evolution, but...
25/10/2023

All of us experience some form of trauma in life that requires integration and healing for our growth and evolution, but at our core, we all want to be seen, and loved.

For some, the core wounding stems from not being seen and truly loved by those fundamental in our early development. Perhaps the familial home was one of chaos and turmoil, instability, or abandon, or simply parents who were distracted and shut down, navigating their world in the best way they knew how with the limited tools and example that they themselves witnessed as a child.

Even the happiest of upbringings can bare ill-begotten seeds of feeling unloved, low self-worth, and self-esteem.

A young, impressionable child develops coping mechanisms such as people pleasing or self-sacrificing, maybe even destructive behavioral patterns, in an attempt to secure any sort of attention.

Is it any wonder, that those patterns and conditioned ways of navigating the world would weave themselves through the journey into adulthood?

Love is never something that needs to be earned, or won, or worked for. Love is not transactional and conditional. No, that’s not love, that’s trauma and wounding masked as love.

While situations that forced you to develop coping mechanisms to get you through your childhood were not your fault, it does rest on you to clean up and discard dysfunctional and destructive patterns that, in adulthood, impede your ability to evolve into healthier and more functional ways of living, and thriving.

And that work starts within Self. Bringing awareness and acknowledgment to those wounds and healing them. Developing and cultivating Self-love and Self-esteem, healthy boundaries, discernment, the ability to nurture and care for yourself, to remember the truth of who you are and allow that to radiate out into the world with radical honesty and courage.

You are worthy of unconditional love; you always have been. Stop hurting yourself in the quest to be seen and loved.

Now begins your opportunity to provide yourself with the love you have yearned for, on a silver spoon, and in abundance.

In times such as these, self-care isn’t a luxury it is an absolute non-negotiable. Your mental, emotional, and physical ...
24/10/2023

In times such as these, self-care isn’t a luxury it is an absolute non-negotiable.

Your mental, emotional, and physical health will only ever be as good as the investment you make in it. And if you’re not investing in yourself; your health and well-being EVERY day, how can you expect a positive return?

It doesn’t have to be hours pushing yourself in a gym, going vegan or meditating two hours a day. On the contrary, simple daily consistent practices that are sustainable will make huge changes to your overall health.

Try drinking more water very day, maybe add a couple of pieces of fruit in, go out and connect in nature for a twenty minute walk with your bare feet on the Earth and ground yourself, while absorbing some sunlight.

Simple changes for a profound impact.

All of these daily investments in yourself and your holistic wellbeing, will yield you a consistent and profitable return, with a more vibrant and healthy lived experience, Mind-Body-Soul.

Whatever you are going through, this too shall pass. Keep going.
23/10/2023

Whatever you are going through, this too shall pass. Keep going.

When we experience the awakening of our heart, it can be a raw and unfamiliar experience. Far from infinite love, light,...
23/10/2023

When we experience the awakening of our heart, it can be a raw and unfamiliar experience. Far from infinite love, light, rainbows and butterflies; allowing ourselves to open into heart consciousness is probably more akin to a wild rollercoaster ride, with highs and lows, hurts and joys, twists and turns. It is a pathway of great learning, drawing us deeper into an exploration of the many layers of programming and conditioning we have accumulated through our life, and a remembering of who we are at our core.

There are many lessons that the heart is encouraged to grow through, these are 5 of the key lessons that the heart will encounter when starting to live a more wholehearted, and conscious life.

If you want to change your life, you need to change something in your life. Small consistent changes to your day-to-day ...
19/10/2023

If you want to change your life, you need to change something in your life.

Small consistent changes to your day-to-day life compound over time for larger course corrections, maybe you could eat a little healthier, move your body more often, get outdoors and touch your bare skin to the Earth more frequently.

And bigger changes, like getting a new job, moving home, starting a business, letting go of toxic relationships, can amplify the rate of change, welcoming in new energy and opportunity to your life.

By your hand, you can change your life. But it requires action.

May we all find the courage to open our hearts to more expansive emotional experiences of joy, love, hope, and faith. Ev...
18/10/2023

May we all find the courage to open our hearts to more expansive emotional experiences of joy, love, hope, and faith.

Even when the world is cold, and we feel like contracting to protect our heart from pain and hurt.

It is the opening of the heart where the light shines through to pierce the shadows of the darkness.

Your perception of me is a reflection of you; My reaction to you is an awareness of me.   Read that again. Digest it. Ex...
17/10/2023

Your perception of me is a reflection of you;

My reaction to you is an awareness of me.

Read that again. Digest it. Explore it. Then we can use that wisdom to adjust accordingly.

One of the greatest gifts that comes with doing the inner work, and living a more intentional and conscious life, is the...
16/10/2023

One of the greatest gifts that comes with doing the inner work, and living a more intentional and conscious life, is the capacity to access a higher perspective of awareness.

We can be so ignorantly attached to opinions, beliefs and carefully curated mental constructs, that we’re unable to detect and comprehend greater nuance or perceive more expansive insights.

This rigid and limited way of experiencing life inhibits our ability to grow, evolve and discover untapped levels of freedom, expansion, emotional experiences of awe and wonder and elevated levels of consciousness.

Imagine buying a ground floor apartment, blissfully ignorant of anything more than the view you have from your windows, then one day you discover a set of stairs leading to a higher floor. From here you discover that you can see more of the neighborhood than you could before, a different perspective from the view you had always known on ground floor.

You keep exploring, higher and higher floors, taking in the more expansive views, discovering landmarks previously hidden to you.

A greater perspective is revealed. With greater perspective, you can make different choices in how you live, explore different experiences from a different vantage point.

The practice of stretching our ability to see things from a different perspective is liberating, daunting, exciting and confusing all at once.

To what extent do we limit ourselves; allowing ourselves to become fenced in by the chains of our own contracting beliefs?

A deeper well of empathy and compassion are just some of the gifts made available to us in the process of exploring alternative perspectives, with a remembering of the joy tethered to remaining curious and open to possibility and potential, like a child adventuring into the excitement of the unknown.

Are you able to challenge your existing perception of the world around you? Can stretch yourself beyond your current level of conscious awareness for a different perspective? Are you willing to release yourself from the boundaries you choose to live within?

Just imagine the views that await you from a higher perspective.

The transformative power of grief is undeniable.Alchemical, if you allow it to be; if you can embrace the process of dis...
15/10/2023

The transformative power of grief is undeniable.

Alchemical, if you allow it to be; if you can embrace the process of dismantling and purification, instead of denying and resisting it.

Grief can come in many forms. Sometimes subtle, like the cumulative disappointments and betrayals of a relationship breaking down, that compound slowly and incrementally through time. Or the simple moment of surrender when you acknowledge that something, someone or some aspect of your known life, that is impeding your ability to grow and evolve, must be irrevocably altered.

Other forms can be more jarring to the heart, like the unexpected loss of a loved one, or an afflicting revelation of tidings that lead to dreams abruptly dissipating in front of you, such as the yearning mother being informed, she is unable to conceive. Thrust into the chaos and uncertainty of the unknown, forced to erase the lovingly crafted blueprints that had already been seeded for the future.

No matter the genesis or magnitude, when grief weaves its way into our experience of life, we are invited to detach and release aspects of ourselves that likely constructed the very fiber of who we believed ourselves to be; a well stitched composition of patterns and hallmarks forming an identity that may have been long cultivated, fiercely defended and relentlessly protected.

This dismantling of layers can gracefully and intentionally reveal to us the previously unknown well of great wisdom and depth that are the core of our innate essence. Gifts of compassion, empathy, intuition, greater perspective and capacity for love and a comforting new home of gratitude and awe for the higher order of the Divine within each of us.

Life altering. Heart expanding. Growth seeking. Peace.

The ability to access the gifts of transformation, definitively tethered to our capacity to allow ourselves to be alchemized.

Acknowledge the grief. Feel the grief, and allow the grief to pilot you through the ebb and flow of your personal metamorphosis.

There’s much to learn through observing children. The way they experience the world, their behaviours, and reactions, ca...
12/10/2023

There’s much to learn through observing children. The way they experience the world, their behaviours, and reactions, can offer a mirror for us to explore and observe our own experience, behaviour, and reactions.

E.g., a child may exhibit tempered, even exemplary behaviour in the classroom, only to come home and experience a meltdown or tantrum leaving their parent wondering what just happened?

Children relax with a parent they feel safe with. After a long day at school, listening to instructions, learning new information and navigating social situations, children can expend an enormous amount of energy maintaining control of their emotions. Returning home, they subconsciously know they’re safe to let go and express what they’re truly feeling, perhaps exhausted, overwhelmed, and irritable.

Equally, when a child is raised in a safe, loving, and nurturing environment, they’re more likely to take risks, try new things, be curious and adventurous.

The same can be applied to adults.

After using our energy maintaining emotional control in stressful environments, we can return to the safety of loved ones at home and release pent up emotions, becoming irritable or snappy.

Conversely, think of the times you’re with someone who you feel physically and emotionally safe with, do you feel confident enough to try new things, speak your truth, and take bigger risks?

Typically, we don’t allow ourselves to be truly seen and heard, or to authentically connect with another, and we’re less likely to explore the boundaries of our fears, with someone who cannot hold safe space for us to be vulnerable.

The same can be said if we don’t trust or feel safe within our Self.

Perhaps the key to a more expansive life, is cultivating trust and safety within Self, and align with those who provide a safe space you can trust and rely on.

Where in your life, and with whom, do you not feel safe?

Maybe it’s time to address that, so you can begin to explore all the possibility that is available to you when you feel safe to fully traverse the wonder that is you.

It’s really easy to get stuck in a rut. It’s easy to find yourself living groundhog day every day. Going to the same pla...
25/09/2023

It’s really easy to get stuck in a rut.

It’s easy to find yourself living groundhog day every day. Going to the same places, doing the same things, speaking with the same people, ruminating on the same thoughts, and stagnating with the same old limiting beliefs. And when we get to that stage, we all hope and pray for life to magically elevate us out of our mundane existence and into a more exciting reality. But that’s all they are, hopes and prayers.

There is no magic universal wand that is going to wave you out of your known, habitual, mundane, and even downright boring lived experience. YOU are the magic wand; YOU have the power to change your life into what it is you would like to experience. YOU are the creator.

If you want to change your life, it’s very simple, you just have to CHANGE your life; the places you go, the people you spend time with, the foods you eat, the morning routine you awaken to, the music you listen to, the information sources you invest your energy in, the ideas you entertain, the thoughts you choose, the behaviours you indulge, the beliefs you sustain, all of it.

You see, all these things are creating the reality that you experience day to day.

You are living in your own snow globe, and if you are not shaking it up every now and then, well it makes sense that the energy in that globe will become stagnant, stale, dull and uninspiring.

Shake it up! Welcome novelty and chaos into your life by changing the things you do, feel, think, believe and invest energy in. Allow in space for magic to reveal itself to you.

That’s how you change your life.

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