In sports, music, or yoga, your posture improves your performance by aligning your body for optimal strength. Similarly, you can improve your personal growth by aligning your intentions, values, and behaviors to unleash your full potential.
Full self alignment ensures your intentions, values, and behaviors support each other and give you strength to make better decisions. Good decisions involve creative thinking and collaborative dialogue, which are difficult to accomplish when you have gaps in your self awareness and your values and behaviors are out of whack.
Despite the stream of promises from special diets, break-through technologies, and "newly discovered" ancient remedies, integral and regenerative behavior requires conscious effort. If we want different results in our lives, we must first explore our underlying beliefs, then we start practicing new behaviors and iterate to our desired state.
Growth Posture is an awareness and alignment practice grounded in traditional wisdom and modern science. The posture involves three moves you apply during your daily routines to help you clarify your intentions and focus your actions.
1. Everyday Presence
2. Gentle Curiosity
3. Seeking Excellence
Noticing and appreciating the details of any given situation is essential to living fully. It’s key to unlocking our creativity.
It’s the foundation of trust.
It’s the invitation to joy.
Breathe
Visualize
Appreciate
Looking at yourself can be a challenge. Often we see who we were in the past, not who we've become today. We can improve our vision and spark our curiosity using metaphors and frameworks. This is not a scientific assessment process. It is a gentle, curious approach to playing with possibilities and wondering, "What if?"
It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
ARISTOTLE
Adults learn best when we examine our actual experience, discover insights or meaning that drive our behavior, and adjust to improve our results. Seeking excellence is an iterative learning process with three phases: action, reflection, and experimentation. Each of these phases is guided by a key question to transition from concrete to abstract and back to concrete thinking. This is best done with "one thing" at a time and lots of support to help us forward.