In this episode we turn our attention to our hearts desire and discuss what it means to embrace our Inner Warrior. It is this connection that enables us to persevere, resulting in a more satisfying, peace-filled life experience.

About the Host:

Jani Roberts is the Owner of Alignment Essentials, a health and wellness company spanning the fitness, self-improvement, and mindfulness spaces. She is the creator of the Warrior® Workout, Moving Meditations™, Inspirational Conversations™ and all of the Alignment Essentials programming content. In addition, Jani is an International best-selling author of the book, Navigating the Clickety-Clack, How to Live a Peace-Filled Life in a Seemingly Toxic World.

Jani has over 40 years of experience in the health and wellness field. She owned and operated a large gym franchise in Florida, as well as a boutique studio for several years where she specialized in health and wellness related services, products, preventative health education, personal training, small group fitness classes, private nutrition and health coaching.

She has literally trained hundreds of thousands of instructors around the world, and she was the featured choreographer and performer on numerous training DVDs. She has presented for dozens of large Health and Wellness brands such as Nike, and Adidas. She holds several certifications through ACE, AFAA and NASM.

Jani travels extensively as a speaker and presenter sharing her Alignment Essentials wellness tools and helping people find more joy in their lives and is currently training at the Shamanic Institute of Healing. 

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What? Life isn't supposed to suck? Get out of here. Life is supposed to be good for me? I don't think so. Truth? Did you know that you have the power to create your own reality? True? Did you know that you can live the life that you've always desired? Holy? That's right. And that's why we're here. Are you ready? Unless you're on Joy overload, you've come to the right place, it's time to get out of your own way and start creating more of what you want, and less of what you don't end up with the excuses. I'm your host Janj Roberts, let's do this.

Welcome to inspirational conversations for living in alignment. Let's just recap a bit, shall we? What does it mean to live in alignment? What is that all about? This is all about experiencing more of what you want, and less of what you don't from the AAE or alignment essentials perspective. That's what living in alignment is all about. So who of course, wouldn't want to experience more of what they desire and less of what they don't? How do we do it, we've got the tools, we've got some ideas we can share with you, it's your work to do. But personally, I've been doing this work for decades, and it makes a difference. And I again want to be clear, it is work. Now, if you have a negative association to the word work, you might, you might be like Screw this, I have enough jobs, I have more more jobs than I'd like to have. Think about this as the favorite, the most joyful, that easiest, the simplest, the fun filled, the inspiring kind of work that awaits you. Yes. And also consider that it will make everything else that you do feel effortless, not that life doesn't take effort, obviously, but it will ease the struggle. It will dissuade the resistance, guaranteed, it has been done by millions of people for centuries,

people that came before us and people that will come after us. This is the work. Today we're going to be talking about perseverance. We're going to talk about how to cultivate it, and really how to practice it in our lives. And why? So what does it mean,

to persevere? What does that mean to you? It's it from my perspective, it's doing something, despite the resistance, or challenge or difficulty or delay that comes with it. It's making my way through that. It's persistency. It's, it's the energy that I hold when I am really looking for a truth. Like I know there's something there for me to learn. There's also something there for me to teach. It's a must. And when I persevere, I connect, I connect to my higher self. So it's more than endurance. It's really a combination of endurance and

an absolute certainty that what we are looking for or desiring will manifest it's going to happen. How many times have you almost given up on something? Only for it to fall into place and for you to receive what you've desired.

Now, you may say never.

But I believe if you pause, you take a breath and you really think about that question. There has didn't make keep it simple. There has been a time when you've thought or thought.

You've fired a rocket of desire. You decided that you want something?

You can see it.

It might be something as simple as standing in your truth long enough to state your truth.

You've needed to say something to someone for a long time. You've struggled to be able to do that. Somehow you persevered. You found the courage you found the strength. You found the love, and you did it.

So perseverance happens in a lot of different ways. And I think sometimes we associate it with struggle, but we're really persevering all the time.

We catch a cold, you persevere

or now it can feel like a struggle. Or we can say, You know what my body is simply asking me for a little TLC. I've been asking a lot from it. It's been delivering, why can't I just give it a little TLC? Take some downtime?

You know, sometimes our egos get the best of us. And we think, Oh, how will everyone ever survive? If I'm not here? And yet, somehow, they do.

So we want to think about this. And as we're thinking about perseverance, think about what is stimulated then what, what do you think about when that feeling or emotion comes into play?

It takes time.

It may not be an overnight process,

we may need to understand that persevering sometimes means waiting, not doing anything, temporarily, allowing things to align, to get into the flow.

So we don't have to push so hard to make it happen. We align, we know our truth.

We work through the doubt, we understand that challenge. Resistance

stimulates our higher self to persevere. We hang tight, we chill, we pause. Now I'm by no means saying do nothing. Forever. I'm just saying that sometimes. It's that simple. And I think we missed that. I think we've we've become wired to make it happen, which can be exhausting.

Take a moment and think about

things that

you really desire.

Now when I say that,

I want to clarify

that we're going to remove

expectations that others have.

And really look at what we desire. So that we don't find ourselves persevering through a bunch of shit to get to get to something that we didn't actually want to begin with.

You know, sometimes we think we're supposed to do stuff just because we're told we're supposed to do it, we get that one. We're kids, we get that at the job. But it's not that doesn't make it true.

So you don't have to

achieve by

strength, right? Like, I'm just going to push it, I'm going to no matter what it takes, I'm going to suck it up, I'm going to do it. That's a very different energy and perseverance. When when we think about perseverance from this perspective, it's, it's more about again, I'm returning to the pause because

we're using the power of our mind. And our ability to quiet our mind and tap into the truth of whether or not what we feel we want to or need to persevere through is really what we desire.

And that quiet mind creates that clarity.

This is why a practice,

such as our warrior Tai Chi yoga, or Qigong practice is so powerful, because we're able to find that steel point. And this is where we find answers. This is where we find peace.

It's amazing how consistency plays such a magnificent role here.

But so often, we just can't seem to wait.

Well, it didn't happen. What was two years? Yeah, two years is a really long time when it didn't happen.

Maybe it was going to take two years in one week.

Is there a fear coming in?

I don't want to fail. I've waited two years I can justify this I'm going to walk away.

Because ultimately, I don't want to fail. What if I stay three more years? See, this is where time gets tricky.

What we want to do is dial it back, tap into our practice and feel our way through it.

Because if we need to bang a right or a left

if we're drawn to something else

If something isn't aligning in the way that we felt it would,

and we're working a practice where we're able to feel that we will feel which way to go, we will be guided.

Because we're not so fixated

or focused. But we're still open. We're still in a receiving mode. How many times have you tried to accomplish something and you feel like you're beating your head against the wall.

And at some point, perhaps you even say to yourself, This really shouldn't be this hard.

really shouldn't be this hard.

Life really shouldn't be this hard. And yet, we all know people who have perhaps we're talking about self, a really intense commitment to what they're doing.

And they're somehow able to sustain this.

No matter what.

We also know people, perhaps self who start something with great hope, and great energy. And yet somewhere along the way, they lose focus. They're not able to deal with resistance that comes in challenges obstacles,

or they simply just don't feel like they have the stamina to see it through.

Perhaps with the former person has over the ladder

is perseverance.

Tuned In tapped in.

And also, perhaps they understand that if their desire or focus shifts in some way, that that's okay.

Perseverance does lead to a ritual life, because it is a

Avenue in which we can tap into this feeling of our motion of

I can I must, I will I want I desire. I know, I'm certain. I'm doubtless, I'm fearless.

And we just go,

perhaps without any guarantee

of what is on the other side of that, or how it will all really turn out. But we're knowing we're trusting that it will be what we desire for something better.

But hell yes, this takes courage. Big time.

Getting to the point where failure doesn't exist. We're just sifting and sorting. We're trying. We're attempting. We're learning or growing. We're exploring.

And we're determined to expand.

We're determined to move along this powerful path of spirituality.

Engaging in trust,

playing with the unknown.

And seeing what many call obstacles is an opportunity to practice perseverance.

Whether it's something small, or something massive, when the fear comes in, and seems to very quickly deplete our energy, so that we feel like we just got to give up, blow this project off. It's not working. This is when we need to consider the pause and feel how those statements feel, say them out loud.

I'm ready to give up.

I'm done with this. How does it feel? It feels really good and freeing. Great. If it does not. This is when we need to step in

to that fearless spiritual warrior.

That inner warrior that resides in each of us and check in with our truth.

Now we can become stressed we can become mentally and physically fatigued.

But that doesn't mean we have to step out of the game.

That's just me. That just means we need a rest. That's that TLC.

It also guides us to make better choices about our mental and physical health, to love ourselves enough to do that. The other interesting

feeling that seems to crop up sometimes at least for me

is boredom still doing this?

Really still working on this same old, same old, even something complicated, intricate, intense, it can still lead us to boredom.

So when we feel that weight

or perhaps it comes in the form of anxiety,

we need to have a practice belief system. Call it what you will that grounds us that tethers us to our truth.

Don't you think? You have already persevered in ways that you probably never thought you could? Or would, and perhaps you've never really recognized

what you've accomplished, and what you've persevered through, perhaps you've never taken a moment to celebrate that. Perhaps you just quickly moved on to the next thing,

the next project something to think about? are you acknowledging your growth? are you acknowledging all that you persevere through on a very regular basis check inwhen you feel yourself slipping, I just don't think I can do this, this is too much. Fear.

Okay, maybe partially, you know, your rational, rational mind going, I am physically exhausted and mentally exhausted. Again, this isn't an end, it's a pause, and a valuable one.

So the twists and the turns, provide places of rest. And sometimes it's all about distraction, about just knowing when to walk away. And take a pause. You know what, it's not flowing. It's not easy. This relationship is a grind, it's wearing me down. Go away for a weekend. Go away for a day, step into the woods for an hour. Remove yourself from the environment that is persevering.

Honor, what you're feeling.

Show yourself that you value yourself and how you feel and that this pause is not a failure in any way shape or form. It's an awareness and an opportunity to rebalance to quiet the mind to check in. changes coming an evitable and this we will embrace we will because we must this is a good thing. It is perhaps not what we saw coming out how we thought things would go even in our imagination, we couldn't see it going this way. It's so far off from what we really truly believed would manifest and yet, here we are. Adapting, adjusting. persevering. Have a conversation with yourself. Create some statements of power that help you when you bump into this that's all right. Let me find one thing that I can do just one to bob and weave through this and make my way gently, powerfully, steadily toward my desired outcome. Oh, this wall has shown its face. I will keep my focus. I will stay on task I will stay in my now. I will take time to rest.

I will always make time for fun and joy and playful behavior. Always I will not burn myself out working around the clock. I know that is counterproductive. I know that I'm never at my best when I do that. I've experienced that. I know that to be true. I won't allow fear to get in there and say, Well, if you don't get it done, someone else will. And you'll get bumped aside. Hmm. No, no one knows what I know. No one holds the gifts I hold. No one comes with the energy I come with.

I am not afraid I will persevere this or something better. And each day or perhaps even more often than daily. I will give myself credit. For the progress that I make. I will acknowledge that I'm choosing my attitude. I'm choosing to be dedicated to what it is that I feel passionately about. Because I know this is connected

to who I am and why I'm here and I will allow frustration to come and go I will welcome the obstacles as they're inevitable I will learn from them and then release them as they may help to make my work easier in the future I love having mantras you know something to really give myself peace.Something as simple as all as well.

All as well. Until next time guys, be well persevere and know that you are absolutely positively not in this alone. Nothing below. Talk to you soon. Peace