6. Running Toward Breakthroughs: The Journey to Alignment

What happens when a marathon runner hits the pause button on training?

This episode reflects on the unexpected benefits of rest and the toll constant running can take on your body. It explores how music and podcasts shape your running experience—does music fully immerse you, while educational content divides your focus?

Dive deeper into thoughts on life, manifestation, and personal growth. Are you ready to embrace life’s dualities and live more fully in the moment?

Tune in and discover how to create positive ripple effects in your journey.

Plus, don't miss out on our Free Training Guide to enhance your marathon experience—download it now and take your first step toward transformation!

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You're listening to the attract breakthroughs with Alex Baldwin podcast. I'm your host, Alex Baldwin, and I'm here to help you attract everything you've ever wanted in your life. I know it sounds so easy and hopefully that's the way that we're going to make it feel. This podcast is designed to help you level up your life in ways that you never thought was possible. I'm going to give you the strategies, the tools and the resources. To make the positive changes that you desire to bring your life to the next level. I'll share my pain, my struggles, the things that I've overcome to get to where I am today. The Attract Breakthroughs podcast starts right now. So I've taken a little break from running. Well, for most normal people it's not really a break, I guess, but, for a runner and especially someone like me who's training for a marathon, I've taken a week off because I got sick. One of my little babies has a cold. So, I figured I'd take a few days off running and my training plan I built in so I'm having one of those off weeks right now and it feels weird to not run, obviously it is nice in some ways because it just takes a toll on my body sometimes. There's like a lot going on it seems like my legs are screaming at me and they don't like it. So, it's nice to finally, kind of give them a little break here and, I still have been going to the gym and doing, my weight room workouts, but. I just hadn't been feeling 100 percent so I figured I'd kind of, chill on the cardio, so I was planning on running today, I'm normally at my daughter's cheer practice, I have like this, hour long windows of time, and a couple hours here and there, and usually I just have to spend the whole time running, because I'm training for a marathon, and that is the type of fun that I have in my life at this point. I have these brakes, and I'm either basically running the whole time, which is, it's not bad. Externally, or like on the surface level, it sounds horrible, but once you actually start running and you're out there. I mean it is pretty horrible. It's not fun. I guess I'm just not naturally a runner. Some people are out there speeding around like my friend Rachel. She,, just did this crazy challenge. Rachel Kennedy. I'm sure some of you know her. I'm hoping to get her on the podcast. Maybe now that this challenge is over and she's like back to being a normal person, a semi normal elite running human, then she will have a little bit more free time to talk to me. I'm sure she's just crushing it out there. She just ran I think, over 600 miles in the month of July in Florida. at a like insanely fast pace. Her slow pace is my cannot even run that fast pace. So it's just funny. Like she's really awesome and she just kicks butt in the running scene. She's like been in the top 10 in the Olympic trials. She's just crushing it. It's so cool. I assume people like Rachel are like, I'm really fast. I don't know, I'm gonna have to dive into this more with her. So like, I just don't even understand how you run that fast. This is why I need to interview her. I need to understand some sort of secrets and unlock the potential of my running fastness. I mean, what am I doing with my life? I'm not running fast. I just, I run so slow, but I also don't have like a lot of motivation to run fast because it's hard. It's way easier when you're listening to music and then you can kind of zoom in the music like zoom zoom zoom and kind of be like a character in a little game and you're like zoom zoom zoom, but if I would normally with my running time I like it as my me time where I get it to listen to a podcast, listen to book on tape, listen to webinar or something that I've been wanting to catch up on. My husband claims, like your brain is trying to process the information that you're learning when you're running so it automatically just kind of slows you down and keeps you from running faster because that doesn't make sense I guess, like your energy is split. If you think of things in terms of like energy and intention, your energy is split from putting it all into the running versus with the music you're kind of zoned in one with the music and the running and the whole experience is just like swallowing you up so that's I guess the satisfaction of running with the music and like just giving something your all then or just kind of like feeling in the zone and feeling flow. Versus when you're listening to something, it's like you're kind of going through the motions and your mind is somewhere else and you're body's doing one thing and your mind's doing another, which I like to be productive so I find myself always wanting to do the mind work while I'm running because It's like you get these cool insights. Anyone that is familiar with us will know when you go on a walk or run the same thing probably when you're in the shower you just get these amazing insights sometimes and downloads because your mind Is able to kind of float like you're doing something on autopilot. So your mind is able to float and And Receive some information out there that you were not previously aware of. I feel being immersed in the moment like when you're in the music and the running I do have like great ideas when I'm running So I think that's why I'd like to listen to You podcast and different things because even with the music I'll have an idea. I guess I'm more reluctant to, stop. And especially in terms of running, walking, you don't have to worry about it as much. But I feel like if I'm listening to music, and I have some like amazing idea, I don't want to like stop. And write it down. I guess that would give me an excuse to stop. So maybe this is my new strategy. I'm excited. I just came up with this. So, music, ideas, stop. Because I have these amazing ideas. Because I'm just living in the moment. In this hot Florida muggy weather run. Which I'm so grateful for. I mean, It's just all about our perspective sometimes. It's hot. I'm literally procrastinating on my run right now by recording this because I was thinking I'm gonna go like do a little 5k just Because I haven't run in a couple days because i'm taking the time off. Well, it's like four o'clock here And it is hot. It is freaking hot in florida and well, I guess I could record, I have from four to seven, so I could record from like four to six and run from like six to 630. And that would be way cooler than running from four to 430 and recording from 430 to 630. But I feel like I'm kinda in the flow, and I felt, I honestly just did this as a test run to see, will I feel alive or, like, getting any downloads or want to record anything or have anything to say. Now that I'm in it, I actually am liking the way that this has been going, so I'm surprised. And it's because it's giving me an excuse to not run in the Florida heat right now. But this is cool. This is good. This is like my personal psych up session for my run. We're gonna get hyped up. We're going on a run. It's getting cooler every moment that passes, and whatever. It's just all about your perspective. you can't take a little heat. It's Florida. I'm so sad I put my tanning oil out of my bag, I had this new tanning oil, and I should have put it on my shoulders since it's so sunny. It has SPF in it too it's good for your skin I wanted to start using that when I went running and I don't know what I was thinking. I pulled it out of my bag before I left and I feel like it's been a weird day for me I think it's maybe because I haven't gone running and that's why I didn't think I'd be able to record this I think because I haven't been running I don't feel like myself, you know, I just felt off with things And that's the thing, it's kind of interesting, to be someone that talks about manifestation trying to attract breakthroughs and live in alignment you're human, you have those off days, so, you feel like, oh, this shouldn't be happening to me, but no, it happens to everyone, and it's just, you don't even, I don't even want to label it an off day, it just felt like. out of alignment, but then I use my tools, how can I get back in alignment? Can I do this or that? Can I listen to something, this audio? Can I do something with my body? And that running and that motion is the thing, usually, or the working out doing something with your body. Tony Robbins talks about it getting in motion, and just being in motion is a way to release energy and Rearrange and change up things change up your perspective. My perspective about complaining about the Florida heat. It could be worse. There could be, I could be in a desert, at least I have water. And I could be in the snow, like in Siberia or something and not even able to talk. opened my door because it's covered in snow. I've never really experienced that in my life. Just fun fact about me. I'm a Florida girl and I'm a Southern gal and I've never really been in the snow. Once I think when I was a baby. Oh wait, no, I did when I was an adult. I finally did go to Colorado a couple years back, but. I don't have a lot of experience with snow in my life. It's just a little fun fact. It just doesn't sound pleasant to me. I do like living in Florida. I like the sun and the beach and the beautiful nature and everything that's here. it talks about duality. Another universal law is the duality of things. So hot and cold, they're just both measures of the same thing. Heat and cold is the same thing, we're talking about temperature, but one, they're each on opposite ends of the spectrum. So, there's a lot of things that are, Like that in life, like in alignment and out of alignment, and then just like even love and pain people that bring you pain are the same, are the only reason they can bring you pain is because you had the love there to begin with and you experienced the other side of that spectrum. And so that's just, I mean, what life is about, I think. And. Living presently with the power of now type of mindset living in the moment of you know, I feel if something horrible happens, God forbid we lose someone I feel deeply into this pain. But at the same time this is all a part of the human experience. You ever think about why are we here? Why are you here? Do I have a purpose? So, I think that part of my purpose is to help people realize, why are we here? What kind of life do I want to live? Do I want to live a magnetic life where I attract positive, good things to me? keep myself in a higher vibrational state? Or do I want to live out of kind of just scrambling around and lower vibrations just like negative and seeing the bad in everything and being on that other end of the spectrum? Do you want to be a negative Nancy? You don't enjoy that. I understand we all have personality traits and things are hard to change sometimes, our character, I've had friends in the past that like, they're just, would be very negative and it just gets, it gets exhausting for people and the same thing with just Gossip I don't really like the gossip I don't really want to be a part of that. I don't want to talk about other people i'm just gonna try to Shoot for my goals and do my best and work on my own personal journey And I think that we all have our own personal journey of empowerment that we are going to be traveling down. The more you work on the inside, the outside changes. It's a little wild once you start slow down, stop the rat race of Just living on autopilot, I guess. And you're like, well, I need to make a change here. maybe you're like, my life's not going in the direction I thought it was gonna go. And so, maybe, you know, obviously there's like one common denominator here. And it's me, right? My life's not going the way I thought it was gonna go. And what do I need to do now? Like, you're on a path. You're on your own timeline. You, what do I need to do now? You know? on this path to change my direction. you gotta change course at some point. You can't. Because the thing that I struggled with, and with the death of my mom for a while, is procrastination on things. Putting things off. And it really came to a head when my mom died, because felt some guilt about the procrastination of her like not getting her certain treatments not realizing that it was as bad or could get that bad to where like she literally died. It escalated so quickly. And certain things it just, these experiences they hold up like a mirror to you, you know, and you have this guilt about feeling responsible I should have done this or I should have done that, but everything played out the way that it had to play out and that's not meant to sound cold. It's just, the laws of the universe and I'm not saying it's predetermined, but in a way, kind of, you know, if you would have been like a molecule for molecule me in the same situation that I was in at that time you would have made the same decision and done exactly what I did. So there's no reality and timeline where I can change that. It's done, the timeline has collapsed, that has happened. There's not really a reality where it shouldn't have happened, quote unquote. It all is destined and played out the way that it was meant to be for the evolution of your spiritual growth and your journey on this earth. So even though we go through these pains, it's reflection and it makes us realize hopefully we can deal with pain in different ways. We can resort to drinking and drugs or whatever. And we can also look inside and look for the lessons. I try to look for the lessons in my mom's death, and a lot of that is that theme of procrastination. It doesn't mean I'm perfect by any means. It just holds up this mirror to exactly where you're not perfect. Exactly where you're not perfect. It shows you all your flaws. just being sober too not drinking, and dealing with that is, It's, it's eye opening. and some people are not ready for that, and that's all up to them and their own personal journey. That's fine. I don't judge anyone. I don't control your journey, and you don't control my journey. And that is freedom in itself, knowing that we can just let each other live, and not feel the need to like, Oh, she shouldn't do this, he shouldn't do that. No. Everyone should just live and let live. and not concern themselves with things that you have no control over anyway. Even your own past and regrets you have no control over that. It's done. It's in the past. you take the lesson from it and you move on and you try to change and you make a better future for yourself. The lesson in my mom's death with the procrastinating on her and having such basically a deadly outcome of my procrastination or what I perceived at the time as that result of events, that's the lesson there. Now that makes me in my life now think, okay, well, I don't want to lose any more people I love. Obviously, I know that there's an element of that that I cannot control, but. I don't want to lose any more people I love. I'm not, but especially not due to my negligence I don't want to be procrastinating on something that could make or break someone or save someone's life there's a, that reframes procrastination in a whole new light. Someone else's depending on you and. We can't always be perfect and do everything great. And I still, I still struggle with it. But that's something that helps me honestly be reminded when I'm like something just like even simple, going to the dermatologist I hate to admit this. I had not been to the dermatologist to get just like a skin check in years, like a decade. And I started running since then. I had spent so much time outside. I Had these different spots normal things I guess that just pop up and I was like freaking out because I hadn't been in a decade and there's no way that there's not something wrong with me I don't know why I just felt like that, but I also didn't want to Determine that possibility like oh something has to be wrong with me i'm open to interpretations, but I just had this fear around going to the dermatologist and so I kept like Putting it off for a decade. That's how it's helped me, is like, I'm, think, like, okay, well, Remember when you put off something and your mom died? Maybe you shouldn't put it off. Maybe if you don't, maybe if you put this off what if I did have cancer? Thankfully, I did go to the dermatologist and everything's fine. But what if I had cancer or something horrible? And it could have been caught early. And then that would have made a difference and had a domino effect in the life of my children and my husband and my family and a lot of people. So, you know you never know where these tiny little ripple effects will lead. And sometimes you just have to like take a moment if you're spiritual or if you've been to church or. Just kind of connect with your higher self, whatever you want to call it, God, infinite intelligence, universal intelligence, and take a step back, take a deep breath, Sometimes you just have to take a step, take a step back, take a deep breath, talk to God. And just say, even if you don't know what to say you don't know what to do, you're feeling stuck in a situation tell me what to, not tell me what to do, but lead me. I'm willing to be led. I'm open to the possibilities. I'm open to the possibility of miracles. I'm open to something deeper. I'm open to a deeper meaning to this. Is this pain trying to tell me something? Usually pain tries to tell us something. Don't have pain in your leg. Because, just for no reason, usually, like, usually when we feel pain, and the greater the pain, the greater the, the cause. And, when, it just forces us to like, bring that awareness and look at the cause and find fine tune our awareness to find the lessons in it. And not just see the bad, not just say, like, oh. This shouldn't have happened to me. My mom shouldn't have died. I shouldn't have been born as a person that doesn't like to run fast. Like, I shouldn't have not been able to eat whatever I want. It just, all these like shoulda, coulda, wouldas. You have to just be purely aware of this current present reality in the situation you face yourself with and be honest with yourself and see what If you have regrets what is this regret or this pain trying to teach me? What is it trying to show me? God, are you trying to show me something here that I didn't see before? I'm open to signs. I'm open to suggestions. I'm open to the idea that there might be something more to this than meets the eye, because there usually is. And on that note, I think I'm going to Go for a lovely little run. I feel a lot better after saying all this. I'm happy to be running on this earth with this God. Some people would think how can you even believe in God when your mom died? Or how can you believe in God when this awful thing happened? How's God letting these wars happen? How is the universe, how do we have the complexity of science and just this infinite intelligence, like everything is connected. I can't see a way that the change starts within us, like it starts with, it starts with one, it starts with each one of us at a time, creating a positive ripple effect. So I don't, I don't want it to be like this, oh, be positive, like cheerleader, rah, rah. It's more like, if you train your brain to see the positive things in life, then that's more of the reality that you're gonna get. Cause our brain is just kind of like a radio, like a tuning mechanism. So, if you don't like what you see, just change the channel Attract Breakthroughs with Alex Baldwin Podcast. Thank y'all so much for listening to the Attract Breakthroughs with Alex Baldwin Podcast. I hope you found something valuable out of what I've shared with you today. And if you wouldn't mind, go ahead and leave me a review on Apple iTunes and pay it forward because The universal law of reciprocity says that what you give you shall receive. So if you want more love in your life, then go ahead and show some love for the show today. And I hope that you will carry this on your journey and just keep paying it forward and making the world a more positive place. Peace out y'all.