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“I took time off… and I’m still exhausted.”
“I slowed down… and I feel worse.”
“I rested… but the anxiety came right back.”

If that sounds familiar, this episode is for you.

In this opening episode of January on The Aligned Human Project Podcast, Dawn Elgin dismantles one of the biggest myths about burnout, that rest alone will fix it.

Burnout is not a time-management issue.
It’s not a motivation problem.
And it’s not because you’re weak.

Burnout is a nervous system and coherence issue.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
✨ What burnout actually is (and what it isn’t)
✨ Why high-functioning people are most at risk
✨ Why slowing down can sometimes make burnout feel worse
✨ How Field + Form explains exhaustion
✨ Why coherence heals what rest cannot
✨ Practical, daily practices that restore energy without losing ambition

This episode offers relief without collapse — and a way forward that doesn’t require burning your life down.

Mantra:

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⏱️ Chapters / Timestamps

00:00 — Understanding Burnout: The Misconception
02:59 — Burnout as a Nervous System Issue
06:11 — High-Functioning Burnout (Why Achievers Are Most at Risk)
08:39 — Why Rest Doesn’t Work When You’re Misaligned
12:57 — What Actually Heals Burnout: The Path to Coherence
14:40 — Heart Coherence Breathing Practice

Resources Mentioned:
🌀 Burnout to Alignment (free resource)
🌀 Align Your Life Group Coaching
🌐 practicalspiritualismco.com

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In just five minutes, you can shift your entire internal state.

This Heart Coherence Breathing practice gently guides you out of mental noise and into embodied presence—regulating your nervous system, calming the mind, and opening the heart.

In this short but powerful practice, you’ll be guided to:
• Anchor into the body
• Slow and deepen the breath
• Bring awareness to the heart space
• Use gentle touch as a somatic anchor
• Activate feelings of gratitude, appreciation, compassion, love, peace, or care

Heart coherence is a scientifically supported state where the heart, brain, and nervous system move into rhythmic harmony—creating emotional regulation, mental clarity, and a felt sense of safety and connection.

This practice is perfect for:
• Stress or emotional overwhelm
• Resetting between meetings
• Morning grounding or evening wind-down
• Returning to alignment when life feels loud
• Supporting global coherence through inner regulation

✨ As each individual returns to coherence, we contribute to collective harmony.
✨ Regulation is not personal—it’s planetary.

Take five minutes.
Breathe.
Feel.
Align.

If this practice supports you, consider sharing it with someone who needs a moment of calm today.

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There is a sacred moment every year that most people rush past —
the space after the holidays and before the new year begins.

That space is called the threshold.

In this Boxing Day episode of The Aligned Human Project Podcast, Dawn Elgin invites you into a guided ritual of reflection; not to set resolutions, fix yourself, or pressure the future — but to integrate what you’ve lived, honor who you’ve become, and consciously choose how you want to move forward.

This episode is a pause.
A breath.
A return to authorship.

You’ll experience:
✨ Why reflection is a spiritual and neurological practice
✨ A gentle month-by-month year review (without judgment)
✨ How integration prevents repetition
✨ Why resolutions fail — and words guide
✨ A somatic practice for choosing your word for the year
✨ Dawn’s personal story of choosing Alignment — and how it shaped everything
✨ A closing embodiment ritual to cross the threshold consciously

This is not about becoming someone new.
It’s about stepping forward as someone truer.

Mantra:

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Explore Dawn’s Work:
🌀 Align Your Life — 12 months with the 12 Laws of Co-Creation
🌀 Aligned Living — embodied leadership & coherence
🌐 practicalspiritualismco.com

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Follow Practical Spiritualism on Instagram

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