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About Alejandro
It’s a challenge on its own trying to describe oneself, especially if you are in the midst of an identity-shattering crisis. At least that’s how I felt after college, the two main labels that held my identity together vanished, “swimmer” and “student” were no longer an option.
Instead, words like damaged, unemployed, lost, and failure, started creeping into the back of my mind. Failure is the one that hurt me the most. I noticed that I was paying far too much attention to the gap between my aspirations and the list of results. Before I could even muster the idea of being “mediocre”, I let that shake me to the bones and decided to put the psychologist title I now had to good use and take action with it.
I began searching for ways to adapt the knowledge gathered from previous experiences, whether from a job, personal or interpersonal experiences. and I realized everything that sports, martial arts, discipline, and teamwork had taught me and applied them. Every step of the way with more ambition, every time more engaged.
My failed attempt at hyper-productivity took me from a rather abrupt stop to the next one. And that’s what got me here.
I’ve stopped holding on to the craving I thought I should have, and started focusing on “me”, on the things I had stopped developing on myself, I began listening to myself. I realized I needed space, I needed silence, and I needed a new output. And from there started the latest nomadic adventure.
I shift all focus on the most exciting thing in the known universe: The human mind. And how this is tamed, shaped and shifted by our movement, music, interaction and connection to nature, to water in particular. I learned about the paths of yoga in India. I learn about Buddhist practices in Sri Lanka, explore the vastness of the ocean and its relationship with me in the Philippines, and then Bali, to catch rips to unknown waves.
I expose myself to the other side of the world that I never dreamed of before, not just from a physical standpoint, but a conceptual standpoint also.
All of this allowed me to get into a better relationship with myself, to get to know myself beyond the Alejandro that I once was and to understand myself better as a human. Understand and experience the responses of our nervous system, how we can use it, how we can tweak it, and how we can challenge it.
And that’s the knowledge I want to share with you.
That’s where all of this came from.
Now that you know it, let’s dive right in!