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What does it mean to live in Congruence?

Congruency is about walking the talk, embodying our beliefs and living in harmony with who we truly are!

When we live in congruence with our values, it means all our thoughts, words, and actions are moving in the same direction and back each other up. You could say we are in the flow zone! Following our natural responses and going with the flow of life.

“Congruent Vibrations” Acrylic Painting on 12x12in Canvas by Matilda Faith Wentzel

Congruent living involves consistency. With practice, we become more autotelic and natural. Our behaviors originate from our truest self, our central core! We will also find that we manifest alignment across all areas of our life.

Why is living in congruence important?

Because when we have momentum from all areas of our life moving in a common direction, we can be who we desire to be, as well as do and have the things which we desire. Incongruence causes stray energy to pull us in opposing directions and we end up going in circles and may even lose sight of who we are.

As one of my favorite speakers Lisa Nichols says, “it’s time to line up the tongue in our mouth with the tongue in our shoes!”

How can we live more congruently?

By taking a closer look at our beliefs. Our beliefs externalize into our personal experience of life, they are the lens with which we interpret our circumstances 

As Cathy Heller says, “We look for the proof of that which we believe.” (Cathy is the woman behind “Don’t keep your Day Job” a powerful Podcast and Book)

Simply put, our beliefs create our perspective. 

Want a More Indepth Look at Congruency?

Check out the following artwork and videos around this topic. My name is Matilda and although I’ve been through the ringer, I’m stronger now than ever before! I want to share my tips towards peace with YOU! I’ve created a 100% Free (no email required) mini-crash-course in empowerment, check it out below!

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These tools facilitate the ability to maintain a consistent & empowering state of mind through working with our thoughts words and actions!

Included you’ll find an Art Print Download to be used as a visual reminder, a Daily Mediation to reprogram the subconscious mind, & 5 Educational Videos to guide you through the process!

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Hello There! Welcome to the introduction series centered around growth in 3 specific areas of our lives! These 3 areas are our thoughts, words and actions!

Now we are not focusing on these areas to give ourselves one more thing to do, or to acquire more knowledge. No! We are here because we want to be reminded of the truth that we already hold at our core and strip away things that are no longer serving us, therefore making space for the truest, best version of ourselves to overflow into our life experience and the lives of everyone around us! 

We are ready to let our true light shine brighter than it ever has! And these concepts I’m about to present are like the keys to that which fear has locked up. When you show up to listen faithfully and likewise faithfully practice, this becomes your jumpstart into a transformational experience! 

Maybe you’ll hear a word that sparks your interest and it leads you down a trail of clues as you research into it further, or maybe, just maybe these words hit you in the prefect way and you resonate deeply with everything I’m saying. Regardless of how it looks, over the next month of digesting this content, your life will be noticeably moving in a new direction!

Are you ready!? I know you are, confirm it to yourself by right now saying out loud, “I AM Ready!” Make that commitment to yourself now in a very physical way by using your voice! 

Throughout this series we will be enjoying a visual reminder of the truths we learn as well, & that visual reminder is This piece of artwork named Congruent Vibrations!

This piece was created with intention, each ring is a symbol of either our thoughts, words or actions, the rings can be whichever of the 3 you choose, the first ring could be our words, the second thoughts, the third actions, and so forth...but you can see how they all intertwine and overlap, they give power and energy to one another.

The result is a beautiful spiral of light, representing the true self, or whatever you choose it to represent, perhaps it changes from day to day,  but either way, this spiral expands from your heart and goes out beyond your physical body to affect everything in your life! (Click the image if you’re interested in purchasing the painting)

This art piece is a picture to remind you of what we’ll be discussing in this video series, print it out & stick it up where you’ll see it everyday, and let the image seep into your subconscious mind, for artwork is a powerful tool to help us reframe beyond words the reality and beliefs we live inside of on a regular basis. It’s so important to include the subconscious mind on our Journey in living a more conscious life.

Click this link to get your free art print download as well as a subconscious retraining meditation, which I encourage you listen to every day alongside the information in this video series, when you do, guaranteed you’ll see a massive shift in your consciousness and awareness in all these areas of life we’re talking about. 

So, let’s dive in to our topic, which is having congruent words, thoughts & actions, where all we say, do, and imagine is moving us forward into our highest self. Today we are focusing on congruency.

Congruency is about walking the talk, embodying our beliefs and living out who we truly are, aligning our every moment with The Divine All-in-all.

So why is congruency even important? Because it’s easier when we have lots of momentum from lots of different areas of our life moving in the same direction, without any stray energy or desires pulling us in the opposite direction and becoming a distraction or stumbling block.

As one of my favorite speakers Lisa Nichols says, “it’s time to line up the tongue in our mouth with the tongue in our shoes!”

When we cast off the limitations that hold us back, refusing to think disempowering thoughts, complain with our words, and refusing to take actions from a place of forceful scarcity….we instead take actions and speak words open us up to our highest potential. 

What’s really happening, is we are allowing the true self to emerge in a natural way, for already we are whole and perfect, this true self will naturally shine when we stop doing the things that dim our light! This is an alignment and congruency that has its roots deep in a foundation of harmony and flow

Take a look at the painting, and imagine your own light shining at its brightest!

Remember to print this free art print out! There’s instructions for how to do so on the download page. And remember that this painting is a powerful image to impress your subconscious mind. More so, it reminds you that our subconscious mind is also affected by the stories we tell ourselves in our inner dialog, which then affects all our day to day interactions & experiences. The stories arise from the beliefs that we hold and we are unable to live outside of the beliefs we cling to. Our inner beliefs externalize into our personal experience of life, they are the lens with which we interpret our circumstances 

As Cathy Heller says, “We look for the proof of what we believe.”

Our beliefs create our perspective. 

But what exactly is a belief or story? It could be something we say inside our head, something we believe. Sometimes the things we believe are actually lies. Here’s a lie I used to tell myself, I would say, “I’m so messed up”. This is something I told myself again and again, can you believe that?!! Unfortunately at one point in my life I believed it and it kept me in bondage! 

But freedom comes when we demonstrate our faith in new beliefs by everything we say, think & do, for the way to acquire, is to embody. Whether that is to acquire a new way of showing up in life or a new set of optimistic thought patterns, all of these begin with embodiment of such attributes and a demonstration of such things on our part.

Now. Sometimes the journey is long and maybe even painful, but it doesn’t have to be. We just have to be open and accepting of the healing journey we find ourselves on regardless of what it looks like. Sometimes that does mean digging up the core beliefs that have held us back, or maybe that isn’t necessary for you personally. It all depends on who you are and where you are in your own personal journey. But no matter where the journey leads it always begins with awareness, and oftentimes that is an awareness around our beliefs.

Just being aware that I wasn’t living up to my full potential was my first step towards growth. Because at one time, I was practically numb, sleepwalking through life, hiding my feelings away and living with anxiety I thought was totally normal, because I didn’t know anything different. And while shining light on those areas made them worse and more painful for a time, that was my personal journey that eventually lead me to move through them.

No matter where you are in your journey, we all can benefit from having more awareness around the thoughts we think, the words we say, and how we go about taking action & show up in our lives.

Congruency is when everything in our life is moving in the same direction, It’s a choice between inner Tug-of-War or Inner Flow & acceptance.

Committing to having an awareness around these things requires us to intentionally change our perspective, and to change our perspective we must change the stories we tell ourselves, and to change the stories, we must make a choice…...lots of little daily choices.

It really is the small things that can make the biggest difference!!!!

Simplicity is at the heart of truth!

Letting go of old stories and beliefs makes space for the new, it frees up energy to receive the highest good for our lives. This highest good is the divine dream for our lives and being open and surrendered to that plan is what’s worth lining up with. That’s what we wanna be congruent with.

Sure, you can line up your life to chase every passing fancy and the big dreams that we all desire, but in the end, true congruency is being congruent with your true inner divine self and allowing the old you, along with its desires, to go entirely.

That may sound like a lot, but it depends on who you are….and I know you, as much as anyone, is capable of reaching true alignment! A 360 degree congruent lifestyle! 

So whether you think you are ready for that or not, you’ve found your way here to listen to me for a reason and I know if you weren’t ready you wouldn't be here! So I dare you to step on to this path, I dare you to say, “I Am Ready!!”

Type it in the comments if you said it out loud! There is reinforcement in being Interactive with this process, so give yourself that extra boost by typing “I am ready” in the comments.

Over the next 4 videos we are going to be discussing what practical tools we can bring into our day to day life to be ready and to step into the next best version of ourselves, these tools are physical tools that create transformation on a metaphysical level. We start with what is tangible such as our words, bringing awareness to them, just watching what comes out of our mouth. Not so much trying to change it or replace certain words, but just being aware that everything we are saying is a mirror of what’s on the inside and just asking ourselves, “Is this who I want to be? Is this who I truly am?”

We are going to be talking a lot about the true self and connecting to who we truly are. Also, we’ll be talking about truth in our thought life, the inner dialogue between the different pieces of our self within, asking each thought, “are you true? Are you a truthful thought?” paying attention to the emotions a thought evokes and debunking the thoughts that are lies and create those negative emotions that disconnect us from the truth of who we truly are, deep deep down.

In the 4th video, we’ll be talking about a subject that I’ve wrestled with for years and am not thriving in! That is the topic of actions, and how we can find ourselves taking actions through out our day from a place of flow and ease, surrendering, giving up control, giving up the constant doing doing doing! And again, connecting to the true self by allowing our intuition to guide and inspire our actions according to the divine plan!

Putting all these things together, you’ll hear a lot about momentum as well, because the flow is full of momentum and stepping into these best practices naturally brings about more inspiration and more ease as the practices become natural and automatic and one thing leads to the next with grace as if it had been planned out that way all along.

Now. These videos aren’t the end all be all, but if you practice what’s presented here you will start to experience its effect! Truly, it is first hand experience that actually allows you to integrate the tools into your life in a deeply rooted way.  Just listening once won’t make the difference in your life, these things have to be practiced. But listening is a great place to begin.

When you listen again & again, you naturally start practicing without even trying because your subconscious mind is soaking up all this information and memorizing it just enough for your reactions to mirror what you’re learning. 

Now Perhaps you’ve heard all this before and you’re thinking, “I’ve already tried that!”  Well, don’t worry, we have all tired it all! Nothing is new, deep down you already know all this stuff, sometimes we just need a little reminder. This is about memorization of more empowering sates of mind.

It’s very important you understand these blog posts aren’t so that you can gather more knowledge and information, that’s not what any of us need, what we need is integration and encouragement to live out what we already know. 

But just in case you’re still not sure, I have to ask, 

“Have you ever brought awareness to your thoughts AND your words AND your actions ALL at the same time?!”

Because these are great tools…..and sure, they have power but one by itself will not be nearly as powerful as all three together!

“A three strand cord is not easily broken” 

In fact, I’m so passionate about these 3 things because when I put them all together it changed my life completely! For a long time I’d been doing one or the other, on and off, but all three is what brought me the momentum we will be talking so much about

Congruency is having consistency, not just consistency over a period of time, but consistent alignment across all areas of our life. That’s what we are talking about in this series! 

Now I wanna hear your personal takeaway, drop it in the comments so others can learn and grow alongside with us!

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