Amina AlTai

Because I think a lot of us are conditioned to believe it's something else.

And anytime we're like success should look this way, if we're using the language of should, we're usually in somebody else's belief system, right?

It could be cultural, it could be familial.

And I had all these ideas about what success should be based on my immigrant parents and then realized, actually, I want something different for myself.

Success for me includes my body being well.

I think it should for all of us, right?

I think that should be each of our birthrights.

But so first of all, we have to reclaim success for ourselves and redefine it for ourselves.

And second of all, we really have to collaborate with our bodies and our nervous systems.

You know, I just had a birthday last week and every year on my birthday, thanks, I write myself a little note and I say, open it the next year on your birthday.

And it's funny because I was reading last year's note that I wrote to myself.

And one of the things that was at the top of the list was, you know, I want ease for you.

And when I thought about it, I was like, ease has been on the top of my list for so long.

And I thought about it and I was like, you know what?

I think I actually have achieved it.

I was just thinking about it a little differently.

You know, in the past, I thought about ease as like, oh, you know, there's so much spaciousness.

And, you know, I was thinking about it as a spaciousness, I think.

And when I tuned into it this year, I was like, oh, at the level of the nervous system, I do have ease, right?

I'm still sprinting.