We caught up with the brilliant and insightful David Waldas a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

David, appreciate you joining us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

Growing up I was a weird kid. My teachers weren’t quite sure what to do with me. It was like I had the answers but didn’t understand the questions. I couldn’t write but I could read. I couldn’t count but I could do simple addition.

I had a high IQ but Graduated 127th out of 132 students.

Then in college I began taking this “miracle drug” Ritalin that showed my how to focus. and went on to get my masters degree, become a teacher, a soccer coach, and successful business person and entrepreneur.

On my 30th birthday I was invited to go to a psychic fair. I thought, why not? I am always up to try something new.

There were at least 50 psychics there. As I walked around the big ball room, It just felt obvious that I was supposed to work with this one specific woman, a psychic named Sandy.

She shuffles her tarot card deck and lays out the cards for my reading.

“Sweetie, I see you are getting ready for a big move, mmm across the country. It isn’t a very popular decision for everyone in your life but you need to do what’s right for you. That job you have been wanting will happen in the next two weeks.  Then she says, “Ohh, I like this – I am getting a message that you can do this same work too and it is going to open up for you quick!”

The next day I’m driving over to cancel our contract with our real estate agent. I have been having problems with her and she’s been ghosting me for several days. Just as I’m about to put on my turn signal to pull into her office parking lot, I hear a quiet whisper inside my head. “not now”

I ignore it, then hear “Not Now.” (Say it louder)

Then , “NOT NOW.”

Um, ok. I’m pretty weirded out and head home.

An hour later I hear a “now.”

I head back to the realtor’s office, walk in the front door. The realtor walks in through the back door as if we had an appointment, prints the paperwork, I sign it and we’re done –that easy!.

I’m thinking, “I like this world that Sandy opened me up to. Life is going to be so easy from here on out.”

Boy was I naive. I did have a lot of cool experiences like that one. But there were a lot more where I got steered into situations that went totally sideways and I’d learn some kind of lesson digging myself out. My life became about personal and spiritual growth.

Then about 6 years ago I was driving along I70 through Vail, Colorado.

We spot this huge beautiful rainbow in the distance. As we get closer it seems to be coming down and ending right in the middle of the highway.

We drive straight into it and for a moment it’s like time stands still. I look around and we’re all covered in refracted rainbows.
I look over at the car next to us. The couples’s holding their hands up in the air as they stare at the refracted rainbows they’re covered in.

Instantly I’m in an altered state of consciousness where these extraordinary things I experience from meditation and channeling and psychic visions merge together with this ordinary reality I live in as a father, husband, and business person.

All at once I can see the entire picture. I know who I am supposed to work with, what I am supposed to teach them, and why they need to hear it.

It took me three years to fine tune and unpack these teachings into The Aligned Living System, which opens up to others this same state of expanded consciousness combined with grounded solid stability so we can all live a more aligned fulfilling life together on this planet.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

In 2016 I created The Aligned Living System and utilize it along with my deeply intuitive abilities to empower clients to unlock their full potential.

I work with people from all walks of life. My clients range from Stay at home parents to entrepreneurs, C-Level Executives and High-Ranking Government officials, to Coaches and Speakers. They often identify as Empaths, “Spiritual Junkies”, and/or High Performer/Bio-Hackers.

EMPATHS:
It’s not that what you’ve been doing is wrong, bad, or stupid, it’s that no one else is teaching these awareness tools.

As an empath or highly sensitive person you’ve been led to believe

That you suck at processing emotional energy or there’s just too much to process.
That you are your coping mechanisms and past wounds.
To focus on what’s wrong instead of what you want.
To wear your coping mechanisms like a badge of honor.
To scan the room looking for threats and fix problems you didn’t create
To be hyper aware and either retreat or fight back

NO. THANK. YOU. Or as you get to know me better, I say F that shit!

There is more to the world than chaos or isolation. It’s exhausting using all your energy to solve others’ problems, trying to do and say the right things while leaving little or no space for yourself. It’s frustrating getting excited about a project or goal only to be distracted by someone dumping their drama onto you.

As an empath, we know how to give others exactly what they need. In this 10 Week Transformation you’ll give back to yourself. You’ll stop taking the hook and the bait from the external world and instead live from your heart. You’ll move past the label of SPS (Sensory Processing Sensitivity) and become your most aligned, resilient, centered self.

Your energy will come from your truest self, source and sacred earth, rather than being entangled in the external world. You’ll be seen, validated, and heard. And by the end, you’ll know what true alignment feels like in your mind and body, and you’ll live there.

HIGH PERFORMERS AND BIOHACKERS:

You’re on the cutting edge, living without fear of trying new things and getting things done, yet you’re missing the joy and enthusiasm

You want the best result in the least amount of time. If you’re going to do it, it better be worth it. Maybe you’ve even become skeptical or cynical. As a biohacker and science based decision maker you’ve probably said:

I already know about meditation, energy healing tools, and mindfulness
I’ve already dabbled in and explored this arena and this isn’t unfamiliar, so now what?
When I hear tools, it feels like another thing to-do.

The Aligned Living Transformation uses pragmatic tools. They aren’t random. It’s not busy work, and ultimately it creates a separation between the outer world and our inner world- our true self. It creates a synchronicity within. I like to call these sovereignty techniques. This transformation is quick instead of a slow boil.

The day to day doesn’t have to be a drag. It doesn’t have to be filled with exhaustion, anxiety or leave you feeling less adventurous, disconnected, indecisive, and unfulfilled. Using the Aligned Living System, you’ll be on the cutting edge operating from your most powerful state using the least amount of energy.

SPIRITUAL JUNKIES:

For the spiritual junkie who’s tried it all and still gets emotionally hijacked, exhausted, and sucked into everyone else’s “stuff.”

There’s no shortage of healing or spiritual modalities, and I bet you’ve tried them all. You might even be an energy healer or lightworker and thinking “I should know how to do this stuff!

Whether you teach it or are a student of it, you’ve wandered around the spiritual mountain seeking the next experience. You’ve tasted how you want to feel but haven’t figured out how to live in your power and alignment. One minute you’re feeling on top of the world and the other minute you’re wondering, “Why am I even here?”

You’re getting way too wrapped up in playing peacemaker and fixing everyone else’s stuff.
You’re getting attached to their energy and instead of a problem solver you start to feel like a problem creator in your own life!
You’ve never experienced clean, clear, sustainable energy and an energy hygiene practice that sticks.

It’s not for a lack of doing.That’s the problem with the old way of surviving and the feeling of always having to do. While other programs encourage you to show up in your stuff and work your way through that place of entanglement with your wounds, the Aligned Living Transformation adopts a new way of thinking by stopping you from getting sucked into other people’s stuff in the first place. Your focus is to stay in that sovereign, centered state so you can look directly at your illusions and misconceptions (all your own shit), and the rest takes care of itself.

What these groups have in common is a commitment to continually developing themselves and creating a life that is deeply fulfilling and in alignment with who they truly are. They own the responsibility to stop playing the game. They are all committed to working on themselves and raising the vibration of the world. While we do have to own some responsibility in where we are, I feel that we live in a system of indoctrination to keep playing along.

I invite you to stop playing that game. I invite you to stop wandering the popular mountain and open your energetic body to a completely different way. I invite you to know how to trust yourself, put your energetic needs first, and to get there in a way that doesn’t blow up everything you know and everything you’ve already done. The Aligned Living System and its tools are both cutting edge and an easier way to make these next level upgrades happen.

Aligned Living clients report experiencing:

Increased Intuition
Greater resilience
More ease in their lives
An increased confidence and self-trust
No longer feeling caught in the push/pull of other people’s expectations.
Claiming their inner authority and creating healthy relationships & boundaries.
Clearer thinking
More ENTHUSIASM, JOY, and sense of FULFILLMENT
More energy to accomplish what they want
Feeling more authentic and clear about who they are and what they want

The Aligned Living System is a proprietary personal development process that utilizes elements of mindfulness, meditation, energy work, and sovereignty techniques. This synergistic combination creates an extraordinary, unique internal experience where clients report feeling more inspired, clear, and far more capable to face the challenges we are all experiencing.

You’re much more powerful and capable than you think!

Despite popular belief, you’ve been taught primarily how to cope. Together, we’ll explore what it feels like to operate from a place of being grounded and sovereign.

What if you could learn how to stay out of everyone else’s spiritual messes in the first place?
What if you could learn micro-adjustments using the Aligned Living Systems Tools to harness your greatest gifts and trust yourself?
What if you could live a life that matches who you are, not who you’ve been told that you are?
What if you could release the defensiveness, and see yourself for who you truly are?
What if you could stop caring what other people think about you?
What if you could separate the external noise from your internal knowing?

I’m not here to tell you what to do, but I am here to tell you there is an easier, more aligned way if you choose it.

You get to decide who you are, not what the world, other systems, or gurus tell you that are. It’s exhausting letting the cues from the external world dictate how you feel and whether to retreat or fight back. It’s time to know how to turn off the game command of your external sensors and come home to yourself. It’s time to develop a deeper sense of discovery and trust instead of drama.

I invite you to develop that quiet inside voice that isn’t interested in what the external world says is right and wrong, and what you should and shouldn’t do. This program gives you the tools to live a deeply fulfilling life that matches who you are at your core. Your body will vibrate at the frequency of your true self feeling rather than your surroundings as you’re feeling calm and supported.

What People Are Saying About The Aligned Living System:

This system has given me more internal space. It no longer feels like the demands of life are coming at me all the time.
I feel like I can choose forward what is truly going to bring more,happiness, joy, and fulfillment in my life.
I feel more comfortable in difficult situations in all areas of my life.
I don’t take people’s reactions to me as personally.
This system creates such dramatic results that I think of my life in terms of before and after Aligned living

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

I have always been a highly aware and sensitive empath. I thought my greatest gift was to be able to feel other people’s emotions deeply. To be able to connect and support everyone I came in contact with. Once I received the “download” of the Aligned Living System I made a powerful realization. My greatest gift was not just to feel other’s emotions deeply, but rather the ability to simply feel deeply. That I actually had the ability, as we all do, to choose where that gift is focused. Empath’s naturally default to the external world with their gifts. This happens from the very beginning of life as we try to make sense of the world we were born into and who we are in relation to it. We naturally develop our self-concept and world view as a reflection of our surroundings, particularly in our formative years. While this is true for everyone, it is intensely magnified for empaths. The correction of those false beliefs and distorted self-concept is also extremely challenging for empaths because we seldom have space inside ourselves where we are not highly attuned to the outside world. We created our version of the world through our initial beliefs and continue to call in experiences that support and reflect back to us our original wounds and experiences making our distorted beliefs feel even more true. The moment I started working with the Aligned Living System I was able to feel my deeply aligned truths, not the versions I had learned from how others wanted me to be. I was able to find a sovereign place inside of myself and witness the misunderstandings I had developed about myself, feel how I truly want to be in the world, and what behavior actually serve myself and others. It changed everything. Now it is such a joy and honor to open others to this same level of clarity within themselves.

If you could go back, would you choose the same profession, specialty, etc.?

I believe that the paths each of us take in life are simply setting us up to offer our greatest gifts. When we allow ourselves to flow into the next segment of life without regret or feeling we made the “wrong” decision, eventually we see how each experience served us in perfect ways.

I never could have foreseen how my backgrounds in engineering, psychology, business, education, coaching soccer, and as an artist could possibly combine and prepare me for the work I do now with Aligned Living and my foundation where I get to teach these same tools and perspectives to teens and young adults. Yet, that is exactly what happened. For some reason, there was always a part of me that trusted and saw the value in each interest I pursued on my way to my current work. This is simply another example of the importance of not falling into black and white, good and bad thinking. The Universe is conspiring to support us and life goes a whole lot better when we accept this truth. Particularly on the days the Universe is giving us a good a*s kicking, or should I say, preparing us for what is next!

Contact Info:

• Website: DavidWaldas.com and AlignedLivingFoundation.org
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/david_waldas/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidaron.waldas
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-waldas-041b1b4b/
• Youtube: https://www.instagram.com/david_waldas/
• Other: Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-aligned-living-foundation-podcast/id1621808919

Image Credits
Photos by Kimberly Anderson Photography Evergreen, CO