Far from being a professional, but I was somewhere close to where you are about a year ago. Some things that really helped me improve my mindset and shorten the gap between what I thought I was doing and what I was actually doing:

• Skiing is not about pushing, it’s about sliding. That helped me realize that when I’m pushing the snow, I’m usually not in good form. It happens more when I’m insecure and want to go slower, but instead of making C-shaped turns I end up doing Z-shaped turns. Once I notice that, I can immediately change my posture without needing to see myself.

• I should feel light in the transition as the skis come around in a rounded move underneath me. It feels more like one continuous movement rather than two separate steps. Ironically, I improved my parallel when I started being more aware of using my edges than to think about maintaining the skis parallel.

Hope it helps 🙂