Living in alignment with yourself

Everything you do becomes charged with spiritual power when you live in alignment with yourself. Those magic moments of inspiration and enthusiasm, of feeling energized, alert and clearheaded, those are moments of alignment. Your best ideas and inspirations will come to you at this level of high awareness.

The reason we’re not in this state most of the time, is that it’s an incredibly difficult shift to make. Because we’re brought up in a culture that values busyness over happiness, outer purpose over inner purpose, we’re used to focusing on just getting things done.

Instead of trying to align ourselves, we’re used to focusing on staying productive by trying to cram in as much as possible per day. Staying busy makes us feel productive and, more importantly, makes us look productive to the outside. Most of all we don’t feel ourselves as much.

The result is that our long-term productivity decays and at the same time we end up feeling stressed and unhappy. We’re always in this struggle with ourselves for more energy, trying to get more done.

Alignment is a shift of focus from outer to inner. This doesn’t mean to forget everything that needs to get done. It means working from the inside and out.

Start your day by aligning yourself: close your eyes, feel your feet on the floor, follow your breath for a few moments, sense the silence around you. Then open to your heart. Get in touch with your own love, joy and creativity from this place. Sense it. Go deeper into the heart and sense how the more you connect with yourself, the more you realize how much more you are than just this body, than just these thoughts. Feel your connectedness with other humans, your oneness. Stay in this place for a while.

By the end of this exercise, open up to any inspirations that might come through to you. Then begin your work while staying connected with this state of higher vibration. Whenever you feel it slipping, just let go for a moment, close your eyes and connect with it again. It’s still there. The more you do this, the easier it will become.

Another simple and powerful way to align yourself is to do things you enjoy – “follow your fun!” as Aaron Ross puts it. Think about what brings you enjoyment – activities, people, places – and then find ways to do more of it. Making your enjoyment a higher priority than whatever you feel like you need to get done right now, is an act of love towards yourself.

An act of love, towards yourself and others, is always the shortest path towards alignment.