Alignment

How often do you operate in contrast?

Manifestation requires alignment. And we manifest more of what we wish we didn’t that what we wish to. Inhospitable schedules. Poor relationships. Poor health. Dis-ease. I know I recently wrote about watching words but as a follow up, alignment has to be put on the table. Changing your manner of speech is exhausting. The level of thought and awareness that go into it…. I had no idea the shift would be as demanding as I’ve come to know it to be.

When you think of contrast.. dis-resonance… opposites.. think as well of little lies. “I’d love to but… I’ll have to take a raincheck because I’ve got plans for….”. It was recently brought to my awareness that the word “but” within a statement, cancels out all that came before it. Having deep cultural programming that utilizes that word to soften a denial I did not believe that what came before it was untrue. I believed that it was a truth that had to be delayed…. I paid attention to how often I said it and then I began to question if what I said before it was true or not… and surprisingly it never was! Little lies… mis-alignments … So I stopped. And those around me have the pleasure of watching my re-programming live. “I’d love to mentor more often but the demands on me don’t allow much time for that.” Do I really want to mentor more? No. A quick regroup and restate… “Actually, let me rephrase that… I have enjoyed mentoring and generally am up for it. Right now though, I’m dedicated to the current demands on my calendar.” All true.

Truth supports our nervous system as well. I would expect that misalignment triggers cortisol… and goodness knows we have enough triggers for that without adding to it ourselves.

And what I noticed when I began to eliminate those little lies, was the opportunity to live in ever greater truth. Children are spectacular at living their alignment… They are hungry or aren’t. They like that game or they don’t. They like that other kiddo or they don’t. No shame in their truth. How does that get conditioned out of us? I’m conditioning back into me…. into it’s no longer exhausting.. For now though, like those freely truth telling little ones, I can now see the benefit of a daily nap.