Alignment and Abundance

We hear these words a lot, with each passing year within the spiritual community and those steeped in quantum physics, talk more about energy, the law of attraction and manifesting.

We hear about alignment and abundance but what does it really mean?

Alignment is things in line.

Arranging pieces to be in the shortest path, a straight line… Alignment in terms of choices and decisions made that are congruent and supportive of the vision and goals you want to achieve and realize. Before we can talk about alignment, we have to get clear about having a vision. Because you can’t make aligned choices that will benefit you long term if you don’t have a consistent vision about the life you want. Having a clear vision of your business goals or your health goals exclusively is how so many of us burn out on any particular area of life. Balance sends those of us who are working on pulling away from people pleasing and overachieving and productivity addicted  into a tailspin of chasing something that doesn’t exist. Instead we pursue alignment to match the season of life we are in. This is rooted in the idea that we are ever changing so any system or plan or strategy we put in place will be temporary and that change and revision is inevitable.

True alignment begins with awareness.

What do you want each area of your life to look and feel like? Some of us need more relationship time, others need more alone time for creativity to bloom. Awareness is the practice of understanding and pursuing what you need to be the most full version of yourself. Emotionally, physically, spiritually, mentally - and no 2 of us are the same. Personality assessments, emotional intelligence, communication skills, habit formation, fun and play, meeting new people, asking more questions - these are some of the ways we learn about ourselves - to increase our awareness. It’s sometimes as simple as realizing - I don’t like breakfast food or I prefer a walking or visualization meditation. 

The goal of awareness is to understand how you operate best - the most effective ways to maintain your health, your creative energy, what you need in relationships as you grow and evolve, how you like to exist in the world - this eliminates unnecessary friction and anxiety in your days because you aren’t trying to do or be something you think you should be. What does the TRUEST version of you do when no one is judging, giving unsolicited feedback, or telling you what you SHOULD do?

This is the reason vision boards are not optional in my life.

Every day I am looking at these vision boards, several times a day - to engage with the version of my life that is truer than the one I live today.  And I make decisions all day, when I am making decisions I am saying yes and no according to my vision. And that vision is based on my core values. The things that guide me to my truest self - the things that light me up and propel my energy, attention and purpose. And then those aligned decisions move me closer to opportunities. If you think about the ultimate experience of your journey in this lifetime to be to have a meaningful impact in a way that only you can - because no two of us are the same - then every time you show up for that impact - every step of the way you choose to say yes to the highest, truest version of you - you are welcoming in the abundance that the limitations you were conditioned to believe you had has so far prevented you from seeing fully.

We each have a purpose and it isn’t about a job or a career - it’s about the impact our unique combination of love and gifts are expressed. But if we are constantly holding back we aren’t fully open to the abundance that is meant to be ours because we are meant to have a full impact.

Abundance is all the things you are meant to have.

So the first step is awareness in all areas of life. Then align your day-to-day life with what the truest and most confident and impactful version of you looks like.

Then it is being open to the abundance that is meant to be yours.