Many people in the world today are running blindly, haphazardly seeking their elusive Higher Self and purpose with frustration levels that border on insanity.
They feel so disconnected from life, people, and their callings that they change directions over and over without thought or without pondering possible repercussions.
Key to Aligning with Your Higher Self
The key to aligning with your Higher Self is very simple but rarely stated, mainly because such awareness is not encouraged widely at present.
You align with your Higher Self by intimately getting to know how your body feels when you are in alignment. Then, when you know that feeling, you work toward maintaining it by controlling the direction of your thoughts.
All positive or negative bodily feelings are rooted in your thoughts, and these are either in alignment with your higher Self or not.
When your body feels as good as it can be, your thoughts are in alignment with your higher Self; when your body feels “off” in any way, your thoughts are misaligned. That said, it is time to master the alignment key to move forward in your life.
You have felt levels of joy, harmony, happiness, passion, peace, and exuberance in your life—no matter how fleeting—and it is at these times that you have been fully aligned with your higher Self. The difficulty is that people rarely think in terms of alignment when things are going their way.
They are too busy enjoying life, which is, after all, the purpose of living. Usually, people think in terms of alignment when they need it most when it is most elusive.
Your Heart Knows When You Are in Alignment
Alignment with the higher Self feels different for each individual, but the result is the same. You know you are in alignment when your heart feels open and your body feels as good as it gets. Sometimes you may not feel your body at all, feeling light as air or like a gently floating balloon.
There may be a sense of well-being and connectedness in your body plus a spark of creation. Or you may feel sudden passion or happiness with a gentle tingle up your spine. No feeling is wrong.
The bottom line is that you are on top of the world when you are in alignment with your higher Self, and your body mirrors this. Everything feels on course and you feel on purpose.
Because conditioning along ancestral, cultural, familial, and systemic lines is often difficult to assess and transcend on a strictly mental level, your best, truest gift becomes how your body feels at any given time. Your body is the most sensitive instrument at your disposal for determining whether you are in alignment with your higher Self, and it will serve you in amazing ways to get to know it.
Identifying Comforts and Discomforts
To learn to align, you first identify the comfort or discomfort level in the most sensitive part(s) of your body. Many people discern best in the stomach and other parts of the digestive tract; digestive problems are overwhelmingly caused by misalignment with the Higher Self.
Others feel a heaviness, constriction, or pain in their heart when out of alignment. Still, others experience tenseness in bodily areas like their shoulders or back.
Some get headaches. What it ultimately comes down to is that your greatest bodily challenges are actually your greatest spiritual teachers.
Once you sense discomfort in your body, you align with your higher Self through some form of relaxed meditation or time out. You need to take some quiet time to learn what your Higher Self is trying to teach you through your body.
During times of discomfort, lay back, relax, and surrender deeply so you can learn and grow. Bravely ask your Higher Self what your body is trying to teach you and sense the answer.
You may see, feel, hear, taste, or smell the answer, depending on your sensing proclivities. Your intuition may come forth boldly and you will suddenly just know. The answer may come right away or it may come later when you least expect it.
*It is imperative that you know that all questions are answered when you are ready, and no question put forth with honesty and benevolent intent is ignored.
Wisdom of Your Body
Your Higher Self teaches wonderful lessons and provides clarity constantly through the wisdom of your body, so get to know what your body feels like when you ask Yes or No questions.
During meditation, ask yourself questions like the following:
- Am I terrified of the future?
- Is it in my best interest to work for this company?
- Is my heart feeling closed because I am afraid of intimacy with my husband/work associates/others?
- Is it in my best interest to pursue this relationship/course of action?
- Should I be doing something other than what I am doing with my life?
Each time you ask yourself a question, your body reacts in one of two ways: 1) it reacts kindly by alignment (YES) or 2) it warns you that something is not right (NO or more questions are necessary for clarification). With practice, you can discern your Truth this way.
Addressing Complex Issues
When you are comfortable that you can discern your body’s Yes and No answers, it is time to address more complex issues. In your relaxed meditative state, put forth a troubling situation to your higher Self. Explain the situation at hand in detail; write it down if that feels better.
Then ask Yes or No questions about the issue raised.
If your body feels aligned after you ask a question, the answer is an emphatic YES.
If your body feels misaligned, the answer may be NO, or further questioning may be necessary.
Those who are persistent and patient enough can do question-and-answer sessions like this until they facilitate an explosive emotional and energetic release. Once a lesson is learned, bodily discomfort and difficult feelings associated with it go away forever. Patience is required in this exercise.
Many are afraid to know their Truth—consciously or unconsciously—recognizing that the rug may be pulled out from under their lives if they learn it. The feeling is akin to the emotion in place before being fed into the jaws of some huge unknown creature with giant, knife-sharp fangs.
Ask why you are afraid to know your Truth, and the answer will most likely surprise you.
Please know that despite your misgivings, the unknown is a very powerful and necessary place; all creation comes forth from the unknown.
Some wonder whether there is danger in trusting the higher Self in all things, for they do not recognize what guides them and they do not trust themselves. Know that most have been taught that they are not trustworthy in one or more ways.
Regardless of conditioning, however, your Higher Self knows what needs accomplishing in your earthly realm, and it will not guide you to that which is not possible within the confines of your current existence.
If it feels right in your body, it is right for you, regardless of what anybody else thinks. Get to know your Higher Self through your body. It will be the best investment you ever make.
by Leslee J. Klinsky
PARADIGM SHYFT 