Alignment, what it is?

To be aligned is a phrase that means to be in harmony or conformity with something, such as a standard, a goal, or a principle.

I have been focusing on this word a lot recently, contemplating what it means to me.

What it is to be aligned? what does it mean to be aligned.

Alignment for me is a state of internal order. It is to feel like the whole of me is united, connected and in harmony. To feel my internal power in a state of balance. It feels like a solid internal state. Where I am basically internally at peace and carrying this peace with me while I am functioning.

It is an internal state that I was only able to taste once I followed my heart, once I followed my intuition, when I started making very courageous decisions.

Alignment is a state to be cultivated through courage.

Courage is what led me to nurture this feeling of alignment, why courage? because it was not easy to make those decisions or follow exactly where my heart was directing me to. It was not easy because there was a lot of fear related to every decision. It was not the type of fear that is easy to be felt or recognised, it was somehow subtle fear, the type of fear that needs to be dug up, questioned and then to be processed and to move through it.

And not all those decisions were BIG ones but nevertheless the smallest decisions were the most difficult ones.

It was difficult deciding to create boundaries with close people in my life. It was not easy breaking the norms and rules of the society I grew up in. It was not easy fighting and be a rebel.

I took decisions that made me cry a lot and grief a lot yet I took them because it was the right thing for my heart and every one of these decisions got me closer to this feeling of alignment.

Not all these decisions were about forgiveness or peace-making, most of them were also about being angry, owning my anger and putting limits to abusive and manipulative behaviour.

Many of them were about knowing myself worth, deciding that I deserve true loving, supporting, respectful dynamics of relationships.

Courage also helped me because with courage comes faith, without faith in myself as a powerful God creation and that I am supported by God in every single decision I would not have been able to be courageous. And as much as courage needs faith, faith also grows with courage. Faith is also to be cultivated as all the most powerful tools God has given us to live in earth.

So, Alignment for me is something we can have through courage and faith. It is something worth thriving to have, worth cultivating, worth having and returning to, because it is an internal state that makes everything that we do more powerful and more meaningful.