THOUGHTS ON ALIGNMENT- Lynette Arkadie
We spend so much time learning…learning history, mathematics, language arts in school. Learning how to ride a bike, cook, make the bed. We learn how to drive, perform job tasks and how to advance in our careers. And yet, we neglect to learn the one thing that affects every single aspect of our lives. The one thing that innervates every thing we think, feel and experience day in and day out. It’s the communication between our body, mind and spirit.
There is a communication loop between these three aspects of our “selves.” When these three parts of you are incongruent, your life will feel chaotic, and you will find it difficult to move forward and manifest your dreams. If you want to take charge of the direction of your life, you need to learn how to get them into vibrational alignment.
The brilliant spiritual teacher, Neville Goddard said it best, “The whole of creation exists in you, and it is your destiny to become increasingly aware of its infinite wonders and to experience ever greater and grander portions of it.”
Heres what it looks like if your body, mind and spirit are in alignment:
You think a thought - have a desire - your higher self gives you inspiration on how to manifest that desire - you receive that inspiration in your mind - as you think about that idea, you attract more thoughts that are in vibrational alignment with that thought - you start to have feelings as you imagine the desired outcome - the feelings take the inspiration from the level of thought into the level of the physical - you take inspired action - you are in vibrational alignment body-mind-spirit - you attract your desired outcome into your physical life experience. Voilá! Magic!
If misalignment occurs between the spirit and the mind, it looks like this:
You think a thought - have a desire - your higher self gives you inspiration on how to manifest that desire - you receive that desire in your mind - you immediately let your fear-based thoughts take over - you start to feel fear or disempowerment - you feel uncomfortable - you abandon this idea and go back to your comfort zone. Nothing changes!
Here is what it looks like when you are out of alignment at the level of the physical:
You think a thought - have a desire - your higher self gives you inspiration on how to manifest that desire - you receive that inspiration in your mind - as you think about that idea, you attract more thoughts that are in vibrational alignment with that thought - you start to have feelings as you imagine the desired outcome - the feelings take the inspiration from the level of thought into the level of the physical - you wait for something to happen - you take no action - nothing changes!
You need to send out a consistent vibration for your desire in order to align with it and therefore attract it into your physical experience.
If your spirit is saying “hey, this is what you want, and here is a way to get it,” and your mind is saying “nope, too scary,” those are too different vibrations, right? If your mind is saying “Yes! Great idea! I can see myself doing that!” And your physical self says “Eh, that sounds like a lot of effort, and I am pretty darn comfortable sitting right here on my couch.” Those are two different vibrations you are sending out. The dominant one will attract your experiences.
Let’s say the you have managed to align your spirit, mind, and body. You have received the inspiration from spirit, you have aligned your thoughts with it, and successfully squelched the resistance from your ego. You have even taken some new action toward your desire. Bravo! But then, you look around you, and your desire hasn’t shown up yet. In fact, you have manifested the exact opposite of what you wanted! This makes no sense, right? Before you throw in the towel, and run as fast as you can back to your comfort zone, let’s expose this little known phenomena that causes us to sabotage our results more often than not.
Once again, it’s just a matter of energy. Actually it’s a matter of matter and energy. When you translate that new vibrational thought into action within the physical dimension, you are introducing a new vibration that is different than the current dominant vibration in your environment. Although you can change the vibrational frequency at the level of spirit and mind immediately, things take longer when we try to change the vibration in our dense, physical world.
So, there is a period of time between when you have taken inspired action, which introduced the new vibration into your physical world, and the appearance of the physical things and experiences aligned with that new vibration. During that grace period, things aligned with your old vibration continue to show up.
I call it a grace period, because as awesome as it sounds to be able to have what you want to manifest show up immediately, thank goodness it doesn’t! Think of how many times you change your mind. Think of how many different thoughts you have in any given 10 minute period of time. Imagine what it would be like if all of those thoughts instantly physically manifested! For one thing, you would drive yourself insane trying to keep yourself from thinking about anything “bad”! Imagine having to have that level of control over every single thought you have.
Unless you are some kind of Tibetan monk or guru, you most likely haven’t devoted the time and practice it would take to be in so much control of your thoughts that you could safely produce instant manifestations. It is possible, but it takes a level of complete mental control, complete trust, total faith, and a complete lack of egoic resistance. The majority of us cannot currently pull that off. But, there are those that can, and have in front of hundreds of witnesses.
For the rest of us, we have to wait out this lag time. It’s what we do during that waiting period that can make or break our success.
Let’s say you are trying to manifest more money. You have successfully recognized the inspiration from your spirit. You have been given inspiration to create a Facebook ad that will drive people to your website where they can then sign up for whatever it is you are selling. It feels right. You have kept your resistant thoughts from getting in the way, your mind and spirit are in alignment. Then you actually took physical action by creating the Facebook ad, selecting your target audience and actually launching the ad! Your physical self is now beginning to align with your mind and spirit. Remember, it takes longer for your physical vibration to change only because the 3rd dimension of physical matter is denser than the dimension of thought or spirit.
You are feeling pretty optimistic though! You are sure that prosperity is just around the corner. Then… your furnace breaks. Crap. Now you have to spend $300 to have it repaired. The next day, you get your credit card statement and are reminded of your huge balance and your larger than normal minimum payment due. Ugh. It certainly seems like this is the opposite of the prosperity you were expecting! Just when you think it won’t get any worse, your start to have technical issues with your website. That’s it! This must be a sign. Obviously, this isn’t going to work out…everybody abandon ship!
Sound familiar? This opposite reaction to what you are trying to manifest is a real phenomenon. It happens to everyone (unless you are one of those monks or gurus mentioned before). It is an uncomfortable inevitability. You will feel the discomfort of the dissonance between your old stuff aligned with your old vibration, and your new vibrational thoughts. But, on the other side of that discomfort, is the attainment of your desires.
You just have to keep your head down and stay the course. Continue to take action aligned with your new vibrational thoughts and inspiration. Don’t let yourself get knocked out of alignment! Don’t let this seeming lack of evidence sway you from your faith. If you give into it and let your thoughts shift back into alignment with the current physical reality, you will stay there.
Although you will feel more comfortable with your old way of thinking, don’t allow your thoughts to go back to the vibration that matches what you are currently seeing in your environment! Just wait and know that your environment will catch up to match the vibration of your thoughts. The shift will occur, only if you stay in alignment.
I love this quote from Abraham Hicks “The more in vibrational sync you are with who you really are, then the more you are allowing only those things that you’re wanting, and the less resistance there is. And the less resistance there is, then the less delay between the idea of the thought and the receiving of it.”
The inspiration you received from your spirit is in sync with who you really are as a divine being. Keeping your thoughts and actions aligned with this will always allow those desires to manifest. If you let yourself start to focus again on “what is”, and “what is” is only a physical manifestation of your past vibrational frequency, then you will be in resistance with the new vibrational frequency that matches the new manifestations you hope to see.