What If Life is More about Alignment than Objective Reality?
Is this life meant to be more about freedom than we've been led to believe?
The Objectives: The Foundations
Okay, listen… Right from the start I want to say that I do believe in some objective facts! Facts? Beliefs? I don’t know what to label them - sometimes labels aren’t necessary 😅 not when you get what I mean! Which you will…
The “objectives” that I believe in include…
There is a Source Creator, and we often label Source Creator as God
The Essence of God is the pure energy of Love
We are connected to and are a part of God
Everything contains God’s essence
There are infinite possibilities, even within the limits of this human life
We chose to incarnate into this human life
Time isn’t linear like we perceive as humans - this is just one perspective
We are Souls, spiritual beings, in human bodies
The Totality of Who We Are (as Souls) cannot be contained in one body, one lifetime
We are made from Love, of Love, and for Love
Love is the purpose, even if we cannot objectively list out everything that aligning with Love “accomplishes”
Those are my foundations! My “objective truths” that I believe in for us all.
I’m not gonna push it onto you. I’m just gonna state it and stand firm in it! But I gotta stay open for more Truths to pile on top… Or for even better Truths to be revealed… Because it truly is always this or something better! (Who said this first?)
Now, of course there are mysteries within the objectives. There’s no way I could humanly know all there is to know about God! Perhaps even on a Soul level, beyond this human, I cannot know all there is to know about God. Ever. Because I’ll never be God - none of us will!
See, there’s always going to be some mystery. But I just don’t think the point is to learn it all, know it all, and be “done”. What’s “done”? Where’s the fun in “done”?
Mystery is actually safe when we’re talking about the mysteries of the Universe.
That type of mystery is safe. Now, the type of mystery that comes with not knowing what that shady guy in the corner is up to? Okay, that mystery might not be so safe. So, the brain is right to be wary of that sort of mystery! The brain doesn’t like mystery, and it kind of applies that dislike to all mystery… It’s not very discriminatory, automatically! That’s why we have to come in with the Truth and let it know there are different kinds of mystery - some are actually safe and awesome and fun. We get to reprogram this little supercomputer upstairs 🧠
So where is all of this going?
I wanted to start with stating the foundations I do believe in, because I think we have to have something solid on which we live and build.
Abundant Subjectives! & Alignment
But I all the time think about how much we’re told is “normal”…
Career paths.
Work schedules.
Lifestyles.
Eating routines.
Exercise routines.
Sleep routines.
Relationships.
Style.
What should happen by X age and what should stop happening by X age.
Body types.
And on and on and on…
What if the point, in any area of life, is alignment?
Alignment with Soul. Alignment with Love. Alignment with God.
You can’t have alignment with any one of the above and not have alignment with the other two!
What if it’s not about us all trying to be the same and do the same and live the same?
What if we can all have radically different lives and lifestyles and adopt the attitude of “you do you!”?
Of course we advocate for Love and we do all we can to stop harm (anything counter to Love). We all know what Love is. We do. Do we not trust ourselves here?
We all know what Love is.
This doesn’t mean we…control others in the name of Love. This means we advocate for what we believe in, what we believe to be Loving. This means we take any and all action we can to help others who are being hurt. And this even means that we take any and all action we can to help the ones who are doing the hurting to find their way back to Love! Because we all can find our way Home.
Love IS the Answer, the Point
I know… We can get into the weeds here when we start to talk about aligning with Love because anyone can say, “Well, I truly believe XYZ to be a Loving thing!”
And maybe they do.
But personal belief doesn’t automatically make it True in terms of objectivity. You can’t turn something unLoving into Love.
You can say anything is Love and convince yourself to believe it, intellectually, but that doesn’t make it align with Love.
Again, we can all feel what is Truly Loving. We have that Inside of us. We just have to clear off all the gunk and come back Home to Who We Are to be able to hear it! And we always have Guidance.
I truly believe we can trust ourselves, but we have to do the work to return to our Essence.
I’ll state it plainly one last time: We know what Love is.
Okay, so where’s all the subjectivity coming in?
Freedom in Alignment
I think a lot more of life is meant to be subjective than we think.
“Eating donuts is always bad for you!” …is it?
“Not sleeping 8 hours per night, at least, is always bad for you!” …is it?
“Running is so unhealthy for the body! We weren’t designed to run as much as people do!” …really?
“No one should be wearing XYZ past X age.” …you sure about that?
“ABC hobby is only for [blank] group of people.” …ya think?
Labels labels labels…
Rules rules rules…
Who’s coming up with these things?!
Humans.
Humans who follow. Humans who want to create norms.
Humans who follow typicality.
These people aren’t bad!!! These people aren’t wrong.
I do a lot of things that a lot of other people do! 🙋🏼♀️ We all fall into some camps, some “normal” categories.
I’m saying we don’t have to.
It’s not a given.
We are free.
You do not have to work like everyone else. You do not have to eat like everyone else. You do not have to see life like everyone else. You do not have to have the same hobbies as everyone else. You do not have to follow age rules like they tell you.
These are all made up!!!
Have you ever stopped to consider that maybe things are normal because people just go along with it all because they’re told they have to?
And maybe we wouldn’t have as many things that are “normal” if we were all given abundant freedom from the get-go?
You feel a pull to what is best for you. You know you do.
That’s your Soul calling you to alignment. Your alignment.
We just get more and more scared of following our Truth when we keep on going along with what others do or with what others say we gotta do…
We even get to the point where it’s harder to “hear” our Truth when we’ve been ignoring it for such a long time.
“My Truth” ???
I know, “my truth” is a phrase that people hate on quite heavily.
Why?
Why in the world do we all just want to be the same?
Again Sweet People, if we’re aligning with Soul and Love… Who cares?!
What does another person’s style have to do with you?
What does another person’s diet have to do with you?
What does another person’s work schedule have to do with you?
We CAN drop comparison and jealousy and the “holier than thou” attitudes. We can! Those are not a part of our True Nature.
Those are not a part of Love.
Will we always align 100% perfectly with Love? No way! Because we’re human and we have human limits. We’re all doing the very best we can. We don’t know the full Truth - we’re learning. We don’t know all of Who We Are - we’re learning. We’re always expressing new facets of Truth and Who We Are as we keep learning.
The most important thing to remember is that we can realign in any moment. We can learn. We can have self-compassion and grace. We can right the wrongs if we hurt others (or we can do our very best). We can turn back toward Love.
I know this may seem simple on the surface, but when it hits you…
IT REALLY HITS YOU!
I hope you can feel into this, deeper than the words.
You are free, Sweet Soul.
The world needs your flavor, your magic, your brand of Love.
You are on purpose and you have a purpose - you are a Purpose.
Tell me… Where have you been holding back? Where are you going to break free today? Let’s start a chain reaction in the comments and encourage each other today! 👏🏻
Until Next Time…
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