How do I Align with God's Will?
This can be a very difficult and confusing question. It is important for each of us to go within and search for the answer. As we examine our lives and the circumstances that we find ourselves in, we wonder if we are correct in what we are doing.
Is this God's Will or is this my own will? Am I fooling myself into thinking that I am correct? It is important to remember that God always knows.
The first step in the Alignment process is to ask. God is always there, waiting. But why must we ask? Is it not true that God is all knowing and all powerful? If so, He already knows what is needed and could just do it. This is true, but God will not take control of the situation. God has given us the gift of free will so that we have the freedom to choose. If we have chosen not to Align with God's Will, then we must accept the consequences of our choice. Even though He has the Power, God will not interfere with the lesson. Instead, we must each take the first step in the process of returning to God.
To begin this process, ask for Perfect Alignment with God's Will in every aspect of life. Even if we have no idea of what to do, the process of Alignment will begin when the request is made. Choosing to ask for Alignment is a good example of making a choice from the Higher Self perspective. The more choices that are made from the Higher Self, the closer we are to actual Alignment. In order to make such choices, it is important to become more clear.
In making a Higher Self decision, it is important to be able to step back and up, looking at the situation from a different perspective. In doing this, we begin to develop clarity. If the situation is clouded or confused, it can be difficult to even recognize the need to see things differently. Things are not usually going well. We are usually allowing our emotions or others to sway our choices. First, we decide to do one thing. Then, we change our mind and do something else. Our time frames become confused as we are not sure when things should happen. Communication problems develop with others, and we see a general deterioration of many of our relationships and other situations in our life. Sometimes, this can be traumatic. This will usually continue until we begin to question what we have chosen and why. Life will continue to put things in our face until we make a major decision: We must choose to see things more clearly.
As we become more clear, our decisions feel more correct. If a choice has been made from the Higher Self, there is no doubt that it is the right thing to do. Of course, there may still need to be certain aspects of the situation that need to be worked with, but we know in our heart that what we are doing is what is best for all.
In order to develop this clarity, we need to clear our being on all levels. If we examine our being, we can look at our Self as having four different aspects. We can call these parts of our Self the Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Bodies. Of course, in truth we are all One, but it helps to break us down to help us work with our different aspects. As we work on clearing all levels of all of our bodies, our choices become better as we move closer and closer to actual Alignment with God's Will.
The Physical Body is a truly amazing structure. Billions of cells are functioning in harmony as we go about our daily tasks, unaware of the complexity that science is only beginning to understand.. We never need to think about breathing, digestion, conversion of food to energy, blood flow, waste elimination, or any of the other processes that occur within us simultaneously and automatically. There is indeed a universe within us that in many ways is similar to the planet we live on and the universe we inhabit. God has created a perfect system that performs miracles every second.
However, most of us are not able to recognize this perfection because of the choices that we have made. As we go about our daily life, we may not care properly for our physical body by not eating correctly, lack of sleep, lack of exercise, excessive stress, and other inappropriate activities. When we do this, it is natural for the body not to function correctly. It is, in fact, important, because the Physical Body needs to communicate with us. It is telling us that it is not being cared for correctly. We need to learn how to listen to the body and make the corrections. The body knows that we are not in Alignment with God's Will. If lack of alignment continues, it is possible for us to manifest disease and discomfort.
Instead, we need to work to clear the Physical Body of the difficulties that we have created. God has created a perfect structure, so all we need to do is to get back into the harmony that is natural for us. Most of what we are doing is related to lack of love of Self. If we really love our Self, we will change and heal. The body will begin to come back into balance and harmony. God's Love for us is perfect, and we must all work to love our self as God has Loved us. In doing so, we will become closer and closer to perfect Alignment.
The Mental Body is the part of Self that is called the mind and is the source of our thoughts and the thinking process. The physical part of the body associated with the mind is the brain. The Mental Body has a huge capacity. Most of us are only using a small percentage of our capability. Recorded within our memory cells is every thought, action, or deed we have ever done, within this life and the past. Even though we may not be able to access this information yet, we are evolving as a race to be able to remember much more in the future.
The mental thoughts that we are constantly generating are much more powerful than currently understood. Our thoughts literally have the power of creation. We are creating our reality each and every moment. As we evolve, we will begin to develop the power to create instantaneously In other words, when we think something, it will then become reality. This is a wonderful gift, but it must be used correctly. Positive thought will create a positive reality. However, negative thought will create a negative reality. Because most of us have not learned to focus the mental body on the positive, we tend to manifest a negative reality.
If we are thinking negative thoughts about our Self, others within our life, our current situation, and in all other aspects of our live, we will create a negative reality. Of course, the purpose of this creation is to learn a lesson that we have chosen. Since a lesson is being learned in all cases, the so-called negative thoughts do in reality create a net positive. However, this is usually difficult to see because of the negative reality that seems to have been created. In fact, this reality will cloud the mental body to such a degree that we think we are stuck here, and this is all there is.
Some of blocks in clearing our Mental Body involve the interactions we have with others in our life. Most others do not have the awareness that they are also creating their reality to such a degree. In our interactions, we tend to become emotionally involved and allow others to help us to create our reality. Their thoughts are also very powerful and have an affect upon us. This can become very confusing, because we become a part of their lessons as well. We may make the choice to Align with God and create a new reality, however, they may choose not to change. Of course, they always have the free will to make this choice. They may in fact need to stay in their current negative reality in order to learn a very important lesson for them. Of course, we want to assist them to see things differently, but first we must ask for Alignment with God's Will and allow what is for their Highest Good to happen.
Of course, our true reality is that everything we have created is perfect so that the lessons can be learned. But the Mental Body must be cleared so that we can begin to think differently and create this new, positive reality.
To clear the Mental Body, it is important to begin to think only positive, constructive thoughts. Of course, it is important to be realistic. It took a long time and a great deal of negative thoughts to create the reality we are currently within. In order to change this reality, we must work hard to maintain the positive thoughts even though we continue to see the negative. The fact is that we have been programmed in many ways to maintain this old reality. In order for change to manifest, we must begin to re-program our Mental Body for the positive. A good way to begin is with the following continuous thought: "I am Aligning with God's Will in every aspect of my life."
The Emotional Body is the aspect of Self associated with all the emotions that we feel or have ever felt in this life and all others. Working with the Emotional Body is usually a great challenge for most of us.
It is very important to be aware that many of our emotions come from the past. This can help us to understand many of the reactions we have to others. If we have a strong past life connection with someone, that connection remains until it is cleared. The Emotional Body retains the emotions and we will feel them as if they are from our present reality. It can become very confusing, because the feelings are so strong. In order to recognize this, go within and look at the situation from the Higher Self. Are the feelings coming from my present reality? Do I really know this person? If the feelings are present but I do not see how they are related to my current situations, then it is probably a past life emotion. Our process then is to learn to let go of the emotion and work to stay in present reality.
Of course, many of the emotions that we feel from others that we are close to in our current life are also from the past. If these are positive feelings, then of course we want to maintain and nurture these feelings. However, when we observe negative emotions, we must work to clear them, knowing that the source may be from the past as well as current situations. Of course, we are creating our reality in order to learn a lesson. Within these lessons, we tend to come together with others from the past so that we can work with the emotions.
The difficulty is created when the Emotional Body becomes stuck. We become clouded with negative emotions such as jealousy, anger, insecurity, hate, and other fear based emotions. Because of these feelings, we tend to make poor decisions. The reality created based on these negative emotions will also be negative. Of course, the true reality is that we are learning a lesson, but it can be very difficult to get out of this negative reality. We tend to move into a negative spiral. The negative feelings pull us down. Then, the negative reality created by these feelings cause us to have more negative emotions. These new feelings pull us down further, and the cycle continues. This can be very dangerous, because some of us lose the will to live, thinking that our whole life has no purpose.
This must be changed. The purpose of these so-called negative situations is to become stronger. The emotional strength that is created by going through difficult emotional challenges is enormous. This strength is very important, because it will allow us to assist many others in the future.
Working to clear the Emotional Body can be very frustrating. This body seems to have a mind of its own. Sometimes, we find ourselves saying and doing things that do not make logical sense. We look back and wonder why things happened to us. Why did we "act" that way? The answer is that we are, in fact, acting. It is as if we are the characters in a grand drama, and we have been given a certain "role" in life to play. In many ways, we are rehersing for this performance, trying to get it correct. We keep doing it over and over again. Our emotions will continue to bring us back to the same situations in life until we get it right.
When we can begin to realize that we are actually making up a "story" in order to learn our lessons, it allows us to change this drama. We learn that we can create a new drama, a new reality, in which there does not need to be so much pain and difficulty. Learning to forgive is needed in order to move into this new reality. One very effective forgiveness process to help us create our new reality has been developed by Colin Tipping called "Radical Forgiveness" (http://www.radicalforgiveness.com ). This process is very powerful in helping us to feel our feelings and begin the process of accepting that everything that has been created is perfect.
As we learn to forgive our Self and others, the Emotional Body becomes clearer. In creating us, God has given us the capacity to Love and to be Loved. This is a wonderful blessing. A young baby just being born into the world is a great example of this. The infant loves all perfectly. Anyone that connects with the newborn will feel this love and will return this love to them as well. This is a very natural expression of true Unconditional Love. God has shown all of us this Love by allowing us each to enter the world as children so that we can feel and remember Him. Each one of us still has this Inner Child within our being.
When we observe the Emotional Body creating situations that are harmful to us, we need to step back and ask the question: "Would I do this to a young child? Would I treat them this way?" If not, realize that we should not do this to our self either, because we are also children within. This Inner Child needs to loved and nurtured, not abused. Visualize this Inner Child within and give them many loving hugs each day.
We are Children of God. Although we have freedom, God does not want us to continue to hurt ourselves. As we Align with God's Will, the Emotional Body will assist us in bringing God's true reality on Earth, as we all learn to love ourself and others as He has Loved us.
The Spiritual Body is the aspect of our being that shows the manifestation of Heaven on Earth. We are in fact Spiritual Beings first. The physical reality that we see is only a small part of our true reality. Our reason for being here is to realize our true Oneness with the All. We have forgotten in order to learn our lessons, but as we Ascend and Awaken, we begin to remember who we are.
It is difficult to see our spiritual essence because it is not visible. In fact, some will even deny the reality of God. Of course, this is not true, but it shows how clouded we can be. We exist. Therefore, we have been created. If we have been created, there must be a Creator. To deny the Creator is inconsistent, because we are here. Of course, this is an extreme example. Most of us will say that we believe in God. However, even though most of us will accept the reality of God, we tend to deny some aspect of our spirituality. We must remember our true essence in every aspect of our life.
Most of us go through our daily routines in a state of sleep, not aware of the spiritual reality all around us. We know deep down that there is something more, something that we are missing. But we struggle to remember this as we become busy in all our tasks and commitments. But things are changing. The reality is that the Earth is Ascending, and all of us must Ascend with Her. We must wake up from this sleep state. God is within us. He is not just there when we go to a church, temple, or synagogue to pray. God is in fact integrated in every aspect of our life. He is there with every breath we take. Our heart beats with the essence of God. There is nothing that is not of God. Even the so-called difficulties that we have created assist us to remember God. Even though trauma can be tragic and heartbreaking, it will always cause us to return to God. Many will ask the question: "Why? Why me, God?" The answer is simple: So that we will remember Him and learn to Align with His Will.
In order to clear the Spiritual Body and develop more clarity, we need each spend more time in the Higher Self state. In this state, we can work to Ascend and Awaken to our reality. Of course, there are many ways to get to this awareness, but some type of meditation process is usually helpful. A consistent meditative process that is done daily will show positive results. Such a process will also assist the clearing of all the other bodies, as we re-connect with spirit. Each person needs to develop their own, unique way. Because we are individuals, our path back to God will be different from another's process. Of course, we can assist others to remember that they also must go within and remember.
It is usually best that the meditations be done at least once per day. More is better. The reason for this is the 24 hour cycle. All energy returns to its source after a 24 hour period. In meditation, we are connecting with God's Energy. This is very helpful, but the Energy will return to God after 24 hours. If it is possible to meditate everyday at the exact same time, then the energy will remain. But if more than 24 hours have passed, the energy will return to the source and there may be some difficulties. However, if we are meditating at least twice per day, there is less risk of allowing a full day to pass without re-connecting.
As we go within, we begin to find true clarity. We re-connect with our Mission in Life. God has given each one of us unique gifts that we are to share with others. As we discover and use our God given gifts to assist our self and others, the Alignment process becomes more and more part of our every day life.
Alignment with God's Will does not always mean we get what we want. God knows what we need. He always wants what is best for us. As we come closer into Alignment, things will improve, but it may not be what we expect. As we let go of our own will, and let God work His Wonders, a whole new world opens up for us. We become more and more clear. With this clarity, we are able to make better decisions, coming closer and closer to perfect Alignment.
As we clear every aspect of our being, we move towards Balance and Harmony. This will lead us to the Inner Peace that we all seek. As we create Peace within ourselves, we can then share this Peace with others, helping us to create Peace in all of our relationships: within our families, communities, nations, the world, and the universe. This is what we have come here to do.
Peace is God's Will for all of us.
Background Information
Steven Kaplan has been working with and developing the Spiritual Warriors for over 11 years. He has a degree in Chemical Engineering from GA Tech. He has worked for Chevron, Dupont, and Westinghouse, working in both Engineering and the application of Organizational Effectiveness technology. He has owned and operated his own business for over 12 years. Steven has been trained as a Radical Forgiveness Coach. He is a Black Belt in Karate, under the US Tai organization. Steven has worked with individuals and groups to help them realize their potential in all areas of life.
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