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Alignment is one of those words that's thrown around a lot but rarely defined. If you're a person who likes the way soul alignment sounds but don't really get what it is or how to do it, then this post is for you. We'll go through everything to do with soul alignment, and why it matters. And I'll share my favorite practices for getting into soul alignment and staying there, too. Even when you're feeling down!

So what even IS soul alignment?

Alignment is defined as the act of adjusting parts in relation to each other so that they’re in a straight line or in the correct relative positions. It's important because if the separate parts of a whole don't work well together, the system crashes. Like the parts in old-fashioned clocks and watches. Or the parts of a car. If one thing falls out of alignment, the whole system stops.

When we talk about alignment in the context of being soulsmart, the parts we're adjusting are parts of YOU. Soul alignment means aligning your human self, the person you perceive yourself to be, with your higher self, your soul. You're not just what you can see in the mirror, there's so much more to you than meets the eye! Working with the 'other' part of you, the soul, means that you'll finally approach the world with all that you are, from a place of wholeness. This will give you access to more wisdom and more power to shape your reality so that you can experience your dream life.

So, soul alignment means aligning these two parts of you: your human self and your soul self. These two parts don’t always work well together and therefore need to be regularly aligned and re-aligned. This is totally normal! Misalignment doesn't mean that there's something wrong with you, it's a completely natural part of things. It happens because the soul has a certain path to follow, and you don't consciously know about it. By regularly focusing on alignment, you'll make sure that what you're doing in your life matches what the soul intended: you'll fulfil your soul's purpose for this lifetime.

How to align with your soul

Soul alignment is essentially aligning your energy vibration with the vibration of your soul. Being in soul alignment is the same thing as being high vibration! This is because when you align yourself with your higher self, your soul, you're aligning with the high frequencies that the soul vibrates at. What are these? The frequencies of joy, love and peace.

This means that to align with your soul you need to identify and do things that put YOU in the vibrations of joy, love and peace. Not necessarily all at the same time of course, but certainly as often as possible. Essentially, aligning with your soul means doing what makes you feel GOOD. It sounds so simple, but is such a big problem for so many of us! We have been conditioned to prioritise hard work, productivity and other people's needs, and now find it difficult to allow ourselves to do things that help us feel good. And yet this is the easiest way to your dream life as it puts you on the same vibrational frequency as your soul, who knows so much more about how to manifest your deepest desires.

If you don’t know where to start, ask yourself: when do you remember feeling great in your life? When do you remember having fun? When did you feel on top of the world?

Remembering times when you felt alive, happy and in your element is a great place to start. It'll give you some clues as to what lifts your own personal vibration.  Getting to know what puts you into alignment will require some experimenting - it's like getting to know yourself at a whole different level. 

Once you start paying attention to what makes you feel aligned and what doesn't, you may find that things that work for other people don't work for you. This is totally normal - you need to focus on YOUR vibration and so you need to find activities that match your own energetic signature. 

For me, I felt really almost ashamed to admit that the things that seemed to work for most people didn't work for me - I don't like spas or massages, don't enjoy picnics or fun parks, and find meditation boring. Having the courage to not do these things and to find what DID make me feel good was a game-changer in my manifesting game. Because I was finally aligning with my own soul rather than trying to fit in with everyone else!

How to STAY aligned!

This is probably the question I get most often - how do you stay in alignment when worry sets in, or when things are going wrong… We all know that getting into a high-vibration state where we feel good is easier than staying there. It’s so easy for outside circumstances to throw our energy out of whack!

So what can you do? The most important thing that I have found is to make alignment a regular practice, to take care of your energy consistently and not only when you feel your vibe going down. The truth is that when your energy is nice and strong, it will be harder for life stuff to affect you. You might still have a reaction, of course, but it won’t be as strong or as long-lasting.

It’s the same as with your physical health - if you take your vitamins and eat your greens then your body will be better able to handle any germs that come your way. Your energy works the same way - make those core muscles strong and they will hold and carry you when needed.

So how do you make taking care of your energy a practice? I like to make sure that I do something to raise my energy and get into soul alignment every single day - just like I try to get out for a walk every day, and make sure I eat some fruit and veg. When you start thinking about it in these terms, just something you do to take care of yourself, it’ll become easier to fit in. It'll no longer be an optional extra, but a non-negotiable part of your own self care.

What I do changes each day - one day I might do some EFT tapping and another day I might journal around a particular question that’s been bothering me. The details aren’t important, what matters is that I check in with myself every day and do what I need to do to boost my energy into a higher vibration - and keep it there.

When I hit a turbulent period in life, I address my energy more than once a day. I check in with myself more regularly. I make sure to give myself what I need to feel good even more often. This makes a huge difference not only to my manifesting end result, but also to how I experience the transition from where I am to where I want to be.

Try this flexible method and see how it works for you - you’ll end up discovering lots of things that always work to make you feel strong and confident. If you’re stuck for ideas, I share lots of them in my High-Vibration Experiment.

Why soul alignment matters

Since you’re reading this blog post, I could assume that you already know that soul alignment matters… but I’ve seen too many people forget about alignment completely when time constraints appeared or they got bored. So I think it’s worth spelling the importance of alignment out really clearly!

If you want to manifest something different in your life, then stay committed to your soul alignment. This is important because manifesting is actually a skill that your soul has, not your human self. The more you align with your soul, the more perfect-for-you experiences you’ll be able to attract. The more you align with your soul, the better a manifestor you’ll be. The more you align with your soul, the more success, joy, love and fulfilment you’ll get to experience.

The truth is that although you can sometimes feel lost and confused, your soul has a clear picture of what this lifetime is all about: why you were born in the first place and what you’re here to do. Following your soul’s plan, letting your soul steer you, is how you’ll get to experience that beautiful feeling of everything being right in your life. Align with your soul and you'll be able to manifest your biggest dreams - those dreams come from your soul and your soul knows what to do to create them.

What being in soul alignment feels like

The more you address your energy, the more you’ll get to know the feeling of soul alignment. And it feels so good that you’ll definitely want more!

When you’re in soul alignment, life feels like it’s flowing. You find yourself thinking that the pieces are all coming together, that everything is falling into place. You feel like you’re on the right path, on track.

You may find that things that used to seem impossible are suddenly possible: it’s like you were unable to see the possibilities and now you they’re accessible to you. At one time, it felt impossible to me that I could ever leave my job. Logically, there was no way. As I focused on alignment though, opportunities I hadn’t seen before started to appear. I saw examples of people who’d done what I wanted to do. Possibilities for what I could do with my life instead appeared. At first, these were only glimpses into another reality but as my alignment became stronger these glimpses grew into actual possibilities I could say yes to in real life. 

It’s also not unusual for obstacles to literally fall away. Banks change their minds about what you can borrow, rules suddenly change, or loopholes appear. This can be really magical but when it happens, remind yourself that it’s a result of your alignment. It’ll make your power to re-arrange reality even stronger!

In general, when you’re in soul alignment things flow with more ease and you feel happier. You can access the vibrations of joy, love and fulfilment. Doesn't this feel like something you definitely want to aim for?

What being out of alignment feels like

Unsurprisingly, being out of alignment doesn’t feel very good. 😉 But I’m sure you already know this!

More specifically, when you fall out of alignment life feels HARD. Everything seems like an uphill battle, it’s like you have to struggle and fight for every little sign of progress. You feel like nothing is working, and lose hope that things will ever work out in your favor.

Often, misalignment feels like frustration, impatience and hopelessness. Sometimes all of these combined! It feels like you’re off track and disconnected from yourself and the universe. You certainly can’t seem to hear any guidance from your intuition and even if you did, you wouldn't trust what it was saying.

Misalignment feels plain wrong. But the good news is that you can train yourself to identify it and to see what you can do about it. Getting back into alignment is a choice that you can always make.

A message from my guide team, Avalon

I used to think that soul alignment was something a CONCEPT, something that one ponders and tries to understand. My spirit guide team, Avalon, have helped me understand that this isn't true, that alignment is actionable and practical. 

Another way to think about it as by using the term 'high vibration'. This term has been grossly misunderstood in the personal development space, taken to mean that we should all be super happy and perpetually excited all the time. This is unsustainable and damaging - it makes people feel like they're failing at spirituality if they can't keep positive, which is crazy.  You can't fail at spirituality!

'High vibration' simply means 'aligned with the high vibrations of your soul', so it's the same as soul alignment. It's so easy to think about it as feeling good though - I fell into this trap again myself the other day, and Avalon reminded me that I had it all wrong.

They said that working on your vibration has nothing to do with feeling better or happier, and everything to do with accessing the magic within you.

Lifting your vibration is about getting into alignment with your soul self, not about trying to fix something that has manifested in physical reality.

These are linked of course, and when you get into alignment your higher vibration WILL shift heaviness and attract more joy and flow, but it's important to start with the alignment and not with trying to fix the heaviness.

Here's exactly what Avalon said:

Learning to keep your vibration high means learning to live from a place of your authentic truth. Step into this and you will make contact with your deepest, truest self. This is what lifting your vibration means, learning how to leave behind the heaviness of the physical space and aligning with the soul level. At the soul level is where your magic lies, and once you know how to keep your energy vibration lifted and consistently in the soul space, you will be better able to access the magic your soul knows how to do. This is why it's important to pay attention to your vibration - not to feel better, but to access the place in you that has the power to shape reality. Become high-vibe and you'll become magic.

Reading this, I feel like my whole understanding of energy vibration and alignment shifted yet again. I've talked a lot about how being high-vibe doesn't mean staying positive, but rather staying centred in your own power, unswayed by external circumstances. With this message, I feel like we were granted access to another layer of understanding: staying high-vibe means staying in alignment with your soul so that you easily create more of what you want.

If you enjoyed this message from Avalon, you can get regular guidance from them in The Elevator.

Has this article helped you understand more about soul alignment? I hope so! If you have any further questions, feel free to use the chat box below to send them to me!

Lots of love,