Alignment is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Several books and seminars have brought up the topic and it started me thinking. It’s almost like when we incarnate, our spirit imprints a particular shape on the universe, which is our shape. Like a cookie cutter image. If we live “lined up” with this shape then the universal energy stream can flow through that cutout to us unimpeded, and through us to our projects and creations.

It’s like a person-shaped window in a solid wall, that the sun can shine through. If we stand in front of it, the sun can warm every part of us and we’ll feel great. If we are not in alignment, however– either don’t feel we deserve to stand fully in the sun, or allow others to pull us away from the window, or think that it’s not the right thing to just stand there– then we may have to go through all kinds of contortions and try to invent devices that will get the sun to reflect over to where we are.

Abraham talks about this as the “stream” and that we are in a canoe either going with the flow of the current, or fighting our way upstream, or so crosswise of the stream that we get flung against the boulders. Our training says that the hard way is the most rewarding and meritable, that it’s “too easy” to just let go the oars and go with the flow.

Whatever analogy we use, it seems to say that being in alignment is easy. It’s the path of least resistance in a positive sense. It may not be easy to find that place, we are so programmed against it that it can be right under our noses and we don’t even see it. But once we do find it I think the promise of a creative satisfying life is limitless.