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ALIGNING WITH THE FOUR WORLDS; A GUIDE TO ACHIEVING FULL VITALITY

Overview

Using the wisdom of the Medicine Wheel, we explore how to achieve alignment with all the worlds — inside and outside of us.

Natural Alignment

	Flowers at Two Medicine Lake Glacier National Park

Full health comes when our internal and external worlds are balanced and in alignment. When all the aspects of the self are aligned, grace is present. Our dance through life is an attempt to align ourselves with all the realms in which we live. As we awaken our body, mind, spirit, emotions and sexuality to our full life-force, we begin to experience the potential to achieve an even higher level of energy.

However, awakening and revitalizing the five aspects of ourselves is not our reason for existence. It is also aligning with all the worlds. For many people, this aligning first occurs with the detoxing of the five aspects. Then it proceeds to the rebuilding of these aspects.

Somewhere on this journey we start to sense that there may be more to this process — that there is more to life than just being healthy. Even without knowing why, we strive to be in alignment with not only our internal five aspects and worlds, but also our external worlds. The native traditions speak of the Four Worlds of Mother Earth: fire, water, earth and air. When we expand our awareness beyond ourselves to Mother Earth, we expand our existence to a bigger field.

Once we begin to incorporate or embody these external worlds, we start to fill a bigger part of ourselves. We are more than our bodies; we are an integral part of Mother Earth. Through aligning with this bigger Self, we can take nourishment from these worlds. The experience of being at a beach or walking through the woods and feeling the revitalization that occurs is a small illustration of what is possible.

Sacred Alignment

From integrating the Four Worlds of Mother Earth we are able to expand further to the Milky Way Choreographers of the Four Directions: the Suns, the Moons, the Earths, the Stars of our galaxy. These are the rulers or the energies that drive each of the Four Worlds of Mother Earth. When we are aligned to their power, we are pulling in even more energy. We actually become bigger, and our power is more than the self, more than of our world. The power and vitality come from the alignment of all relations of the Creator.

Our journey to wellness often begins with the search to alleviate a problem; it progresses to enhancing our existence. Then if we continue, we begin to connect with our source. At each level there are healings and lessons to be learned. This trek through healing becomes the foundation for the alignment with our Higher Self for it is impossible to connect to the higher energies, let alone hold them, without having a strong body. We may be able to talk the talk of spiritualism, but we are not dancing it. Also, in some way just talking the talk will lead us astray. We will not be living the life we speak about.

Experiencing the other realms of the Creator can be a humbling experience. We learn that we are not the determiners, Spirit is. She will bring us back to where we need to be to start over to achieve the Sacred Alignment.

How to Start the Journey

Because each level is a wheel or circle of its own, each appropriate level can be entered from any direction. With intent or with the unconscious guidance from Spirit, you will travel through all aspects of each wheel. As we move to the next levels, we own and heal these aspects.

You will be catalyzed by either a problem or an inspiration on where to start your travel around the wheel you are dancing. Sometimes it is the body that gets the attention. Often, we deal with the symptom. When that does not give us what we want, we move on to looking at the cause. Here we often discover that one problem goes much deeper to many causes.

An old back problem may be due to scar tissue from old injuries, the emotional stress of a difficult work situation, a lack of passion or something to live for, a mind that is too critical and a sexual history of shame. As one of these aspects begins to release, the others start to move. To get all aspects to fully release will take more than one discipline and a finite period of time.

The unwinding of a life or lives of old trauma never occurs quickly. It is not just the release that needs to take place, but also the learning needs to integrated. Karmic patterns that run deep transform from full ownership.

Acceptance of how we created a pattern is often the final stage of the complete healing. (An example would be realizing that the back pain was created by: the body being abused to prove worthiness, not speaking feelings to co-workers due to beliefs of being dumb, and a lack of reason to live due to a fear of taking big risks.) Other realizations would include how our minds chatter to distract us from our emotions and that an old sexual shame about his or her body prevented a person from using the sexual life force energy in a good way.

The specific steps are individual; the overall design of the choreography is universal. Knowing the bigger picture allows us to accept the little disappointments while staying focused on a large goal. The design of how to achieve a full alignment becomes the map, which can greatly facilitate the journey.

If we know that all the internal world aspects need to be in alignment, we can intentionally design our own plan and not rely on circumstance to be the determiner. Here is a place where being proactive with our mind can be of assistance. Designing a program that incorporates disciplines from all the Four Worlds will speed the journey and bring grace to the experience.

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