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The work of alignment

James Anderson

Abstract
Aligning oneself to the Truth of one’s being is a key to well-being and health. The soul is the chief
determinant in regaining wholeness. However, in the early stages of growth, it works from behind the
scene, so one needs to find that part of our nature which resonates most strongly with the psychic
influence. In the author’s experience, the work of alignment comes through detailed observation, a
process of the Integral Yoga, and the enquiry that accompanies it produces a dynamic shift towards the
Truth. Progress requires immense personal effort at the beginning but the aim is always for alignment
to become our spontaneous, natural state.

The beginning decision to unite with it. From this first
glimpse, we start to move progressively
To be inwardly aligned is to be connected towards it. To know it deeply by identity
to the Truth of one’s being. Deep within the becomes our overriding goal.
heart is to be found a hidden recess where
the ultimate answer lies. It is the only It also becomes the key to a more complete
adequate answer to humanity’s endless state of health and well-being. The key to
question: how to end this life of misery? alignment lies in harmonisation inside.
Only the Truth can provide the panacea for Without harmony, the separate parts of our
complete well-being. Here, deep inside each nature rub against each other or collide, a
one of us, the evolving soul or psychic being chief cause of physical or mental illness. Any
resides, waiting to assume rightful mastery inner imbalance eventually surfaces on the
over our nature and our life. This is the Truth body. So what ensues is a process of
and it is every human’s mission in life to integration and the momentum of this work
find it and unite with it. When the soul is is always towards oneness: one indivisible
ready, a call comes and there is a point nature around the central Truth. But it can
where it all unfolds. So the first phase is be a very long journey.
one of awakening. Slowly or suddenly, we
become aware, vaguely or concretely, that In my experience, the emphasis of this work
there is this Truth within us and we make a consists of addressing the causes rather than

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