Lesson #13: Aligning heaven and earth

The dichotomy of heaven and earth comes up in many different ways. The obvious one for me has been in aikido training where a few practices involve harnessing energy and bringing it into our body and down to the earth.

This alignment of spirit and matter is part of many spiritual practices. But the area I’m thinking of as I write this is around our soul / the spirit part of us, and our ego / the human part of us.

Tonight during a coaching call, in response to a comment I had made around my desire to integrate all of the personality aspects (in which it seemed I was in fact rejecting some of my ‘type 5’ qualities, the idea of ‘aligning your ego with your soul’ was mentioned. In this case, those human / personality aspects of us are in fact our strengths, and aligning these with our soul involves an accepting of our unique quirks and talents as part of the journey of evolving on our soul journey.

Our human journey and evolution is why we are here on earth (I believe). Bringing appreciation and acceptance to the human side of our experience is part of our ‘coming to earth’.

Not a very conclusive lesson this time. Perhaps it needs more thought or more clarification. But there it is, all the same :).