Hello and welcome to Divine Me Time.
This is Beth with your monthly alignment for November 2026.
The title,
From Struggle to Naturalness.
Did you enjoy last month's break from the idea of aligning?
It was meant to be a reset,
A letting go of our concepts and ideas about what it means,
Or doesn't,
To align.
Sometimes,
More often than not actually,
We think there's something that we need to do,
Accomplish,
Fight,
Or change.
True alignment is natural and unfolds the way a flower bud responds to the sun and water.
Resistance is what kills it.
So what keeps us in the illusion that we even need to align?
Where is our focus that instead of naturalness we struggle?
What keeps us bound and tight,
Like a bud that never blossoms.
Struggle comes when we want to control our circumstances,
Relationships,
And feelings,
Or anything else.
Struggle comes with pride that we are somehow special or better than others.
Especially when those others have chosen a different way of life.
Ironically,
What sustains any sense of superiority is inferiority and vice versa.
Struggle comes with arrogance,
And the idea that we actually do or should have a say in the lives of others.
Even what we think of as our own life.
There is a self-protective mechanism in us,
Sometimes quite at the surface,
And other times very subtle.
This mechanism,
Sometimes referred to as ego,
Wants to protect us from disappointment and other emotional pain,
Such as rejection.
It wants to keep us separate because anything else feels frightening or threatening.
This mechanism may have served us at one time,
But with maturity,
It's about transcending this way of coping with an uncertain world.
When we're willing to let go,
Trust,
Be more humble.
This is when things start to change or shift.
It makes a space for something greater to enter.
This month's practice is simply to prostrate.
A practice not necessarily religious,
But a posture of humility,
Surrender,
And reverence towards the natural self.
A nature that has been conditioned out of itself by all the rules of society,
Religion,
And culture.
It symbolizes the dissolution of the ego as the strategy center,
Our head,
Is lowered beneath the heart.
It can help settle mental chatter and make us more receptive to the clarity that comes with grace.
Now,
To many Western minds,
The idea of bowing or prostrating is demeaning.
But demeaning for who?
It is that very sense of personal importance that keeps us from our naturalness.
We believe there is some identity to protect.
Someone who can be demeaned.
Get down on your knees and pray a prayer that is not about asking for something or some boon,
As is the more common practice and way to talk to God instead of being with God.
Rather,
Let it be a plea to the Divine to dissolve all in you that keeps you feeling separate and fearful,
That you may fully realize the Self.
Ask for the support of love itself,
Not to return you to your naturalness,
But to simply reveal it,
Because it's been there all along.
Unstained for those of you who are served by journaling.
This month,
Take a moment to consider that which is natural to you and that which has been added to you since your birth.
All your beliefs,
Your clothes,
Your work,
It all came after.
What was there from the start and has never changed the way your body has changed from that of an infant to that of an adult?
Even your name isn't original to you,
It was given.
Give this a decent amount of contemplation and return to it often.
So let's do a little practice together now.
We're going to prostrate.
And do take care of your body.
So if you're not comfortable being on your knees,
Or the floor gives you any pain,
Just put something soft under your knees,
Or modify the way that you bow.
You could even bow towards a chair or couch,
Placing your upper body,
Your arms,
Your head on the chair for support.
You can also lie flat on the ground if that's comfortable,
Spreading your arms out to a T and turning your head either right or left.
Lots of ways to do it.
How it looks is not important.
What's important is what you feel inside.
So before we enter our posture,
Just take a moment to prepare your prayer.
What are you going to ask for and how are you going to ask it?
I'm going to give you some space to become precise.
Remember,
This is not asking for something.
This is about pleaing to the divine to allow you to see who you truly are.
Now,
Come into your prostration.
It's best to have the palms open and facing upward,
Whatever posture you may find yourself in.
Clear your mind of any extraneous thoughts and focus on your prayer.
And now as you rise back up,
Just take a moment of stillness.
Feel how that simple practice has impacted your state of mind and being.
You can return to this practice once a day,
Multiple times a day.
At night before bed.
It doesn't have to be a long prostration.
That ends this practice together.
I'll see you next month.
