Inner Prepping | Alignment

Let 2026 be your commitment to healing and knowing your True Self. Monthly Alignments are offered to advanced seekers and old souls in support of that commitment. In this alignment, we dive into the concept of "prepping" in an unstable world as an inner experience rather than an outward one. We'll take a look at 2 principles and 2 precepts. Alignments include a short talk, a journaling prompt(s), and a practice such as meditation, mirror work, affirmations, or movement. This alignment includes a contemplative meditation accompanied by a singing bowl and ending with a bell.

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Welcome to The Alignment for September. This is Beth with Divine Me Time. Our topic today. Inner prepping. There's a lot of talk out there about the end of the world, And perhaps for good reason. Everywhere one looks, We see total destruction of life as we've known it. Frightening waste and lack of material resources, And systems of increasingly oppressive control. It's enough to make anyone want to run for the bunker, So to speak. No surprise, Many people take to the idea of prepping for emergency or even inevitable collapse. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. It's even prudent, Though it can be taken to ridiculous extremes. Here's the truth. No amount of prepping is going to save you from the ambiguity of life. Life was, Is, And forever will be unpredictable. We can do what we can do, Of course. We can do our best. But obsessing over what may come. And trying to account for every possibility is just a root chakra tantrum. Quote by William Feather. Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine. We can become so obsessed with the minutiae of an uncertain future that we fail to live now. Besides the only prepping worth doing? The only prepping that can see us through any scenario is the inner kind. So it's this month's alignment. Let's talk about some principles and precepts of inner prepping. Death comes to everyone. Funny how we do everything we can to ignore this simple fact of life. The way people collect things and try to gain power in this world, You wouldn't think it was true. We operate as if we could take everything with us. Like the ancient Egyptians burying their dead with possessions of great value. I hate to break it to them, But that stuff's been rotting away where they left it for centuries, Or is now in some museum somewhere. There are so many stories of people undergoing horrific near-death tribulations, Yet they survive. And there are stories of those who, On an otherwise perfectly ordinary day, Die from something as simple as a small cut that gets infected. When our time is up, It's up. But until that time, We go on surviving 100% of our days, As the proverbial they say. What a waste of energy to worry about when our day, Or the day of those we love, Might come. For it surely will come, And we will have zero control over it. Recently, There have been unusually big earthquakes, Floods, And massive fires from one end of the globe to the other. In a matter of minutes, One's careful preparations can become worthless. Of course, One person's careful preparations can always become someone else's blessing, Too, So there's that. But we can't plan our way out of everything. I'm not saying that one shouldn't take precautions or follow some common-sense preparations. Just know, Nothing we might do is a guarantee. Everything is frequency. This world of matter is vibrating. Everything around us and our cells are dancing fluxes of energy. Even our very thoughts hold frequency and have an enormous impact on our bodies and the greater world we experience. Our heart emits energy, Our emotions themselves are energy. If we don't understand this principle, There is no hope of understanding the ways in which we easily succumb to lower frequency forces. And certainly, There's no hope of being able to change our frequency. The moment we succumb to outside forces, Or if our energy falls as a result of our own sloppy energy habits. Frequency is affected by many things. We may be tired or hungry or stressed out. We may be repeating critical thoughts. Perhaps we are shut down to our feelings. All of this has an impact on our ability to emit and attract. We all know how when we're in love or when life is going our way, We feel on top of the world. Nothing can bring us down. Likewise, We've all had experiences of keeping company with negative people, And we know the pull their energy exerts. We know, And yet we don't realize that we have the power to change our state. And often even the state of others. Frequency is no joke. There are forces at play taking advantage of our lack of awareness, Keeping us in states of anxiety and fear. If we spend our days letting external frequencies determine our own, We're not preparing, We're sleepwalking. We have to recognize and actively seek that which lifts us up, Nourishes the soul, And lights our heart. That must become the greater habit and impulse. Know thyself and heal. Quote by Greg Brayden. The better we know ourselves, The less we fear change in the world around us, Because the better we know ourselves, Our sense of well-being doesn't depend upon that external world, And perhaps most importantly, The better we know ourselves, The less we fear our own power. To heal is to come into wholeness or holiness, Per the original meaning. We must care for our bodies and minds, But not in the ways we've been conditioned to believe. No one lives in your body but you. No doctor or therapist, No yoga teacher, No guru can tell you what you feel. And yet, How often do we unquestioningly give over our power of inner knowing to some or other authority figure, Well-reasoned theory, Or long-standing assumption? Whether driven by our own disembodiment or by fear, The unconscious abdication of our power tends to cause, Not heal, Injury. We become more confused, Not less. Now, To be clear, I'm not saying ignore your doctor, Your therapist, Your yoga teacher, Or anyone who is trained in some knowledge which you may lack. Rather, I'm suggesting you question everything and always check in with yourself before swallowing anything. Or put another way, Stop seeking external validation for your own inner knowing. And or stop overriding your messages with someone else's reason or contradiction. Believe it or not, Inner knowing is a muscle which we all have, But it has languished and become flaccid over time, Encased in self-doubt. With slow methodical practice, We can retrain our inner radar and know when to pay attention, To believe, Or to run the other direction. We know instinctively what is and is not for us. We can assess with clarity what is needed in any given situation. And as Greg Braden's quote reminds us, When we know ourselves, We can fully embrace our power, Not with arrogance, But with certainty. Then, What have we to fear? But we might need one more item in our prepping arsenal. Trust in something greater at work. I often write about how far removed we have become from the source of all. We don't know where we come from or who we actually are. So our faith, An energy we all expend towards something, Is tethered to either the external world, Faith in money, Faith in religion, Faith in TikTok, Or to our own inner reserves which often fall short. How anyone lives in this day and age without faith in something bigger saddens and mystifies me. The universe has an intelligence far greater than any human or human-trained AI could ever hold. It is run with exceptional mathematical perfection. The sun rising and setting, And the balance of all things despite our constant attempts to control everything, And even how often we destroy things, Or even pray for outcomes we egoically prefer over some greater good. Still, Life continues. Still, The sun rises and sets. Is there not an immense and mystical beauty in that? Is that not love itself in action? Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke. For one human being to love another, That is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, The ultimate, The last test and proof. The work for which all other work is but preparation. So some possible prompts for journaling this month. In what aspects or areas of life do you often find your frequency of thoughts, Attitudes, And emotions draining? In contrast. What elevates you. How often do you doubt yourself in the face of authority or peer pressure? How might this be limiting your power? What has your faith, And is it helping you to stabilize in an uncertain world? How often do you ponder death, Or sit with the knowing that one day, Everything must go. If you enjoyed this offering, Please be sure to follow my profile here on Insight Timer. And now for our meditative practice. Please seat yourself comfortably with your feet on the floor. Begin to tune into your breath. As you relax the surface of your feet. Toward gravity. Feeling the weight of the legs, Letting everything be heavy, And then rising up out from the waist. Long, Tall spine, But without effort, Without strain. I'll be striking a ball throughout this meditation. When you hear the sound, Just notice where your thoughts are. And then, As the sound dissolves and disappears into nothingness, Contemplate the principle. And then, The next time, The bowl rings. Same thing. Simply contemplate. This meditation will end with the tinkling of a bell. Thank you so much for practicing with me today. Death comes to everyone. Everything is frequency. Know thyself and heal. Trust there's something greater at work. You