The Aligned Human Project
The Aligned Human Movement with Dawn Elgin - Contrarian Soul Guide, Spiritual CEO, and founder of Practical Spiritualism, explores what it means to live in harmony between field and form, science and spirit, feminine and masculine.
Each week, Dawn and her guests unpack the quantum mechanics of alignment, the psychology of peace, and the practical tools of co-creation drawn from Field + Form: The 12 Laws of Co-Creation. This isn’t self-help, it’s soul alignment. If you’ve ever felt like success costs too much, if your mind won’t stop, or your soul knows there’s more, this is your home.
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It’s time to harmonize your humanity.
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Formerly Sovereignty Rising.
The Aligned Human Project
Why Alignment Isn’t About Getting It Right — It’s About Returning
Why Alignment Isn’t About Getting It Right — It’s About Returning
From Habit to Heart: Renewing the Vow of the Aligned Human
This episode wasn’t planned.
It wasn’t polished.
It was lived.
In this raw, unscripted episode of The Aligned Human Project Podcast, Dawn Elgin shares a deeply human moment: losing rhythm with her rituals, feeling the subtle guilt of “I should know better,” and choosing compassion instead of self-attack.
This episode explores why the real work of alignment isn’t perfection — it’s returning.
Again and again.
You’ll hear about:
✨ Why rituals don’t make us spiritual — they make us available
✨ How guilt and shame disrupt the nervous system
✨ The Bodhisattva vow and why it’s renewed daily
✨ Alignment as a daily orientation, not a destination
✨ The three paths of compassion: King, Ferryman, Shepherd
✨ Why judgment masquerades as accountability
✨ How a vow becomes a pattern interrupter
✨ The Aligned Human Vow — a one-minute daily renewal practice
This episode is a reminder that awareness is the practice, compassion is the medicine, and alignment lives in the nervous system — not the ego.
Mantra:
“Alignment isn’t about being perfect.
It’s about being awake — and choosing again.”
Reflection Question:
Where am I tightening instead of returning — and what would compassion make possible right now?
1-Minute Aligned Human Vow Renewal (copy/paste):
I pause.
I feel my body.
I come back to this moment.
Today I renew my vow—not to be perfect, but to be present.
I choose awareness over habit.
I choose compassion over self-attack.
I choose responsibility without shame.
When I tighten, I will notice.
When I react, I will return.
When I fall into old patterns, I will extract the wisdom and release the weight.
I do not abandon myself.
I do not harden my heart.
I remember: I am human—and I am capable of choosing again.
In this breath, in this moment, I align my field before my form.
I renew the vow to awaken—not someday, but now.
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