Load .bash_profile automatically on Terminal.app startup? I have seen various questions that ask something similar. They suggest changing .bash_profile to .profile. However this doesn't work either. 
I have aliases setup up in .bash_profile. I would like these to be available automatically every time I open Terminal.app. Instead, I currently have to run the file manually each time I open Terminal. 

Please advise on how this can be run automatically each time terminal starts.
The FILES section in the man page for bash says that ~/.bashrc is executed at the start of every interactive shell while ~/.bash_profile is executed for login shells only.