Raise Your Vibrational Energy

Richard Rohr, in his book Falling Upward, says emphatically that the way up is “down.” Eckhart Tolle says often in his weekly podcast, that the path to transcendence, or awakening, is through suffering. Thich Nhàt Hanh, a firm Buddhist, asserts that the Lotus does not bloom unless it is planted in the mud. I would say that we need to be firmly acquainted with what we don’t want before we can really know what it is we do want. We have to spend a great deal of time under low vibrations in order to move upward. I know from personal experience that the universe will give you as much time as you need. Sometimes it’s easy when we suffer to get trapped in our pity pot, but don’t stay there too long. The love of God will support you there if you’re honest, but of course, the ultimate goal is to not be reliant on the fuzzy feelings anymore. As we grow spiritually, we have to let our youth recede. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Personally, I spent years learning, simply, to trust again. Suffering has a way of making us distrust what is, but like master Hanh says, the mud is necessary.

Matter is actually energy vibrating at unfathomably fast speeds, so there’s plenty of room for growth. I don’t think there’s any chance of exceeding any limits of vibration. Basically, the electron oscillates at seven quadrillion times per second. If we are moving between our moods, a couple of times a day, then you can see the room we have. Alan Watts teaches us that no matter the name we give to the universal energy, we are still going to vibrate from peak to trough and back again. I believe the faster we oscillate, the more we balance at the centerpoint. Perhaps that’s equilibrium. For my SPMI friends, don’t give up the struggle. These little awakenings are worth the trouble. However, we eventually have to give up the highs if we want to end the lows. If we’re bipolar, or have some other mood disorder, we know firsthand the frustration of emotional disorders. Meditation, silence, and patience will help us.

I know how dark a mood disorder like major depression can get, so please take this with a grain of salt, but once we’ve suffered enough, we have to make a change. Take your meds and practice a better way. If nothing changes, nothing changes. The good thing about meditation is it’s not really doing anything, it’s being something. Being everything we needed from other people. I’ve seen a number of times on social media a quote that goes, “be the change you want to see in the world.” This is a good place to start.

It seems that the Earth is in a crossroad between the universe and what I call the anti-verse. We can see this in peaceful vs. criminal behavior everywhere here, throughout time. I think, with so many people working spiritual paths of various kinds, that we are on the cusp of a new society. People are waking up out of long held fears that have been disguised as holiness. These people are blazing a trail to the next level of human evolution; one of a cosmic kind. We will no longer be concerned with the appearance of righteousness, but also won’t be unrighteous either. We will help our neighbors to understand a greater spiritual equity, and they will grow. Western consumerism will fade and authoritarian governments will lose their stranglehold on the hearts of their people. Poverty will be eradicated and fear will diminish. The world will become happy. If you like this idea, the only action to take is to resist the urge to do the next reactive thing. Tolle teaches response instead of reaction. Sometimes the response is nothing at all, but if we are to act, we do it out of a wise mental space that we learn in mindfulness and meditation. Anger and resentment breeds more anger and resentment. So peacefulness spreads in the same way. The only choice we have is this moment, over and over again. 

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