What does it mean to “raise your vibration?” In these challenging times, you can sink into gloom or you can rise into personal power and self realization. The energy of the times supports your transformation into a being of higher self-knowledge and love. Everything is energy, and everything vibrates at a different frequency or rate. If you’re vibrating at a fast vibration, you’re closer to spirit. If your vibration is slower, you’re swimming in the sea of human problems and dilemmas. You can raise your vibration and feel happier, more prosperous, and filled with love
What’s it Like to Raise Your Vibration?
When you shift your focus to the world of light, you become more connected to the energy of the divine, more aligned with your essence, more imbued with experiences of peace, light, wisdom, prosperity, and well-being. When you’re vibrating more slowly, you buy into troubles, struggles and difficulties. “Isn’t that realistic?” you might ask .”Hey, look, I’ve got some big problems here!” you might say. You can do your best to heal, explore, understand, and transform these problems, and you can also move your awareness to another level of reality. Is CNN or your daily newspaper the only reality? Are your health and work problems all the reality that there is? Or is there something that’s eternal that’s on very few TV channels or only in some minds? When you raise your vibration, you look at the spiritual meaning behind the events of your life. You understand that you are made of energy, and you can shift the frequency of that energy by shifting how you perceive and how you live.
What Shifts Are Necessary?
You can become more conscious – paying close attention to all aspects of your life, and step-by-step shifting into greater and greater spiritual power.
You can ask yourself:
* How can I release my self-doubt?
* How can I let go of feelings of impoverishment?
* How can I minimize my fears?
* How can I center myself in my power?
* How can I be more conscious about how I treat other people or respond to how they treat me?
* How can I love people more instead of criticizing them?
* How can I meditate more?
* How can I stop complaining and feel more grateful for everything I have and everything I am?
* How can I choose foods more consciously?
* How can I think more beneficial thoughts?
* How can I bring more light and wisdom into my life?
And there is much more.
You and the Divine Purpose of the Universe
Eckhart Tolle said “You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold.” You may feel it deeply inside yourself that you’re here to bring a higher vibration to the world and create huge shifts in every aspect of life for yourself and others. You may love to work with light – white, golden yellow, violet or any other color, and you may be one who shines light wherever you go. This is the purpose you came here for, and you are truly needed right now. May you emerge from your challenges into a new level of existence in which you bring more light, love, and consciousness to the planet on which we live.
Are you going through changes that have taken you out of your comfort zones? You don’t have to do a litany of the difficulties you may be facing. You know them all too well. When challenged in these ways, some people fall into the abyss. Others know the art of turning everything around. You can tell yourself that a great purification is going on right now, and a multitude of blessings are coming from the challenges of the times. Read on to see how to turn everything around to create happiness and abundance.
Turning Everything Around
In the movie “Life is Beautiful,” the hero and his small son are in a concentration camp. The father’s humor helps convince his son that the Holocaust is a contest to win a tank, and the line they’re marching in is a parade. Later when the war is over and the little boy survives, he sees an American tank, and he feels he’s won the game. When the boy grows up, he realizes all his father had done for him to help him shift his consciousness and uplift his spirit. Not that you’re dealing with something that drastic, but you can work with your own mind to perceive the changes in the world in very transformational ways.
What if This is Really the Best of Times?
A number of people truly believe that we’re undergoing a consciousness revolution. One great teacher, Siva Baba, says “Behind the clouds, the sun is shining. We’ll see a Golden Age. There will be some calamities, manmade and natural, but everyone living now is very fortunate. Changes are happening for all humanity, and you’ll be drenched with light.” At this moment, you may be experiencing limitations, but you can experience more freedom and happiness by remembering this light and the huge potentials that lie at the core of your soul.
Are You Ready for a Miracle?
Why not? Why not open to the possibilities of miracles of any kind – especially the miracles that will liberate your life? First look for resources within yourself that you didn’t even know you had. Open your mind to the possibilities of great things happening. You may not know what they are, but you can open to good fortune at any time. Another resource is your creativity. What can you create beyond what you’ve ever created before? Can you imagine new ways to bring in income? Can you create a spiritual openness to give and derive great energy? What resources for the renewal of your life are within you?
Are you Ready to be Infused with Gratitude?
Though there are many things you may not have or be, that is just one point of view. There are many more things that you have and are, and this is a perfect time to become mindful of them. Thanks for your bed, your meals, your home, your spirit, and whatever else you know you’ve been given as the gifts of your life.
Are You Ready to Increase Your Compassion?
For those whose circumstances are challenging, let your heart open in magnanimous ways. Infused with Spirit, you can do whatever you can to give both assistance and love to whatever beings you’re called to acknowledge. This is one of the gifts of challenging times – opening to give to others and to touch them in what Mother Teresa called “their distressing disguise.”
Look at the Growth of Your Soul
It is often through difficulty that the perfection of the inner being is forged. Not always, but often, the hardest times have brought forth the strength of your soul. Some people succumb to their travails, but some people shine beyond them. You may find that you’re being asked to be resourceful, creative, mature, wise, loving, and filled with power. What a time to be empowered it is. What is it that’s coming forth from you? Spirit can fill you with illuminating energy and strength.
Out of Abyss Consciousness
If you’re one who travels into the land of the bleak more than you’d like, pull yourself out through the remembrance of your light and spirit . Remember that the illusory world is replete with duality, and the more you buy into it, the less of the brilliant light world you can see. Meditate, say prayers, affirm, and remember that “this too shall pass.” Everything has a way of working itself out.
Do you have challenges around thinking good thoughts about yourself? “I’m not so good. I always fail. I’ll never get the job I want. I’ll never make the money I want. I don’t think people will love me the way I’d like them to. I’m not very likeable. I don’t like my body. I’m not so smart. I wish I looked better.” And on and on! If this were different, maybe there would be no international or even environmental problems. It all begins inside. Find out why these problem thoughts exist and how you can heal them as you read on.
Why These Mind Problems Exist
One of the reasons for these self-defeating thoughts is the patterns or habits of mind or thought forms that you carry within you your entire life and perhaps in all of your lifetimes. Many people believe that you bring these patterns of thought with you from other lifetimes. In this case, babies are not the innocents that we think they are. You carry scripts inside of thought forms and habits of mind that will determine what kinds of thoughts you’ll think. If you have a strong critic inside, it will do its critical dance. If you have a strong self-defeated voice inside, it will show up as self defeat. The possibilities are endless.
Another Reason for These Habits of Mind
Your patterns can also come from wounds, whether old or recent – of seeming failures and old hurts. Maybe someone influential in your life had these old hurts as well. Some people have hurts in love, some around money; others have them around feeling healthy. You’ve also been conditioned from an early age by those who themselves carried less than positive thought forms inside themselves. You keep on recreating these old patterns because your being is seeking to heal them.
How to Heal the Old Thoughts
The main way to heal these habits of mind is to remember the basic truth: that deep within you, underneath all the problems of life, underneath the anger, illness, grief or feelings of unworthiness, is a great essence of healing, illumination, and love. It’s the basic core of who you are, and it exists as the essence of your very being.
How Can You Remember This?
Experiencing your essence often involves going within, through meditation, hypnosis or other ways to focus inward. You can also experience your essence in motion, at a time when your mind stops chattering for an ecstatic moment and you feel uplifted, in a kind of flow. Maybe you’re playing a musical instrument or running or loving – and you feel lifted up beyond ordinary reality. When you experience this, you know that your thoughts of insufficiency are not real. This experience of your essence can heal fears, anger, grief and all other challenges that come from your mind and thoughts.
You Can Shift Your Reality
First have compassion for yourself and be kind in how you speak to yourself. Then see how everything in your life has been an opportunity to grow and expand. You can alter the way you perceive your childhood, your relationships, and your work. You can shift your consciousness level to be able to go beyond your old views of what’s real, to know that you have true worth, that you are the essence, and you merit everything good – great love, success, enlightenment, and joy.
© Marilyn Gordon 2009
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Alfred E. Neuman said it: “What, me worry?” His face doesn’t look like it has a care in the world. All he wants to do is create mischief. Looking like a combination of Howdy Doody, The Little Rascals and David Letterman, Alfred E. Neuman is a major philosopher of our time, helping us to see what potential there is in giving up our gloom and doom proclivities of mind. Now that may not be easy nowadays as we know. Earthly cataclysms and untold personal challenges often bombard our consciousness. So what can we do to move forward in more positive ways?
I Heard it On the Radio
When I was in grammar school, I listened to the radio while I was eating breakfast (would you believe that TV wasn’t even invented yet?) –and at the end of a particular morning show, the host always said, “It’s going to be a wonderful day for you!” I made it a point to listen to this every day. In fact, I even invented a superstition that I had to listen to it before I went to school – and then it would be a wonderful day for me. We can invent such mind games and program ourselves with some affirmation or good omen that will create a wonderful day. Robin Roberts from TV’s “Good Morning America” always says “rabbit, rabbit” on the first of each month – and to her, doing that will make the coming month a good one. You can have blessings, mantras, Hail Marys, simple or complex activities or ceremonies that you can install in your mind as good omens for a wonderful day or a wonderful life. Why not?
What Are Samskaras?
“Samskaras” is a Sanskrit word for habits of mind or thought forms that we carry within us our entire lives and perhaps in all of our lifetimes. Some of us envision the worst possible scenarios. Others have low self esteem and criticize themselves, like the size of their thighs or the power of their brains. Others are convinced the world will end. We need to be able to witness our own minds to see what thoughts are playing themselves out in the movie theater of consciousness, and then we can counteract them if we like with doses of alternate realities or more fruitful thoughts.
Fasting from Negativity
Did you ever go on a fast? You abstain from something or many things for a given period of time for health or just to see what it might be like. Would it be possible to abstain from negative thoughts for a period of time? This may not be an easy alternative to criticizing, thinking depressive thoughts, worrying, or chastising yourself for one thing or another, but it’s a game you can play with yourself. See if you can give yourself a challenge of not thinking negatively for a certain period of time. If you do think that way, that’s okay. Just notice the thoughts and then come back to your negativity-free zone whenever you’re able to do so.
Giving Thanks in Advance
Here’s another idea. If you have a tendency to worry or feel anxious, you can say, “I give thanks for my____.” The thanks might be for your perfect work or your great diagnosis or your burgeoning bank account. Just say it over and over. It can work as a method of mind-creation. At the very least, it feels better than its gloomy alternative.
Your thoughts are flowers in the garden of your consciousness. What kinds of flowers are planted there? Are they drooping, sharp-edged, carnivorous? Can you plant some bright and happy flowers? Can you fertilize them with love and trust that everything has a way of working itself out in this universe that has a perfection of its own?
You talk to yourself all the time, about all topics. Your mind incessantly jumps from branch to branch like a monkey in the tree of thoughts. Your mind can be trained – yet it has natural inclinations. When it comes to food, your mind travels to astounding and fascinating places. And those are the places we’ll adventure to here. These approaches are mostly subconscious, not conscious, so here’s a chance to pay attention to things that may have been hidden under the surfaces of your mind.
The Caveman Approach to Food
This is the person holding a fork and a knife upright with a napkin bib, slurping his lips, saying “Food. Good. I want some. Gimme. ” This is, of course, the primitive approach, the way some people still go forward when they see food of any kind. “I want it. It’s for me. I’m eating it right now.”
The Visual Experience
Does your mouth water when you see pictures of food or when you look at a beautifully prepared meal or sumptuously beautiful fruits. This type of reaction is primarily visual. Here, the eyes are connected to the appetite.
The Sensual Garden of Delights
This way of talking to yourself might say, “That would satisfy me, feel good in my mouth and belly –crunch, slurp, chew, sip, taste.”
Food for Comfort
If you’re driven by this approach to food, your mind might be subconsciously saying: “If I eat that , I’ll feel better. If I put that in my mouth, it’ll be my pacifier, my binky. I’ll feel good, and I feel so bad. It’ll make me feel secure and maybe even happy.”
Authority –Driven Food Choices
If you have someone in your life who has a powerful affect on your thinking, you might say, “That’s what the food guru says to do. That’s what the guy on the infomercial says is the best. That’s what my husband (or wife) tells me I need to do.” Or if the whole gang is doing it, you might say to yourself, “Well, they’re eating that cake, pie, etc –and so am I!”
Tradition as an Approach
If you’re driven by the “ancestors,” you might be saying to yourself, “I’ve always eaten that – and so have my mom and their people from Transylvania, and I want to be a part of a long line of such eaters. That’s the way we’ve always done it, and that’s the way I want to do it now.”
Food for Health
In this approach, you note what the food is doing for your body and well-being. “That would make me live ten years longer. That’s good for my waistline. That would help me lose weight. I get energized when I eat that. I can live to see my grandchildren grow up.”
Food for Beauty
Here you choose foods that will amplify your beauty. “I can walk the runway if I eat like that. I’ll look like those people in the movies. I’ll keep my skin clear. I’ll be as lovely as I can be.”
Food as a Drug
We all know that some foods can be addictive – as any sugarholic will readily tell you. You might be saying to yourself, “I need more energy. I’ll eat that. I’ll drink that. I need to get my soda fix. I need, I want, I must have. ” More and more people are becoming addicted to foods that companies, sad to say, create expressly for this purpose.
The Aversion Approach
People who know that they need to stay away from particular foods (like sugar, for instance) might say to themselves, “That sugar is gross. It’s made in factories, and it’s sickeningly sweet. It hurts my body, makes my blood sugar go up and down. It makes the food companies rich and causes addiction to the people in our country. It causes havoc in my body, and I don’t want that.” Though it sounds negative, it really works for some people to keep them food-focused.
The Positive Suggestion Way
If you have an aversion to aversion and want to accentuate the positive, you can always give yourself some positive suggestions. We’ve looked at some already. Some more are “I make wise choices. I AM a person who knows exactly what to do and who eats wholesome healthy delicious and healthy foods.” You can make up your own suggestions now.
The Spiritual View
If you operate on this wave length, you know that your food choices raise your vibration and affect your meditations and your life. “I’m choosing this food because it makes me feel light and strong, and it makes my aura bright. I’m choosing this food because it honors the food sources of the earth and because it sustains the planet.”
So What’s the Significance of All This?
You can take a look at your own relationship with food and your subconscious thoughts, and you can look with awareness at what you decide to put into your mouth and your body. Then you can decide if you feel comfortable with it – and if you do, that’s great (be here now!) – and if you don’t, you can train yourself to think different thoughts and make other choices. You can, for example, find healthy foods to make you feel comfortable or loved or happy. You can choose wise food authorities. You can approach this whole topic with awareness and wisdom. Why not? It affects your entire life.
Here’s something you already know – told to you in a brand new way that might just astonish you: There’s a key to manifesting a better life – and you have this key already. As you continue to read my words, you may find a huge “Aha!” about it – a revelation that can shift your entire life.
Imagine This
Imagine what it would be like if you stopped worrying, if you knew how to have a happy mind, if funds were flowing in, if your body and mind were filled with healing power. Begin to notice that there’s something you’re doing inside yourself that’s different from the way it used to be. There’s a state of consciousness that is very clear and strong.
You know inside yourself that throughout your life in many ways you’re “dreaming a dream.” People who have awakened from that dream see everything as bliss or pure awareness. How are you dreaming your dream? Is your dream about suffering and lack? Or have you freed up your mind to dream a positive dream? What are you telling yourself about what’s real?
Thoughts are Prayers
Consider that your thoughts are prayers. What kinds of prayers are coming forth from your mind over and over? What pictures are you forming before your own eyes?
You may need to take some preliminary steps by healing your old thoughts and pictures. Where there were negative relationships, childhood experiences, financial woes – go inside and bring light to those pictures. Embrace the difficult parts of yourself with love and healing. Bring in angels, masters, fairy godmothers, your own inner love – and heal the old pictures.
Set the Stage for a New Life
Then set the stage for a whole new life. Allow yourself to imagine an entirely new scene of more than enough and great blessings. Have you heard this before? Well – maybe. Has it penetrated your consciousness like a bolt of enlightenment? Let it do that this time – and dream the most powerful dream you could ever create in the entire universe and for all time.
What about the national and international scene, you might ask? Imagine it healed and whole. No need to add to it with your outpicturing of a less than stellar reality. What about people who are suffering all over the world? Imagine them blessed. Use your profound powers of consciousness to transform the world. Inside is the power of healing and transformation that can be the force that wakes you up.
Remember Stuart Smalley from Saturday Night Live? If he said something negative about his life, he’d stop himself and say, “No, that’s just stinkin’ thinkin’! I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!” This was Stuart’s way of shifting his thoughts of low self esteem and personal defeat into feeling okay and even loved. If you ever tend to look at all the possible ways you or your life are no good, you can shift your thoughts into higher levels.
Thought Shifting
So if like Stuart you do a litany of stinkin’ thinkin’, you can shift your thinking upwards. First you take note of what you’re doing. Here’s what Stuart once said to himself:
”Oh my God, I said the wrong thing to someone. I’m going to die homeless and penniless, I’m twenty pounds overweight, and no one will ever level me.” That’s Stuart’s negative spin and is not quite the truth. Choose your own negative spin if you have one. You first pay attention to it and look at it from a distance. Stand back as if you’re on a mountaintop and take a look. No judgment, just observation. “What am I attempting to say here?” you might ask yourself. You may be attempting to self destruct or treat yourself less than well. (You can blame it on the devil or the negative thought forces of the world.)
“No that’s just stinkin’ thinkin’ – or something like this to yourself.” “I don’t need to do this anymore. I’m a being of the universe.” Or “I’m fine just the way I am.” Or “Maybe I didn’t do so well that last time, but I can transform this, and I will.”
And you can always remember this: “It is what it is!”
Seeing the Advantage of Everything
If you lose something or regret something else, you can look for the advantage, the other side to all things. Maybe you hurt your leg, but perhaps this keeps you from having to do some work you really didn’t want to do. Maybe you lost something, but you’re learning to be non-attached. Or maybe you’re being opened up to a new life. Perhaps you’re being prepared for something higher or more expansive. Maybe you’re learning the importance of spiritual values. Perhaps something has worn out its usefulness or relevance in your life, but you haven’t yet acknowledged it, and now you can. Learning to see the advantage of everything is a major life transforming habit of mind.
Connecting with Your Wisdom
Your Wise Mind has a fresh perspective on life. When you ask it what it would like to tell you about something, it will tell you the truth. A young eleven year old girl was afraid to go to sleep because she could only think of bad people who might try to harm her. She allowed herself to feel her fear, and then she asked her Wise Mind to tell her more:” It’s okay. You used to feel this way when you were a younger child, but now you can grow up some more and think thoughts of being safe.” Anyone can do this, young and old – connect with the Wise Mind, for fresh perspective and for truth.
