Good Vibrations
“ Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”
~ Albert Einstein
During a recent conversation, a friend spoke so frantic and frenzied that in between her words I couldn’t tell if she was actually breathing. She’d been going through some significant shifts, both personally and professionally, but when an illness and the emotions of the election snuck up on her, she was amped up and setting off sparks.
In the twenty minutes we’d chatted, (well, let’s be honest, she was the chatterer, and I was attempting to hold space and be an attentive listener), I could feel my lungs expand with her blazing burdens and my body inflate with the heaviness of her harrowing hardships.
While she was downloading her current disappointments and disasters, the voice in my head kept chanting, breathe… breathe… breathe… (for both her and myself). I was struggling to stay focused and engaged as it was all I could do to not brazenly interrupt her and say, please pause, inhale, and come back to your body.
By the end of our call, I felt… fatigued.
During a recent in-person organizing session, my client was so quiet and withdrawn that I couldn’t tell if he was actually breathing. While focused on his ultimate goal of simplifying his life and living with less, we were just beginning the process of untangling his many years of unmade decisions as he moped his way around stacks of boxes.
The drapes were drawn, the house was dark and damp, and with the exception of the displeasing glare of a solitary fluorescent fixture in the chasm of a cramped closet, the space felt stifled and stuffy. The lifeless piles of plenty were stagnant and the air felt constricted by indecision.
While he was ruminating on all the reasons his life hadn’t gone according to plan and recounting all the missteps that had gotten him stuck, the voice in my head was pleading, we need air, we need light, we need movement, we need life.
By the end of our session, I felt… lifeless.
During a recent adventure to a far away place in a far away land, I had the luxury of staying in an enchanting little room with a snuggly and simple setup coupled with a breathtaking view. Equipped with just the basics: a bed, a small desk, and a chair, the room appeared eager to great me. Intrinsically I felt welcomed by comfort, embraced by sunlight, and surrounded by simplicity.
Was it the soft cotton bedspread with the corner intentionally folded down inviting me to crawl in? Was it the rocking chair draped in a cozy blanket facing the mountains that beckoned me to sit with the sun and sip my tea? Was it the scarcity of excess? Was it the beauty of the delicate single fresh flower setting on the sill?
For three days while I rested, relaxed, and regrouped, my mind untangled, sleep came easy, and I felt calm and content. The space not only suggested stillness and serenity, it conjured clarity, invoked harmony, and pulsated peace.
By the end of my time there, I felt… magical.
Everything in life vibrates, and humans are vibrational beings. The cells in our bodies respond to vibrations, and our nervous systems are affected by vibrations. Vibrations create and carry energy.
However, from a young age we’re taught and trained to form opinions and make decisions through thought and logic. We’re instructed to make choices and to perform at life based on reason and outcome. Rather than being guided on how to interpret the energy of people, places, and things, we’re conditioned to consume, collect, and contain an overabundance of theories, thoughts, and things that align with extraneous influences and to remain in accordance with the majority.
So in response to these influential imprints, more often than not, we end up living a life arranged, and thereby impacted, by external factors rather than being rooted and expanding from an intrinsic internal awareness.
Unfortunately, to our personal and collective detriment, because many of us aren’t skilled on how to tune in and manage our individual frequency and connect with our own inner genius, we haven’t been taught how to harness the abundant wisdom of our physical bodies, instructed on how to partner with our five senses, learned how to rely on our intuition and instincts, or master the ability to decipher the vibrational messages we radiate as well as decode the ones that surround us.
And the lack of this awareness and knowledge, my friend, can deeply affect the way we move through the world as well as the way the world responds to us.
Seldom do we pause long enough to take the pulse of our personal vibrations or examine the energy of our environments. And so we forget that everything is energy. And whether it be positive (high) or negative (low), energy is contagious.
By becoming acquainted with our authentic intelligence and begin to look at ourselves and our belongings through the lens of vibrational energy, we are better equipped to learn how to align and arrange our environments based on our personal internal compass thereby creating circumstances and spaces that ultimately ignite our souls fully coming alive. Not only will this best serve us individually, but our collective planet as a whole.
Your intuition is your own inner magic. You have a powerful internal compass that, if tapped into and honored, can take you places your thinking mind could’ve never imagined.
I invite you to reflect on what kind of energy you radiate as well as the energy you’re exposed to and surrounding yourself with including and not limited to, things, thoughts, and theories.
I invite you to ask yourself: Am I, and my space, radiating kindness, love, and compassion?
Energy Enhancers:
Upon waking, I invite you to skip reaching for your phone. In the early morning, before anything is required or asked of us or before we gradually begin to give bits of ourselves away, there is a subtle invitation to consciously and fully inhabit our bodies, tune into our frequency, align our thoughts, dreams and desires, and ease into our day with purposeful intention and a deliberate sense of agency.
Cultivate alone time with nature. Sit with a tree. Listen to the birds. Smell the soil. We are hardwired to resonate with the sights, smells, sounds, and textures of the natural world. In these environments our senses come fully alive providing us an opportunity to connect with our higher self and our innate inner wisdom.
Before you download your day onto a family member or friend, first ask them if they currently have the space to receive it. Without inquiring, we don’t know what they’ve already been asked to emotionally consume, so the timing for them right at that moment might not be optimal. They may need a few minutes or a few hours or perhaps until the next day before they have the bandwidth to hold the space you need and the ability to provide you with the attention and responses you desire.
Genuinely look at the items in your house. Pick them up and touch them. What emotions to they invoke? Try not to think. Feel. Consider going through your house one room at a time. Get a box and put all your trinkets, gadgets, and tchotchkes in it and put it away for 48 hours. Notice how the space feels without your stuff. After 48 hours, bring your box out and take each item out one by one. Notice your internal response as you touch each item. What feelings does it conjure? If you’ve decided to keep it, consider placing it in a different location. If it is no longer needed, consider passing it along for someone else to love.
Ask your items: Are you getting me closer to or further away from happiness?
If your clothes closet is packed to the brim, overstuffed, and unruly, consider the negative effect navigating through the mayhem has on your energy every. single. day.
Observe how many visual connections with nature you have in your space. Are you able to see nature through a window? How many of your belongings reflect nature?
Is your space reflective of your current life or is it stagnant with the past and/or regret?
Are there living things in your space? Plants, animals? Images that suggest aliveness?
Water signals and represents life. Is there a presence of water in your space? Being able to see, hear, or touch water can dramatically improve the vibrational energy of a space.
What’s your lighting like? Natural light has the propensity to improve our mood, enhance our creativity, and contributes to relaxation and restfulness.
Our world needs us to fully come alive and to expand, radiate, and ripple as much kindness, love, and compassion we’re individually and collectively capable of generating.
Good, good, good, good vibrations.