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The Change in Vibration (on Earth at this time)
31/03/2009
There is much discussion about the nature of the changes we are currently experiencing, and many perspectives, both scientific and spiritual, that aim to explain what shall pass. The race towards 2012, held up as some kind of pinnacle – a crossing-over point into a new state as we reach a new level of mass consciousness that enables much light to reach the planet.
But this is not so, for time has no relevance in dimensions outside of our own – they know no such bounds. We like to place everything in boxes for our own satisfaction, in order to control outcomes and to prove our predictions through measurable or quantifiable sets of criteria, applied in order to limit the behaviour of our subject, in order to define it – the opposite of allowing the vast expansiveness of possibility to work its own magic – we focus on probability.
Likelihood, inevitability, and certainty. Without a doubt – moving towards ‘absolute’. Thorough, leaving no room for error, and drilling down to a finite. Hypothesis and resolution. Does Nature behave like this? Why do we insist on narrowing our focus and therefore restricting our vision when the entire Universe is expanding exponentially as we speak – challenging the set beliefs of the past and proving beyond a doubt that there are infinite, unfathomable complexities that always seem to lie just beyond our reach, for when we think we know the answers we are pushed to re-examine them.
We are of course limited. Not only by our own thinking, but by our perception of reality and what we’ve chosen to adopt as our own belief system, or ‘set of guidelines’ we operate under. Just like a computer operating system, we’re all running a different program and continuously adding upgrades. Or facing systems issues when we discover incompatibilities. Moving through our lives, inviting experiences and evolving through them, overcoming obstacles in the form of resistance – manifested as a series of hurdles we must jump or challenges we must face in order to know ourselves. To understand where our strengths lie, to weed out what we consider our ‘failings’ by bringing them to light when we find ourselves under pressure.
For many of us, stress becomes a natural state, yet we know through observation that anything placed under conditions of stress finally gives or breaks. A rope might snap if enough force is exerted; joints weaken, a link in a chain may fail, losing its original structure. Our bodies are no different, often what we diagnose as a weakness or illness is nothing more than one example of the loss of functioning of part of the whole – the chain necessary to sustain harmony and perfect balance.
A breech of our system, a warning that we need to adjust our lives accordingly and remove the cause, addressing the conditions that we placed ourselves under in order to regain health. Do we actually look at it this way, or is it easier just to treat a symptom and to continue down our path, not actually realising that all things are connected?
What occurs in our bodies occurs in the world – what we see happening all around us in our environment is nothing compared to what is triggered on a much larger scale, affecting the entire Universe if we could stretch our minds enough to understand it and accept it. What we see as ‘isolated incidences’ yet realise as ‘becoming more frequent’ anomalies in our weather patterns and ‘normal conditions’ that we’ve accepted are necessary in order to sustain life ‘as we know it’, or maintain some form of equilibrium – the signs of stress are beginning to show.
The tears in the delicate fabric of our existence, the membrane that holds everything together, the inter-connected intelligent system that overrides and oversees, or underpins and underwrites everything that we hold true or dear – our entire ‘reality’.
Is it really what we can see and feel and touch and smell and hear, or are we willing to acknowledge that there is so much more that we might on one hand term ‘unknowable’ or, if it we’re game, investigate, in order to enrich our experience and taste more of what we sense life has to offer?
The surprises, the miracles, the spontaneous responses to our questions and investigations, the sheer wonder of it all as we are exposed daily to something greater than the sum of us and any doubts, fears or concerns. Life doesn’t need to justify its existence, its only aim is to continue to thrive – to survive, yes – yet also to ensure the conditions necessary for its continued survival are maintained. Just as we experience pain in our body and are then forced to take action and to rest, the events playing out on the world stage command attention, and indicate a natural shift in order to address an imbalance and to rectify conditions that are clearly ‘not conducive’ to the health and wellbeing of the planetary body.
How many river systems have we polluted and how many tons of ‘greenhouse gases’ have been pumped into our atmosphere? What we see as weather patterns are not the results of our actions in terms of the consequences of what we have created over time, but the very real indicators of a natural system undergoing changes in order to cleanse itself and to rectify or ‘self-diagnose’, regardless of our attention or indifference, or interference.
For everything is linked, we have headed down this path together, we are joined, connected – we cannot be separated from the whole of life. What we do to ourselves we do to our environment – it is not a separate entity to be saved and protected – all we need do is ‘save ourselves’. To ‘wake up’, to gain new awareness, to expand our limited vision of ourselves as individuals, and to perhaps see ourselves as a unique functioning part of the whole. And for our part – the part we play in ensuring the health and the wellbeing of the whole – are we healthy?
Can we say we’ve removed any stresses and strains and pressures from our lives, do we love the way we’re living each day, are we able to find our own sense of balance and harmony? Heal ourselves and we automatically ‘rub off’ on the rest of the world. Remove anger and aggression and we can embrace progression – the march towards understanding – acknowledgement of the role that we all play in shaping our external environment.
Conflicting thoughts and desires: small battles with ourselves that when grouped into a collective create great storms that sweep the surface of our Earth. Fears over lack of control magnified as circumstances beyond our control wreck havoc with our lives. Floods and fires, drought then inundation – or fury unleashed – not calm and gentle if we compare them to emotions? Suppressed, withheld, bottled up and then unleashed when triggered, the power of everything we’ve dammed for so long bursting forth, the uncontrollable intensity of the energy that has built, gaining pressure over time. Scorching, refusing to be contained, destroying everything in its wake.
Little by little as our world changes, so do we. Step by step, as we come to the realisation of our destiny, the environment mirrors our collective journey – a concept difficult to grasp. How can we imbue ourselves with such powers or take on such responsibility, aren’t we victims? We all bow to the forces of Nature, belittled, insignificant as we witness the incredible displays of power, helpless to act, on the receiving end – experiencing Nature’s wrath if we happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time – unfortunate.
What is a victim? Powerless, at the mercy of others or of conditions they have no control over? Immune, blameless, or wronged? Someone we feel pity and compassion for. Helpless or hapless or singled out – targeted? Unlucky? Could we be more specific and apply the principles of the Law of Attraction: a victim is therefore a recipient of what they have thought or done, because like attracts like?
We don’t like to think about it. It doesn’t make sense, not morally or logically. We don’t like to entertain the idea that we are responsible for everything that happens to us. How could we be – why on Earth would we choose to experience any of it? Or conversely, we can take the view that we must deserve the punishment that is somehow meted out and keep on admonishing ourselves, taking on blame and guilt and never letting up on ourselves for a minute, because it is obviously ‘our lot’.
We walk a fine line when we start to analyse and to judge whatever happens to us as either good or bad. The minute we see black and white or right or wrong and take sides, is the point where we stray from any natural ability we have to maintain balance – to experience harmony and inner peace through equilibrium. We judge ourselves and the events we happen to get caught up in, and our immediate environment, and the world condition, and the theories and hypotheses and personalities that fill it, and can’t help ourselves – we take sides. Agree or disagree? We must make up our mind – sceptic or advocate? Based on truth or heresy?
Abundance or scarcity? Popular opinion, or a rarity? If everyone thinks the world is in recession, do we believe it because we’re told it is and then reinforce this belief through the experiences we attract to us, or are we willing to think differently, or to place ourselves in a minority? Surely if we think our life is going pretty well, thank you very much, by Law of Attraction we should reap the rewards of our choice to focus on the goodness that we already have – the tangible results of our efforts, the things that we are grateful for, surrounding us.
Through the simple act of appreciation we vote for everything that enriches us and sustains us and enlivens us. We reach for enjoyment, we bathe in pleasure and we embrace our leisure. We banish lack, because we’re focused on what we already have.
The bounty of Nature. Warmth and shelter, and clothing that allows us to express ourselves. Food that we haven’t even grown, ours should we reach out and choose it off the shelf. Water that we forget to drink, bottled for our convenience, saving us the lengthy walk to draw it from a well. It’s all around us, the reminders of how far we’ve come. The progress we’ve made as ‘civilisation’ has smoothed out the rough patches from our daily lives and made everything easier – on tap. Electricity at the flick of a switch, entertainment on demand, in an instant, everything we need at our fingertips. The world wide web drawing it all closer to us. The global village, now our backyard. Customs we’ve been exposed to, differences set aside – we are all one.
One voice, one people, one world. One central vision – the return to ‘one-ness’. And the only obstacle in the way? Our need to categorise everything and to imbue it with meaning, when all we need do is listen to our feelings.
It is quite simple. If anything we hear fills us with fear it makes us feel powerless. Out of control, a victim, helpless or worried, or filled with uncertainty and a lack of security. In order to adjust – to come back into balance, to counteract the vibrational frequency of fear, we retreat. We hold on to what we know, we become rigid, fixed in our ways, and beliefs and locked into our comfort zone or ‘operating conditions’ because we are trying to maintain a status quo (balance) based on harnessing and controlling everything we know.
Therein lies the key. We are forced into a holding pattern that is founded on what we know already – a fixed or firm belief or idea of what is probable – a contained and limited ‘reality’.
We contract. We confine ourselves to the limits we’ve placed ourselves under. We force our behaviour to come into line, and suppress any feelings that arise that challenge what we feel we must do in order to survive. We actively cut ourselves off from our higher perception or instincts, and we bide our time. We are caught in the means to an end, or making ends meet, we curtail our desires and fall into old habits – a downwards spiral of ‘negative growth’ that matches what we perceive to be the state of the economy – because it has been stated, and we have enough evidence to back it up.
Why would we be frivolous in such times? If we’re aware of ‘reality’ we’ve merely adjusted our expectations in order to meet what we think is occurring from whichever way we look at it, and analyse it, and integrate it into our lives – we react. We respond. We reorganise our priorities and reassess our needs. Reason rules over our hearts, for it is the only way we can ignore what longs to be expressed. If we’re stuck in a job and ‘our heart’s not in it’ our head can step in and justify it, and any of our actions that are called into question.
So what if we’re always tired and it doesn’t feel as if we’re really getting anywhere, we have no choice but to accept things as they are, and naturally try and make the best of it, because that’s what we do. Strength through adversity. The triumph of the human spirit as it wins through its struggles, forging on, no matter what. Not sleeping properly and cutting back on pleasures, but that is all expected – part of the plan formulated in order to see this out.
Where does that leave us? Holding on by our fingernails to the existence that we think we need or want, the way it is? Optimistic about a brighter future? Or not too bothered about it frankly, because we’re just trying to get through today?
Hardly in a position to celebrate all that life has to offer and to naturally make the most of its infinite possibilities – realising them as opportunities. Yet the only difference is what we choose to buy in to as our reality. Which comes back to how we choose to define ‘reality’.
What is real and true to us, because it has occurred; it is part of our experience, or what is true for others because we’ve been given enough examples we can believe it is? Or what feels right to us because our feelings are quick to tell us if something isn’t – we can feel the warning signals, the gut feelings that arise – surely that is our reality because we’re experiencing it right now, in this very moment?
Not relying on hearsay or collective opinions to sway us, because we know it makes us feel better. We know what thriving or ‘blooming’ – being in good health – feels like because we feel it when we’re relaxed or enjoying ourselves, or doing what we love, whether we are on holiday, or feeling fulfilled in our work, or holding a baby, or patting a dog, or just tending our garden, or staring up at the stars and wondering about it all.
The reality is, what we experience as our reality is different from what another person experiences as theirs, yet we are all capable of comprehending and sharing the experience of these multiple expressions of reality. To know another’s is to appreciate our own and to continue to expand our vision, adding to it by confirming the high points, reinforcing what feels good to us, refining and shaping it, determined, or just inspired by others – based purely on the way we happen to see them of course.
It all comes back to the way we look at everything. At ourselves and our place in the world and the Universe – to our role, to our contribution, to the burning desire that no matter how much we try and squash it won’t go away – that there must be more?
How can we have everything we thought we wanted and still not be satisfied? How can we earn a great deal of money yet lack the time to enjoy it? How can we have all the time in the world, yet think we need the friends to support it? How we can be fooled into thinking we’ve thought of everything – every eventuality and scenario – only to be tripped up, the bubble of our carefully contrived existence bursting and rendering us vulnerable?
‘The big bad world’ – and here we are at its mercy. Able to be tossed around like miniature ships on a tumultuous sea, we are sucked into troughs and spat up again onto crests, only to be dashed into pieces on the rocks. Our hopes and dreams in tatters, along with our reputation, clinging to the vestiges of all that we have left – the will to survive. To reinvent ourselves. To pick up the pieces, to shake off the past and to emerge, our spirits invigorated by our ordeal. Life goes on.
It always ‘goes on’. Its natural state is to evolve. To keep changing. To remain fluid and flexible – flowing, reforming and re-emerging, and regenerating, if its progress in one area is stifled it redirects its efforts in a new direction. Constantly altering course and finding a new way, a new path, a way forward without compromise. If barriers are erected it surmounts them. Dam a river and it will branch out. Leave a manmade structure to stand long enough and it will be engulfed by sand or jungle, or inhabited by creatures who claim it as a home. Constantly and easily and freely seeking to maintain harmony and to grow, to expand, to advance – to be more.
Hardly an example of what we’re up to when we’re hiding in our cocooned existence, the walls of our lives offering protection from the ‘harsh reality’ we’ve been taught to perceive. What about the ‘glorious reality’ – what exposure do we have to the Wonders of Nature beyond television documentaries and our own observations?
Is our news vital if we want to remain informed, building our perception of all the goodness in the world? The emergence of new life and the positive life-affirming actions that occur around us daily? The kind acts of others and the abundance of natural resources that are ours to be shared. The warmth of the sun (be careful, cover up), the joy of the rains as they nurture the land (did you remember the umbrella?), the power of music and the arts to uplift the soul, the smiles exchanged that say it all.
It’s easy to see how we fall into this trap, constantly fed, like actors rehearsing our lines, we’re concentrating on the task at hand, not here to save the world. One voice goes unnoticed, so easily we slip through the cracks – who are we to make a difference? We’re busy just trying to get on with our lives, trying to hold them together in whatever way we can – subscribing to the ideal that we hold ideals, that we’re making changes, that things are getting better.
We can feel the shift. It’s important, more than ever, that we count. We’ve found our voice. We’ve changed our tune. We’ve taken the actions that we think are necessary – we’re conserving, we’re thinking about light bulbs and use of energy. We’re aware of our footprint, our consumption – our transportation and our food. We know what we’re putting into our bodies and we’re not blind to the impact of development upon our environment.
We’re waking up – one by one, emerging, opening up to and living a new vision that grows, collectively, as we give it attention. No longer prepared to turn a ‘blind eye’ we are taking full responsibility for every aspect of our lives. We’ve created this ‘mess’ and we’re involved in the ‘clean-up’. For seven generations into the future the effects of our actions will be felt. What we sow, we reap. Do we choose to water our harvest with fear or to allow Nature to take its course? Why would we concentrate on blight, when we can have delight? Why labour under chains when free will remains?
Why settle for anything if we are far from feeling settled? Stability comes from the centre, the core, a strong balanced stance, a foot to the left and right yet everything converging in the middle – not taking sides. No advantage or disadvantage, just acceptance of what is, and enjoyment of what is there, already. Not falling back, pulled off balance by familiar beliefs – nor constantly thrusting forward – hurtling with tunnel vision towards a goal, our peripheral vision blocked.
Seeing both sides clearly – accepting and understanding them yet choosing to remain steady and impartial. The observer – aware of the past and how it has shaped us, attuned to the influences that come from every direction, willing to embrace the future and whatever it may bring, yet remaining ever-present, receptive and open, a bastion of hope, gathering the goodness from each and every experience.
North, South, East and West, the Above, the Below – the Within. Drawing from the wellspring of knowledge of self that exists within each one of us. Growing in wisdom as we observe what occurs in our lives. Standing tall and proud like an ancient tree, roots firmly in the earth, our trunk straight, our branches reaching for the stars.
A conduit, bridging the gap between the worlds – a transformer of energy and a receiver, sustained by the lifeforce and contributing to it. Time matters not, yet it is marked in the physical by rings; layers of growth, completed circles or cycles that mark stages of evolution.
Our story, visible to those who know how to read it. Our heart – the essence of who we are – at the centre of the flow, at the centre of all things. The minute our attention is drawn away from it – by self-denial or distractions – is the minute we are moved from our natural state of balance, into debate.
It is that simple. The only stability we need is our own truth of certainty – if all is well in our world, all is well in our world.