Problems are
different depending upon where you’re at on the scale of
emotion/vibration. A person who’s depressed may have trouble
just getting out of bed in the morning. A sad person is a
little better off, but he or she still has very little
energy to get through the day. An angry person might have
lots of energy, but will probably not be very efficient. He
or she will be too busy fighting others! A happy person
might still have problems, but they will be of a much
different nature. Such a person might have a choice between
two new jobs and not be able to decide which one to take.
The point is that the lower you are on the scale of
emotion/vibration, the bigger your problems seem. A truly joyful person might have
the problem of which one of three wonderful things to do tomorrow!
Solving
problems is compounded by the fact that the lower you are on
the scale of emotion/vibration, the more your intellectual
function is attenuated. In other words, the lower your
emotion, the stupider you are. Have you ever tried to solve
a problem when you feel apathetic? When you’re that low, you
don’t even care. The higher you are on the scale, the
more resources you have to bring to a situation, and the
greater is your reach into the world.
When you
continue to deal with life at the same emotional/vibrational
level, all of your problems look eerily self–similar. The
same things keep happening over and over!
There’s a way
out, however, and it involves inching your way up the scale.
I’m going to describe a process (invented by Esther Hicks)
that will do that, and also why it works.
The Process
The process is
called, "Which thought feels better." When things in my life
are not going so well, I use this process and treat it as a
game, and soon I have improved my position on the scale of
emotion/vibration. Why does this work?
It works because behind every emotion are thoughts. If you
don't believe that, try thinking about sad things for a
while. Your emotions follow your thoughts.
At worst this
process
is totally harmless. At best, it can change your life!
The physics of
this game are as follows:
A –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– B
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Death
Bliss |
Pretend that AB
represents the entire range of emotions a human being can
possibly experience, from death all the way up to bliss (You
can refer to the scale of emotion/vibration in the
Appendix) .
It is clear
that at any one time, a person is only going to be in a
narrow range of the scale. In other words, you can’t feel
apathetic and joyful at the same time. The lower you are are
on the scale, the more fixed emotionally you are. In other
words, it’s a lot easier to move from interest to
exhilaration than it is to go from apathy to anger.
So at any one
time you only have access to a small range of the scale.
Let’s say your emotional/vibrational range is CD:
A______________C____D_______________________B |
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Lets zoom in on
this:
____C_________________O___________________D_ |
–
+ |
For the sake of
analogy, I have labeled one part of the scale "-" and the
other part "+" to indicate that C is the lower end of your
usual range and D is the higher end. The process works the
same no matter where you are on the scale.
Let's say that
your average mood is in the middle at O. This indicates your
predominant vibration, or, as Esther Hicks says, your set
point.
Let's say that
you are sick and tired of being where you are. Lets say that
CD is somewhere too 'low' on the scale for you, and it just
doesn't feel good to be there anymore.
You can play
the game "What thought feels better." Just reach for the
idea or thought that feels best to you, as close to D as you
can get in your range. You keep doing this until you
gradually move O a little bit up the line. Now your
vibrational range looks like this:
_____C_____F_________O_____D______G______ |
–
+ |
You now have
access to a slightly higher range of vibration, FG. Your
average feeling (O) has gone slightly higher up the scale
and you feel better. Because you have raised your tone, you
aren’t mucking about in the lower vibrations at C anymore.
For example,
let’s say you’re feeling depressed because you have not yet
gotten a response from the job interview you had last week.
Naturally your thoughts tend toward the idea that you aren't
going to get it, and you know you’ve got to quit your
present job because you just can’t stand to work there
anymore. You want to feel as cheerful as you can about your
prospects, but your worry keeps dragging you down the scale.
You can play
the game like this: "I will GET that job." That didn't do
anything, just reminded you of the fact that you haven't
gotten it yet. So you try something else. "I interviewed for
the job I have now and I got it." That still doesn't make
you feel any better. It just reminds you that you're in a
job you don't like! Now is the time when it's tempting to
quit. It seems like you're feeling worse, not better. But
you press on. "Lots of people get good jobs every day." That
feels a LITTLE better, but not much. It still reminds you
that someone else could get that job you want! Then you
think "If I don't get this job there are other jobs I can
get." That feels a little better. "I know people who are
very happy at work." Now things are starting to move just a
little toward the positive. Like a car stuck in the snow,
you can feel yourself rocking out of the rut as you apply
the accelerator. "If I get the job, I'll be happy, and if I
don't there is another good job out there somewhere for me."
Now that is starting to feel good. You have raised your tone
and the importance of the pending job seems less important.
Don’t
underemphasize the power of raising your emotional tone.
When you raise your vibration, you set yourself up for a lot
more ‘synchronicity.’
This game can
be played with any situation in life. I have found that it
helps me to feel a lot better and focuses my attention
somewhere other than worry and anxiety.
What's great
about this process is that the next time you begin to think
about your pending job, you will pick up on the emotion of
where you last left it. So now you will be higher up on the
scale. In other words, you don't lose the hard work you have
done in raising your tone; you don't have to start over
every time. That would suck, because its always hardest at
the beginning.
I have applied
this process to many areas of my life and after a while it
gets to be almost like magic, but it really isn't. It's
just simple physics –– the frequencies that you attract
are those that match where you are.
A good analogy
to this process is a computer boot-up sequence. Within the
BIOS chip on your computer's motherboard is a small program
that gets loaded just after your computer turns on. These
are a series of routines called the Basic Input-Output
System.
These routines
load into physical memory, and enable the computer’s Central
Processing Unit to communicate with the other devices in
the computer, like the hard drive, the keyboard, the mouse,
video monitor card, network card, and all of the other chips
in the chip set on your motherboard. The computer can’t
really do anything yet, but it’s ‘booting up’ to allow you
to eventually be able to use it.
This BIOS
loading is equivalent to you incarnating in your body at
birth.
At birth you
have the ability to move your body around (a little bit!),
ingest primitive foodstuffs and that's about it. You are
pretty much useless. The same with the computer at this
stage.
After this
program loads, the system can access the hard drive where
the Operating System resides.
The BIOS loads
into memory a small boot-up program that begins to load
crucial files from the operating system. The computer is
raising the level of its capabilities, little by little.
The computer's
accessing of the hard drive to get more and more data is
similar to the game of "what thought feels better." Just as
the computer reaches to the hard drive for more data, so too
do you reach for the vibration that feels better to you.
At first there
is very little movement.
The computer
just begins to load basic OS files. It still can't do much,
but it is getting smarter and smarter. So too with this
game. At first you can hardly find anything at all to feel
good about. But even at the beginning, just the effort to
reach for a better thought is doing you a world of good,
even if it doesn’t feel like it. You are overcoming the
inertia of your present emotion and making it possible to
inch up the scale.
The computer
loads another, more sophisticated boot-up program and more
operating system files are loaded. Now it can begin to
download everything it needs on the hard drive in earnest,
until the computer’s entire operating system is loaded.
The important
point is that the computer DOESN'T GIVE UP.
Even though it
is pretty stupid at the beginning, it just keeps on pushing
forward, knowing that all of the stuff it needs is right
there on the hard drive.
So too with
vibrational raising. You can always find one that feels
better if you don't like where you are.
As you continue
the process, you will feel better and better, but even if
you give up toward the beginning, you have still done a lot
of good. You have, at least slightly, raised your overall
tone.
And the next
time you try it, it will be slightly easier.
Eventually, if
you continue the process to a point where you actually feel
better, you don't have access to those old vibrations
anymore:
C___F___D____G_____H________O______I_______B |
– + |
Now your
average, O, is between H and I. Your low point is now at H,
which is higher than your previous high point.
You don't have
access to the lower frequencies anymore, because the
universe has the property that 'like attracts like.' When
you begin to feel better, you attract vibrations of like
kind. People and situations around you change for the
better.
I'm giving this
simplified analogy to point out that you don't have to go to
C and try to resolve everything at C. That's what most of us
are taught to do, even in therapy. The more you focus on
the vibrations at C, the more you move your overall
vibrational range down to C!
The more you
concentrated your thoughts at D, by reaching for the thought
that feels better, the more you moved your range upward. If
we apply this idea to problems, we can see immediately that
if the problem is at C, resolving the problem usually sticks
you right back at C! That's because your predominant
vibration was at C, otherwise the problem wouldn't have
shown up there in the first place. And the more time you
spend resolving the problem, the more time you spend
practicing the vibration at C. So every time you solve a
problem, you wind up getting another one just like it. Of
course you need to resolve the problem when it turns up, but
don’t forget to practice raising your tone afterward.
Realize that if you keep getting the same problems over and
over, that's where your set point is.
The benefit of
using this process is that when you raise your set point up
to HI from CD, you simply no longer have access to the
vibrations at CD. You may still have problems, but they are
much easier to handle!
APPENDIX
The scale of
emotion/vibration:
Emotion |
Attitude |
Apathy |
“I give up.” |
Grief |
|
Propitiation |
“I’ll do anything to make it up to you!” |
Sympathy |
“I feel your pain.” |
Fear |
|
Anxiety |
|
Hidden Hostility |
He's smiling in your face and stabbing you in
the back. Says one thing and does another.
|
Callousness |
“Tough for you. Just do it.” |
Anger |
Out of control, lashing out at the world. |
Antagonism |
“Hey! Come over here and let me kick your butt!”
Feistiness. |
Boredom/
Complacency |
Yawn |
Conservatism |
“Things are fine just the way they are” |
Interest |
“Hey that's cool!” |
Enthusiasm |
“Wow! Let's do that again!” |
Exhilaration |
“I feel fantastic!!!!!”
|
Serenity/bliss |
Complete connection to Source, or God force, or
life-force energy. This is the feeling
consciousness has in its native, non–physical
state. |
Adapted from "Beyond Psychology: An Introduction to
Metapsychology" by Frank A. Gerbode. M.D.
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