HigherVibeHoax.com

Dear Folks,

That just might be the name of my next blogsite...

Here's one way that our transition into 2012 just might work. It could be a matter of "matching" frequencies. Meaning, that the reality we each experience (embody and manifest in our lives) is a product of matching frequencies--of the frequencies we are flowing and what states these frequencies match up with. In other words: RESONANCE. That’s what resonance is, literally. It's one vibratory body that is being activated by another. Resonance occurs when a match is made. 

From my own experience and many other's confirming input, it's looking like what may happen in this 2012 stuff is that some of us who are resonant with a state of the new paradigm will experience ourselves as living in that paradigm. While concurrently occurring, others of us whose resonance is a match with old-paradigm states will experience themselves living in that paradigm (i.e. the old same thing).

As such, it may all boil down to a matter of resonance.

Now... if you fall for the "higher vibe hoax"--the old-paradigm concept that higher is better than lower, yer gonna be stuck with dem higher vibes alright... but that just may not be the good thing you think it is.

To review: language matters. Vilify lower in favor of higher in your language (“I wanna raise my vibration!”), and that's what you get. The mind hears your words and gives you the emotional equivalent of them, for better or for worse. So choose your words carefully. Denigrating the body and elevating the spirit is the oldest-paradigm trick in the book. Just ask Adam and Eve. Or, apparently, most New Age wags who blather on endlessly about raising our vibes. Good luck with that, folks.

You want to know how much fun is it to have your brainwaves stuck in high vibes, when you lack the grounding to create homeostasis in your system? It's constant fight or flight stress.

You want to know how great it is to have asked for higher vibrations when you lack the resonant space to embody them in comfort? Just ask just about anyone in Japan these days.

To be resonant is to be whole, it is to vibrate with the All. And thus, when you want to ask for evolutionary energy to fill your body and mind, ask for resonance. When you do this, you will receive the perfect admixture of high, low and everything in between vibes, and that's exactly the way it needs to be. We are, at any given moment, requiring just the right equilibrium of all frequencies. If you've ever adjusted the EQ of a recording you know what I mean. 

I wouldn’t keep blathering on about others blatherings, if it weren't so darned important. It's time for us to love our bodies  as well as our minds and our cosmic consciousness… so that we can embody the All, so that we are resonant with the All. The absolute self-destructiveness of humanity is based, at it's core, on hating the body while trying desperately to escape into the spirit. How about if we don't have any more purges, pogroms and inquisitions from those stuck in spirit? How about if we don't have anymore wars, suffering and financial debacles from those stuck in the body? How about if we ask for (and then, of course, we shall receive) the resonance of the All?

New-paradigm states are one that generate energy through fusion, through the coming together of everything, while old-paradigm states generate energy through conflict, through the destruction of everything. In fusion states our focus is absorbed, almost completely, by the bliss of sensing the edge of the unified wave of Love and Light that moves through us. In conflict states, we are obsessed with resisting that which we have judged not OK and thus have become terrified of experiencing. One proffers infinite gifts of self-healing, and the other requires infinite striving just to survive.

What’s your choice for a home base?

If moving into 2012 is about matching frequency, about being resonant with the All, then this really is our get outta jail free card! We can stop trying, seeking, fixing and controlling because we’re in constant terror about survival … and start receiving, being, and allowing our bodies to be uniquely perfect self-healing systems. What could be more joyous than loving it All?

Loving the low, dancing the mids, blissing out on the highs,
Laurel

P.S. I don't know if we are evolving into a higher freq state or not. It's certainly possible. But here's what I do know. I know that our systems are not perfect and that almost every one of us has places in our systems that require tuning in order to be open channels for Light and Love. We may or may not already be all that we can be, and it's just a matter of how much we can let through to express. Or, we might actually be in the process of becoming different (like we did from the tadpole to crawling outta the water). Don't know, doesn't matter, what will be will be.

But what does matter is what's so right now. And right now we imperfect humans would be a whole lot happier if we could live together on this planet in peace and joy--agreed? And the only way to do that is to love what is, in the present moment. Frequency-wise that means to ask for resonance, rather than some mind-compelled construct of spiritual rightness over bodily yuckiness. Ya dig?

Seeking resonant states may actually surprise you when you discover what this feels like in your body. Check out Les Fehmi's Open Focus exercises for a great way to start experiencing resonance now.

Speaking the truth to yourself feels good

Dear Folks,

A friend sent me the following quote from Steve Beckrow:

“Beloved ones, to be in the Frequency of Love you do not have to prove yourself or work on yourself or be something that you are not as yet. You are Love and you express that Truth when you simply align with the Frequency of Divine Will and Cosmic Light. There is nothing to learn or achieve ….you simply allow the Light to flow through you as you become the “Eye of God.” Divine Intelligence experiences itself as Love through You! It is simple when you allow this Flow and this alignment!”

I would like to comment on this quote and invite you to consider how you can tap into the beneficial reality of what this quote is trying to impart… while not falling prey to its limiting beliefs. In my opinion, it illustrates both a beautiful desire to share love (thank you Steven!) and a distortion of the truth. And while I deeply appreciate the intention, my job right now is to discuss frequency, tuning and resonance in a way that helps any interested party in accurately embodying this vast metaphor so we can grow, heal ourselves, and surrender to being filled with Cosmic Love and Light. Ya dig?

In my opinion, the simplest most core way to express what it is that the human race does that is dysfunctional (i.e. that leads to pain rather than the freedom to love) is that we deny our feeling nature. Whether it’s our attitudes about sex, our myths (Adam and Eve getting kicked outta the garden), our values (it’s what you think is real, not what you feel), our collective training (suck it up, stick your head in the sand, feeling is wrong, shameful and bad).

The version of the I Ching I love to work with (Carol K. Anthony and Hanna Moog’s, see earlier post re Resources) was a revelation for me, because of it’s deep grasp of this issue. Being someone who is healing myself from forty years of denying my emotional and bodily feelings, I know the potency of how painful this can be. I also know the blessing of how releasing it is to finally awaken to accepting, being OK with, and letting flow my feelings. Byron Katie’s work, the Forum, somatics, and many other approaches are great treasures, in that they teach us how what we think is… well, what we think. And that’s OK. But it’s not necessarily what’s real, and just because we think it doesn’t mean we have to run it through our emotional bodies without discernment.

Understand how it works: you think something, then you judge it as not OK, then of course, you must suppress it. You must resist what you’re feeling. (Because once a feeling is labeled as “bad” who in the world would ever choose to feel it—to feel bad?) And, once you are busy resisting it, your focus (your attention, your attitude) is LOST to that resistance. You have little or not attention left over to perceive Light and Love. Cut off from what you are feeling, from your feeling nature, and you cut off from reality, from your authentic wholeness. That is a very painful condition, and it is THE human foible of all times. (It’s not about thinking positively; it’s about focusing on Light and Love, and ALL that entail!)

New-paradigm awareness is all about fusion. It’s about allowing oneness with the All. That means ALL energies, folks. What you are thinking, what you are feeling, what’s really happening, what do you wish were happening, even what’s happening in an alternate reality (we won’t get into that now, OK?). Old-paradigm awareness is all about conflict. It’s OK to feel this/it’s not OK to feel that… Endless suffering and continual pain are the inevitable result. Which do you choose now?

As the I Ching sez: mind connected to feeling nature (to its nature, to the body) results in remembering the feel of Cosmic Love. This is precisely what Open Focus imparts. Feeling space IS feeling conscious Love. Same thing. It’s feeling it all—the ground of being—and the space from which it comes, is and returns to. However, mind disconnected from feeling nature, by default, equals mind connected to ego (mind HAS to connect to something to be activated, just like a tuning fork must touch wood to be heard). So, it’s either mind connected to feeling nature or to ego. Notice which choice most people make; notice which choice is reflected in the world at large in every single system that human beings have created. Notice which choice is leading us into destruction, because it is, indeed, an ultimate act of self-destruction. (When we focus on the ego, the Self, is under attack, because that’s what the ego thinks it must to do to keep us safe.) Notice what happens the very instant you choose to connect mind to its feeling nature. (Breath opens up, you feel grounded, mind relaxes, attention expands to include present-moment joy, etc.)

Back to the quote…

Of course he’s right in his basic concept: You are Love and you express that Truth when you simply align with the Frequency of Divine Will and Cosmic Light. There is nothing to learn or achieve ….you simply allow the Light to flow through you as you become the “Eye of God.”

That's my whole point about asking for resonance rather than to "raise your vibration"  … which is a mind-divorced-from body concept about what you think you are not, but should be. Whereas resonance is what you already ARE, and by asking for this, you bring your awakened consciousness into harmony with the truth of who you are. And then, PING!, you are resonant (whole, perfect, living love).

However, to my perception there is not "the" frequency of love. There is a SYMPHONY of frequencies—All frequencies, to be exact—and that, when we come into harmony with ourselves and the Cosmos, we can hear, see and feel as love.

Now, I know that some of you may thinking I'm nit-picking, and so be it. But frankly, I think that if people say or especially write things and use words, like “frequency”, it is their responsibility to use them correctly. You and I both know the power of words. And I personally LOVE that we have an entire Cosmos full of all frequencies, from 0 Hz to infinite Hz (cycles per second).

Time for a quick review of what frequency is, from a (somewhat) technical point of view: A frequency is a sound wave (vibration) that can be measured in Hz or cycles per second. As such, every possible speed of cycles exists, from the very, very low to the very, very high (i.e. nuclear fission and beyond). Low frequencies are no more bad than high ones are good; they just are what they are. In some situations, one if more appropriate than another. To label low freqs as bad and high ones as good is code for saying that the body is bad and the mind (or spirit) is good. Not true. It’s ALL good; it’s all just what it is. How would you like for the “raise your vibes” police to come into your house and rip out the lower octaves of your piano, you know… for your security and well-being? To ground is to flow in low vibrations—yummy, healing. To be stuck in “fight or flight” mode is to cram your brainwaves into an ultra-high vibe state. Still want to raise them some more, huh? Ask for resonance, for it all and take what you get and love it for what it is. That’s self-healing via you’re your Frequency-Tuning Resonance for real.

To suggest that there is ONE PARTICULAR frequency that is Love is old-paradigm speak. It leads directly into trying, endless seeking (better find that one frequency or you're outta the loop, sucker!), and disconnecting from the All (Oh, I don't want those other non-love freqs anywhere near me, bleech). It leads to denying our bodies, and thus lack of grounding (which results in even more pain and suffering). If something is true, if something is worth believing, it’s worth running it through your emotions and body!

And the only thing that’s true is that you were put here on earth to embody loving it all,  being it all… just because it's All here, and we are it All. And if you are gonna use the term “frequency” than understand what it is, just the way you wouldn't blather on about an isotope or skew-risk options charts unless you knew what the heck they were! Language is a direct arrow into our thinking brains. (i.e. thoughts ARE specific frequencies). What we think is how we feel. How we feel creates the quality of energy we give forth into the Cosmos. And that, my friends, determines the quality of energy we receive back. So use words to mean what they really do mean, and you've got instant alignment with what you really do choose. Use words in old-paradigm ways and you are contributing to keeping the conflict going, within yourself and others. Again, your choice.

To conclude: in healing my body, there is ONLY ONE THING that actually heals me. It’s surrendering to the resonance of my being. When my focus, predominately, is attuned to this resonance—when I am the living embodiment of my Frequency-Tuning Resonance—then I feel wonderfully alive, relaxed, flexible and clear. Resonance, by definition, is all frequencies in their uniquely perfect expression of the moment, embodied in its present form. In your case, that means your body. So, as Steven says: stop seeking and start finding it all right here, right now. Grounding, centering in and receiving your resonance is the natural result of mind connected to its feeling nature. It is the one way we can KNOW truth, rather than just think about it (or wish and hope something is true).

Embraced by the All,

Laurel 

The Joy of Learning

Dear Folks,


Today I am appreciating what a joy it is to learn something new. (Full disclosure: And yesterday I actually screamed out loud, it was so frustrating.) Today, it’s options. God knows what it will be tomorrow…


As in working with energy (engaging the energy, flowing the energy, surrender4ing to the energy), or working with sound healing (frequency, tuning, resonance), there are three aspects to learning which I am acutely aware of today. They are: the expansive feel of learning something new, the pleasure of practicing the new skill so that you deepen your ability to relax into doing it, and the profound productivity of recognizing when you've reached the point where you can completely let go--your foundation is there--and fly free in the intuitively-guided application of your new skill.


To give oneself all three of these experiences, vis a vis learning something new... now, that's a real gift of self-love, isn't it?


And, can you see the relationship between your Frequency-Tuning Resonance and your ability to learn, with ease, joy and transformative success? Think about it: in the first stage you must grasp the frequency of this new endeavor. In the second stage you are required to hang out with it, to attune to it, to tune in to it, in order to get good at it. And, in the third stage you need to release your personality hold on it and receive the resonance of this skill, in its complete, whole and transcendent form. Happy trails, folks!


Just a Learnin' Fool,
Laurel

Three-Point Periodicity--the Key to Freedom

Dear Folks,

Periodicity, by definition, is a two-point system. On/off; yes/no. 

Is it good or is it bad? Anyone with a thimbleful of introspection already knows how well it works to base your life on that equation. In reality, yin and yang have long ago bitten the dust (and we're getting to eat it, right now--just take a quick look at our financial system, educational system, healthcare system, etc.). 

My lifelong passion has been threes. Go figure. Threes are the yin, the yang, and the relationship between them. It's you, me and the other; it's good, bad and maybe. It's the "tuning" part of your Frequency-Tuning Resonance (FTR).

Periodicity is how most of humanity has lived, well... forever, and notice how well that has worked (and is working). Personally, I'll take threes any day over twos. So, it's tongue-in-cheeky of me to call it three-point periodicity, but quite expansive, concept-wise, wouldn't you agree? Let's put the human back in humanity. Let's you and me BE the third point of any situation--the one who is the chooser between the yes and the no. We are the third point: we tune into frequencies and modulate the energy into resonance. Hey, that's a big deal. Indeed, that's freedom, embodied.

For those who have learned how to move into Open Focus states (Dr. Les Fehmi's work), these musings become everyday realities (if you so choose). Think about it. What Open Focus is is the ability to move flexibly--seamlessly--between all the states of attention, from the most narrow to the most diffuse, and then back again. Dr. Fehmi's exercises teach us how to do that, in a fairly organized way. You focus here, you focus there, you focus in between here and there. Notice the threeness of this equation?

Whenever we introduce a third point into a system, we expand the system so it CAN move flexibly between states. You can do that in your body; you can shift, effortlessly, into a state of wholeness, simply by knowing how to consciously invoke a third point of reference in anything you are do.

When I am combining self-tuning with Open Focus these days (and I do it a lot, because it is such an amazing way to quickly and pleasurably relieve built-up tension and pain), I often end up going beyond the step one, step two approach, and morphing into a very fluid way of perceiving my attentional states. What I am feeling/seeing/hearing is a three-point periodicity that has become available to me by the manner in which I am focusing my attention. Specifically, I feel form (narrow, objective focus), I feel consciousness (diffused, immersed focus) and I feel open focus (all states in flux, as is appropriate for the system in the moment). It is this third state that heals, particularly in the context of FEELING SPACE.

The third state, the state of feeling it all (in a state of conscious space), not surprisingly, IS the All. It is the state of being one with the All, of being the All ... and, of simply, being. And listen well folks when I say this: I am NOT describing some kind of airy-fairy, esoteric consciousness game here. This stuff is real. I can really feel it. The state of oneness--what I call the Unified Wave--is such a strong feeling that it feels like someone is dragging a humongous magnet over my entire system, and as it moves through it organizes me into my own unique perfect way of being in the moment. I “snap to grid,” and everything that isn't right (the blocks, the kinks of my system, the pain) gets PUT INTO PLACE.

And, once in place, you know what happens to those kinks? Once the kinks are reunited with the whole, (which is my resonance)...they VANISH. Yup, this is the prize winner’s wet dream! We get to disappear our pain and be left with the space of authentic joy, cosmic love, the blessing of light, incarnate. Good deal, huh?

Once I can feel that state of resonance absorbing everything that is not resonant, I am healed, and continuously, I am being healed. No folks, it's not esoteric at all. Pain becomes nothing becomes pure pleasurable space. Being embraced by space is coming home to my Frequency-Tuning Resonance, for real.

What I think Open Focus training is really leading toward, at least for me, is to be able to flow in the continuous, infinite stream of the on, the off and my choice to be conscious of it All. When I embody that state and allow that state to embody me … the experience is, absolutely and truly, BLISS.

Your Triplicity-Telling Gal,
Laurel

Open Focus and Your Frequency-Tuning Resonance

Dear Folks,

OK and thanks! I heard from several folks who had actually been enjoying reading the blog, so OK... you read and I'll write.

Truth be told, I simply can't study options anymore today. Learning options is both thrilling and incredibly boring. Sometimes the thrill wins out... sometimes it's boredom (or enough already). It's the kind of subject where you can read and read and suddenly realize that not one word has sunk in. 

So now I'm going to jump into discussing more deeply each of the resources I listed in an early blog. I'll start with Open Focus, because I'm doing a presentation on it locally and some of the folks who are attending may enjoy reading these entries. However, I'm not gonna be super-methodical about how I discuss Open Focus, meaning this isn't a teaching tool. If you want to learn about Open Focus in a formal manner, the best way is to buy Dr. Fehmi's two books. His website is openfocus.com. I think, or Google Les Fehmi.

People with chronic pain, in my opinion, are addicted to their pain experience. I say this with compassion, and also freely admit that I was one of these people (for 40 frigging years, so believe me, I know of what I speak). Of course, I am not denying the physical component in physical pain, or the biochemical component either. And, what I am asserting is that if you've been in basically the same kind of pain for longer than six months or so, then the question you've got to ask yourself is: what am I doing to keep this pain going?

What you'll discover is a whole host of ways that you keep returning to the conditions that generate your pain, or undoing the conditions that relieve your pain, or ignoring obvious commonsense realities about your pain. For me, it was one thing after another. Meaning, the mind (disconnected from its feeling nature, and connected to ego) endlessly generates excuses about why and how you can never actually be out of pain for very long. 

When I started working with Open Focus I noticed an immediate shift in my pain levels. Way down. Yahoo! What came next was a surprising discovery that many of the ways I was self-tuning, though inherently and even profoundly helpful, were actually keeping the pain going as well. For instance, I would get a terrific insight about a new way to access fascia release, or breathe, or let go of a misconception... and then it would quickly get taken over by the ego in me. The result: more pain, even from using good techniques!

To date, the biggest gift I've received from my Open Focus work is that I have proven to myself, absolutely, that by shifting my focus from objective and narrow to immersed and diffused (terms Fehmi uses to describe different ways to focus) IT DOESN'T MATTER IF this or that physical and/or emotional condition is present. My fascia can be stuck, I can be tired and tense, I may not have stretched lately... and when I am willing to bring space into my perception--into my body and being--a shift occurs out of pain and into comfort.

To realize and really be able to perceive how most of my pain experience begins and ends in my mind, not my body, is humbling. And heuristic: now I can do something, for real, about it; now I can heal myself.

Working with a pain condition using Open Focus exercises gives grounded reality to the concept that "it's all about what you focus on." And again folks, I don't mean, think positive. I mean, wake up and be OK with what is--with all of it. Fehmi talks about how Open Focus teaches us "attentional flexibility." This is the ability to shift one's focus, as is appropriate to the situation at hand, rather than be stuck in the habit of narrow focus (a fight or flight state, basically). Doing Open Focus I can now feel my brainwaves coming into synchrony and let me tell you, that feels GOOD.

The act of consciously bringing space into the body and being is remarkably freeing. Literally, the areas that hurt are constricted. Bound up, stuck, black holes of energy, so overstimulated to become numb… these areas breathe a huge sigh of relief when you choose to allow light (i.e. space) in. When Dr. Fehmi talks about immersing my focus in the pain, my first reaction was “NO—that is bad, wrong and shameful.” (Wow: releasing pain is wrong. Hmmm, I wonder if that misconception could possibly contribute to prolonged pain.) Open Focus is all about bringing space into the body, about feeling space. And yes, space feels very, very GOOD, particularly where there hasn’t been much of it, for a long, long time. 

Openly focused on loving it All,
Laurel

I'm still here, just preoccupied

Dear Folks,

Just wanted to let you know that I'm still here. However, as warned, learning options has totally taken over my life, for a short period. Not only is learning very intense, but we're looking at a real possibility of a great move in the market, before the year's out, and I want to catch it. Hence, my priorities have shifted (we all know about that, don't we!).

That said, I am discovering great things about frequency, tuning and resonance these days (just not writing about it, for now). When I Self-Tune now I often sense my frequency-tuning resonance (FTR) in all its glorious, sensual, deeply-healing vibrational aliveness. As I let in more and more consciousness of light and love into my FTR amazing things are happening.

Pain is melting away instantly. I am beginning to feel real and prolonged states of utter ease, flow and wholeness. My flute playing shifts into sounding really good because there is no trying, forcing and efforting going on at all.

I'll make this invitation again, for what it's worth: if anyone is actually reading this blog, is actually interested in discussing self-healing through their FTR THEN PLEASE LET ME KNOW. In fact, the best email address would be: dailylife333@yahoo.com, if this describes you. Someone's active interest would inspire me to take the time and energy to keep writing. Otherwise, I'm just gonna have a ball healing myself, discovering the bliss of space within... and focus on learning options until I can enter the market and not make a fool of myself (and my money).

And friends, I wish you the same! We're almost at the pivot point of this year (mid June). Astrologically, and also through market indicators, something big is about to happen (can you imagine, even bigger than all that's already happened). I would guess that we will experience this shifting time in a wide range of ways, so getting your FTR on is highly indicated. Becasue if there is there one thing that will DETERMINE how you experience the shift (and it's not thinking positively or raising your vibration--please let's end this silly diversionary ignorance!), it's embracing the All... loving it all as one... in your body, allowing mind to connect with its feeling nature. It's now time to bring through your visions, to make some good money, to heal your body, to connect with your true love(s), and to share it in the world.

Optionally yours,

Laurel

Birthday Tribute to a Good Friend

Dear Folks,

Today I wanted to write a tribute to a dear friend, Shiila Safer, because her birthday was a few weeks ago. What she does fits right in with this blog...

Shiila is a very warm person, she exudes kindness. Her thing, these days, is to do a wonderfully creative version of therapy, with its focus being to assist folks in reconnecting with nature. Reconnecting mind to its feeling nature is the key to wholeness. It would almost go without saying, except that so many of us aren’t...

Mind requires connection to be sensed, just like a tuning fork is barely audible until its handle is touched to wood. In other words, mind requires a resonator. One way or another, your mind seeks to be connected; will it be to feeling its nature or to the ego in you? For a number of reasons I’ll discuss in another blog, most of us usually don't connect mind to feeling nature; we are habituated to connecting mind to ego (personal and/or collective), instead. Shiila's teachings are centered around sharing the passionate union she experiences with nature, in particular, big ol' trees. The gal is a nut for a good grandmother tree! I just love that about her. Through her sessions (and also a wonderful book she wrote last year), many fortunate people are given the opportunity to receive a sparkling bit of initiation that fires up their mind-feeling nature’s sense of oneness, sometimes for the very first time.

Who hasn't had a moment where we have felt the reality of our animal nature, and known that it was here that we needed to be rooted, to make all else flow smoothly in our lives? Who doesn't sense that there is a simplicity and ease, a tangible knowingness that we may feel, that lets us relax and feel goodness?

Thank you, Shiila, for your devoted expression of love and service. May all whose heart's desire, be connected mind to its feeling nature, so that your mind can relax, your body can maintain health and your whole being is filled with the inspiration of those who give of their loving kindness, as Shiila does so richly.

Rock On, Gal!
Laurel