Tuesday~Wednesday Prompts

How I Raise the Frequency of My Vibration from Fear to Love

Because after all, love is just a breath away

California opens up today and frankly, I’m a little nervous.

My trust issues are up.

If I dare go out without a mask, can I trust others making the same choice are also vaccinated? Or should I keep my mask on just in case?

Yes, these are fear thoughts and I have an opportunity here to address them, thanks to Diana’s compelling Tuesday and Wednesday prompts.

I can change the vibrational frequency of my thoughts from fear to love. This will reduce the volume frequency of my fear thoughts. And I can cocoon myself in loving energy everywhere I go, as well as right here at home.

Phew! This is a tall order. Let’s take it in chunks.

Raising My Vibrational Frequency

Remember when we used to go around talking about vibes? He’s got a good vibe. That place gives off bad vibes. The Beach Boys even sang about good, good, good vibrations.

It’s a feeling or intuitive hit that a person, place, or thing was putting out good or not so good energy. Sometimes easy to pick up on and other times more subtle.

There’s something to this. Vibes, short for vibrations, are measurable frequencies of energy from low to high, heavier to light, negative to positive.

Have you come across the work of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.?

Dr. Hawkins studied human consciousness and how it works, grows, and evolves. He and his staff calibrated its levels using the science of applied kinesiology AKA muscle testing.

What is muscle testing?

A common diagnostic and prescriptive tool used by chiropractors, muscle testing is based on our body’s wisdom. If you put out your arm and have someone press down on it with two fingers while you say, My name is ___, using your real name, your arm will stay strong. They won’t be able to push it down.

But if you do that same thing with another name, your arm goes weak. Anyone can push it down with those same two fingers.

Do this with any statement to prove its truth or falsehood. You can hold a substance while doing the test to see if it’s helpful or harmful for your body. For more information, see Dr. George Goodheart’s Applied Kinesiology.

Muscle Testing Human Consciousness

Dr. Hawkins and his staff muscle-tested source materials, scripture from the world’s major religions, economic systems, and political doctrines like the U.S. Constitution. Over twenty years, they tested people from every part of the world.

They muscle tested every level of thinking/feeling consciousness from apathy to enlightenment to rank them in the correct order from lowest to highest — 0 to 1000 in their model.

They found that the levels of consciousness don’t increase arithmetically as you go up the scale. They increase logarithmically, so that level 300 is not twice the amplitude of 150. Instead, it is 10 to the 300th power.

One of Dr. Hawkins’s many contributions is the distinction between lower levels of consciousness characterized by force, and higher levels characterized by power. Hence his book, Power vs. Force.

Lower levels of consciousness (force) include shame (20), guilt (30), fear (100), anger(150), and pride (175). Courage at level 200, is the pivot point.

Everything above 200 is characterized by power, going from willingness (310) and acceptance (350), through reason (400) and love (500) to joy (540), peace (600), and enlightenment (700–1000).

According to Dr. Hawkins, humanity as a whole crossed the level 200 threshold in the 1980s, evolving from force to power consciousness. Even though the majority of the world’s population may be below that level, there are enough higher calibrating individuals to balance things:

One person with a consciousness of 300 offsets 90.000 people with a consciousness below level 200. And one person at 700 offsets 70 million people below 200.

This and its implications give me hope.

And encourages me to check in with myself frequently for my frequency. When I find myself wallowing in fear, I can change my channel. Just like radio stations are distinguished by frequency, I can go higher on my personal FM dial.

I could say more about how to do that, but there’s a great article here on Know Thyself, Heal Thyself by Rami Dhanoathat does an excellent job. Here’s the link.

If those fear thoughts are particularly stubborn, I pray, affirm, write, listen to an inspiring talk, or call up a friend who I know will support me in making the mental shift, without making me wrong or bad for feeling scared.

My mind has trouble holding two conflicting ideas at once. So the more I focus on love, the less room there is for fear. And the stronger that love focus gets.

Having an affirmation or short, pithy mantras going works well for me. Something like God’s got me, I’ve got joy! Or Love and Light fills my entire being right now. Or Let me be only love. Or Shush fear, love is here!

Cocooning In Loving Energy

Everything is energy. Love and fear are at core energy patterns. Even if they vibrate at different levels, one low, one high.

I’ve been in my isolated self-contained bubble, lo these many months of sheltering in place. I share my home bubble with a friend and fellow Medium-er, Aikya Param. While I walk every day, my mixing and mingling have been minimal. Weekly ventures to Trader Joe’s or the bank are about it, though I walk in my neighborhood daily, masked.

So I’m just getting used to the idea that things are opening. The experts I look to for guidance say it’s safe to go out unmasked if vaccinated. Which I am.

Interestingly, my body feels just like when the virus first hit and everything was scary and uncertain. My limbs feel heavy and a little shaky. Or is that from too much caffeine?

I embrace the idea of surrounding myself in a bubble or cocoon of loving energy, especially when I go out. It feels not only emotionally uplifting but physically protective. Like the way we used to say, surround yourself with a bubble of pink light before you go into that nasty staff meeting with ‘those people.’

Love is just a breath away

In this morning’s Commedia dell’Arte class, we practiced creating characters with our breath. Different breathing patterns go with different characters: The fear-based miser’s breath is fast and shallow. The lover’s breath is deep and full of wistful sighs.

I absolutely know that I can use my breath along with the other tools mentioned to fill my cocoon with loving energy. I breathe deep into and out of my heart.

My heart holds the wisdom of my soul — that I create my life out of pure consciousness, which expresses as and what I breathe into it.

Join me in great big deep frequency-elevating breaths of love.

Thank you, thank you, Diana C. for these great prompts!

Marilyn Flower writes political humor and satire to delight socially and spiritually conscious folks. She’s a regular columnist for the prison newsletter, Freedom Anywhere, where she writes about faith and prayer. Five of her short plays have been produced in San Francisco. Clowning and improvisation strengthen her resolve during these crazy times. Stay in touch!