Good Vibrations
“I’m picking up good vibrations…” Remember that Beach Boys song? And driving your car, flush with spring fever, maybe the convertible top is down? Feeling good, filled with life, joyful. Those surfer dudes must have been on to something metaphysical.
Most spiritual teachers would agree that feeling good is to be aimed for. Feeling good is what the Divine (aka God, The Creator, and Great Spirit) had in mind.
We each have our special ways to feel good. A sunny day, puppy breath, tiramisu, a lingering kiss. Those feel good moments may not come often enough, but everyone would recognize them.
Let’s go further, though. Follow those feelings back to seeing the energetic. Recall that our energy body is a luminous egg that surrounds us. Our thoughts create energetic filaments of certain vibratory pattern, which stretch out into the Field (aka Divine Matrix) resonating with things in our external world that are vibrating similarly. And presto, a connection is made. And energy passes back and forth across this channel, which I see as a tunnel. Back and forth, our field engages with that other cohesion of particles, and we interact with that external. Ah, it feels so lovely.
Well, at least as long as the incoming energy and our docking station stay the same—i.e. it doesn’t rain, the puppy doesn’t scratch you as he jumps, the tiramisu didn’t land on top of a seven course meal, the kiss wasn’t sloppy. But if that incoming stream changes in any way, or if that tunnel becomes a one way street with us pouring our entire field out and getting nothing back, those vibrations start to annoy, maybe even drain our power.
Every extension of our field through a filament, connecting to something externally, impacts our power. And everything incoming from outside of us has potential to make contact and dock in our field. Every interaction, every encounter, even those unspoken ones leaves a mark (imprint) on our field. I see these ranging from the residue of sticky tape, to big clumps of black tar, to fossilized areas, to smoky mobile wisps.
We increase the likelihood of docking depending on our attractor patterns. That guy in the crowd wouldn’t make an energetic connection if you didn’t always fall for those tall dark haired ones. So, you look across the room and whammo, your sticky tape area from the last encounter with your old boyfriend Mr. Big gets activated. (Guys, just substitute where appropriate). So as the filaments from his field float around the room, more chances of docking on your attachment site occur. Ask and it is given (Abraham/ Esther Hicks). Wow, powerful.
But hold on a minute. That tunnel opening at docking station #22 or #76 isn’t just bringing Mr. New Tall, Dark and Handsome. Energetic patterns of all the previous Mr. Big encounters, and all of Mr. New Dark and Handsome’s personal field debris are coming in through that tunnel. Maybe Mr. New isn’t a jerk like Mr. Big was, but if you start a relationship, and as that tunnel traffic starts, those previous patterns of self doubt or criticism get activated, and now you’re in the same dynamic as you were with Mr. Big. And it may not even be Mr. New’s fault.
Gives new meaning to the Law of Nonattachment, doesn’t it? Should we then close ourselves off to everything? No, of course not. Maybe I should say it a little differently. What about cautious attachment with integrity? Integrity to our own boundaries, integrity to recognizing our docking stations, integrity to taking responsibility for every encounter. After all, no station then no docking.
And then, as we continue to be aware of our fields, and as we work to keep them clean, we should turn our attention to our outgoing vibrations. As well as picking up good vibrations, we should work at sending only good vibrations. Don Miguel Ruiz explains it most succinctly (The Four Agreements).
Since thoughts generate energy flow, make your thoughts impeccable. Don’t open tunnels with others by gossip or jealousy. As your mother may have said “If you can’t say (think) anything nice, don’t say anything at all”. So not only will you be picking up good vibrations, you’ll be sending them.
Good vibrations, they’re giving me excitation. Good, good, good, good vibrations.