Raising Our Vibration: Energy Alchemy

No doubt you've likely been hearing a lot about raising your vibration. The gist being that ruminating in negative thoughts, wishing ill on others, and low self-worth are keeping a person trapped in a dark hole; feeling rejected, feeling abandoned, and draining those they encounter of their vitality. There's a lot of guilt and shame, and possibly defensiveness, attached to these states. How does one rise out of said hole, especially when it seems as though life if one trigger and set-back after another?

Firstly, accepting that at an essential level you are profoundly loved by Love itself and quite capable of projecting love outward in a non-conditional way. Project love conditionally and you might attract a "hard way" lesson. I highly recommend developing your skills of discernment to avoid victimization. However, the point is you're not a victim at least not more than you set yourself up to be through expectations and the Law of Attraction. So what is it that you want to attract? What barriers have you set in place to prevent yourself from receiving whatever it is you want out of this life, or possibly from reaching nirvana? Do you have a goal you're working toward, or rather, do you have faulty beliefs to move on from?

Here are some ways out of that hole: participate in the reciprocal cycle of give and receive. Be willing to accept assistance and offer it as though the whole process was a wheel turning; don't be the reason the cart gets stuck in the mud. Eye on the prize. I find that, especially in this day and age, I am distracted and easily overwhelmed, but thankfully there are guides out there to light the way. Personally, I've found David Hawkin's Scales of Enlightenment or Map of Consciousness to be a useful roadmap. For some bite-sized check-ins, I've found a variety of oracle cards both delightful and illuminating. And you cannot go wrong by internalizing A Course in Miracles. Furthermore, don't be shy about asking your spirit guides and the angels for guidance, straight up! This is how you will alchemize the dense into the light.

For whatever goal you might have, certainly the by-product of these exercises is a lessening or elimination of suffering. If the seed has been planted may it blossom ever so beautifully. Maybe this article is the seed. At this moment I am reminded of a little, embroidered picture I bought for my shed that states, "Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith."

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