Raising Your Frequency
What does it actually mean to raise your frequency? You may be reading this and feeling deeply skeptical of such “woo” sounding terminology, joining words like “energy” and “consciousness” amongst the growing dumpster pile of words in your mind that no one has bothered to define in a concrete way for you. When left to abstraction, you no doubt exile these concepts from your own growth and healing practice because they have no resonance or root within your being and cannot be integrated. The difficulty with such concepts is that they are experience-based, meaning they are not meant to be words at all but subjective experiences you know from within. However, words are the best form of communication we have until we may evolve into telepathic beings or some deeper form of transmission. Until then, I will use my words to create an invitation for your experience of “frequency.”
Eckhart Tolle speaks to the “inner body,” the energy field within that acts as a portal to your Beingness. This is what I mean by frequency. Your energy field, or the vibrational source that gives life to the smallest biological substrates of your being - from your atoms to the complexity of your nervous system - is the source of your presence and dictates what you give energy to. Ask a physicist and they will tell you that all things vibrate, including you. Your vibration and the vibration of all things carries different frequencies, which allows it to manifest in different forms, such as an apple or a chair. On the spectrum of human beings, your frequency is determined by the energy of your thoughts, beliefs, and emotions, which all carry incredible power and dictate your personal reality, as well as the attraction of certain people, places, and things into your life. Your thoughts, also known as your thinking mind, are like a signal constantly being projected out in the world. If you are giving all of your energy to your thinking mind, your frequency is inevitably lower because your thinking is largely fear-based unless you already have a strong commitment to the light of presence and are very watchful of your thoughts. When left to its own devices, your thinking naturally reacts based on your core beliefs and evolutionary conditioning. Your core beliefs, until heavily examined and dismantled, contain all of the traumas and limitations that you inherited and absorbed based on life experience and ancestry, and your evolutionary conditioning is rooted in a survival mechanism always scanning for danger and threat. Your emotions are then created in the body based on the frequency of these beliefs and thinking. The whole package is what makes up your ego or personal identity. Are you starting to see how your frequency or energy field is quite important? It is the essence of all that you know yourself to be and acts as a powerful magnet of attraction for all of the things you are constantly holding onto, feeling burdened by, and projecting out into the world.
Your thinking mind does not have the capacity for true presence, therefore, it does not have the capacity for true love. Thinking will always be wrapped in up past or future dilemmas, dramas, and stories to be solved. As Tolle also says, it is possible to reclaim thinking and to use it as a creative force; however, this can only be done from a place of presence within the inner body. To raise your frequency, you must first become familiar with how it feels. You must glimpse the presence of your energy outside the confines of your mind in order to have an experience-based framework to draw from. One way of doing so is by simply placing a hand over your heart and bringing your awareness to this energetic space of feelings. Within the heart space lives all of your present feelings and deeper emotional truths about your state of being. Your emotions are not your ultimate truth either and can lead you astray if you give too much power to them, but they will inevitably bring you into the present to access a higher frequency and awareness of being. Beyond the thoughts and emotions lives an even deeper awareness of your energetic presence. In this place of awareness, beyond thoughts and emotions, you can amplify your frequency rapidly to states of pure bliss. In meditation, you can practice coming into this space as often as possible and feeling the body fill up with light. You can practice seeing light or the color of your choice fill up the body and amplify it by imaging you have a volume dial to turn up. Feel the visual, energetic, and vibrational sensation of light filling up your body. The practice of this exercise will tune your awareness to the energetic field within and support you in seeing the illusory limitations of your mind and the confines of your physical body, allowing you to see beyond them or, more accurately, recognizing you already exist beyond them.
You must commit to bliss. The words “commit” and “surrender” are the same here. It is not about doing, it is a commitment to non-doing, to being with yourself devoid of distraction. Only in this musical space of stillness, between the notes of life unfolding in the outer world, can you tune in to the frequency of inner being. What may first appear to be tension, boredom, or even panic, can and will reveal itself as bliss. When you commit to non-doing and surrender to the practice, you find yourself freer than you have ever been in an instant. Each time you stave off the pains of impulse and desire to distract yourself or fill your time or your belly, you are rewarded with the bliss of not wanting or needing anything outside the bliss of being. The more time you spend in this space, the more timeless life becomes as you emit a higher frequency and vibration of presence to all who come into contact with you. Have you ever noticed the strong frequency of presence in trees as you go hiking through the woods? You can feel their stillness. You are not crazy, you are actually experiencing the high frequency of all plant life, which remains eternally present and rooted in the Now. I am not naive. I understand bliss may not seem readily available to you, you may not recognize its frequency yet and have too many blockages pervading your view. It is okay. I say it here merely to bring your awareness to the possibility of bliss. See if you can get your mind to open to the possibility of such a state of presence, which is one step closer to the experience.
Your frequency is sacred and subtle and it must be protected from distraction and distortion to access its true potential. The more sensitized you become to the state of Presence, the more you become aware when you are out of Presence, out of body, and steeped in the suffering illusions and dramas of your mind. With this sensitization comes the increased awareness of what people, places, things, and habits are no longer serving you. It is okay if you do not feel motivated to act on this awareness now, but with increased sensitization you will soon be guided to make more aligned choices for you life. Some may consider it selfish to always be so focused on your own energy, your own light, and your own presence, while putting up energetic boundaries to keep negativity out. However, committing entirely to the energy source within you and not letting anything stand in your way to divine presence is actually the highest service you can give to the world. In holding this highest vibration, you become a beacon of Light for others and you commit to holding this Light amidst uncanny darkness in the dramas playing out around you. You refuse to get sucked in to others’ stories of the world, which is merely a reflection of their own ego and thinking mind. I am not saying you dig your head in the sand. Read the news if you like, stay abreast of worldly events. Just consider that the energy of information you allow into your being influences your personal reality. Consider there is no objective truth and you simply are what you create and you create from the source of energy you allow in.
In order to maintain this commitment, you may be guided to let some people, places, and things go in order to create the optimal environment for Light within and without. You may appear to others to be withdrawing into seclusion or isolation at times. Do not despair. Aloneness may be temporarily necessary to harness the power of your own light, free from intrusion, so you may eventually re-engage with the world with a high enough frequency that cannot be toyed with or disrupted no matter the circumstance. It takes deep practice and commitment to re-sensitize yourself to your true nature and glimpse what is timeless in order to hold such a frequency in the face on constant worldly distraction, pleasure-seeking, and destruction. If you never remove yourself from the circumstances, you will never give yourself the opportunity to see what is attainable and, therefore, what is worth committing to. As you glimpse the eternal bliss available to you and others, you become the seer beyond fear - the visionary - for all that is possible in this world, and you become the beacon of Light that others attract to, as well as the lens from which others who are ready to commit to their own healing paths can see through.
I am a beacon of Light - this is my service to the world and my highest commitment. I invite you to share in this light and become your own beacon if you so choose. Our missions will naturally play out differently, with different rhythms and harmonies, serving different aspects of the world and composing a grand orchestra of service. Eventually, our unique vibrations and tunings flow back into the music of Great Spirit where there is only one note - the note of All, the note of Love - and we dance together again as innocent children, cleansed of our individual duties and differences, and the song never ends.