Last month's shootings at Trolley Square offer a unique opportunity to
check in on your personal vibration and see the future you are creating for
yourself. What were your immediate thoughts after hearing six people were
killed at the local mall?
Some responded with fear and anger, others were inclined toward compassion
and renewed gratitude for life. Some felt a mix of emotions. A few were
irritated that live coverage interrupted their TV show.
Since we get what we vibrate (and our vibration is simply our feelings about
our thoughts), becoming aware of our vibration allows us a glimpse into our
tomorrow. And, when we truly grasp that our feelings create our world, we're
motivated to choose feelings much more deliberately.
Trolley Square's event offers not only an exercise to embrace better-feeling
thoughts under challenging circumstances, but also an opportunity to see how
we are responsible for what happens in our world. It also provides
inspiration to create something new by flowing more positive personal
vibrations.
Our role in the world
Because like attracts like (as dictated by the universal
Law of Attraction),
your feelings are a beacon, calling forth more experiences that match those
feelings. Thus, your emotional responses to what happens in the world create
more events that evoke those same feelings. You can only participate in that
to which you are a vibrational match.
Which means, since we experienced the incident at Trolley Square (even if it
was just by reading or hearing about it), that we were a match to it.
Indeed, we were not only a vibrational match to it, but we played a role in
creating it.
Whether you felt fear, revenge, anger, blame, victimization or maybe
community togetherness, love, strength, hope or compassion-those feelings
were already activated within you. (What did 9/11 bring up for you? Did
Trolley Square feel somewhat like a replay?) Your past feelings pooled
together with others' to co-create the unfolding of the situation on
February 12 at Trolley Square.
In fact, we're creating another event now, with the thoughts and feelings we
have each moment. Our vibrations continually pool together with like
vibrations to create various new experiences, adding power to an outcome we
may or may not desire. Our vibration paves the way to our future. What
future are you creating with your feelings now?
Remember "we are not in the world, the world is within us." Author Debbie
Ford says, "When you understand that you contain everything you see in
others, your entire world will alter. The key is to understand that there is
nothing we can see or perceive that we are not."
So whatever you saw when you witnessed the Trolley Square shootings (good,
bad or ugly), it arose from within.
We get what we think about.
Popular culture sets us up for vibrating violence. If we watch the news,
read the paper, go to popular movies or listen to the radio, we likely
entertain negative thoughts. Whether they're our own thoughts or we absorb
someone else's, those thoughts create emotional responses within.
Abraham (a non-physical entity channeled by Esther Hicks) tells us, "Most
people do not realize that thinking about something is inviting the essence
of that 'something' into their experience." By overhearing or participating
in conversations about war and terrorism, regardless of your position on the
topic, you vibrate war and terrorism. Thus war and terrorism is your point
of attraction.
What we resist, persists. As we think about what we don't want, we attract
it. By immersing yourself in negative books, movies or even certain people,
you attract more of how that feels to you. So if watching the news feels
dark and depressing, you're a match for dark and depressing. On the other
hand, if you listen to heavy metal or hard core rap and feel complete peace
with it, you're vibrating peace and thus attract more peace into your life.
How you feel about your thoughts is an individual matter. We don't all have
the same emotional responses.
No victims
Nothing just "happens" to us, no matter how it seems the contrary. Random
doesn't exist. Everything takes place in response to what we vibrate; there
are no exceptions. We can manifest the appearance of randomness if we
choose, but we're still creating it. Quantum physics is beginning to explain
what ancient cultures and wise teachers taught us long ago: "As within, so
without." "As you think, so shall it be."
Some find it hard to believe that innocent people killed two days before
Valentine's Day wasn't purely random. Are we supposed to believe they each
attracted that outcome, that they chose to be part of the crisis?
Although the possibility of sacred contracts, karma and destiny are
potential arguments as to why this wasn't a random event, it could also be
said these participants weren't "conscious" of their role in what unfolded
that evening. But that doesn't mean they didn't co-create it. Most of us
aren't creating consciously.
As we entertain thoughts that don't feel good, we become an unknowing match
to occurrences that also don't feel good. So finding our way to better
feeling thoughts liberates us from fear of repeat tragedies.
Know your power
The point isn't to place blame on anyone, including ourselves, for what
happens in the world. Rather, it's to understand our creative powers in
transforming the world. Your thoughts are things! They are energetic
concoctions vibrating in a way that on some level affect the entire planet.
What kind of ripple are you creating? Your thoughts and feelings, as well as
your experiences, are indicators of the footprint you leave on humanity.
Each one of us matters, as do all our thoughts and the vibrations created by
those thoughts.
Know your power to affect the world, and use it deliberately. Choose the
thoughts that feel better to you, and you will reap the rewards.
Healing words
For those suffering with painful thoughts, no matter the source, an ancient
Hawaiian healing technique may provide relief. Ho'oponopono says each of us
is 100% responsible for everything we experience in our world. (You can read
more about this online in Greta deJong's "Editor's Notebook," August 2006)
Not just what we think and do, but for everything others do as well. If it's
a part of your life, you're responsible for it.
Dr. Hew Len, who shares this method with the world, says total
responsibility for your life means that everything in your life-simply
because it is in your life-is your responsibility. In a literal sense the
world is your creation- including the shooting deaths of six people at
Trolley Square.
That means it's up to each of us to heal it. What can we do to clean up our
act? Since this philosophy says everything we don't like in life is a
projection of something from within, the problem isn't "out there." It's "in
here" that needs work.
The healing technique calls for holding the transgression in mind and
repeating four statements: "I'm sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank
you." (I use Dr. Len's shortened version of "I'm sorry, I love you.")
As we direct these words to our higher self, the divine, source energy,
Universe, God (or whatever we want to call higher power), we raise the
vibration and allow the projection initiated within to heal.
Your experience of Trolley Square offers you the opportunity to see within
yourself. If you like what you see, keep doing what you're doing. If what
you see isn't something you'd like to experience more of, know and exercise
your ability to choose thoughts that feel better. That's all it takes to
pave the way to a future you enjoy much more.
A final observation offered by Jani King (channeling P'taah), "As it is
occurring within you, so you are observing it outside of who you are.
Because everything you observe outside of who you are is only a mirror. It
is all a reflection. There is nothing in existence outside of who you
perceive yourself to be, which is not a mirror. Nothing."
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) inspires hopeful thoughts with these refrains from
"Peace Train":
Now I've been happy lately,
Thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be
Something good has begun
Oh I've been smiling lately,
Dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be
Some day it's going to come
Cause out on the edge of darkness,
There rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country,
Come take me home again.
(This article was originally published in Catalyst Magazine)
If you're so inclined, please feel free to reproduce this article in full with proper author credit (that would be me, Jeannette Maw) and link back to Good Vibe Coaching. Thanks!
