Good Vibrations
How Awareness and Mindful Practices Elevate Us Beyond Stress and Restore Our Natural Vibration
Stress, as a lower vibration of dark energy, steals our joy, limits our perception, and shortens our years. It includes worry, fear, self-doubt, anxiety, and depression. Stress shifts the brain into survival mode, narrowing our focus to thoughts, feelings, and perceived possibilities related to fighting against or running away from a threat (that isn’t usually there). This filters out our happiness, limits our sense of what is possible, and turns off our body’s repair and maintenance systems. Recognizing we’re in survival mode immediately begins expanding our perspective back to the full range of possibilities. Things like meditation, exercise, yoga, nature, music, and laughter can help complete the vibrational shift (Cannon, Stress Response, 1914; Benson, Relaxation Response, 1975).
Good Vibrations
In the shadow corners of the mind
Stress creeps like fog across hidden valleys
Its dark tendrils wrapping around thoughts
Stealing the golden coins of joy
From pockets we didn’t know we had
The world shrinks to a pinhole
Fight or flight
Fight or flight
The ancient drum summoning phantoms
That dance just beyond our peripheral vision
Threats that shimmer like mirages
In a desert of our own making
But awareness arrives like the first bird of dawn
A single note piercing the heavy curtain of fear
It whispers, “Look closer”
“Feel the ground beneath your feet
“Remember who you are”
In the cathedral of morning meditation
Breath becomes a bridge back to the luminous self
Each inhale lifts the frequency
Each exhale releases what no longer serves
The body remembers its ancient wisdom
Muscles stretching toward sunlight
Yoga poses opening doorways
In the architecture of being
Exercise pumping liquid light
Through vessels that have forgotten how to sing
Nature calls us home
With her symphony of leaves
The percussion of waves
The string section of wind through tall grass
Here, in her green embrace
We remember our original frequency
Music pours like honey
Into the cracks stress has carved
Filling empty spaces with golden resonance
While laughter bubbles up from some deep spring within
That sacred sound that shakes the very foundations
Of our constructed fears
And slowly, beautifully, we rise back to ourselves
Vibrating at the frequency of stars and morning glories
Of children's dreams and lovers' whispers
Our natural state restored
Luminous, expansive, infinite
As the sky we had forgotten we were born to touch
