The Anwer Is Gratitude!
And the question was…
What do I do to raise my vibe? (Otherwise known as feeling better.)
When I was on my hiatus, I was tagged by Chris, at TheOrdinaryMystic, to list five things that I do to raise my vibration.
Whether we’re really vibrating or not is not the deal. The deal is this: when you feel good, when you trust whatever you want to call it (I call it, God), when you love rather than anything less than love, when you feel courage instead of fear, when you jump into the next minute like an eight-year old jumping into a swimming pool on a hot summer day, then wonderful things happen!
Intuitions come to you. People you need come to you. Necessary information comes to you. Add action on your part to this mix and love, health, and money will come to you.
It happens to me, just like this.
But it’s necessary to feel good.
By feel good I don’t mean the cheap Janis Joplin feel good as in “feelin’ good was good enough for me.” I’m not talking about alcohol feel good or drug feel good or casual sex feel good or shopping feel good. I mean a deep down trusting, knowing that God (because that’s what I call it) actually knows what you desire and need.
Wallace Wattles takes this all one step further by saying that God wants us to feel good because God is living through us–we are actually God’s physical form!
Two things: 1) I’m not a theologian, so when I say stuff about God, it’s actually what I “know” through personal experience. (I’ve read the Bible, by the way, cover to cover. Not that it matters, but I’m also the only person I’ve ever met who has read Das Kapital (Marx)–all three volumes.) So, if you don’t agree with what I’m saying about life and God, then fine. Leave a comment. I would love to hear your thoughts.
And!
2) I know I’ve got a lot of readers who are generally younger than I am, and who are either not comfortable with all this God stuff, or believe they are atheists. That’s fine, too! When I write posts like this, all I’m doing is describing. I’m not trying to proselytize.
So, getting back to our being God’s physical form, although this is not the standard way the New Testament is interpreted, it all fits nicely into several things that Jesus says. Like, in John, when he says “I am the father and the father is me.”
But you don’t have to go this far with the idea, if you don’t want to.
However, if you want your life to progress, then you need to feel good.
So, what do I do to feel good? Aka, raise my vibe?
I did it tonight while walking the dog.
You see, I haven’t been in the greatest of moods today. I have a lot of “irons in the fire”, and I’m impatient for the results of my efforts.
When I was walking the dog, I realized that 1) I just need to let go, and 2) I really needed to get myself into a better place spiritually.
I do this through feeling gratitude.
I have a specific way of doing this. It starts from the inside out.
I begin with my body. I feel gratitude for my body, for my health, for my strength, for whatever I’m feeling good about my body.
I then move onto my family, my parents, my grandparents.
The objects in my world. My automobiles, my house, my computer, my internet connection, my…on and on and on.
As Wallace Wattles says, we interact with the world and ourselves through the use of things.
So, I thank God for my things.
I continue with the trees, sky, clouds, birds, on and on and on.
Tonight, by the time I had finished my 30 minute walk with the dog, I came home feeling great!
I felt like some missing pieces had been restored to their place.
I had “raised my vibe.”
I would love to know your thoughts about all of this.
How do you interact with your world?
How do you maintain contact with the true source of your life, however you may interpret that?
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