I was chatting in email with a friend this morning, and the topic of “vibration” came up. It’s had me thinking since, and as a pebble tossed into a pond spreads ripples toward the shore, those thoughts have led to this post.
Vibration. Everything, whether it is something we think of as living, or something we think of as inanimate, has vibration. Even the most stationary of objects is actually in continual motion. That motion may be at a level that only the most powerful electron microscope can detect … but it’s still there. If you examine any object, and continue to crank down your point of view until you are viewing its most base elements, you will see those little electrons whirring away, like tiny moons around a planetary body, a minute universe of their own.
Everything that moves … moves everything around it. The energy of that motion sends out waves of contacting energies, setting its outer space rippling in response. I’m made to think of the butterfly effect, and how a small change, or movement, can initiate waves of energy that spread outward, like those ripples on the pond, and effect untold numbers of possible events half a world away.
What initiated the ponderings that have led to this post, though, is not so much how small vibrations can effect distant events … but how each object resonates with those around it. Vibrations occur at various frequencies, and the norm is that adjacent objects, or spirits, or souls, or energies, have a tendency to vibrate on similar frequencies. When an object is not vibrating in harmony with the space around it, it is considered to be in discord. Think of playing a chord on a guitar or piano, and pressing a wrong fret, or hitting a wrong note: discord. It makes one’s teeth ache. It’s rather like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, vibrationally speaking.
We have all, at some point in our lives (sometimes over and over again), felt like we weren’t quite “fitting in”. Whether we are talking about the child who doesn’t seem to jive with any school-population cliques, or simply that over-all feeling of unrest, or dis-ease, that we can’t quite put a finger on, we are all familiar with the feeling.
Today, I’ve found myself wondering about this, and how that sense of dis-ease may relate to vibration. Everything around us is vibrating at a certain frequency. That frequency is affected by adjacent vibrations, which are affected by those a level out, all resonating in relative harmony as one tuning fork sets the next humming. Then, here we are, sitting in the middle of it all, and we are drumming out a hard rock beat while everything else is humming along with Beethoven. We are, vibrationally, in the wrong place at the wrong time. We are trying to fit our square peg selves into the round hole of the space around us.
It makes our teeth ache.
What can we do about it? It certainly will be extremely stressful to try to force our way through the current like this. The air around us will grate against our spirits, like trying to navigate the torrents in a blender. We could examine the vibrations around us, I suppose, and try to make ourselves conform. But if we are in a space where our unique vibration is necessary to us, despite the fact that its not resonating with the universe around us … would changing our vibration be a cop-out?
We might also try to change the vibrations in our own space so that we feel more comfortable. Although it’s impossible, I believe, to do this without at least minimally sending that change outward and affecting others, if it’s done gently and with good intent, that affect might be steered toward a beneficial one. Changing the aura of our surroundings can be as simple as playing music that feels good to us at the moment, or as complicated as moving to a totally new location. The key is to listen to our inner critic, find the thing that feels right, that soothes us, that makes us feel like we are a better fit, and take action on it. Changing decor, collecting images that feel peaceful, or simply spending time in meditation upon things that bring us joy, are all things we can do to change the vibrations around us.
Or, the third option, is of course to meet the first two in the middle. Compromise. If we use our emotions as guides, we can make some minor tweaks in our own vibrational energies at the same time that we change the energies around us, to find a space that feels more comfortable.
I look around me at the situation our world is currently in, with both waves of great hope, and ripples of terrible fear. I observe the vast numbers of people who are suffering from depression, from mental instability, from deep worries. Our world is going through some intense changes … some good, many not so good at all. Any change is movement, and any movement generates vibration. Is our human response to that vibrational change part of what is causing these various ills?
By changing our own vibrations, or by reaching out to our own personal space with intentions of peace, joy, love, and harmony, can we create a ripple? Can we become the butterflies that will eventually cause a global response that will counter-act all of the negative we are seeing in the media around the world?
I don’t know, but it certainly can’t hurt to try. At the very least, it may affect our own small place in space so that we feel better about the tune we are humming. We may not fit in on a global scale, those of us who dance to a different melody … but at least we will feel more like we fit in our own skins, with the potential of lightening the energies which immediately surround us.
