Me on the stair master again, having an aha about life—this time it required a few words about vibration, and what you think your practice is.
Thanks Esther Hicks for another 15-minute blast of inspiration. This one was so good I laughed out loud and caught looks from neighboring treadmill users.
None of them smiled back, by the way. Sup, people? Get your smiles on!
My vibrational habit? I stopped the video and swiped to my Notes function to write that line down.
I thought about it all the way home and came to this conclusion: We think we’re doing this practice of higher-vibe thinking, but the reality is our default (and primal wiring) is so in survival mode that we barely have a chance. There’s a lot of trauma weighing us down, and messing with our vibration and the practice of raising it.
Do you remember teeter-totters? I added a photo for you Gen-Z’ers.
If we’re attempting to move the board to positive, high-vibe, awe-filled, co-creative badassery, we better be able to tip that scale on a whim. But it’s hard when your BFF keeps slamming you into the ground.
Remember your BFF on the teeter-totter and how, when you least suspected it, she pushed off the ground with all the might of her two little legs in those Guess jeans, and catapulted you into the ground? It was funny-not-funny. I mean, you both laughed, but whiplash ensued.
That’s how I see us being triggered by life on the regular. Those negative thoughts, doubts, worries, anxiety, what-if moments, and worst-case scenarios don’t just creep into our thought patterns. They bull-in-a-china-shop shatter our peace.
We’re stuck there until we remember we have legs, too! Unless, of course, your BFF is bigger and stronger than you and just keeps slamming you into the ground.
Some days feel like that, don’t they?
I walked out of the bedroom, heading down the hallway to the kitchen (and my dark roast) the other day, and a wave of love washed over me, creating a smile in the morning quiet.
Oh, this! This is that feeling. Please stay! I love this feeling.
I wanted my big friend on that teeter-totter to lean back and pin me in the air for a while.
Remember how we did that, too—lifting each other to the sky as we squealed with delight? How we couldn’t come down until our friend bent her legs and pushed again?
Teeter-totters aren’t meant to stay still. They’re a back-and-forth game, an up-and-down play. And when there’s no movement or flow, the game stops.
In the game of manifestation, I love to fly high. My vibrational habit is positive. I love love. I bask in all the feelings I love—gratitude, joy, curiosity, acceptance—so many to choose from.
Getting slammed into the ground only lasts a moment, because I’m good at remembering I have legs, and my habit is to push off and play.
Push off and play. Feel the wind in your hair. Laugh about it. Watch your friends flying high. Catch their vibe. Let go at the height of the up-swing. Inhale. How does it feel to be in the air?
How can you practice getting there without being on a teeter-totter?
Because the manifesting playground doesn’t require one person to be down while the other one is up. This contraption raises all boats (and butts). This magnificent work of art only requires a deep breath, a walk down the hall, and the intention to feel good.
Remember it now.
You’re there.
You got this.
And the next time you’re slammed into the ground unexpectedly, recognize the game and laugh out loud. That will turn it on a dime.
People will probably stare, too. They can’t see that the work(out) can be fun. They think you’re an alien.
But you have a vibrational habit that’s creating an incredible life.
Let them do them.
