Book Title: Journey to Enlightenment Part 01
Author(s): Chitrabhanu, Chetana Catherine Florida, Nirmala Hanke, Raksha Penni Helsene
Publisher: Create Space
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Summer/Fall 2002 Our Place in the Universe: Part II:
Our Vibrations
Now let us understand our interdependence on a vibration level. Our capacity to transmute matter to energy and energy to matter is experienced through vibrations every moment of our life. Just as food turns into energy in your body, so positive vibrations which you meet in a person radiant with positivism change into a pleasant feeling in your awareness.
When you meet someone sunk in inertia, you begin to feel tired and energy-less as well. You think that the fatigue is in you, but most likely you picked up vibrations from a person who is not vibrant with light and life.
When we realize the importance of vibrations, we see why some people are speeding up the process of evolution and why others are remaining stagnant. Vibrations can accelerate your growth or they can hold you back. So you must ask yourself: “Do I constantly take in undesirable vibrations? Let me see what I am doing to allow them to influence me.” With awareness, you stop becoming a victim of negative vibrations when you stop becoming a victim of your own unaware mind.
So you investigate your life and your work. Is your work giving you life or are you exhausted by it? Is your life helping you to expand your experience or are you working for “bread and butter” only? Are you living happily or are you pushing yourself, using up extra energy on survival and stimulation?
To stimulate themselves, some people go on taking such drugs as nicotine, caffeine, pep pills thinking that it gives them energy. They are not to be blamed. To keep up with life they have to take stimulants or else they feel helpless and exhausted. Each of us must go deep and see if these tendencies are in us. If you are not receiving those vibrant vibrations which you need, realize that it is time to make a change in your life.
Making a Change
How can we make a change in our life?
First, we see the connection between ourselves and the universe: what we receive and what we give. Secondly, we put an end to hating and blaming. We accept responsibility for our own actions. Thirdly, we realize that there is no sin. We accept our own actions without clinging to guilt. We erase them with laser-like awareness in order to live in the present as a living presence. We take our life into our own hands and experience its infinitely creative possibilities.
The first step then is to see how the universe works in harmony of cause and effect. It works precisely. There are no mistakes. Like the sun whose rise and fall is exact, like the
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