Peirce, P. (2011). Frequency: The power of personal vibration. Atria Books/Beyond Words.

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It’s Up to You to Choose How You Want to Feel

 

Are you waiting to feel good?  Every day, in small situations or large, you have the choice to be either contracted and anxious or at-home-in-the-center.  It’s up to you how you want to feel and who you want to be.  No one else can create the conditions for you to feel good if you haven’t decided to feel good.  There comes a point in everyone’s life when we must simply decide to be fine, to feel healthy, and not to wait for situations to clear up or problems to be solved.  Life is short; we might as well enjoy it.  And enjoying each moment, one at a time, is not such a difficult task.

 

This is where we must be brutally honest and ask ourselves the withering, humiliating, yet liberating questions.  Am I being miserable to punish others?

Am I stalling my growth because I stubbornly want others to make me feel safe or do things for me?

Am I hesitating to have a good life because I don’t want to admit I’ve made a mistake?

Am I maintaining my pain because I don’t want to admit I’ve made a mistake?

Am I maintaining my pain because I’m too lazy to think of anything better?

Am I proud of myself?

The biggest question of all is: am I willing to let go of the old, transform, and know how truly good it can be when I’m not in control?

 

As you contemplate the answers to these questions, notice what your excuses are.  How do you explain your lack of courage to yourself and others?  We all have justifications for why we don’t live fully.  Yet each time you recite yours, it actually generates shame at a deep level, making it harder to let go.

 

It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now…with its aches and its pleasures…is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive. ~ Pema Chödrön

 

Look into your life and see to what or whom you’ve given the power to displace you from the sanctuary of your home frequency.  What have you allowed to be more important than your inner peace?  Is it the negativity of politics?  Or an illness, a crazy boss, inconsiderate drivers, barking dogs next door, an alcoholic sibling, or not getting a thank-you note?  If you want to proceed into your new high-frequency life, you’ll need to take your power back from all these things.  That means when they arise, you let them be and choose your home frequency instead of your “upset frequency”.  You focus strongly on the nuances of how your home frequency is positively affecting your body, emotions, and thoughts.

 

As you become clear about living in your home frequency and returning to it promptly the minute you notice you’ve left it, you may make some statements to yourself to help you remember that your home frequency reality is the only reality. 

 

They might include:

I will stop passing along my pain. 

I will not say or do things that cause other people physical, emotional, or mental pain.

I will not think about myself or others in ways that reduce our magnificence or potential.

I will look for the good reasons in my experience.

I will be compassionately honest.

I will trust and act from my soul in each moment.

 

When you intentionally choose your home frequency, you’re doing nothing less than catalyzing your enlightenment and that of everyone else.

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Excerpt from “Frequency” by Penney Peirce (2011)