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J. is a licensed contractor. One morning, he and two of his employees were working on the outside of a house he was building, when the scaffolding on which they were standing suddenly collapsed.
All three men plummeted to the ground twelve feet below. His two co-workers escaped with minor bruises. J., however, was less fortunate. He had twisted his back in the fall, and had landed with all his weight on his left ankle, spraining it severely. The doctor told him that it would be a least 6 weeks before his ankle would begin to get back to normal.
When he came to see me, J. could walk only slowly with great difficulty by using a cane. He could put no weight on the back of his left foot, his ankle was swollen and stiff, and there was throbbing pain from his ankle to his knee. I asked him to give me a number between 0 and 10 that would describe the intensity of his pain and discomfort (0 = no discomfort at all, 10 = overwhelming).
"A five," he said, as he lay down on the massage table.
I gently held his left ankle between my hands, and began to allow energy to run through my hands into the problem area. I asked him to relax as best he could, and to let me know what he experienced. I used J.'s feedback to "follow the pain" of the injury.
As I continued to run energy into his ankle, the throbbing sensation he felt from his ankle to his knee became more pronounced. I moved my hands up to his lower leg, and ran energy there until the throbbing sensation disappeared. Then I moved my hands back down to his ankle and his foot. At the end of our one hour session, the pain had completely disappeared from his left lower leg, his ankle had regained flexibility in it, and he could put weight on the back of his foot again.
"What is your discomfort level at now, from zero to ten?" I asked.
"Between a one and two," he responded with relief.
"Call me in three days and let me know what has happened," I requested.
Three days later, J. called, and told me that the pain and discomfort had continued to dissolve. The level of discomfort was now at one half a point!
The healing that had occurred for J. is an example of Entrainment, one of the most powerful universal wisdom principles. The principle of entrainment states that the universe's natural state is one of dynamic harmony and balance. If you have two bodies vibrating at different frequencies, they will naturally attempt to move into balance or harmony. This is what it is to be in Resonance.
J.'s body had healed itself by going into resonance with the higher healing energy vibration that was running through my hands.
[Emotionally, negative states such as fear, anger, grief, guilt, shame, apathy, feeling like a victim, etc. are low energy vibrations. Emotional states such as acceptance, love and joy have high and healing vibrations. We know this intuitively in our hearts and experientially in our bodies. It is no accident that when we are stuck in a lower emotional vibration, we speak of "feeling down" and "heavy" or that we feel we have "the weight of the world on our shoulders," or that when we are feeling joy and love we speak of "feeling up," and "on top of the world."]
Entrainment is always happening in our lives, and this natural movement toward resonance can show up in one of three ways:
1. A higher energy and a lower energy vibration can gradually compromise to a vibration somewhere between the two.
Example A: Take a group of similar size grandfather pendulum clocks with their pendulums swinging in different directions, and line them up against a wall. Within a few days, all of the pendulums will be moving in the same direction at the same time.
Example B: Many women in my classes have shared the experience of living with a group of women together in harmony in a college dorm and gradually having their menstrual cycles align to occur at the same time of month.
2. A high energy vibration drops to the level of a low energy frequency. This happens when the higher energy vibration identifies with or sympathizes with the lower energy vibration.
Example A: Have you ever had a conversation with an "energy vampire"? This is someone who may seem pleasant enough on the outside, even a "friend" or a relative, but they have a very low energy vibration and unconsciously need to get their energy from others. They have either an overt or covert victim mentality, and their emotional life is filled with sadness, resentment or regret. You are susceptible to their vibration if you go into agreement with their tale of woe. If you ever got "slimed" by one of them you'd know it, because they will walk away from the conversation feeling much better, and you will suddenly feel as if you can't keep your eyes open, that someone took three quarts of your blood, and, in addition, you feel depressed!
Example B: The energy of a mob is a powerful example of this dynamic. When individuals allow themselves to identify with a mob vibration, all of their normal emotions and behaviors are co-opted, and they begin to think, speak and act in ways that violate the individual sense of love, reasoning and compassion they may have had before. Fear is a main emotional driver for mob behavior, and can show up in any culture or society.
A less intense version of this dynamic is to identify with a family, group or culture that you desire to be part of that has a low energy vibration. If you believe your survival is dependent on being accepted by this group, you cannot operate at an energy level higher than that of the group for fear of being ostracized. What is left is to sacrifice your joy, love, well being and true Self in order to be accepted.
3. A high energy vibration can raise a low energy vibration to the higher frequency. This happens when the higher energy vibration stays constant, and invites the Self experiencing the lower vibration to move itself up to its natural state of acceptance, love and joy, so that the Self experiencing the lower energy stops identifying with it, and returns to its true nature.
Example A: When J. allowed his body to move into resonance with the higher vibration I was holding regarding who he was and his "problem", his leg and ankle began to heal. That is why the first question asked of anyone in a potential healing relationship is some version of "Are you willing to be healed?" It is a partnership dynamic at work, surrendering to the Source of wholeness and perfection within.
Example B: Being in the presence of someone lives with awareness of their true nature, who knows themselves and you to be Love itself in human form. Being open to receive in the presence of someone who is love and compassion, and holds no judgments about you, allows your vibration to rise to its true state. Insights, revelations, transformations, and healings may spontaneously arise in such a condition, as they are consistent with the higher vibratory states.
Example C: When you experience Unconditional Love and gratitude for all of life, you will illuminate this same vibration in the heart of others who are open to experience the same Light of Love within themselves. Then the universe starts to dance in resonance with you, and life flows with joy and abundance.
A key aspect of Core Wisdom is to master the principle of Entrainment; to illuminate and release the inherited misidentification of oneself with the lower energy vibrations, and to live from the healing vibrations that are the natural expression of your own wholeness and perfection.
Whether you have ever participated in Core Wisdom, you can begin this journey to wholeness and healing right now.
The first steps can be both simple and powerful. They may not be of particular interest to the intellect, as they are not complex, but they resonate powerfully and deeply with your Heart.
I invite you to try the following experiment for one week:
Take one minute during each hour you are awake to dwell on something or someone in the universe that you experience gratitude or appreciation for. Size doesn't matter. What you appreciate or have gratitude for may be something big or small. It could be as simple as a deep sense of gratitude for the gift of sight, touch, hearing, smell or taste in your life. It may be appreciation for the fact that you can walk, or hear the laughter of your child. It may be the color of the sunset, the miracle of a hummingbird, or a fleeting moment of connection with another human being you pass on the street.
Try it. What have you got to lose? If you miss an hour, be kind to yourself. Don't do this as a rote exercise, but as an authentic inquiry into what you appreciate in yourself and the world. Stop the story for a minute, and reflect on the truth of life unfolding. Can you give 5 to 10 minutes each day for 7 days to this experiment in gratitude and appreciation?
Miracles don't take place in time, stories do. What really matters is unchanging and timeless, and it can transmute your world.
-- Hal Isen
From Core Wisdom On-Line Number 41 - Apr. 16, 2004
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