Modern science has shown very clearly that all form rises from a shared energy field. Whether you call this field God, Shiva, or Dark Energy matters not. It is the invisible vibrational source of all we experience. It is the web that connects us to all life and our Source. Even the “God particle” experiments at CERN showed that smashing particles into pieces eventually turned the particles back to pure energy. So we are energetic/vibrational beings.
The field of cymatics shows how different frequencies of vibration cause matter to arrange itself into different organized patterns. In other words, the quality of our sustained vibration directly influences the physical world within and around us. Not just our bodies, but our relationships and outer conditions too. The point is this: the power to make lasting change lies in our ability to manage our inner vibration, NOT in wrestle with the outer world. Its hard to accept this since we’ve be going around the barn backwards for thousands of years. We think hard hard work is the only way to make change. We think hunting down and killing the enemy is the only way to bring peace. We think aggressive surgery and pharmaceuticals is the best way to heal the body. But what if we’re wrong? The only way to find out is to try something different. Words don’t teach. Direct experience teaches. Here are some helpful tips on Silent Sitting (also know as meditation); the best way to consciously manage and elevate our vibration and change our lives from the inside out.
First, let’s establish that joy is our natural state. If we’ve been an ornery adult hanging out with mean and ornery people for a long time, this can be difficult to accept; in an ornery person’s world there is nothing “natural” about joy. But think about infants raised in safe environments. They are naturally exuberant, curious, playful, and cuddly. It is only because of the protective armoring we build as we face threats, heartache and betrayal that we bury this natural joy. But a rose covered in aphids and mildew is still a rose. And with tender cleaning it will bloom again. Did you roll your eyes at that sappy analogy? That’s your armoring. Let’s simplify things. Why does it feel bad when we aren’t resting in our natural peace and joy? If peace and joy were not our natural set points, we would not feel “off” when we are not peaceful and joyful. The very fact that it feels awful to be chronically pissed off tells us that our natural state is not-pissed-off (aka peaceful joy). The point is this: since joy, clarity, creativity, empowerment, peace, and kindness are our natural vibrational set point, we don’t need to cultivate these things! They are our God-given state! We just have to clear what suppresses that state and it will re-emerge. Silent sitting, as a consistent practice, is the most powerful tool for cleaning and clearing what suppresses our natural well being and joy.
Carve out just 10 minutes each day for this. Commit to 30 days in a row and see how things shift for you. You will never know the power of silent sitting unless you commit to it for a consistent extended period. Be willing. If you have a busy household, get up 30 minutes before everyone else and hide yourself in a remote corner of the house. Where there is a will, there is a way. This work matters. The mechanics of silent sitting are simple: find your most comfortable seat where you can press your sits bones down and reach your head-top up to pull your spine into your body and stretch it long.
Once you settle into your seat close your eyes and steady your breath. There are many ways of focusing your mind as you sit. They all involve trying to settle the wild swings of the mind and focus it on something clear, like the rhythm of your breath, the hum of your refrigerator, of the bird song outside. Thinking about nothing is not the goal. In fact, its a problem because the mind is designed to move. When we battle this natural movement, we tend to get militant. But the mind can move sweetly and under our watchful inner gaze. We also want to be careful not to get too dreamy where we are just spacing out in a lazy way. When we sit, we want to be bright, alert and sensitive, watching our inner world with innocence as if we are watching a performance that is so captivating we lose sense of the physical environment around us. And if you have a pleasing inner vision, a mind movie, that makes your heart sing, let that be the “performance” you watch. Make sure it is not too emotionally charged or it will throw you off. Keep it sweet and simple. And just sit and watch and breath. Periodically press down through your sits bones and reach brightly through your crown to keep the body alert and aligned. Just 10 minutes, breathing in, breathing out with a relaxed forehead and quiet little smile. Allowing some shedding of resistance. Not all of it, just a few layers.
So we are not thinking about nothing when we sit. We are thinking about something clear and either neutral (hum of the air conditioner) or lovely (the smile of a loved one). We are thinking of something and thinking so deeply on that something that is feels as though we are hardly thinking at all. And yet our mind is not wandering to unrelated thoughts. Its a lot like when we are engrossed in a great book or enjoying a lovely piece of music or engrossed in an art project and we find our jaw slack. This simple method of silent sitting and focusing the mind with innocent perception will clean and clear accumulated resistance that chokes off our natural empowerment and joy. Don’t take my word for it. Neither scoff at it. Try it. Commit to it. Be a skeptic, but be an informed skeptic; the scientific method requires experimentation. If you want to be scientific about it, please do. There is a science to this and yet it is also an embracing of the mystery behind all life and willingness to embrace the energetic and emotional nectar of being alive.
Just 10 minutes a day. Early in the morning if you can. For 30 days. Don’t talk about it with others. Just do it secretly and feel within yourself. Become quietly sensitive to the vibrational shifts in your inner atmosphere. Notice if the people around you seem to change as well. After all, our vibration does not stop at the boundary of our skin, we are spilling it all over the people around us.