When it comes to working with the Law of Attraction, you hear a lot of talk about energy. You hear about your vibration, the vibration of wealth, the vibration of success, the vibration of lack, and so on. You become intimately aware that everything is energy, and you want your energy to line up with the energy of your desire.

But what exactly does this mean, and why is it so important?

Think of everything in this Universe, including you, as a tuning fork. When a tuning fork is struck, invisible vibrations roll off of it as waves. These waves travel for quite a ways, sending their vibrations through anything and everything that is nearby.

If another tuning fork is nearby that has the same pitch (or very close), that tuning fork will begin to vibrate. It will become activated by the original tuning fork's vibrations rolling through it as waves. This is known as sympathetic resonance, and it's true of string instruments as well as tuning forks.

Sympathetic resonance or sympathetic vibration is a harmonic phenomenon wherein a passive string or vibratory body responds to external vibrations to which it has a harmonic likeness - Wikipedia

Now, let's say that each one of your thoughts is like a powerful tuning fork. You think a thought, which activates it, and its specific frequency of waves go out into the Universe. And because thoughts are not physical matter, but rather quantum forms of energy, they are not limited by time or distance. They can and will travel to the farthest corners of all dimensions.

As your thoughts travel out from you, they come into contact with other energetic bodies. When they reach an energy body that is a harmonic match, they activate that energy body. It begins to vibrate, and its energy activates something within you, because you are a vibrational match to it. This, in essence, is how we get stuck in loops of pattern or experiences.

If you continually experience something you don't like, such as money problems, it is because you are stuck in a vibrational feedback loop.

Let's look at this through a specific example. You've started your own business, and you're struggling to attract clients. You begin to think thoughts such as "there's just not enough," "I am in so much debt", and "this isn't working, why isn't it working?"

These thoughts travel out through the cosmos as quantum energy waves, and everything that is a harmonic match to these thoughts is activated. These vibrational matches begin vibrating and flowing back to you, and they show up in your world as physical manifestations. A matching vibrational manifestation could be something such as your rent suddenly being raised, clients not paying their bills, clients cancelling at the last minute, an unexpected expense, and so on.

So long as you continue to send out vibrations on this same pitch, you will activate experiences that lead to further thoughts of lack, doubt, and fear. The only way to see new, better, and more positive experiences flowing in is to change your vibration from within.

Your experiences will not change from something outside of you. For example, you will not get a sudden in flow of cash, feel excited, raise your vibration, and begin attracting new experiences. You are the master tuning fork, and everything is responding to your inner vibration. The only way to stop the negative feedback loop is to change YOUR vibration, activate new energies in the quantum field, and then focus on the new things flowing in that uplift you, thus creating a positive feedback loop.

Once you change your vibration, you will no longer activate the low frequencies that send negative experiences your way. You will instead send out vibrations on a new pitch, which will activate new experiences, such as new clients, bills getting paid, unexpected gifts, and so on. What you activate from this new vibration will be a total surprise.

Keep in mind that the Universe is unlimited in its scope. You can't even imagine all the gifts and blessings that will be activated and flowed back to you from your new vibration!​

As you change your vibration, or the frequency you are sending out, it will be as if you are tuning a guitar. It will take some adjusting to get to your new harmonic resonance. For this reason, you don't want to try one thing and then declare it doesn't work. Rather, you want to see this as a process of fine tuning that you play with, continuously adjusting your thoughts and actions based on the feedback you are getting.

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​I have recently begun to sit with the feelings of love and support. I sit with my hands on my heart, close my eyes, and ask myself, "What does it feel like to be loved and supported?"

When I do so, I feel an immediate discomfort. A sense of intense emptiness and almost pain. When I reach for the love and support, all I feel is sadness and loneliness welling up. I feel a lot of negativity and darkness. What I do not feel is the love and support.

I cannot even reach for what it feels like.

The first time I realized this, all I could bring up in me were tears. Each time I asked myself "What does it feel like to be loved and supported?" I just started crying. I was discouraged by this, but then began to realize if I want to feel love and support, and to know what it feels like, I have to release what's blocking it. For me, crying is always a form of release, particularly for stuck and blocked energy.

Even though it felt extremely uncomfortable, I kept reaching inside of me. I kept asking myself "What does it feel like to be loved and supported?" I knew it was important to keep going, because in this Universe, everything begins within. If I want to see love and support in my life, in a tangible, physical way, then I first need to experience it energetically.

What we feel within we experience without. 

The fact that I had no idea what love and support felt like really surprised me because I have done a lot of work on my self-love, self-value, and self-worth. I felt like I was at a really good place internally. I have slowly learned how to listen to, acknowledge, and honor my feelings. When I begin spiraling into negative self-talk, I give myself love and compassion. I can give myself love and support, but when I ask myself what it feels like to receive it from others, I just end up feeling like I'm drowning in a dark ocean.

As I sit with it more, I realize that self-love is not the same thing as allowing myself to receive love and support from others. These two things come from different parts of my identity and sense of my place in the world. Surprisingly, it's much easier for me to allow my own love in than it is external love. You may feel the opposite, because this all comes down to what we experienced growing up.

If you too are struggling to feel loved and supported in your life, I suggest trying this exercise. Try sitting with your hands on your heart, taking some deep breaths, and then asking yourself "What does it feel like to be loved and supported?" If it feels too uncomfortable, give yourself some compassion and know you can stop at any time. And then remind yourself that by seeing the discomfort, you have taken a step in a new direction. You have done something you hadn't done before, and that's huge. Every healing begins with a single step, and each step is equally valid and important.

When I finally got through my tears and discomfort, and began reaching into love and support, here is what came up for me: 

Sometime in the coming weeks, I'm going to make a meditation on Love and Support for The Healing Sanctuary. This is a monthly meditation subscription with over 90 audios for relaxation, healing, manifesting and more. In the meantime, I invite you to enjoy a meditation I previously made that will take you into your own private garden for healing and reflection.

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The following is a transcript of episode 90 of my podcast, The Healing Sanctuary. Listen to the full episode using the audio above, or go here to see all podcast apps.

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Welcome to The Healing Sanctuary. This is a podcast dedicated to self-healing, personal growth, spirituality, and everything in between. Each week I share a new meditation, visualization, or soulful discussion. I’m your host, Melissa Field, and I’m so grateful you’re here.

This week I’m talking about the Sacred Sounds of the Universe.

You may already have some experience with the most common sacred sound, which is OM. The other two are HU and AH. I’ve probably used Hu the most, and I actually had a very profound experience with it that I’ll tell you about it later. I haven’t used Ah much in meditation, but I have used it as a way to relax and release stress, and you may have also without realizing it.

If you’ve ever made a deep sigh, like Ahhhh, you were utilizing the healing of a sacred sound without realizing it. You may even be thinking now how good it can feel to go “ahhhh” and recognizing that your body has an intuitive awareness of the healing power of these sacred sounds.

So if a sound can be sacred, let’s first talk about what exactly sound is.

From ScienceWorld.ca: “Sound is a type of energy made by vibrations. When an object vibrates, it causes movement in surrounding air molecules. These molecules bump into the molecules close to them, causing them to vibrate as well. This makes them bump into more nearby air molecules. This “chain reaction” movement, called sound waves, keeps going until the molecules run out of energy. As a result, there is a series of molecular collisions as the sound wave passes through the air, but the air molecules themselves don’t travel with the wave. As it is disturbed, each molecule just moves away from a resting point but then eventually returns to it.”

So let’s say you strike the side of a singing bowl. The mallet hitting the metal causes the metal to vibrate. This causes the air around the strike to vibrate, and those vibrations travel out in a continuous chain until they reach your physical body.

Sound is quite literally a vibration.

​When a particular sound reaches you, it travels into your body, vibrating the cells of your body. We can all feel the vibration, but not all of us will translate that vibration into a sound. For people who have hearing damage or hearing loss, there is the physical sensation of vibration but without the internal translation into pitch and frequency.

What is actually happening when we receive vibrations that translate into sound?

​How we process sound is a pretty complex but also incredibly fascinating process.
The bottom line is, when those vibrations hit your inner ear, microscopic hairs vibrate, creating electrical pulses, which your brain then processes based on what it knows about different sounds.

The following is taken from episode 86 of my podcast, The Healing Sanctuary. This is not a direct transcript of the episode - this is taken from my notes and is edited down for focus (if you would like the full episode notes, you can download it using the "Download File" below). Listen to the full episode using the audio below, or go here to see all podcast apps.

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During my years long search to understand how to manage my anxiety, I began realizing that some things were more effective than others. A lot of stuff I read or heard to try did nothing for me. Slowing down my breathing didn’t help, it didn’t help to count, or to touch something solid and feel grounded. Honestly, if there’s an anxiety “trick” out there, I’ve probably tried it.

So let’s talk about what did work for me. These are things I’ve found to be beneficial, and I hope they help you, but if not, know that your answer is out there. You may even develop some new tool that helps other people, so don’t give up, because you were not created to be anxious. You are a whole person who has a whole Self that exists beyond your anxiety, and you’re going to find what works for you.
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When anxiety comes over us, we can have a knee jerk reaction to wanting to make it stop immediately and at all cost. Nothing feels more important than getting this feeling to GO AWAY.

​We don’t want people to see us feeling scared or uncertain. We don’t want to be interacting with people from this place of survival and fear. We want the anxiety to stop, and if you’re like me, you’ll almost go into an attack mode to the part of you that is feeling nervous, unsafe, or unworthy.

When the anxiety comes over me, I try to tell myself to relax, to calm down, but this does nothing. If anything, it makes me feel worse because all of my energy starts to focus in on how nervous I am, and it feels like I’m feeding the anxiety. It also starts to feel like I’m fighting with myself, and I start to feel agitated and like a battle is raging within me.

​The anxiety is at war with the part of me that wants to be calm, and neither side is going to give in. When I feel myself going into this inner battle mode, I first become aware of what I’m doing.

I stop telling myself to relax and calm down and I give myself permission to be nervous.

This is huge, because more than anything, it gives me what I am often craving more than anything, which is feelings of acceptance and security. So I tell myself “It’s okay to be nervous. Everybody gets nervous. It doesn’t mean anything is wrong with you. It just means you feel uncomfortable and you’re trying to protect yourself.” And then I repeat that several times.

“It’s okay to be nervous. Everybody gets nervous. It doesn’t mean anything is wrong with you. It’s okay to be nervous.”

This usually tones down the intensity, and I’m no longer at war with myself, but now, I’m giving myself love and working with myself. I’ve introduced internal cooperation into the process. I'm introducing the information that my own self is a safe space, an accepting space, and I am safe there.

I would also add onto this an informal tip: 

​Tell a trusted and safe person that you’re feeling anxious.

Whenever I tell someone how I’m feeling, I feel an immediate reversal in my sense of personal power. I no longer feel like I’m being drained, but instead like my energy is in a normal flow again. Also, I often find when I say how I’m feeling the other person relates, and it gives them permission to be more of their own self. But again, make sure you tell someone you trust and not someone who’s going to negate or diminish your feelings.

This is the tip I find the most relief from. It doesn’t make the anxiety go away, but it provides so much relief that it no longer feels like I’m slamming on a gas pedal and driving towards a brick wall at 90 miles per hour. It slows my inner vehicle down, and I regain some control.

When you feel anxiety rushing over you, start to remind yourself that this feeling is temporary. You know it’s temporary because you’ve felt it before and it never lasted forever.

​It’s literally impossible for your body to be in this heightened state 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It cannot be done. So even if you do nothing, the anxiety will go away. It has no choice. And again, you know this, because there is always a break in the anxiety. There is always a moment of relief, even if it’s you going to bed and falling asleep.

When I remind myself the feeling is temporary, I stop trying to control the anxiety. I stop feeding it. Being worried about our worry can actually be the thing that locks into place, so when you stop worrying that you'll be anxious forever and ever, you may also find the intensity to drop on its own. What usually want most of all is for the feeling to go away. When we remind ourselves that it will, and this feeling is temporary, it usually loses a lot of its power.

This may take a little practice to start reacting in this way, because our reactions to anxiety get memorized and become automatic. So if you need to, write down these tips on a notecard or in your phone. Put them in your purse or your wallet, and when you feel anxiety come on, excuse yourself to the bathroom, read your notes, and just give yourself permission to be human and to be nervous and to know there’s nothing wrong with you for having intense feelings. It’s very common.

During my quest to be less anxious, I began learning about how my brain works. I started learning about neurons and neural clusters and chemicals and hormones, and all this fascinating stuff that explained so much about my reactions and perceptions of the world. I was amazed to learn that I didn’t experience anxiety because I was a weak and hopeless person, but because I had a program running in my neurons that told me to react this way. I got programmed with this fear response largely through childhood experiences, and I don’t want to go too deep into this, but the gist is, your brain runs like a computer, and whatever your program into it is what’s going to run.

So when you have a repeated thought or experience, it will bond neurons together into a cluster, which looks something like the roots of trees.

When I’m getting anxious, I just start telling myself, “This is a neuron cluster in my brain running a program.” And then I’ll instantly see it, I’ll visualize this cluster, and somehow thinking this and visualizing it turns the intensity way down.

I then tell myself, “It’s running because I don’t have a different program in place. All I need is to get different neurons to fire together, to form a new program, and I’ll have new experiences.” And then I keep repeating myself so that I know, I am not stuck like this. This isn’t a fixed part of me that I just have to deal with. It’s the neurons doing what I programmed them to do, and I programmed them as a scared child who didn’t understand her value or worth or her own power. Now that I have new information and a new awareness of myself and the world, I’ve got to start running programs based on what I want.

The reason I love this last tip is because it’s pure mechanics. It’s very dry and factual, and my brain has no choice but to get out of it’s overly reactive emotional state and look at the facts. And the facts are, this isn’t who I am. This is just a story running because neurons are firing together based on old and fault information. And that’s all anxiety is.

So how do you get your neurons to fire together in ways that are beneficial and empowering? This is my other bonus tip!

The best way I know to reprogram your mind is through visualization. Visualization is different than meditation, and I did my previous discussion on what the difference is (episode 83). This episode is full of great information that will help to illuminate why meditation isn’t enough to change anxiety, and why you need both meditation and visualization.

What I love about visualization is it changes the story before I even step into a room.

​So for me, social anxiety was a huge issue. When I began visualizing, I began telling myself a different story not from a place of trying to course correct, but from a place of being proactive rather than reactive. Changing my thoughts patterns when I’m at home, in a safe place, doesn’t just benefit me. It also feels good. It feels good when I’m visualizing, whereas trying to change anxiety when it’s happening really doesn’t feel good. I’m just trying to tone down the intensity so I can get back to being myself.

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I want to conclude by saying anxiety is not something I think of as something to overpower or erase from my life.

It’s something I look at as I can turn down the intensity or the volume on it so I can continue to socialize and live my life. And then when I am in a place I feel safe, when I’m in my own home, that’s the time to work on reprogramming my brain, on shifting my thoughts patterns, so that the anxiety doesn’t turn back up the next time I’m out or feeling stress. You absolutely can have anxiety and live a healthy and happy life. I have anxiety and I just take it day by day and continue to remind myself there’s nothing wrong with me. My brain was just programmed a certain way, and now I’m in the process of inserting a new program.

I sincerely hope these tips help you, and if you need to, write these tips down on a 3 x 5 card or on your phone and carry them around with you. In time, you’ll start recalling them on your own and it’ll become habitual, and you’ll no longer feel powerless to your own mind.

Thank you so much for joining for this discussion. It’s something that’s very personal to me, and something I’m working on myself. If you know someone who would benefit from this discussion, please share it!

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