What's Your Frequency?

What’s your frequency?

Silly question, right? Frequencies are for signals flying through the ether. Radio waves, television, cellular. People don’t have frequencies.

Or do they?

Try this. Think about situations that reliably set you off. The comment that always stings. The type of person who never fails to irritate. The worry that keeps resurfacing no matter how often you put it to rest. The circumstances change, yet something underneath stays remarkably consistent.

That something is your frequency.

We assume our reactions are simply responses to what happens. He was rude, so I got hurt. But the events keep changing while the experience stays oddly familiar. Which suggests the source isn’t out there at all.

Consider how two people can witness the identical moment and walk away with entirely different experiences. We sardonically say the pessimist sees the glass half-empty, the optimist half-full. To which I’d whimsically add, the engineer sees a glass twice as large as it needs to be.

Same glass. Three frequencies.

The world comes in through our senses. We process an extraordinary amount of data. And from it we arrive at some sort of interpretation. This is good. This is bad. This is neutral. Whatever. And we believe, with absolute certainty, that we’re right.

That hand-wavy bit, the “we arrive at some sort of interpretation” part, is where frequency lives. Which carries a liberating implication: if we don’t like what we keep experiencing, the leverage was never in the world. As we read in A Course in Miracles, “Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind [frequency] about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause.”

Far easier than rearranging everything to suit our preferences.

So ... what’s your frequency?

Join me in Thursday’s class where we’ll explore this idea of frequency and the process of shifting into the realm of unconditional joy. I look forward to seeing you then.