Vibrational Alignment: Inspiration About the Power of Your Mind
This week, I wanted to give you a reminder of the power of your thoughts and the permission to get into vibrational alignment. Many of us have started to live our lives on autopilot, doing the same things every day. But it’s when we’re fully aware of where our thoughts and attentions lie, we’re about to be present and take back our energetic power. I’ll be explaining why your thoughts determine your actions, why you should get into the unknown, and action steps to do that.
This post is meant to be a soothing reminder of how powerful your thoughts are. For getting in vibrational alignment and manifesting your desires. Anytime you’re feeling discouraged or misaligned energetically, read this post or play the episode to get you back into a better flow. Most of what I’m sharing today will be quotes from Dr. Wayne Dyer speeches and Joe Dispenza’s book Becoming Supernatural*.
We absorb so much around us. Much of it at a subconscious level. The TV playing in the background, the bad energy of a co-worker, or watching a cute puppy walk by. Our brains soak up everything and form a framework from which to act based on what it’s exposed to. What it sees as possible. It’s pretty incredible.
Yet many people move through life on autopilot. Essentially repeating the same day over and over based on wanting to feel emotions from experiences in the past. It’s predictable and known. Then as those habits and actions repeat over and over in a predictable way soon they’ve created a program that underlies everything they do. Leaving little to no room for new experiences.
When we become aware of thoughts we’re having and of where our attention goes we can take back our energetic power. To come back to the present moment and detach from anything outside of us. That’s where we create space for new thoughts, new actions, new experiences, new destinies. Let’s explore why it’s important to create this space.
What You Think Determines Your Actions
Thought is the origin moment of action. It orients what you focus on and therefore where your energy goes. Knowing how much the brain can absorb it’s a powerful statement to direct it to something specific. Out of every thought you could think and every outside task or person you could focus on. What you choose to think and do every day says a lot.
Dr. Wayne Dyer says, “You have to act on what you think about, you can't act on anything else, the ancestor to every action is a thought. So if your mind is on what you don't like, then what you don't like has to expand for you.”
Your brain is doing its job. Finding the most efficient ways to function and following the lead of your thoughts. Looking to its current environment and past experiences to know the best course of action. Relying on predictability to keep you safe. Then eventually hardwiring thought patterns thinking the same thoughts over and over.
Joe Dispenza says, “When you fire and wire the same circuits in your brain over and over again because you keep thinking the same thoughts, you are hardwiring your brain into the same patterns. As a result, your brain becomes an artifact of your past thinking, and in time it becomes easier to automatically think in the same ways.”
As you’re thinking automatically when something new or unknown happens that disrupts the predictability of your day you tend to feel annoyed. Maybe you feel it’s inconvenient or bothersome. That’s because you’ve slipped into a predictable life that doesn’t allow room for the unknown. After learning this I observed how much of my own life is more of the same because of thoughts I think over and over. Let’s travel a little deeper into why it’s difficult for the body to make way for new experiences.
The Body vs. The Mind
As your body gets addicted to experiencing certain emotions your body will look for ways to always feel it. Guilt, shame, anger, etc. When you can’t get beyond your emotions, that's when every day becomes a repeat of the past over and over again. Where you won’t have the energetic capacity to see beyond it and create a different life for yourself.
This is when people get addicted to the rush of emotion. Then they use, as Joe Dispenza says, “the people and conditions in their lives to reaffirm their addiction to the emotion, just to keep feeling that heightened state.”
Many of us think the same thoughts which trigger the same emotions. Which then hardwires that pattern into the brain and creates a dependency and addiction to that emotion. Then our brain will do whatever it takes to keep getting that hit of emotion. The body becomes the mind and dictates what the mind should be doing. Rather than the mind telling the body what to do.
Our brains become living records of the past. Relying on past experiences and everything you’ve learned until this moment. The key is to become greater than your programming. To release yourself from being trapped and guided by the body and giving back the power to your mind. In Becoming Supernatural* this sentence hit me hard, “If you can’t get beyond your stresses, your problems, and your pain, you can’t create a new future where those things don’t exist.”
You need space to allow the unknown to happen. To allow something new to form. You want to step into the unknown on purpose to create new experiences. So you have the chance to get out of the programming that keeps you tied to your past. I’m going to echo Joe Dispenza’s words here when I ask, “How much room in your routine, predictable life do you have for the unknown?”
Getting Into the Unknown
We’ll get into action steps for getting into the unknown, but first. How do you know if you’re in the known? When you can predict the feeling of an experience. You can predict the feeling of an experience when you’ve had enough of that same experience in the past.
On the flip side, most people who can’t predict how an experience will feel often avoid engaging in it. Boy, do I get caught in that cycle. Resisting and avoiding new experiences. Working on it though.
Earlier I mentioned that where you place your attention that’s where your energy goes. When you put that attention on familiar feelings, memories, or tasks you’re placing your energy on the past. To keep your energy with you requires being in the present moment and getting more into the unknown.
Taking Action
How could you get your body to follow your mind into the unknown? Changing where you put your attention. When you change where you put your attention your energy changes. Which then affects the thoughts and feelings you have which put you in the perfect place to have something new happen.
What are ways to practice putting your attention in a new place? First, recognize where your attention is. Is it on outward things? When you wake up is the first thing you think about what you have to do today? Maybe your mind runs over the meetings you have to attend, the errands you have to run, the trash you have to take out. The attention to those things siphons your energy and makes you repeat your past over and over. Nothing new is allowed to enter into that kind of mental programming.
You want to get to a place of nothing. Of non-attachment to anything. So your energy isn’t being siphoned and can be used for intentional use. My favorite way to practice this non-attachment is with a morning routine. Right when you wake you’re in a malleable, refreshed state. Doing things like meditation and journaling allow you to place attention on the unknown.
When you override your automatic thinking, emotions, and habits during meditation or journaling this is when you get beyond your programming. Your environment and body. Joe Dispenza says, “You weaken the energetic bonds with your past-present reality and find yourself in the present moment.”
I want to close with four rules of the universe shared by Dr. Wayne Dyer. These support what I shared from Becoming Supernatural* and add some extra eternal elements that are good to soak in. Refer back to these on this post or in the episode whenever you need to get back into vibrational alignment:
What you think about expands. Every thought you have is what your humanity is.
What you think about is already here. Everything you think about, every thought you have is conceivable in your mind, you can conceive of it in form. And every thought you have is already here.
You must be willing to do what it takes to bring your thoughts into form. I didn't say you have to work hard. I didn't say you have to struggle, I didn't say you have to fight or go out there and make it real tough, it may not be at all. The keyword...is the word willing, you must be willing.
You have to understand that you cannot fail. In this process. There's no failure here. Failure is an editorial judgment imposed by others. So you want to unclog yourself with judgment.
What resonated the most with you? Leave a comment below!
Affirmation
I expand my understanding of the present and allow abundant space for new experiences and emotions.
Writing Prompt
Make a list of what you think about when you first wake up or throughout the day. Are they mostly familiar emotions and experiences? How can you make space for the unknown?
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