The Power of Good Vibrations
I have been thinking about this - the power of good vibrations - ever since I read Toby Rogers’ beautiful post, “Fighting The Spiritual Battle On The Spiritual Plane.”
I literally can’t watch this video without weeping. I’m convinced that the resonance created by these voices is profoundly healing. And I really want to figure out how to harness this beautiful energy.
Your Pulse is a Record of ALL the Vibrations
As my readers know by now, my husband Ross specializes in feeling vibrations. Specifically, he feels various positions over the radial artery and can perceive about 90 different pulse qualities that reveal a lot about our health and the impacts of internal and external stresses.
This two minute video demonstrates how trauma/toxicity/negative energy can come in and literally disrupt the way we experience life and health, and describes how it is reflected on the pulse.
Interestingly, the resulting quality is called a “Rough Vibration.”
If you have this person and they’re moving on this basic frequency… this is sort of like their norm (indicating sine wave). This is the free and easy wanderer, the Liver qi that is flowing freely. And of course that’s different for everybody…
And then we have different types of stresses. Let’s say a shock or a trauma comes in, and so what that does is it brings something different into the system (draws scribbly, jagged lines).
So the questions is, what’s going to entrain what?
Is there enough integrity in this person’s nervous system?
In our terms, in Parting Clouds, in Daoism, we call it the Zheng and the Xie - the upright and the deviant or the wobbly. So at what point can our body take this xie (disruptive energy) and turn it back into and align with the zheng, with our normal sort of rhythms? That’s homeostasis. That’s the ability to allow for things to move back into place.
And so it’s not uncommon… it’s almost definitive, because it’s a pathonomonic finding on the pulse of what trauma is… is a "rough vibration.” So on people’s pulses we see this (draws jagged line over sine wave)… We feel this rough, buzzing, course sensation. When we feel that one somebody’s pulse, we know they’ve experienced trauma. They have not been able to return to this normal smooth-flowing frequency of the zheng or health or homeostasis.
…Is there enough integrity?
I keep asking myself this as I zoom out to consider our culture and the collective traumas we’ve experienced. Lots of “rough vibrations.” Our distant past and our recent history. The constant assault of environmental toxins and EMFs. The spike protein, the shots, COVID and our fears around them. The isolation that prevented us from from the “good vibrations” that come with laughter, hugs and the company of family and friends.
We’ve been through a lot. There’s a lot of loss. A lot of fear. A lot of pain and anger.
BUT…
We’re still here. We can still laugh. We can still hug. We can still access sunshine and sit under the shade of tree. We can still sing or paint or garden or put our bare feet in the grass. We can still love.
So the questions is, what’s going to entrain what?