Vibe High

 I’m pickin’ up good vibrations….  Brian Wilson and Mike Love

Vibing high was the excellent message I heard yesterday at my spiritual home. These are heavy times, times rife with the low vibrations of disharmony and pain. Not falling victim to them is our task, our calling, our offering to the world.

I can neither turn my back on nor fix what’s wrong in the world, but I can be a light. I can acknowledge the pain and call out evil, even if I alone can’t change it. I can contribute to the beauty that exists and persists in whatever ways I am able.

One way I can contribute, I can be a light in the darkness, is by finding and expressing gratitude. I can recognize and magnify the good in the world, or just in my small sphere of it. I can find the positives, search out and support the helpers, or simply not cause pain and anger myself. 

As always, my best classroom is wherever I drive. Enclosed within the relative anonymity of their vehicles, people often show their worst sides. I don’t have to join them. I can pull back when I see that someone wants to get in my lane. I can send out high vibes to the drivers who are in a hurry, and might actually have an emergency. I can do what I can to not further antagonize angry, harried, or distracted drivers.

These are little things, but they constitute an everyday practice. When I can maintain a positive equilibrium despite the temptation to join them, I have successfully added some light to the world. That’s my goal.

Today, I’m sending out good vibrations. I hope you can feel them!