There’s a lot of talk about climate change: sea level rises, migration, water shortages, resource wars, the rise of populism.
There’s not a lot of talk about solutions.
I was reading the excellent publication Positive News and opening page reads:
While the media must report problems and hold power to account, we believe there is also a need for rigorous journalism about what’s going right.
Our reporting uncovers solutions to the world’s challenges, engages people in society, and boosts wellbeing, too.
Positive news is a community benefit society, which means our journalism is independent and we are duty-bound to work in your interest.
I believe this is true, in almost all facets of life, there’s a negative bias that holds us back; there’s a cynicism that is inbuilt in the population that they can’t affect governance, or they can’t drive the change that they want to see in their lives. In fact we govern our own lives, and we can be the change that we want to see in our countries, it just takes a startling amount of courage and effort to be adamant that you will become the new person amongst a community of people — that in many ways you need, who might feel unsettled by that.
It’s so inbuilt into our conditioning that it slips by us, and we end up using it against ourselves in our thoughts.
The idea of manifesting our abundance has come to my attention recently and it’s a tricky subject to grasp, it demands a lot of patience and research, but it’s interesting. It’s worthwhile to understand the ways in which thoughts can become things, or how energy works.
The idea behind manifestation is that there are different levels of vibration that the brain and body can work with, this can be seen throughout different cultural traditions such as: Neuroscience, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Shamanism.
Let’s take neuroscience as an example — considering the bias in western society, you’re less likely to write me off and click off this article if I explain it in terms of science, sorry, but that’s the rules.
To sum up, though, there are 5 different brain states:
Beta waves — (14–40Hz) — The Waking Consciousness & Reasoning Wave
Alpha waves — (7.5–14Hz) — The Deep Relaxation Wave
Theta waves — (4–7.5Hz) — The Light Meditation & Sleeping Wave
Delta waves — (0.5–4Hz) — The Deep Sleep Wave
Gamma waves — (above 40Hz) — The Insight Wave
Each brain state resonates at a different frequency, which means the brain waves are oscillating at different levels. Essentially this means that the brain can suit the level of activity it needs throughout the day and night. If you’re sleeping deeply then your brain waves might be less frequent.
However, this also translates to the thoughts and emotions that you feel.
This graph describes the vibrational energy that you exhibit when you feel a certain emotion, and you can observe the difference in feeling in your body between something like shame which will feel very heavy and constricting, to a feeling like peace which feels lighter and expansive.
The main rule of manifestation is to know what you want and imagine that you are worthy, but there are also many other things in your environment and wider environments that can affect your ability to achieve what you want from life.
Does your partner fully support your choices?
Does your boss keep you under control by subtle, divisive, comments?
Who is it in your life that encourages you to express yourself? Asks you questions and doesn’t impose assumptions on you as answers?
All of these questions are important to note. Manifesting is criticized by people because they thinks it’s as simple as thinking something and then it’ll appear. It’s not, it’s simple if you follow the rules.
How does this all fit into sensitivity?
The way that we live our lives is with a certain level of sensitivity to the stimulus in our environments, we react to things as much as we intentionally build the environment that we feel comfortable in.
If the amount of energy it takes to survive in our environments is great, then we will be consumed with that, and not have any space to consider anything else. We will then be stuck in that environment as we won’t have any of the energy that it takes to be strong and courageous, and assert the changes that we want to see in those environments.
There’s some new incredible research into an area of the human condition to suggest that some people’s nervous systems are supercharged. Scientists are calling it ‘Hyper-sensitivity’.