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Put Purpose into Raising Your Frequency, by Melissa Alvarez

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

I’d never really put much thought into how I could effectively raise my frequency, the spiritual energy of my personal vibration, or why I should even attempt to do it until I began to notice a correlation between my frequency and the positive or negative things happening in my life. I became aware that a higher inner frequency resulted in more positivity in my life, and lower frequencies resulted in stressful, negative situations, so I began to focus on raising my frequency with purpose.

The ultimate goal in raising frequency is to operate at a high level of vibration while still being able to function well at those higher vibrations in everyday life. It is one thing to elevate your frequency to a high level and maintain those levels when you're alone, but when you interact with others any negativity they may be experiencing will naturally affect your energy and lower your vibration. Giving you a year's worth of daily tools and exercises to elevate your frequency is the goal of my book, 365 Ways To Raise Your Frequency.

Exactly how do you give purpose to raising frequency? All you're doing is focusing on increasing the rate at which your energy vibrates, right? Yes, that's true, but when the elevation process has purpose, it's easier to maintain a higher frequency once you've achieved it. You will be amazed at the results you can attain. Start by determining what your purpose is for raising your frequency. If you'd like, you could stop reading right now and make a list of the reasons why you want to elevate your personal vibration. You don't have to come up with some theoretical, complicated concept; just list the things that you want to achieve as you raise your frequency. That's giving your frequency purpose. Let's take a look at some different purposes and the results you could potentially achieve by giving specific reasons to your frequency raising exercises.

Purpose: To achieve more joy and happiness in your life.
When you give your frequency the purpose of attaining more joy and happiness in your life you are giving yourself permission to attain joy and happiness. You will notice that more wonderful people and situations are drawn to you and you to them. When you experience joy and happiness, they raise your frequency even higher because they are positive emotions. Your frequency connects to the positivity around you and elevates even more. As you become a happier and more joyful person, you notice negativity less often than you previously did before, giving your frequency this purpose. You'll also discover that you're having more fun than ever before because having fun is a joyful, happy event.

Purpose: To love unconditionally.
Love is one of the strongest purposes that you can give your frequency. Loving with your whole heart, your entire being, can take your frequency into the stratosphere. Knowing that you are giving your love freely and without conditions, that you're allowing this emotion to come from the depths of your soul, to affect others in a positive way, always has a positive, elevating effect on your energy and moves it into higher vibrational patterns. It doesn't matter if the love you give is returned in the same way; what matters is that it's freely given. But as you give love, you'll often notice that it is returned in some way. It may be in smaller amounts, or in different ways than you've given it, but you'll notice love from people and in situations where you never saw it before, or even expected to find it, as your vibration increases to higher levels.

Purpose: To release that which no longer serves you.
How many times have you just hung onto something that no longer serves a purpose in your life? Sometimes, we have an experience and when its time has passed, the lesson learned and purpose served, we still hang onto it and don't release it when it's time. Clinging to it will pull your frequency down. If you release the thing that is no longer needed in your life, your frequency will elevate and you will often find that new opportunities or situations will come to you with new lessons for you to learn and new experiences for you to have. By giving your frequency the purpose of knowing when it's time to let something go, you will be more aware when that time comes and will maintain higher levels of personal vibration.

Purpose: To be more open to your intuitive nature.
An easy way to increase your frequency is to give it the purpose of openness to all of your life experiences. When it comes to intuition, you may not understand what is happening to you, or you may be fighting it because you don't want to have intuitive abilities. You may be fearful or you may embrace everything of an intuitive nature and want more. Giving your energy the purpose of openness will allow you to find a greater understanding in situations or connect to people who can teach you. Being open to possibilities is a high vibrational frequency and will attract in kind, bringing positive, high level vibrations to you. This can allow you to learn more about your own intuitive nature, your spirituality, and your life's calling—all of which have positive effects on your frequency.

Purpose: To manifest that which you need.
When you're manifesting, you're connecting to the frequency of the Universe to bring that which you need or desire to you. When you give your own vibrational rate the purpose of connecting to the high level frequencies of the Universe, you're elevating your frequency to match the Universal energy that you're connecting to. The thing that you're manifesting may come quickly or it may take a while, but this connection between yourself and the Universe is a frequency-raising connection. Sometimes you can even feel your own vibrational rate rise during your manifesting exercise. Make note of how you felt, the changes you experienced in your frequency, and if these changes stayed elevated or if they decreased when you were no longer actively thinking about it. Write it all down because it will help you in future exercises.

Purpose: To accept people, situations, and things you can't change for what they are.
One thing I often say is, "It is what it is." Each of us has our own path to follow, our own lessons to learn, and we experience situations that will enable us to learn those lessons. By accepting others for who they are, a spiritual being of energy and light who is trying to walk their path, just as you are trying to walk yours, then you are increasing your frequency through acceptance. We're often put in situations that may be difficult, frustrating, and stressful, but through those situations, you learn—and in learning you elevate your vibration. By giving your frequency the purpose of acceptance, you're allowing yourself to understand that some things just are, they have a purpose in and of themselves, but they just are what they are. You can't change them, nor should you try. See them for what they are and know that "it is what it is." Through this kind of acceptance of life, you will be successful in raising your frequency and maintaining that higher vibrational pattern.

As you think about the different purposes behind your desire to increase your frequency and to live at high levels of vibration, remember that as a spiritual being of light energy, your soul essence is already at a very high vibrational frequency. Existing on the earthly plane makes connecting with your purest divine frequency a challenge, but it is through this challenge that you will become that which you already are.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2012. All rights reserved.

My name is Patty and I have daily visions or deja vu. Everything always plays out just as I have envisioned it. Some visions are what I call mild. For example, they can be as simple as my daughter walking in the room and asking me a particular question, which played out in my mind before she entered the room. Other times, the visions are more complex. I have seen minor accidents like a glass falling off the shelf and breaking, car accidents, someone falling off a ladder, and most recently, my disabled mother falling down a flight of stairs. (Thankfully, she only suffered a sprained ankle and a few cuts and bruises.) I also see images that are more difficult to understand. I often see mental glimpses or snap shots that seem to be random and meaningless. I'm wondering why I see those snapshots and how I can control the visions I have and discern what they're trying to tell me. Do you have any suggestions?

Patty

Susyn:

Your visions are wonderful gifts, but I can see why they might cause you concern. When we experience this sort of phenomenon and are not sure of its meaning or how to control it, it's easy to feel overwhelmed.

Up until this point, you have not envisioned anything truly frightening. However, as your gift grows, you may start to see things you would rather not know about. When you do, you may be at a loss as to whether to share these with other people out of a desire to either warn them or try to change the course of destiny.

Many psychics and empaths started out in just the way you describe: They realized that they were able to see into the future, and they sought training to learn how to direct and control this gift so they could put it to good use.

Of course, the ability to see into the future carries a heavy responsibility, so you will want to find a way to use this gift for the highest purposes. You might consider adopting a spiritual practice like studying tarot or astrology so you can get more information about the random visions you see. These methods can be valuable tools for learning to direct and control spontaneous visions so they are not constantly streaming in.

Another way to put some boundaries around your gift is to start recording these visions when they appear as well as the actual outcomes so you can determine the accuracy of these events. By getting a sense of how often they occur, what times of day they are most active, and how soon after you have the visions the events come to pass, you will begin to learn more about your gift.

It sounds like most of the time, these visions immediately precede the events they predict, which keeps you from sharing them with others. For example, if you had seen the vision of your mother falling down the stairs earlier, you might have been able to warn her to be careful.

One very effective practice that may help is called corralling. It is a method wherein you determine a set time of day when you will entertain these visions. You may want to establish an early morning or late evening meditation time when you specifically ask for visions to come to you. After your session, write them down so you can see which ones come to pass. In this way, you aren't blocking the visions but you are gaining control over when and how they manifest.

It is important to remain open to this gift, but equally important that you don't let it take over your life or cause you concern. With practice, you'll discover how to invite visions in at your convenience, and know when to share them and when to keep them to yourself.

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Mata:

The first thing you need is greater understanding of what's going on. Imagine that, as you move through life, you're watching each moment unfold much like you would watch a movie. At any given moment, most people are locked on a mental screen that is either playing what is happening right now, what happened in the past, or what might happen in the future.

Those of us who have expanded psychic awareness have mental screens that are more like 360-degree Imax movies than traditional theaters, so we have access to far more information than most people do. Though we may be focused in the moment, in our peripheral vision, we may get a glimpse of what is about to happen even if it's not something important. Events that are close to the present moment such as your daughter coming into the room will grab our attention; they are in our peripheral psychic vision simply because they're about to occur.

Events that are important or dramatic can grab our attention even if they're playing far above or behind us because it's natural to turn toward noises, images, and other input of a startling or intense nature. Thus you may be focused on something totally unrelated when, in your peripheral awareness, your subconscious mind picks up on a scene of your mother falling down the stairs. This grabs your attention because your mother is important to you, though other dramatic information such as accidents and other big events will similarly break through into your awareness.

When we develop our psychic abilities, we learn how to shift our focus from what is happening in physical reality in this moment to any part of the holographic cosmic spectrum. We do this by altering our state of consciousness and learning where to look for the information we desire as well as whom to ask for help with such endeavors.

To gain control of these visions, you must learn three things: how to stay grounded in physical reality/the present moment, how to purposefully look for and filter the information you receive, and how to ask Spirit for more information (such as what you are supposed to do with the psychic visions that come to you.)

Your spirit guides can help you filter out any visions you are not meant to act upon in some way; they can also help you align with only positive, meaningful psychic experiences. Since my space is limited here, I encourage you to start researching psychic development and how to work with your spirit guides in general. There are tons of great books in print and articles on the web on these subjects; you might even pray to receive a vision on where you should begin!

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.