GENTLE VIBRATIONS

I read once where we should seek out the good vibrations of friends. This thought caused me to wonder about vibrations coming from each other. Do we actually give off vibrations? Is there actually an energy that we each enamate? I have come to know that it is true. We can actually feel the good and the bad vibrations of others. We are naturally drawn to people whose vibrations are in harmony with ours. I believe this is why we are attracted to or pulled toward some people and not others.

We are much the same as the tuning fork which, when struck, causes sound waves to travel through the air until the waves reach the second tuning fork. The vibrations of the first fork then cause vibrations of the same frequency of the second fork. Interestingly, we desire to be with people of our same frequency so that we can vibrate in harmony together. This actually makes sense.

One evening, as my husband and I were out for our nightly walk, we came upon a family of crickets chirping. It was a lovely summer's sound and reminded both of us of our childhood. As we listened, we noticed that the chirping of the crickets were not only in unison, but in perfect harmony. If one cricket got slightly out of sync, it quickly fell into syncopation or rhythm with the others. Remarkably, they all stopped at once and then started up on perfect pitch, as if one had a baton and was leading the cricket orchestra.

I have a friend who always refers to me as her "kindred spirit." The first time she said it, I thought it was heart warming to hear those words; but in my conversations with her, I realized she knew things about me that other people had never picked up on. I was amazed that somehow she just knew things about me. I now realize that it was because she had similar interests and picked up on my vibrations. We have shared many wonderful conversations on our shared interest where I have learned so much from her. It has been a very rewarding friendship.

Is it possible to get into sync with people whose vibrations are not the same as ours? I believe that the answer is yes. I believe that it comes from learning to respect and appreciate differences. Some of my most favorite people in the whole wide world are completely opposite of me but I have grown to love our differences and find them to be wonderful. We have learned to feel the unique and gentle vibrations of each other. It can be extremely rewarding.

We once stayed in a motel which had big white rockers on the entrance porch. A group of us sat out one night and watched the rain fall and chatted about things both great and small. I noticed that it did not take long for our rockers to fall into sync with each other. Even when one person started rocking faster, the others followed. When one got out of sync, the others naturally slowed down and waited until we were in harmony with one another.

Ah, gentle vibrations--I have been drawn to the gentle vibrations of so many wonderful people and feel blessed to call them "friend."