How to Change Your State of Vibration
“There are degrees of Love and Hate, and
there is a middle point where “Like and Dislike” become so faint
that it is difficult to distinguish between them. Courage and
Fear come under the same rule. The Pairs of Opposites exist
everywhere. Where you find one thing you find its opposite—
the two poles.“
This is an interesting idea you also find in the Tao. That everything is divided into dual aspects on this layer of reality. The Tao is essentially that before the stage of differentiating into its poles.
“And it is this fact that enables the Hermetist to transmute
one mental state into another, along the lines of Polarization.”
If you read the last post on the principal of vibration and polarity found here, you’ll remember that everything has its pole, positive on one side negative on the other, and our vibrational frequency is the degree of our polarization or where our current state is vibrating at. It could be a higher degree of love or a lower degree of hate, etc.
“Things belonging to different classes cannot be transmuted into
each other, but things of the same class may be changed, that
is, may have their polarity changed. Thus Love never becomes
East or West, or Red or Violet—but it may and often does turn
into Hate—and likewise Hate may be transformed into Love,
by changing its polarity. Courage may be transmuted into
Fear, and the reverse. Hard things may be rendered Soft. Dull
things become Sharp. Hot things become Cold. And so on, the
transmutation always being between things of the same kind
of different degrees.”
The one thing I would always see in New Age teachings about vibrations, is the claim that love is the highest state or frequency of vibration. This is only partially true. If all you’re focused on is a singular pole, then Love could be the highest state of vibration. But Love is the positive extreme of one of these poles or mental states. There are many others with an equally extreme state at each pole.
“Take the case of a Fearful man. By raising
his mental vibrations along the line of Fear‑Courage, he can be
filled with the highest degree of Courage and Fearlessness. And,
likewise, the Slothful man may change himself into an Active,
Energetic individual, simply by polarizing along the lines of the
desired quality.
The student who is familiar with the processes by which
the various schools of Mental Science, etc., produce changes
in the mental states of those following their teachings, may
not readily understand the principle underlying many of these
changes. When, however, the Principle of Polarity is once
grasped, and it is seen that the mental changes are occasioned
by a change of polarity—a sliding along the same scale—the
matter is more readily understood. “
They make it clear that we can have control over our polarity, where our vibrational frequency is on the scale of which ever mental state or states, we’re dealing with. When you learn to think of love and hate as the 2 ends of the same thing, and likewise for all the dualities, you realize that there is a clear, traversable bridge that you can take from one to the other.
“The change is not in the nature of a transmutation of one
thing into another thing entirely different—but is merely
a change of degree in the same things, a vastly important
difference. For instance, borrowing an analogy from the
Physical Plane, it is impossible to change Heat into
Sharpness, Loudness, Highness, etc., but Heat may readily
be transmuted into Cold, simply by lowering the vibrations. In
the same way Hate and Love are mutually transmutable; so
are Fear and Courage. But Fear cannot be transformed into
Love, nor can Courage be transmuted into Hate. The mental
states belong to innumerable classes, each class of which has its
opposite poles, along which transmutation is possible.”
So once you start seeing these as bridges that you can slide along in degrees, you then just need to know how to go about changing that vibrational frequency. How do you consciously traverse the poles?
““To change your mood or mental state—change your vibration.”—
The Kybalion.
One may change his mental vibrations by an effort of Will,
in the direction of deliberately fixing the Attention upon a
more desirable state. Will directs the Attention, and Attention
changes the Vibration. Cultivate the Art of Attention, by means
of the Will, and you have solved the secret of the Mastery of
Moods and Mental States.”
A great example of this is when people would go to the graveyard at night to meditate. There were many reasons to do this but one was to invoke the state of fear, which you could then observe, settle and master. You could also take the state and settle it into courage by both observing the state we call fear, as though you were putting it into a box in your mind’s eye. Then you shake that box in your mind focusing on courage, until the fear settles and courage emerges. You’ll feel the courage growing and growing and the fear shrinking and shrinking within that box. By imagining it as an object and putting a box around it, you are exercising a form of differentiation. You have identified the state, in this case fear, you’ve observed its changes upon you. By observing what you identified you are already performing a differentiation between the observer and the mental state being observed. These complete the first 2 steps of the Identification-Differentiation-Integration process or better know as “transcend and include.”
“To destroy an undesirable rate of mental vibration, put into
operation the Principle of Polarity and concentrate upon the opposite
pole to that which you desire to suppress. Kill out the undesirable by
changing its polarity.”—The Kybalion.
This is one of the most important of the Hermetic Formulas.
It is based upon true scientific principles. We have shown
you that a mental state and its opposite were merely the two
poles of one thing, and that by Mental Transmutation the
polarity might be reversed. This principle is known to modern
psychologists, who apply it to the breaking up of undesirable
habits by bidding their students concentrate upon the opposite
quality. If you are possessed of Fear, do not waste time trying to
“kill out” Fear, but instead cultivate the quality of Courage, and
the Fear will disappear. Some writers have expressed this idea
most forcibly by using the illustration of the dark room. You do
not have to shovel out or sweep out the Darkness, but by merely
opening the shutters and letting in the Light the Darkness has
disappeared. To kill out a Negative quality, concentrate upon
the Positive Pole of that same quality, and the vibrations will
gradually change from Negative to Positive, until finally you will
become polarized on the Positive pole instead of the Negative.
The reverse is also true, as many have found out to their sorrow,
when they have allowed themselves to vibrate too constantly
on the Negative pole of things. By changing your polarity you
may master your moods, change your mental states, remake
your disposition, and build up character. Much of the Mental
Mastery of the advanced Hermetics is due to this application
of Polarity, which is one of the important aspects of Mental
Transmutation. Remember the Hermetic Axiom (quoted
previously), which says:
“Mind (as well as metals and elements) may be transmuted from
state to state; degree to degree; condition to condition; pole to pole;
vibration to vibration.”—The Kybalion.”