The world continues to accelerate. The vibration of our bodies follows along. And as our physical reality increases its frequency, our emotional and mental realities do, too. Our minds are adapting to this new high-speed reality and it means our lens is being cleaned and polished. New ways of perceiving are being born, ways that didn’t make sense when the earth and its inhabitants were slower, which was probably just last week!

I’ve heard varying explanations about why the energy inside our bodies and in the physical world is oscillating so fast: astrological transits and eclipses, sunspots, esoteric alignments. I don’t know what it is, but it’s real. One day my energy is screwed up to a high pitch and if I’m not super-centered, my mind races ahead, I get frustrated, irritated, and panic can take over. Then, it calms and I come back to an experience of being. Then, vroom, vroom, vroom! Off we go again!

There is a sense of my work in the world expanding in some magical way, yet my left brain can’t picture it or understand the “how.” When it tries to push me forward into the new work, using old methodologies and strategies, I rebel. New opportunities have to feel “just right” and I don’t know how to explain to myself what that constitutes just yet.

Even when we’re not that aware of what our destiny might be, we’re aimed at it, or it’s drawing us toward it. The closer we get, and look back over our life, we see the good sense, the “joke” that even when we thought we were wasting time, or drifting about, we were actually on purpose, that it’s pretty hard to stay off purpose for long.

As a graphic designer, I remember the impact the Swiss typeface had on our thinking. It is so clean, so beautiful, so hard to wreck it through improper use.

Then something unexpected happened that knocked me completely off the path. I witnessed and reported an act of abuse toward one of the people I support where I work, at an agency that supports adults with developmental disabilities. I did the exact right thing in this situation and had the purest of intentions. BUT the situation got all turned around and the abuser blamed me for committing the act of abuse and calculated a whole plot against me, which the agency believed and it led them to terminate me.

A landmark UCLA study suggests friendships between women are special. They shape who we are and who we are yet to be. They soothe our tumultuous inner world, fill the emotional gaps in our marriage, and help us remember who we really are. By the way, they may do even more.

As energy, consciousness, and time speed up, processes become more instantaneous. Cause-and-effect ceases to be the primary rule for materializing results; miraculous, mysterious, immediate results occur with no logical explanation. You experience the fact that much more is contained in the present moment than ever before; the Now is mushrooming to include increasing amounts of the past and future. Without the old linear, cause-and-effect, past-future thinking, the way reality functions — how you make life real to yourself — changes.

I occasionally like to review these principles set forth in The Celestine Prophecy, by James Redfield, as they are simply stated, sound, basic ideas that help us move through the transformation process. With attention spans as short as they are now, it’s nice to remember classic wisdom!

The important thing about addressing sudden times of difficulty is that we be realistic without wallowing in the drama of negativity, that we don’t gloss over things with a superficial Pollyanna positivism, but understand the true nature of the soul’s compassionate, sane, positive, forward evolution of our awareness.

Popular language and slang intrigue me; I like to look at the deeper reasons why certain phrases or grammatical errors emerge and become widely adopted at different times. What is it in our slightly subliminal cultural consciousness that is seeking expression, growth, or healing?

Wherever I am, I can dissolve the apparition of the physical world, my body, and my personality-self. I can become a ball of light floating in the center of space and time, totally supported from all directions. As I float here I can raise my vibratory rate and my light changes.