The Truth About Energy Vibration

There is much attention being paid these days to the concept of “energy vibration,” and how it affects one’s ability to manifest what one wants in life.

Since Monergy is a book about “energy,” I have some definite ideas about how energy vibrates, and how that vibration may or may not determine what happens in your life. My book ascribes enormous importance to the quality of energy at every step, but I believe I am careful to show the interplay of many different elements in determining how to recreate one’s financial world: it is not an easy process and I state this repeatedly.

Although I have never read “The Secret,” I went to a discussion group loosely based on the “law of attraction” about a year ago lead by a former chiropractor. I had the distinct impression that most members of that study group were adherents to “The Secret” too.

One member of that group started talking about what she wanted to manifest in her life, and she gave the impression that it was almost as simple as “her wish is her command.” I raised my hand to comment, and I said that I don’t think it was all that easy. Her response was immediate and a little defensive: “If I thought that making money or changing one’s life was difficult, it was only because I was putting up blocks to making that happen!” After this discussion group, about six of us went out for a light dinner. I was curious if the group leader was as dogmatic about this issue as the person who spoke up. She (a former chiropractor) was! I ended up on her email list when I signed in before that discussion began. A few months later I received an email from her, and she had moved to Hawaii and was now selling water filters to survive. She even mentioned about the high cost of living in Hawaii, and complained about how hard it was to make money there!

I have a good friend who also believed very much in the “law of attraction.” Several years ago I was experiencing a great challenge in a personal relationship. His advice to me was if I wasn’t “vibrating” at a certain level, I never would have had those problems. At the same time as I had these personal challenges, he was trying to save a close relative who had advanced cancer. He did everything and more to save this person, including some very aggressive surgeries, but the person ultimately passed away. Does this mean that he was vibrating at the wrong energy level because something “unpleasant” or “bad” happened to him?

I think that we all face personal challenges and losses on this human plane. The great fallacy with ascribing all power to “energy vibrations” is that there are other factors that come into play in life- all of life can’t be “pleasant” or “without loss” no matter how we vibrate energy wise. I only wish that it could!