Tune into Love

If you’re single and wanting to come together with your perfect mate, the time between setting your intention in motion and embodying it can be challenging and fraught with ups and downs.  It can also be the most enjoyable, fun-filled, period of getting to know you. The difference is in how you respond to your feelings about it. That’s where faith comes in.

There it is. I mentioned the two things that I eluded me at first: tuning into who I am and faith.

It seemed that the harder I tried to understand those two things, the worse I felt.

One day I just decided to drop it and do nothing for a bit except observe my feelings and interests, no matter how superficial it seemed at first to drop doing the work and to tune into what felt good to me. 

For me, it was a lot like learning to tune a guitar.

I played classical guitar as a young teen. One of the biggest surprises to me was that the guitar would get out of tune. (There was maintenance?) I would pluck the A-string and it would sound horrible. Just yesterday, it was in tune. What happened?

My teacher patiently informed me that regular tuning was required. She had had so much practice that she could almost tune it by listening to the string. Still, she would pull out a tuning fork to check. She held it, struck  it on her knee, then placed the base on the bridge of the guitar.

I just knew that my string sounded horrible. I wanted it to sound better. I needed the fork because I couldn't feel or hear the sound of A in the string.

At first, it was painful. I had to get used to the sound and the vibration of the fork and be able to recognize what I was looking for in the guitar string.  In retrospect, it was a funny sight to observe. The more desperate I became, the tighter my grip became on the fork and the more my knee hurt. I was trying too hard. I was bruised and hurting, all by my own hand. She patiently showed me. When things got really bad, she tuned it for me. I learned to ask for help or just stop trying so hard.

Eventually, I learned to strike lightly and tighten the string more slowly as I got closer to the goal. I could not only hear the sound but it resonated throughout the guitar.  I realized that I always could get the A. I just had to recognize it. If I paid attention, the string would start vibrating on its own in harmony with the fork when it was in tune.

How does this relate to meeting our perfect mate? 

Guitarist– The one experiencing the sound and able to recognize harmony/dissonance. This is the observer and the chooser within me.

Guitar string – My experience of or feelings about my circumstances.

Tuning fork – The experience that I desire from the highest perspective, such as meeting my perfect mate. The real ME.

What I love about this analogy is that it puts the work that we do to manifest our dreams into perspective. 

Our circumstances are just a reflection of how in tune or out of tune our life might be with our desires. 

If we never pull out the fork and tune things up with meditation, visioning, affirmative prayer, we are probably going to feel bad about what’s happening and stay there because we haven’t given ourselves an opportunity to resonate with and tune into our highest vibration.

At the same time, we need to use those tools lightly and with confidence that we’ll get the desired results.  This is faith. It's confidence before the evidence shows up. How long it takes doesn’t matter because the end result is not only possible, it's guaranteed. Along the way, you may receive gifts that you did not expect to receive, such as mentoring, friendship, and compassion.

We only have to take the first step and be lightly persistent. It becomes easier and easier to tune in. We'll give up our frustrations more quickly. We also become more sensitive to being out of tune. At that point, we will be unlikely to continue behaviors that keep us out of tune because we know we have a better choice available to us.

Stay TUNED for more!

Hugs,

Lisa