Going up in vibration is part of the process of spiritual evolution. Our vibration rises as we evolve and expand our capacity to hold more light. Any challenges we experience as our vibration rises, are rooted in our relationship with the 3D reality.
For some people, “3D” is a by-word, a synonym for everything that is limiting, gross, false, and enslaving. It’s a false matrix, an illusion, and a state of separation. It is something that is dissolving, something we all get to escape very soon.
The issue I have with this perspective is that we are here for a reason. Is the only reason for incarnation to ascend? To go to some ideal place of existence where all problems fall away? Or to live life to the fullest while in the body?
The physical dimension is just as important as any other. In fact, its is the physical reality that gives us unique opportunities for growth and development. Opportunities that are simply not available in other dimensions.
There are universes inside our bodies, perhaps even inside our cells. In a fractal and holographic world, the body influences and teaches the spirit just as much as the spirit teaches the body.
It is helpful to think about dimensions as layers, rather than separate planes of existence. Each one of us has an aspect of our soul present in every layer. When our vibration goes up, our awareness of the higher layers becomes clearer, and we start integrating our consciousness across dimensions.
What often happens, however, is that with rising vibration we face the challenge of wanting to disengage from the physical world.
Information-Seeking as Distraction
We may become absorbed in things which are not bad in themselves, but which will funnel our attention and energy away from reality, and the actual process of awakening.
An example that most of us can relate to is the search for knowledge and information. When our soul starts vibrating at higher frequencies, we turn into hungry information gatherers.
We may look for alternative news, devour books and articles, attend courses, seminars and workshops, study with a multitude of teachers, learn healing modality after healing modality, watch endless YouTube videos and browse the internet to satisfy this powerful drive to gather more and more knowledge.
However, knowledge and wisdom are not the same thing. We may forever be learning something new, yet never actually get to better our physical circumstances. Without discernment, and the actual spiritual practice, the pursuit of knowledge may quickly turn into an empty distraction.
Poverty and Spiritual Bypassing
The increasing tension between our 3D life and our growing awareness of higher-dimensional reality can become a trap that may keep us stuck in poverty, instability and spiritual bypass for a very long time. If we don’t embrace this growing discomfort (sitting with the pressure and allowing the soup to cook, so to say), all higher-level realizations will be fruitless.
What we are seeing on the planetary level, of course, is that this shift in vibration goes hand-in-hand with the collapse of the old reality. But the result of this collapse will depend on our actions and the choices we make, on the real, tangible, and earthly activities. Yes, the physical world is being transformed. But our challenge is to integrate higher dimensional shifts into it — not to “ascend” out of the reality altogether.
We did not incarnate to escape reality
Our souls are already experiencing Oneness at the highest levels. It is our personalities that need integration. I have heard many times that physical incarnation is the highest honor, for which many souls compete.
In the physical body, we are able to fully experience individuation. Clearly delineated by the limits of our body, we get to fully live separation. We experience separation into genders, ethnicities, languages and cultures. And many of us find this very confusing! But the Divine is both multiplicity and Oneness.
We don’t just live separation. We also get to create, to love, to taste delicious food, to feel the heat of the sun and the cold of the snow, to make our own choices and to experience their consequences.
The Divine expresses itself through us, while we retain our distinct personality. In higher dimensions, where time and space cease to exist, this level of individuation is simply not possible.
This is a powerful paradox. Only in the illusion of separation from the Creator do we get to experience ourselves as co-creators of reality.
Souls who Find the 3D Reality Especially Difficult
Another quality of the 3D is that it is very dense and “heavy.” In practical terms, this means that it takes a tremendous amount of energy to change and transform physical matter.
This is the part that old souls and starseeds, especially some soul groups, struggle with the most. Their souls have the memory of creating worlds with just an intention, whereas now they have to exercise their free will, take action and wait for the result. It is not enough anymore to just will for things to happen.
Similarly, a spiritual experience (feeling) is not the same as spiritual transformation (action). Merely being able to connect to Spirit does not exempt us from working on ourselves. The lesson of the physicality, repeated over and over again, is that we have to choose, and to act.
When our physical circumstances are out of alignment with who we are at the soul level, we want to do whatever it takes to make us feel good.
Sometimes it’s the innocent “avoiding negativity” at all costs, sometimes being lazy and binge-watching Netflix, at other times addictions and substance abuse.
This is the issue I often encounter in my work with clients. After we have cleared the blocks and energies at the higher frequencies, they notice the shift, but then get discouraged that this improvement quickly disappears. The truth is, no matter your level of spiritual advancement, if you don’t make new choices, you get back to the old ways. No one can sustain the same level of awareness by doing nothing in the physical.
Without engaging in our physicality, we neglect a huge part of our souls. Experiencing the physicality is the whole reason we incarnated, and this physical part of us is just as important as the higher-dimensional aspects of our being.
The more all of those aspects align across dimensions, the more effectively we are able to manifest and co-create, while living our spiritual purpose. When we go up in vibration, we need to get out of the basement (sometimes, quite literally!). And the only way to align our physicality to our soul is to take that first step — and make a choice to act.