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Good Vibrations

Posted by Roberta Grimes • September 13, 2025 • 12 Comments
Jesus, The Source, The Teachings of Jesus, Understanding Reality

With a song in my heart,
I behold your adorable face!
Just a song at the start,
But it soon is a hymn to your grace.
When the music swells,
I’m touching your hand.
It tells that you’re standing near, and …
At the sound of your voice,
Heaven opens its portals to me.
Can I help but rejoice
That a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart for you!
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) & Lorenz Hart (1895-1943), from “With a Song in My Heart” (1929)

After our last week’s blog was posted, I heard from a number of people who wanted to learn how they, too, could make this their last necessary earth-lifetime. I really loved that! And I meant it seriously when I told you then that, wow, if I can do it, my dearly beloved friend, for you this ought to be a much easier task. When I was young, I was self-absorbed to an absurd degree; and I was highly un-promising. So, you are starting now from well above where I was. The great trick to rapid spiritual growth is that you have to decide that you want to achieve the fifth astral level in this lifetime, even more than you want to partake of this world’s idle pleasures while you let one more lifetime slip away.

You will have to want it now more than you want to hang with the guys over beers on Friday nights, or go out shopping with the girls on Saturdays. Even more than you want to watch scary movies, or watch tennis matches or baseball games; and even more than you want to make money, or be lazy, or simply think a lot about many other things. You will have to really want it enough to ignore everything else in life, at least for a while! You will have to want it badly enough, in the beginning, to make it the center of your life, because our minds are unbelievably lazy. They resist like mad any efforts we make to change whatever are their current habits. Soon, that mental laziness will be a plus. Once you have your stubborn little mind re-trained, you will be able to allow it to coast upward toward ever greater spiritual perfection. But for now, in the beginning, this process is going to be a fierce struggle of you against your mind’s laziness, and its reluctance to change any of the old habits that you yourself long ago negligently trained into it. This first part is only a transient phase, but just be warned about it. This first part is not easy!

Our overall task is to raise our mind’s vibration away from all the negative emotions, and toward just pure and perfect love. And since the only person that I ever have taught to do this is myself, I will tell you how I taught myself to do it. I wasn’t keeping notes, because I had, I swear, no idea at the time how amazingly well this was going to work! But as I recall, I did the core part of it over only a year or less, maybe forty or more years ago. That was all the time that it took to get me well-started in the right direction. And, it was amazing! Once my mind had given up on fighting for its old, wrong habits, and it had fallen into forming the right habits, my spiritual growth became just a matter of tending a vigorous and rapidly-growing spiritual garden.

For you, I have done a lot of hard thinking over the past few days, trying to recall my whole history in detail. And my first surprising realization was how long ago I took these first steps, and just how awful in the beginning I really was. But, confession can be good for the soul. So, here goes. There was a time, when I was in my early thirties, when I was the worst driver in the history of the universe. Not just always speeding, but also aggressive and bossy. It’s a wonder that I didn’t kill someone! Then at last came the day that made me stop and take a good, frank look at my entire life. I was driving along in my usual maniacal way, speeding in the extreme right lane, so some frantic driver, maybe late for work, had to cut right in front of me to barely make his highway exit. OMG, he could have killed us both! And it was my self-given, absolute duty back then to manage everybody’s business as I policed the world, so I shot off at that exit right after him, and I rode his bumper through several turns. Of course, my acting in this crazy way was a form of acute insanity. I can recall having in some small, sane part of my mind the cogent thought that I didn’t want to be doing this, and I wanted him to get us both out of it. Which he soon did, by driving into the parking lot of a police station. I sensibly sped away.

But this was the incident that at last made me realize that I no longer wanted to be the person that I then was. I hear often now from people who have just achieved that same sort of Eureka moment in their own lives; although their moments of sudden self-realization usually are not so extreme as mine was. How ever it comes for each of us, these moments when reality finally grabs us by the throat are such a wonderful gift! In short order, over the next year or so, I did perhaps eighty percent of the mind-retraining that I needed to do to set myself on a rapid course toward the much later moment when, quite unexpectedly, I would hear my own dear Thomas say, “This is now your last necessary earth-lifetime.” OMG, and he said it so matter-of-factly! But even without his confirmation, I knew that I had made tremendous spiritual progress since my final day of being technically insane. You clearly can feel your healthy spiritual growth as it is happening! And for you to very efficiently retrain your mind so you can rapidly raise your spiritual vibration, and so you can thereby make this your last necessary earth-lifetime, you won’t need to hire a guru. You won’t need to chant mantras, or go on retreats, or really disrupt your present life at all. You will need just to make very efficient use at first of a single modern invention which is so perfect for this role that I think God may have invented it entirely for this single purpose! You will only need to very often and in specific habitual ways drive your car.

This car-trick works so magnificently well at carving away every low-vibration mental habit that I really think that God may have invented cars with this sole purpose in mind. Back when I was still a lunatic driver, I was driving thirty miles each way every day to law school; and then after that, I developed a law practice in which all my clients were closely-held businesses, so I would drive considerable distances on many weekdays to visit those businesses and their owners on-site. In the very beginning, I had to fight my mind hard each time I drove to try to change every separate detail of the awful way I managed all of those drives. But then, I think that Jesus intervened, and redesigned my whole driving procedure at once.

 One of the lovely things about my life is the fact that I have so many wonderful longtime friends that I never have met. I just hear from them every so often, whenever they have a question or a comment. And a few days ago, an older friend that I have known for a long time but never have met who lives near where we used to live decades ago, in the Boston area, emailed and told me that he wanted to try to make this his last necessary earth-lifetime; but meanwhile, he would have to spend the next two weeks driving to Boston for medical treatments every day, and he was such an impatient and awful driver that he really was dreading that! Did I have any advice? He lives maybe 30 minutes from the city, depending on traffic. Here is exactly what I emailed back to him:

My dear lovely Kevin, I used to be an insane lunatic of a driver, so I know just what you mean!

Here is my advice:

1) Always, from now on, get up a little earlier and read the 23rd Psalm and then the Lord’s Prayer before you even get in the car.

2) Always leave with at least an extra 30-45 mins for the drive, above what you are sure you are going to need. (Yes, really!)

3) Always, whenever you drive, have soothing music that you like playing softly in the car.

4) Never, ever drive above any speed limit, no matter what!

5) Always have a spiritual book you will enjoy, a tablet with Liberating Jesus, or anything else that is spiritually healthy for you to read when you arrive early and have to wait, so you can keep your calm and gentle mood at the hospital as well.

6) And whenever someone tailgates you or cuts you off, immediately and eagerly move over and wave him on ahead of you with a big smile, because you know for certain that he has just had an awful kitchen accident, and now he has five bloody fingers in a bag beside him on the seat, and you just hope and pray that he can get to the hospital in time to have them sew those fingers back on! Of course, if he shows you just his middle finger and he frowns big-time as he passes you, then you’ve got to make your smile of encouragement even bigger, and your wave more loving, because he is showing you that he has only one finger left on that hand!!

When I finally decided to shape-up my life, I began to do precisely this whole routine every time I got in the car. I did it for months, even including the bigger smile and wave at the two or three wise guys who gave me their middle-finger salute; I guess they did that because I didn’t move over fast enough. If my memory of this period of my life is right, it took only perhaps a couple of weeks of my driving in this silly but actually highly enjoyable way, before I had begun to so transform my whole attitude toward driving, and then soon even my whole attitude toward life! This really was all that it took for me to begin to altogether retrain my mind. Soon, it all became automatic; and then before long, driving became the happiest and most eagerly anticipated part of my day. Driving was my pleasant and private me-time, never rushed, when I could think, and maybe have a chat with Jesus. And, wow, what do you know? Before long, my mind began to approach everything else in my life the way that I was dealing with driving! By retraining my mind to stop being pushy and bossy, but to become instead always extremely careful, courteous, and polite about driving, I found myself just naturally becoming more and more that way about everything else that I did, as well. And as my children grew, I think this deliberate mind-training even made me a more thoughtful, respectful, and loving parent. If driving a car is a regular part of your life, then you can decide today that you are going to use driving to take control of, and to completely retrain your mind, just as I did mine, And today you can make a substantial beginning toward pruning the worst spiritual negativity from your life.

Dropping all the rest of the negativity from your life will also thereafter be so much easier! Within months, if my memory is right, I realized that I was finding all forms of television more and more irritating. TV was too jarring, somehow. It was too rackety, after the peaceful and lovely pace of my driving days, from its ugly canned laughter and sped-up talking to the news solemnity and commercial alerts. So, soon thereafter I gave up TV. I had already given up scary and action-type movies. I never had played video games. So, then it was easy to also give up movies altogether. No bigs, and I can always go back; but to this day, I never have missed any of it.

Once you have done away with all the negative training of your mind that once had been dragging you down, and your mind is happily retrained to respond to the world in only positive ways, you will find your spiritual vibration rising naturally. To vastly assist and speed up that process, all you will need to do now is to encourage the flourishing in your heart of a boundless, joyous love for every person with whom God has graced your life! And this part is so laughably easy, because it is what your mind is literally created to do. Simply choose a very happy love song, and for this purpose I have found that today’s frame-verse works best for me. Then from now on, whenever you see the face of anyone in your life, whether it might be a family member or a co-worker or close friend, or a neighbor that you often encounter; or for me, it’s also the members of my Wednesday-Thursday class; whenever you see any of these familiars, really look at each person’s beautiful face. Feel the special love and joy of having each of them in your life! And sing your special little love song to each of those people in your mind. And mean it.   

How does it feel when your spiritual elevation is happening? The first thing I noticed was that I was less and less able to feel anger; until now, when I cannot feel anger at all. And for someone who used to be more or less infuriated all the time about something, that was a pretty big change! But things of the world that affected me personally simply seemed to matter to me less and less as time went on. I realize now, too, that I gradually withdrew from contact with self-absorbed people, with angry people, and with people of low vibration in general because being around them was just too stressful. I used to do afterlife speaking engagements and conferences, but I began to find that the energies around me when I was at those events were just too negative. I can better understand now why the saints of old withdrew into the wilderness to be with God. My life in general feels softer, and gently joyous. I will giggle sometimes for the sheer perfect joy of the sight of a loved one”s beautiful face! Really, it’s lots of gentle and subtle things, positive changes that I notice just in retrospect. And they all began with that odd loss of my ability to feel anger, which once had been my predominant emotion!

There is no limit to love! Jesus told us that. He said, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment.  The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets” (MT 22:37-40). And as you ever more perfectly train your mind to love each of these beautiful ones who are closest to you in this lifetime, you are lifting your own vibration so rapidly, and by miles and miles, and so joyously! Then, whenever you feel ready for this, my darling, with a laugh of God’s own pure delight, you can spread your personal, beautiful love to encompass all the world.

At the sound of your voice,
Heaven opens its portals to me.
Can I help but rejoice
That a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart for you!
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) & Lorenz Hart (1895-1943), from “With a Song in My Heart” (1929)

 

 

(Many photos are from Vecteezy.com)

 

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12 thoughts on “Good Vibrations

  1. This is lovely and so wise and inspiring! Your writings and interviews have really helped me grow spiritually and let go of anger and judgement. Much love and gratitude to you my dear Roberta, I’m so grateful for you!

    1. Oh, my dear and so beautiful Gretchen, thank you for saying this, my lovely one! We are indeed going through this lifetime together, and so joyously!

  2. Thank you, Roberta!

    The insights are amazing here. I will absorb what you have said, as it does indeed seem very beneficial to raising one’s vibration. How do you deal with the cares of the world that affect you personally, such as financial strain, political events, and a sick relative? Do these things even affect our vibration? Not everyone drives or even has a car. I do, and I say a prayer when I get into it and ask for help. Again, these may seem elementary to you and the readers here, but they are very basic and applicable to a normal life. I do try to approach my tasks as if I were doing them directly for God and Jesus. Finding joy in life seems to be essential in raising ones vibration. I hope understand you correctly.

    1. My dearly beloved Jennifer, I think the answer is that you sort of smile and laugh and let things happen as they will. You just rise above it all. God’s will be done. Nothing worries me at all anymore, not even remotely, although I can remember long ago that I used to worry. I recall what the stress of that felt like, now that you mention it. Now I just notice that, hey, we have this issue to figure out, but I just assume that it will work out, and somehow it does. I just never worry at all.

  3. Dearest Roberta,
    You seem to be saying:
    Find the biggest anger-response trigger in your life and expiate it via personal, repeatable strategies. That is, retrain the lazy mind, which will feel uncomfortable for a while until it is retrained. Then the lazy-again, more peaceful mind will replace the bad old habits with good ones after that.

    So your biggest anger-trigger was poor and/or recklessly selfish drivers. Someone else’s trigger may be tardy restaurant service perhaps; Or hearing particularly ‘bad’ music played loudly by an ‘ingrate’ in public. (Not that I’m having a go at any particular music artist like; Miley Virus, Justin Beebee Gun, Small Naz X or any Deaf Metal group…)

    I guess my trigger is any display of ‘selfism’ in public. Okay – it’s bad behaviour in the supermarket checkout queue. That is my worst trigger. This inner annoyance comes from a place of regret that society has become more materialist, more self-serving and less community oriented.

    So I have been trying my own strategies. This includes: leaving extra time available to complete my shopping; looking for people with fewer items and inviting them it stand in the checkout queue in front of me; humming my fave songs as I wait.

    Then if I see someone taking an inordinately long time sorting out and finalising payment, I just ‘imagine’ that they are dealing with the fresh shock of something terrible that’s just happened in their life.. Hence I’m sympathetic and not judgmental as I wait.

    And my dearest Roberta this is working. And working and working!
    ☺️🙃😊 Thank you so much!

    1. Ah, my very sweet Efrem, so you see what I mean! It really is all in your own point of view, my dear one; if you assume only goodness and kindness in the hearts of people, then their acting in what otherwise might seem to be negative ways won’t bother you at all!

    1. My dear Garland, I didn’t know who James Talarico was, but then someone sent me a YouTube of him preaching a church sermon. I thought he was great! I m told, though, that he is running as a Democrat for the Senate seat from Texas, and I think that in that role he may be wasted. He seemed to make a wonderful minister, but as a politician, though, I would think, not so much.

  4. Thanks for your timely posting. “Timely” in the sense that our world is always in need of wise words and thoughts with which to refocus our human reactions to a myriad of stressors. We often collectively forget that our world has undergone extreme changes over the centuries, and that our current state of affairs is, in many ways, no better or worse than prior experiences (obviously that’s open to individual interpretation!)
    Our technological capacity to receive a constant barrage of “news”, if we so allow it, adds to the perceived stress. I’m personally trying to disengage from constantly looking at broadcast media. My personal trigger is seeing a mean-spirited attitude, and a bullying demeanor exhibited by people who should know better.
    Roberta, your advice regarding driving is superb! Over the years, I hit on a somewhat similar approach. I started assuming that other drivers were attempting to cope with the world with the “toolbox” they had at hand. Maybe they didn’t have an adequate array of tools, lacked knowledge, or had an overwhelming stress level. I started to be more compassionate, patient, and calm.
    Now, with your additional guidance, I have even more ways of dealing with my personal reactions while driving. This attitude spills over into other areas of life and is a great destressor.
    You’re correct to say that this way of working toward a higher level of vibration requires effort, but at least it is pleasant. Even when our “lazy brain” lapses, it’s relatively easy (and pleasant) to get back on the horse and keep going. Also, the lapses are less unpleasant and more infrequent. Thanks again for all you do.
    Mark

    1. Oh my dear wonderful Mark, what a great way to put it! Yes, it’s a little-by-little sort of thing, a kind of as-we-are-at-it situation, and nothing that we ever can perfect quickly, but I have found that with a little patience, I have been ever more easily able to climb that mountain. Then I look back, and I realize how far I have come!

  5. Dear Roberta,
    Thank you so very much for sharing this. I had not thought of key parts of our lives that are triggering can affect the rest our lives, so I’ve been trying to “fix” everything. Your past driving habit made me sit upright because I too was the same. And like you, had a scary in-my-face experience to wake me up. I am no longer that kind of driver…and usually look for more peaceful routes. I tend to avoid the express way if I can.
    Your message this week is timely. I had come to the conclusion that I need only desire God above all else, but couldn’t quite pinpoint how that feels and looks. And I see now that my daily efforts, like everyone else’s here, are the norm, and it takes time and consistent practice.
    I’m glad you brought up not feeling anger…the emotion that has changed for me is worry and fear. There have been times I pause and think…why am I not feeling afraid and worried? It’s been very liberating.

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