An echo is created when sound waves are reflected off of a hard surface, which results in the continuous repetition of the sound until the sound waves lose momentum and finally become so faint they can no longer be heard. The volume of the echo depends on the strength of the original sound and the distance between its source and the hard surface. If you have ever created and then listened to an echo, you know two things about it: it repeats exactly what is said (and no more) and does so until there is no more energy in the sound waves, at which time it just fades away.
What does this have to do with anything?
It has to do with everything about life, our lessons, the way in which we create our reality and by understanding echoes we can know how many aspects of the third dimension work, especially how we allow energy from the past to create echoes in the present. By looking at echoes we can shed light on some very important issues:
How the past is repeated in the present
How energy moves and re-circulates in our life
Why echoes exist (hint: it has to do with what reflects the sound)
What we can do to remove the echo after its first repetition
In our reality the echoes appear in the form of the energy of the past which reminds us of its presence and asks for validation through its repetition. The surfaces which create the echo are our thoughts, beliefs and perceptions. When faced with an echo from the past, we have two choices, to allow it to repeat or to simply listen silently and allow it to move on. But we often choose a third option by adding more energy to the echo. So instead of drifting away, it gains strength and it becomes firmly rooted in our present. Not only have we validated the energy of the past, we are now living it in the present moment.
Because it is our past it feels comfortable, reliable (because we know what is going to happen next), and secure. As humans we love predictability, knowing and continuity. When the echo returns to us it reminds us that we were once in a particular space and we remember what happened. If we have anger, resentment, fear or the need for revenge, this echo can be our opportunity to validate our experience by taking charge, being in control or finding ways to avenge our experience. While the echo invites us to disconnect, we reconnect with gusto, certain that this time things will be different.
And then we are angry when they are not and we find ourselves up to our neck in the energy of the past, unaware that it is not by giving energy to the echo that we can release it, but by taking on another level of energetic vibration and removing ourselves from the echo’s path. The energy of the past travels in a linear fashion—it connects to us only because we are in the way. Its unique energetic signature is known to us because it represents an aspect of our experience. Have we shifted our energy away from this place? If so, then the echo is not appealing and we can allow it to move on. But if not, then we see the echo as a ‘do over’, another chance to recover our power from that moment.
But we know that the past has no energy or power for us. What was a powerless experience in the past will be just another powerless experience in the present. Can we convince our ego that this is true? Because that is what we have to do if we are to remove the illusion of power from the echo and ground ourselves in a new and different energy. Where is our power in this new place? We don’t know yet and this is where we must have faith in ourselves, courage, trust in our abilities and ground ourselves in intention and purpose. Without these things, we live our lives through the echoes and are stuck in the energy of experiences and situations that have no energy for us.
Without the echoes from our past, our lives are a blank canvas on which we can become whatever we desire. Faced with the prospect of unlimited outcomes, we are afraid of our own abilities. What do we choose, when everything is possible? Who do we turn to for advice when there is no echo to remind us of the dangers we may meet? What will the outcome be if we are creating the path as we take each new step? This is our moment and these are our choices. Will we take full advantage of them or will look for the vibration of a familiar echo and choose that instead?
As we complete our karmic cycles, we release the energy of our echoes by embracing new levels of energetic vibration. These new energies have no echoes, no reminders of the past, no familiar vibrations that attract us through our beliefs, thoughts, emotions, or feelings. They teach us to connect through other energetic portals than the strength of our anger or fear. Then we must find new ways of relating to the past, ourselves and others. With each step forward on our journey we have to face our echoes and the temptation to embrace the opportunity to avenge our experience and the lure of gaining power and control over the past. Or we can choose to bypass these opportunities and create something different. How can we resist?
There is a new way for us to be powerful and that is through our intention. We never intend to re-create the past, especially if it has been unsatisfactory or unfulfilling, our intention is for the present moment and future to be different. With our intention we are creating new levels of potential and thus new levels of energetic vibration. If we can be completely immersed in our intention the echoes become white noise that we can tune out and turn off, as long as we are willing to also tune out the ego’s insistence that our emotions receive attention and validation. Our final decision is what determines whether we will give new power to the echoes or remove the blocks so they are allowed to continue onward and out of our reality.
We are truly at the threshold of profound transformation in humanity’s journey and how we deal with our echoes determines whether we are on the leading edge of this path, using our faith and trust to shed light on each new step of an unknown path or repeating the past, in an attempt to find the power we believe is hidden within it. The truth is, the power is within us now, in this moment, and the echoes can be released because they have no truth, power or insights for us. When we release the blocks, the echoes fall away, become no more than whispers that remind us that we do not need to seek power outside of ourselves and do not need to validate any aspect of our experience. We are, and have always been, perfect, whole and complete in every way. This is our moment to step into our present and our presence.
