I recently moved through a spurt of growth and not without the spiritual growing pains that result from this kind of displacement. Growing requires movement: moving away from our point of origin to a new state of being; moving away from comfort zones; navigating deeper waters; and greater risk taking.

Displacement, in Newtonian mechanics, measures the difference between the initial position and the final position of an object. It is a vector quantity that refers to an objects overall change in position. In contemplating the human condition, the object is us and the displacement our growth.

As we usher in change, we are required to stretch our awareness, thoughts and actions to new limits. The feeling of displacement is an indication that we are doing so. Encompassing new creation and new direction is bound to be painful.

Like a snake that is forced to shed its old skin, we too must expand if we are to allow new growth into an old way of life.

Exactly how much we are growing can be measured by the amount of displacement we feel. The more discomfort, the greater the movement, the greater the growth. Displacement can also evoke a deep sense of homesickness as we gravitate away from the environment we once felt safe and at home in.

Sometimes we describe displacement as feeling messy, fragmented, overwhelmed. We can fall into fear as we question our ability to survive and achieve our goals- even the small ones. The path of displacement is rarely smooth travel, to the unaware, displacement can feel like movement backward instead of forward, and for this we can often fall short of achieving our goals, giving up instead of pushing through the final frontier of struggle.

Struggle, like fear and pain, is another mask for growth.

Displaced we can often turn to disillusionment, the breeding ground for torment, self hate, negative judgement and depression. As this sets in, we are at our lowest point. With a vibration so low a multitude of prayer does not bring the relief of guidance. The valley of separation between a higher power and self is deep, dark and silent. God cannot reach us, for engulfed in negativity we loose the ability to hear.

Oscar Wilde once wrote: “Why is it that you and I were never told, that in our brain we hold, in just one single ivory cell … this kingdom called heaven or this kingdom call hell.”

We are all energy, traveling at a certain vibrational frequency and the only difference between where we are and where we want to be is our state of vibration. With this in mind we treat the condition of displacement by altering our vibration.

Wilde reminds us that our thoughts, feelings and actions establish our vibration. When we become mentally, emotionally and spiritually involved, we establish a vibration that draws to us the good, the bad and the ugly.

The Universal Law of Attraction opens us to two mysteries: that which we are seeking is seeking us and what we put in, we get back. But often, blinded by human condition, we fail to see how or what we are really putting in.

As we think, we travel. And we are forever moving in thought toward that which we secretly most love. But what if we secretly love to hate. What if we love to hate poverty, for example, more than we love to love prosperity.

Ask yourself this:

Do you hate misery more than you love happiness? Or do you love happiness more than you hate misery?
Do you hate poverty more than you love prosperity? Or do you love prosperity more than you hate poverty?
Do you hate your pain more than you love peace and wellbeing? Or do you love peace and wellbeing more than you hate pain?

How do you focus your energy? At what vibrational frequency do you travel? Do you secretly love to hate the things you don’t want in your life? Or do you love to love the things you do want in your life?

We are forever moving in thought towards that which we secretly most love.

At our lowest point, we often shift our focus to what we really hate in our life, and we secretly love hating it. But this, in turn, keeps pulling more of the same toward us. This type of displacement moves us further away from growth and further away from our goals.

Do you love happiness more than you hate misery?

The things we love are ours. The things we love to hate are ours also. As we learn to love more the things we want with less attention to the things we don’t want, we develop an attitude of gratitude, we experience a shift in the rate at which we vibrate and our displacement sweeps us toward a new sense of place. One that is rich and rewarding.

At its lowest vibration our energy creates depression. Success is energy at its highest vibration, and happiness and joy reflects energy at its most orderly vibration.

Every thought, feeling and action changes our vibration. The only difference between where we are and where we want to be is the state of our vibration.

We don’t get what we want, we get what we are! Everything we are seeking is seeking us, as we lift our vibration we can meet with nothing other than success.