The Buddhists describe enlightenment as a final blessed state marked by the absence of desire or suffering. Enlightenment elevates awareness and consciousness, producing improvements on all levels. When you abide in harmonious, “enlightening energies” for a sustained period of time, you make better choices and master your emotions, despite challenging circumstances. Enlightening energies open intuition and awaken psychic abilities. Enlightenment strengthens your own personal power, while keeping your body healthy into old age. There are countless benefits.

Enlightenment occurs with individuals, but also for countries, groups and ultimately the entire world. The enlightenment of the world can be compared to the board game of Risk, in which each player attempts to dominate a world map. Risk players have different colored game pieces that they place on countries. Whoever gets the most pieces (representing countries) wins the game. If the game board is covered with blue pieces, then blue wins and red loses. There is no struggle between good and evil – it simply is a game of amassing quantities of colored game pieces.

This is a good analogy to see how the Earth gets her predominant frequency. Everyone “votes” on the overall frequency of the Earth, with their day-to-day choices – and simply by who they are. People continuously create frequencies by their thoughts, actions and feelings. The Earth’s fundamental frequency equates to the average frequency of everything. The largest quantity of frequency becomes the “dominant song” that the masses entrain to.

The world-pool-of-vibrations can be likened to an impersonal game with the largest quantities of vibrations dominating. The greater volume of one frequency overcomes or entrains another. So we must ponder: what are the vibrations that the world entrains to today? The vibrations in our music changes people’s frequencies. What are you listening to?

When you pray for people in a war torn area, your prayer is like adding a small colored piece on the Risk game board. When you pray in song form (a mantra or a hymn), you place a large game board piece into play. Sound amplifies the power of your prayers and intentions.

The influence of vibrations works both ways; outside energies influence you and your vibrations influence others. Everything about you (thoughts, feeling, actions and health) is part of the global vibrational energy pool. The stronger vibration overcomes the lessor. So what is your contribution to the global energy pool? This can be a scary analogy as we are all less than perfect. Our shortfalls and low energy dips are not just ours, they drag others down too. However, there is great beauty in this analogy as well. You matter; your thoughts, feeling and actions can tip the balance of power and uplift the world.

Jill Mattson is a prolific artist, musician and author. Jill is a widely recognized expert and composer in the field of Sound Healing. She has produced nine CDs with tracks using ancient & modern techniques, and special healing frequencies to achieve profound benefits. Jill is a four-time author. (The Lost Waves of Time – Best Book of 2016 and Best Alternative Science book of 2016, Deep Wave Body Healing CD– Best Sound Healing CD of 2016, Contacting Angels & Masters CD – Best CD of 2015 and Deep Wave Beauty CD – Best New Age CD – Silver Award). Free music & School of Sound Healing at www.jillswingsoflight.com.