Mystic Messages

Who Has a Fun MRI?

I recently had my first MRI done.  Everything I had heard about Magnetic Resonance Imaging was a bit daunting.  The noise is horrible.  You’ll feel claustrophobic.  I couldn’t go through with it!  You have to lie still for so long.

It was enough to make me wonder if I really wanted to go through with this test.

But I don’t let other people’s experiences define my experience.  I decided that I was going to have fun with this procedure.

I went in with a cheerful attitude and a positive frame of mind. I decided that I would meditate during the test so I asked for quiet instrumental music as I put on the headphones.  As I was moved into the big machine, the noises started.

I thought about sound and sound frequencies as vibrations and tuned in to the vibrations I was experiencing as the machine whirred around me. I decided to ask the vibrations to clear out anything in me that wasn’t vibrating for my highest good.  When the sound shifted to a new frequency, I asked that frequency to also clear out whatever I didn’t need.

I started to feel that there were healing angels with me and that they were working on me as I lay there.  Each time the frequency changed I felt a new experience of power and healing and light.  I saw different colors and felt myself being lifted.

I felt happy.  I had a big smile on my face.  I was tripping out!

And then it was over.  I was moved out of the machine and the technician removed my headphones.  I thanked him and said I had had a great time.  He said that not every patient felt that way.

What made the difference?  The machine was the same.  The test was the same. (I am fine, by the way.)  The noise levels were the same.  The duration was the same.  Why was my experience so different from others’?

I decided to have a different experience.

This is an opportunity that we have in every moment – to decide what kind of experience we are going to have.  It is our choice how to respond to the situation in which we find ourselves.  We may not be able to change the circumstances but we can decide how we will operate within those circumstances.

An Event happens.  We have a knee-jerk Reaction.  We hit the Pause Button. And then we choose our Conscious Response.

Event -> Reaction -> Pause -> Conscious Response

Next time you find yourself in a situation, any situation, remember this formula and DECIDE how you will respond.  I had a great time getting an MRI.  And if I ever have to have another one, I know that it, too, will be fun because I’ve already decided that it will be.