Raise Your Vibration (in four steps)

I’m grumpy. It’s been a week. Controversy, convoys, conspiracy correlations. I’m fed up with it, and I’m done. 

Except it’s not necessarily done with me.

One of the most powerful lessons I ever learned as a healer was that feelings are vibrations in the body.

At first, I thought that was an oversimplification of something important. But knowing that feelings are vibrations can simply act as a tool that dilutes our mind drama.

If you break feelings down into vibrations, they stop controlling you so much. That’s not to say you won’t have as many, because you will. But you’ll be less compelled to feel like you’re at the mercy of those big feelings, and instead feel more like all you really have to do is adjust the frequency to feel something different.

The short version:

Vibrational energy experts say that the highest vibrating emotions are found in feelings such as peace, acceptance, joy, and most especially, love. The ones on the low end of the scale are shame, anger, fear, and guilt. 

The purpose: Feel better, vibrate higher, and, since like attracts like, bring more of those big emotional frequencies your way.

The goal: increase that vibration every chance you get. Here’s how:

Change your state

Moving your body is a powerful thing. I’m not even talking about doing a full workout; if you’ve ever seen Tony Robbins perform, you’ll know about changing your state. Basically, if you move your body, your brain gets altered out of its rut. You can go from grumpy to slightly more refreshed with ten seconds of jumping up and down. That’s how he prepares himself to speak in front of thousands of people: he moves his body, it changes his vibration, and he’s ready to rock and roll.

You can do the same thing: take a couple of minutes and move. Walk around the block once or twice. Do jumping jacks (don’t pee your pants, though, ok?). Do a short workout. You’ll be vibrating higher in no time.

Draw a line

Often, we vibrate low in shame, guilt, and anger because we are letting people do the living for us. We’re allowing people to make our decisions, or worse, we’re allowing them to cross our boundaries, and it feels really terrible. When this happens, making a decision or enforcing a personal boundary firmly with someone can raise our vibration exponentially. It’s a measure of taking control, an act of self-love, and it makes us proud of ourselves.

Take out the trash

This step applies to the literal trash as well as the mental clutter. Physically cleaning your space breaks up apathy; once your area is clear of trash and clutter, your whole self feels cleaner, smoother, and has the room it needs to vibrate at a higher frequency. Equally important, cleaning up your mental state by making a to-do list, journaling, or speaking to someone about things that are weighing you down.

Bonus points: If you go one step further and decorate in a way that pleases you, or add some crystals, candles, or other objects that vibrate with a frequency of their own, you increase your vibration even more.

      Extract gratitude (but not the way you think)

When I’m stuck in a low vibration, honestly, the thought of writing statements of gratitude makes me want to throw things. But damned if it doesn’t work really, really well to pull me out of a funk.

Except instead of doing it the usual way and writing affirmations that I only half-believe in the moment, I do it a little differently.

I start by writing (or simply saying into a camera) all the things that are pissing me off at the given moment. Husband Jamie calls this “putting your s**t head hat on”. I love it. I rant a little, and then, once my wah-wahs are all out, I take off the s**t head hat and say, “But at least _______ is a good thing in my life today.”

And hey, it could be “at least I didn’t wake up with pink eye,” or “at least I have all ten fingers and toes,” to start. But the gratitude builds, and before long I’m up higher than I was.