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WTF Does It Mean To “Raise Your Vibration” – And How TF To Do It (Pt 2)

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(If you missed Part 1, see where this vibe-raising journey started over here.)

How’s your vibe today?

I used to train at a gym where one of the trainers would always ask “how’s your body feeling today?” when you arrived…and at first I was like, wtf that’s a weird question??? but after a while I came to appreciate it, because it made you pause for a second to really check in instead of just barrelling into your warm-up and through an intense workout.

I also realized after a while that my answer was often “stiff” “tight” or “feeling it in my back today” which were great clues as to what I should be working on to feel even better…aka recovery and mobility as much as any strength gains I was chasing.

The pause helped me paint a more full picture of my well-being, the TRUE state of my being (meatsuit hehe), and what could be helpful in shifting that.

So…how’s your energy today?

Does it feel familiar? Does it feel like it’s affected by any events in your life or day, any particular thoughts you’ve been thinking?

Yesterday I promised we’d talk about what these “lower” or “average” states we can find ourselves habitually in mean, so let’s do that.

((Because if you’re like most people, your average vibe is probably pretty mid- low-ish in range))

Here’s the thing.

We spend MOST of our lives living in a survival type state, which is very dense energetically. Very heavy.

It’s a place of only material world concerns like “do I have enough” “will I ever have enough” “I need more money” “I need more love” “my job/living situation/relationship is unsatisfying/I don’t like it” “I’m sick/I always get sick/I hope I don’t get sick” etc.

Basic survival stuff.

And maybe even some of your “survival stuff” is really challenged. Relationship troubles. Work drama. Money worries. Physical safety worries.

Not to mention looking around at the dumpster fire-y world we live in.

America’s got a horse loose in the hospital, not even John Oliver can explain the UK to me anymore, the clock is seriously running out on our ability to continue consuming fossil fuels and living the unsustainable lives we’ve come to expect….and so on.

It’s A LOT.

It’s stressful.

And that stress affects your physical body, and your mental state, which affects your energetic body, which in turn affects the physical in a big old feedback loop.

Not to stress you out, but stress hormones literally make the physical body ill – they wear it down, causing inflammation which leads to any chronic “disease” you can imagine.

The more you stress, and the more you worry, and the more you feel “unsafe” the more you are draining your own energy reserves.

But wait!!

I’m not actually saying any of this TO stress you out or bring you down, but to show you that there IS something we can do.

Because it doesn’t actually have to be like that.

You 100% can regulate your own stress levels, energetic state, and in turn your health and well-being. (Which will benefit your ability to be a “part of the solution” in the world, bonus!)

This is how you take your power back.

To back it all up to where we started – this is how you “raise your vibration.”

You get yourself out of “fight or flight.”

Because here’s the thing about fight or flight, and WHY this is important…

It’s exactly as advertised.

In that state your energy is super concentrated into a stress response where you can RUN (hide, ignore, numb out, etc) or FIGHT (get angry, confrontational, moody, etc) and you’re not much help to contributing to any greater good never mind just managing your own health, happiness, and enjoyment of life.

And…if you know me, you probably know exactly what I’m going to say: this is where meditation comes in.

This is where we want to learn how to internally regulate our own state of being and reactions to things so we don’t HAVE “reactions” but we can instead respond appropriately and helpfully – in our own lives, and however we may feel called to help out in the world at large.

We spend some time noticing the habitual thoughts that are putting us in this survival state, and we practice just observing them. Letting them go.

Here’s a quick little trick you can use in any moment to decrease the stress and “raise your vibe”:

  1. Place your hand over your heart centre
  2. Take a few long, slow, deep breaths focusing on this centre
  3. Literally just carry this on for a few minutes until you feel calm/chill/at ease/etc

This is actually changing your physiology in the moment by turning on the parasympathetic nervous system, the system of rest and repair (vs the sympathetic nervous system, the system of fight or flight.)

I honestly use that little practice multiple times a day, including first thing in the morning and last thing at night, so I can begin and end my day with a calm, “high” vibe.

If you want more, I have a guided meditation that walks you through this calming practice and then gives you the opportunity to practice calling up, strengthening, and luxuriating in some “high vibe” feelings of your own.

It’s a training ground where you can practice choosing how you feel, instead of being at the whims of whatever thoughts or experiences you have throughout the day.

Practice this Raise Your Vibration meditation daily for a week or more, and I can pretty much guarantee your life experience will change!

Download Raise YOur Vibration Meditation here

WTF Does It Mean To “Raise Your Vibration” – And How TF To Do It (Pt 1)

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You’ve probably heard people (ahem, me) talk about “raising your vibration” or your energetic set-point. But what does that actually mean? And how tf do you even do it?

Let’s break it down!

(and bring it down to earth / make it actionable so you can do the thing aka feel amazing.)

Think about how you feel right now. Just take a hot sec to check in.

However you feel, it probably feels “normal” to you. It feels like…you. Similar to how you felt yesterday, the day before, and how you will feel tomorrow if nothing changes (or even if something does.)

Give that feeling a rating on a scale 1-10, 10 being feeling AMAZING, like the best you can imagine ever feeling – energized, alive, inspired, like all your “dreams” or “goals” have come true.

1 being…reeeeeal shitty.

Where are you on that scale right now? Be honest.

That’s what we’re gonna call your “vibration.” Or your “energetic set-point.”

You could even think of it as your “personality” or your “mood.”

Everything (including you!) is energy vibrating at a certain frequency, and we all tend to have an average that we “vibrate” at.

Depending on what has been going on in our lives it may move up and down and bit, but it’s usually the same.

But wait!

I just said something SUPER IMPORTANT.

“Depending on what is going on in our lives” – see, most people’s vibrational set-point is only ever affected by EXTERNAL circumstances.

We think – if x happens, THEN I’ll feel great.

We make stuff, events, other people’s behaviour, even our own behaviour or actions determine how we allow ourselves to feel.

The external determines the internal, and we’re waiting hoping!) that one day something outside of ourselves will change so we can feel different internally, and change our set but.

Btw, “something outside” also applies to things you may actually be working towards – like a goal, because if WHILE you are pursuing the goal (taking actions) you’re still waiting for the end-point of that goal to occur before you feel happy or excited or accomplished about it – that is outside of you and determining how you feel right now!

And here’s the thing – you know you only attract MORE of what you are, what you focus on, and how you feel (or you should know that – it’s what I’m always talking about 😉)

So…if what you ARE is feeling like a 5 on that emotional set-point scale, but you WANT to feel an average of 8 BUT you think you will only feel that good IF an event happens but that is an 8 event..what do you think the chances of that happening, or REALLY feeling possible are, if you’re constantly at a 5?

It’s POSSIBLE, but unlikely based on what we just said about like attacting like, right?

Gah!!

What a pickle we find ourselves in.

But WHAT IF…there was a way to “raise your vibration” or your emotional set-point INDEPENDENT OF any external circumstances or event?

Yaaaaaaas please, am I right?

How TF To “Raise Your Vibe”

Well get your party pants on, because YOU CAN. (And I’ma teach you how!)

All you REALLY need to do to “raise your vibe” is to practice FEELING the feels of a “higher” vibration.

And that’s where we come to practices like meditation, yoga, changing your subconscious thoughts and beliefs, and learning how to make your personal state of being have NOTHING to do with external circumstances – including your own thoughts and old habitual ways of being.

Regular meditation practice is literally the best way I know to raise your vibe and start feeling like a 7, 8, or even a 10 as your daily starting point.  

It helps us regulate our internal thoughts, feelings, and beliefs and let go of the hold they can have over us (which is generally why we feel how we have been feeling for so long!)

There’s A LOT more I want to say about this, but this post is already super long so I’m going to save it and continue tomorrow…we’ll talk about some more of the specifics about what it means to BE in a “lower” vibration vs a “higher” one (hint: it has a lot to do with living in survival vs abundance, and fight or flight feels.)

In the meantime…if you wanna start raising your vibe, that’s exactly what my 30 Days of Meditation is PERFECT for – begin at a 5 and end the month a 10!

P.S. Read Part 2 of how to raise your vibe over here!