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 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 second to check in with yourself.
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 reeeeeally shitty.
Where are you on that scale right now? Be honest.
That’s what we’ll call your “vibration” moving forward. 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” or are set at.
Depending on what has been going on in our lives it may move up and down a bit from day to day or week to week, but it’s usually in the same ballpark.
But wait!
Did you catch the key to all of this?
“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 that if X happens, THEN I’ll feel great. We think that because Y happened, I feel terrible.
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 finally feel different internally, and that this will raise our set point from a mediocre 6 to a brilliant, amazing, incredible 10!!
Btw, “something outside of ourselves” also applies to the things you may actively be working towards, like a career or relationship goal. This is becayse while you are pursuing the goal (taking certain actions, hoping you get where you’re going) you’re still waiting for the end-point of that goal to occur before you feel happy or excited or accomplished about it. Notice how that is still outside of you, and likely determining how you feel right now!
And here’s the next key thing: you only attract MORE of what you are currently feeling and what you focus on.
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 you get that new dream job but that is a level 8 vibrational event…what do you think the chances of that happening are, if you’re constantly at a 5?
It’s POSSIBLE, but generally 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 independant of any external circumstances or event?
YES PLEASE, am I right?
How To “Raise Your Vibration”
Get your party pants on, because you can do it, and you’re about to learn how!
All you really need to do to “raise your vibe” is to practice feeling the feelings 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 absolutely nothing to do with external circumstances—including your own thoughts and current habitual ways of being.
Regular meditation practice is one of the best way I know to raise your energetic set point and start feeling like a 7, 8, or even a 10 as your daily starting point.
By cultivating the habit of simply being present, 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 to say about this, but we are going to pause here for now, and will continue tomorrow.
We’ll talk about more of the specifics of 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 feelings.)
In the meantime…if you want to start raising your energy ASAP, that’s exactly what my 30 Days of Meditation “experiment” was designed for. You’ll begin at your current energetic set point, and end the month at a 10!
P.S. You can now read part 2 of how to raise your vibration over here!