(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. At first I thought, that’s kind of 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 give as much attention to recovery and mobility as any strength gains I was chasing.
The pause helped me paint a fuller picture of my well-being, the true state of my being (meatsuit lol), and what might be helpful in shifting towards feeling better. Or just accepting where I was that day.
So, how’s your energy today?
Does it feel familiar? Does it feel like it’s been 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.
If you’re like most people, your average “vibe” is probably in the mid- low-ish range most days.
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 material world concerns like “do I have enough xyz” “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.
Some of your “survival stuff” might be pretty serious. Relationship troubles. Work drama. Money worries. Physical safety worries.
Not to mention looking around at the dumpster fire world we live in, and trying to process what apparently amounts to about 16 movies worth of information every day.
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 most of the chronic diseases so common today.
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 lead you down this path where 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 making the world a better place ofr us all, 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 in contributing to the greater good never mind just managing your own health, happiness, and enjoyment of life.
If you know me, you probably know exactly what I’m going to say: this is where meditation comes in.
How Meditation Helps Improve Your Energetic Set Point
When we can learn how to internally regulate our own state of being and reactions to things, we no longer have “reactions” but we can instead respond appropriately and helpfully.
We can then show up more fully in our own lives as well as however we may feel called to help out in the world at large.
In meditation, we can notice the habitual thoughts that are putting us in a survival state, and practice just observing them. Letting them pass on by without meaning anything in particular about us.
Here’s a quick little trick you can use in any moment to decrease the stress and “raise your vibration”:
- Place your hand over your heart centre
- Take a few long, slow, deep breaths focusing on this centre
- Literally just carry this on for a few minutes until you feel yourself calm, chill, or become more at ease
This incredibly simple practice 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 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!