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If you’re on a spiritual path, vibration is probably something you’re well aware of, but how thoroughly do you understand its influence on your life experience? Understanding the difference between high and low vibrational states is important because vibration is the foundation of everything.
The quality of your experiences depends on your vibration.
It’s the base building block of your feelings, thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs, translating to your overall experience of consciousness – heavenly or hellish and everything in between. Your vibration is the key to all the blissful experiences you can have, and it’s also a main cause of suffering.
In this article, I’ll explain how vibration works without all the spiritual jargon. Therefore, this concept is easy to digest, regardless of whether you’re far into your spiritual journey or just beginning.
What Is Vibration in Spirituality?
Think of your vibration as your state of consciousness. A high vibration corresponds with a heavenly experience of consciousness, while a low vibration corresponds with a hellish experience.
Let’s break it down.
Energy is the fundamental building block of all creation. Every person, animal, plant, place, emotion, attitude, behavior, and thing is a form of energy. Energy is vibratory, and the rate of vibration determines the expression (or quality) of that energy.
This means that everything has a vibration, as everything is a different expression (otherwise manifestation) of the collective consciousness, or god so to speak.
Here’s how it works:
- The slower the vibration = the denser the energy. Experiences corresponding with suffering are dense, meaning they have a low vibration.
- The faster the vibration = the lighter the energy. Experiences corresponding with happiness are light, meaning they have a high vibration.
Even though all things are made from energy, there are many different energies, and each energy is unique. Your emotions, attitudes, and beliefs are all forms of energy. Every planet, object, and thing has energy. Then you have things like karmic energy, energies of places, spirits, and realms.
For example, a hellish realm would have a very low vibration (or density), leading to an experience of consciousness that is deeply entrenched in suffering. A heavenly realm would have a very high vibration where the experience of consciousness would be blissful.
Earth is somewhere in the middle. We can experience high vibrational states, and we can experience low vibrational states. This means our experiences as humans can be quite dense (where there are many expressions of suffering), and they can also be quite light (there are also many expressions of happiness).
Vibration Is a Spectrum: Low vs High Vibration
Look at vibration as a spectrum from a very low vibration (being the densest feeling that causes the most suffering) to a very high vibration (being the lightest feeling that causes the most joy).
Even though the energy of any given thing is unique, all energies fit along a spectrum somewhere from being dense, neutral, or light.
We tend to associate emotions with vibrations, which is true. For example, love is of the highest vibration because it’s an energy that is directly associated with light energy and happiness.
On the other hand, hatred is of the lowest vibration as it’s the polar opposite of love. You can’t genuinely love and hate something at the same time because hatred is associated with dense energy and suffering.
However, vibration is much more involved than only emotions. There are many forms of energy, each with its vibration, including:
- Thoughts: Thinking that ‘this sucks’ or ‘I can’t do it’ are lower vibrational energies than thinking how much you like or appreciate something.
- Attitudes: Constantly complaining, refusing to collaborate, and criticizing without offering solutions is a lower vibration than approaching challenges with enthusiasm, collaborating willingly, and providing constructive feedback.
- Beliefs: The belief that humanity is a failing species and we’re going to go extinct is a lower vibration than the belief that we are constantly progressing, and evolving, and eventually, we will create a heaven on Earth.
- Mentalities: The victim mentality and belief that you are always taken advantage of is a lower vibration than a growth mindset.
- Behaviors: Acting unconsciously, out of impulse, or causing harm in some way to others are lower vibrational behaviors than acting consciously, having discipline, and helping others.
Therefore, I look at vibration as the means of your experiences, which involves every dimension of it.
What Is a High Vibration?
Anything that resonates with a high vibration makes us feel good. The highest vibrations bring us into states of bliss as we’re resonating at the frequency of god. Even though these vibrations are generally considered spiritual phenomena, we can tap into them via spiritual discipline.
The highest vibration I have experienced was during a kundalini awakening I had in 2014. I would consider this experience to be close to levels of bliss (complete immersion into god), and it was absolutely divine, overwhelmingly joyful.
High-vibrational energy manifests experiences that we understand as positive. This expression of energy is associated with the higher self (the part of us that is connected to god). This is because high vibrational energy is a pure form of energy, which is represented as light.
The closer the soul moves towards god, the more high vibrational it becomes.
High vibrational energy directly corresponds with happiness. If you’re in a high vibrational state, you are happy (and experiencing feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes that make you happy).
As anyone who resonates at a high vibration experiences gratitude, love, and compassion, this frequency is benevolent, and it’s associated with healing and growth. This energy is the cream of the crop for many spiritual seekers, as holding a high vibration is a trump card as it attracts all positive experiences into life.
As your higher self resonates with high vibrational energy, when you’re in a high vibrational state, you also embody your higher self. This is where you feel like you’re living your best life, but you’re also at service to humanity.
A high-vibrational person (or person in a high-vibrational state) experiences:
- Happiness
- High-vibrational emotions such as love, gratitude, and compassion
- Benevolence
- Virtuous actions
- Embodiment of the higher self
- Disconnection from ego
- Calibration with the light
- Heavenly perceptions of oneself and our world
- No suffering
This is what it looks like to be a high-vibrational person.
Although we all seek to live high-vibrational lives, it’s important to recognize that as a human, we will naturally fluctuate between high and low vibrational states. We can sustain high vibrational states for some time, but it’s also necessary to recognize the duality of our dimension.
What Is a Low Vibration?
Anything that is low vibration resonates at a frequency of suffering. A very low vibration is considered dark (hateful, malevolent, and trapped in states of suffering).
Low vibrational energy corresponds with experiences that we perceive to be negative. It’s a quality of energy that creates darkness and is associated with an expression of suffering. As high vibrational energy is associated with growth, low vibrational energy is associated with decay.
Attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors that we consider to be negative or destructive correspond with low-vibrational energy. Coincidently, these feelings cause pain and lead to suffering (or rather, they’re a manifestation of suffering, two in the same).
Low vibrational emotions include feelings of fear, jealousy, guilt, shame, and resentment. These are all the emotions and sensations which are seen as unpleasant and undesirable to experience.
The further a soul moves away from god, the lower vibrational it becomes.
When your vibration is low, you begin shifting into your lower self. You become arrogant, ignorant, petty, miserable. Suddenly, you feel like you’re battling a mountain of problems because of your vibration.
All religions believe in a state of absolute suffering. This state of consciousness is commonly referred to as hell but goes by different names depending on the belief system. Even though hell is a state of consciousness, there may be manifestations of realms that coincide with this state of consciousness.
Hell is the lowest vibrational state of consciousness. In that sense, hell is not a physical place, universe, or dimension (although there are realms that facilitate hellish experiences). However, there are hellish states of consciousness that the lowest vibration of consciousness creates an energetic match for.
An example of a vibratory match for a soul that belongs in a hellish realm would be a malevolent spirit or demon. Of course, the energy of the devil is a figurehead or embodiment of the lowest vibrational energies and the polar opposite of god.
A low-vibrational person (or person in a low-vibrational state) experiences:
- Suffering and pain
- Low-vibrational emotions such as fear, hatred, and resentment
- Possible malevolence
- Destructive actions and behaviors
- Embodiment of the lower self
- Consumption of the ego
- Calibration with darkness
- Hellish perceptions of oneself and the world
How to Become a High-Vibrational Person
If you’re trying to shift towards high vibrational energies, the most important thing I have to say is to do it genuinely.
You can’t fake vibration because your vibration is the most real thing about you. It’s a direct expression of the soul; therefore, pretending to have a high vibration if you’re feeling miserable won’t do you any good.
If you’re stuck in low vibrational states, it is a journey to genuinely work towards experiencing more high vibrational energies and embodying them. There are a few pillars I recognize when trying to shift towards high vibrational states of consciousness, including:
- Self-awareness: If you aren’t aware of your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and attitudes, how are you going to change them? You need to cultivate a deeper awareness about your patterns and programs and what isn’t serving you in your path towards happiness. With illumination, you can create true change.
- Self-actualization: You need to put in the work if you want to create a beautiful life for yourself. If your life condition is subpar, then it will be harder to embody high-vibrational energies. Therefore, work on improving your life condition, whether it’s regarding your social relationships, finances, or lifestyle, to give you the best possible chance to raise your vibration.
- Healing: Open wounds and trauma cause you to move into low-vibrational states. Therefore, if you have a lot of trauma, it may be very difficult to shift into high vibrational states because you are wounded. Therefore, healing yourself should be your goal, as the more you heal your wounds, the more naturally you will feel better.
- Watch what you consume: Everything has a vibration, and you absorb those vibrations. If you’re eating a lot of junk, you’re consuming the vibrations of that junk. If you eat a lot of healthy, fresh food, then you will consume higher vibrations, which will influence your vibration. Likewise, places and people have vibrations, too. Therefore, if you spend your time around low-vibrational people or in low-vibrational environments, you’re going to vicariously absorb some of that energy.
- Change your lifestyle: Your lifestyle also plays a big role in your vibration. Get out in nature, go for a swim. Exercise, eat healthy, engage in spiritual practice, and do some volunteering where you can be at service. Positive lifestyle changes can increase your vibration, and help you embody high vibrational states. Therefore, be aware of what lifestyle choices you are making, and start moving towards better lifestyle choices that are good for you.
At the end of the day, many different influences affect your vibration. Keep moving forward with your life, and take small steps regularly toward feelings, thoughts, mentalities, beliefs, behaviors, actions, and choices that are high vibrational, and you will slowly begin to embody your higher self.