Recognizing and Raising Your Vibrational Frequency

Have you ever witnessed someone walk into a room full of people and by their mere presence the energy in the room either elevates or drops? It is a scientific fact that humans are energetic beings. Our brain waves can be measured as an electrical frequency by EEG, EKG, MRI, etc. As a society, we have accepted, albeit subconsciously, the detecting of our own and other people's energetic fields.

We notice and react to one another's energy without even realizing what we are feeling. Each of us has highs and lows, which we experience emotionally: depression is a low, joy is a high. These are high and low emotional expressions of our own vibrational frequencies. There is a range, going from depression and despair at the very bottom, which is the lowest frequency, to bliss and enlightenment which is the highest frequency. All other emotions fall in between in ascending order of low frequency to high frequency. Once we recognize that our vibration and our emotions are inter-connected, we have a greater ability to purposefully raise our frequency by using our emotions as a frequency gauge. If you are feeling good, your vibration is high. If you are feeling badly, your vibration is low. It is as simple as that.

Raising our vibration is valuable for a number of reasons, the most important of course being our own mental and emotional health. But raising our vibration has added benefits, many of which are cultural. Raising your vibration to one of compassion affects everyone that you have contact with in a positive way. Benevolence and unconditional love expressed through you to those around you has a spreading and multiplying result. In addition, holding on to lower frequency emotions such as anger, resentment, and depression increase your risk for many of the chronic diseases that are now endemic and are almost completely preventable. The positive healing effects of higher frequency emotions, such as joy and hope, have been studied extensively.

One of the most effective ways of raising your vibration is to calm your mind. Relieving yourself of the destructive ego chatter of lower emotional states by quieting the mind allows room for higher emotional frequencies, such as happiness and joy.

This all came to me clearly when I was sensing extended periods of joy. I had days and weeks on end of utter joy from the changes that I had made in my life. One day, while in this state of joy, I realized that my mind was quiet and that I had very few thoughts. The thoughts that I did have were thoughts like "bird!" "ocean," "beautiful!" "nice breeze..." "thirsty." I noticed this and began to question what had happened to my ego chatter. I did not miss the endless gibberish of my ego mind and felt such quietness in my mind that I wanted to be sure that I could continue to feel joy, which seemed to bring quietness of the mind, or was it the other way around? Which came first, I wondered, quietness of the mind, and then joy? Or joy, and then quietness of mind? Honestly, I do not think it is significant, but the point is that we want to feel joy, which is a very high frequency, and if we are not currently feeling joy, quieting the mind is surely a way to get to joy.

The most effective and powerful way of learning to quiet the mind is through meditation. I have heard that all of the successful self-help gurus include meditation as part of their daily practice. I meditate as soon as I wake up and right before I go to sleep at night. If you are like most people, you are thinking all the time. This thinking mind is actually a false self; you identify it as “you” but in reality the real you that is buried beneath your chattering you is quiet and peaceful and not thinking at all. To find out more about the importance of quieting the mind, read Eckhart Tolle's bestseller The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment.