Do You Have a “Low” or “High Vibration”? Read These 61 Signs

Aletheia, thanks for writing this piece. It has definitely caused some food for thought. I haven’t written in a comments section before, but I felt it was a good time to share my current ponderings. I know this article is old, but I would still like to comment. So bear with me please haha My beliefs do change so what I say today may not be what I believe in the future depending on where my journey takes me and what I experience. However, currently I tend to agree more with Sue Corrigan-Yo. I have a preference for Eastern Philosophy and have travelled and lived in various religious cultures. Which has led me to lean away from the hierarchical caste system religious views eg. of the Abraham and Hindu religions. As these religions tend to be very black and white at times and like to see things as good or bad. I know these views are deeply ingrained in a lot of our cultural perceptions due to years of indoctrination. My experiences so far have shown that life is more colourful and this includes grey. I agree that we are energetic beings and that our energy affects others and ourselves. Where I disagree is that I believe we aren’t static or fixed. We can change and do change our frequency constantly, from one instant to the next. It can be as simple as eating or drinking something you enjoy or dislike. We are flickering/ pulsing with energy that’s in a constant flux. I also disagree with the premise that higher is better and therefore lower is worse. I view it more about temperance finding balance between the two. Being around someone who is “hyper” can be just as disconcerting as being around someone who is “hypo”. Certainly a hyper person can be fun and energising in the short term, but can throw you off kilter longer term. Just as a “hypo” person can be taken in short doses and may have some interesting insights, but you don’t want to spend too much time around them either. Especially if your equilibrium is out of whack. Imagine a world filled only with light high energy beings. It’s too much you feel too suffocated and pressed upon by their ever outward expanding energy. Too much high voltage can fray your nerves. Too much yang! I feel that the hierarchical caste based religions are too yang biased. You loose appreciation for the beauty and calmness of the darkness. Just as a world too dark is too withdrawn and you’d feel like you were continually falling down a rabbit hole with no end. If you have looked at the latest nanotechnology black colours you will get an understanding of what I mean. It’s like looking into a void. In both scenarios you need the opposite vibration to highlight the definition and beauty of the other. You wouldn’t see the stars or the universe with too much light or too much darkness as they snuff each other’s beauty out. When we suppress/deny one emotion in lieu of another it throws us out of balance. Some of the most in tune empathetic people I have ever meet have been through the most traumatic journeys. It has given them great insight. Using illness as an example illness forces you within. It forces you to contemplate life at a much deeper and real level. Even perhaps to contemplate mortality and what your legacy is. If you only have ever being well you’d never grow from the experience of illness or fully appreciate health. You’d take it for granted. If you have experienced chronic illness on the practical level you can also have a greater understanding of the healthcare system from the inside and can see where it can be improved. Where if you are only ever healthy you tend to have less empathy for those that are unwell and make assumptions about the medical system. Unless you are around those who are unwell and can give you some insight. I feel it is similar on the energy level. If you’re high energy you don’t sit still enough to appreciate your environment. So rather than pushing against the negative emotions see them as beneficial. They are as much a teacher as the positive emotions. Neither is better. It’s about balance and not staying only in one vibration, but appreciating both experiences as opportunities for growth. I like the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) view on the emotions associated with different organs and how our body strives for harmony. But throughout life our journey we experience internal and/or external pressures which can throw us out of harmony. And we aren’t born equal in any way, whether it’s physically, emotionally, mentally, socially, economically, culturally, environmentally etc. For example some are being born into countries or areas where there is war or climate change is effectively wiping out there physical habitat. In TCM the kidneys are said to regulate the emotion of fear. Fear is a great emotion to have, it’s a driving force towards change. You can have too little or too much fear when out of balance. Though at times both of these extremes are useful. But when out of balance either of these extremes could but you in harms way. Some people are born with only one kidney or a kidney dysfunction. This just means they have to work harder at balancing their kidney energy. Even more so when in a situation as mentioned above where there is a physical threat around them. This doesn’t mean that they are less than as a person because of this. In some ways they may look for solutions to the problem harder than others are because they want to move away from the extreme fear state. Or they may take risks others don’t because they are fearless. Depending on which way their kidney energies are out of balance. So there is a need for all the emotions. It’s more about aiming for balance. But accepting there is a time and place for the extremes as well. Anyway I realise I have written a novel haha and so had better stop here as I could go on and on. Thanks for reading some of my thoughts on this topic. I will continue to read your blog

With respect, I think this list is extremely naive. Its a left brained, separated and compartmentalized because it describes both sides of the human experience as 2 separate entities, a ‘split self’ rather than one whole integrated person. It is judgmental, self righteous, even arrogant and totally discounting of the highs and lows of the spiritual journey. I have been on a spiritual journey for 30 years, have had an out of body experience so understand the death and rebirth process and have an MA in psychotherapy. When we are on a spiritual path we walk between 2 parallel worlds simultaneously. The 3D world of TIME & SPACE and the SPIRITUAL WORLD OF TIMELESSNESS. These are interactive dimensional realities the whole time while we are in a physical body. Your understanding of energy vibration is an idealistic trendy, even ‘narcissistic’ view of perfection which you think we ””should”” be striving for, but it is a 3D perspective of Spiritual vibration which is still deeply entrenched in the material world. You make no mention of the role of ‘illness’ or ‘profound suffering’ which serves as a catalyst to the experience of the spiritual emergence process. If you only knew (you may realize as you age), that ‘high energy’ people are a ‘vexation’ to deep spiritual states of peace, compassion, kindness, contentment, spaciousness, harmony, beauty, states of grace, and the deeper psychic and spiritual levels and dimensions. I entirely understand where you are coming from with all of this but it not as black and white as you make out. One has to look to the natural world, to the circular world of ‘cycles’ (The yin/yang and I Ching) ( the four seasons) (the 4 compass points), (The cyclic motion of the planets around the sun) to get a true picture of the emerging spiritual journey. The archetypes of Neptune, Uranus and Pluto, which are beyond earth bound consciousness and the wisdom of ages, the classical Greek and Egyptian and Eastern philosophers and the similarities of all the Esoteric religions from all nations on earth, to truly understand the meaning of Universal consciousness. There is a lot more compassion needed to understand the big picture, its not all about high energy and positive thinking. You also have to take into consideration that while we (and all our loved ones) are in a physical body, we are subject to aging, sickness and physical death which brings with it profound suffering and challenges. I just offer this for food for thought so that people do not ‘feel guilty’ or ‘lacking’ if they connect with anything on the first list.