All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration.
– B. Hicks
We’ve heard the phrases many times before … “Man, he has a really negative vibe,” “That place had AMAZING energy,” “She’s so energetic.” Yet few of us ever really stop to fathom the depths of these common expressions and remarks. The truth is that instinctively, on both a primal and intuitive level, we can sense that not only is everything composed of energy, but this energy varies in its quantity and quality drastically in our everyday lives.
Have you ever been in a busy and bustling train station and felt a sense of “heaviness”? Or have you ever gone to a concert and felt a sense of inner “lightness” or elation? These are simple and fairly common examples of our ability to “tune into” different frequencies of energy in our lives.
So what does having a “low” or “high vibration” mean, and where does it fit into this equation? If you’ve heard these phrases used before, and if you are curious to learn more about what having a high or low vibration means, keep reading!
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Everything You Need to Know About Low and High Vibrations – Simplified
High vibrations are generally associated with positive qualities and feelings, such as love, forgiveness, compassion and peace. On the other hand, low vibrations are associated with darker qualities such as hatred, fear, greed and depression. We’ll explore low and high vibrations more in depth below.
But what does all of this really mean? Essentially, the higher your vibration is, the more in touch you are with your higher self, inner “God/Goddess,” Divinity, Consciousness, Holiness, Soul, or the many other words out there to describe your true nature. This also means that the lower your vibration is, the more out of sync you are with your higher nature, and therefore the more conflict you experience in life.
61 Signs That You Have a Low or High Vibration
Before you read the lists below, it’s important to remember 2 things. Firstly, you are rarely ever 100% “either/or” anything in life. Therefore, you’ll most likely fall along a spectrum of 25% high and 75% low, 55% high and 45% low – and so forth. So refrain from boxing yourself up into black or white labels. Secondly, discovering whether you have a primarily low or high vibration is really helpful . . . for you. However, be wary of using these labels against others (e.g. “He/she has a low vibration, keep away!”) – ironically, this perpetuates the low vibrations linked to segregation and discrimination. That is why this is best used as a self-discovery tool.
So with this in mind, what kind of vibration do you have, and how does this impact your life?
If you have a low vibration …
- You feel “stuck” or stranded in life, not knowing what to do next.
- You struggle with apathy or an uncaring attitude towards yourself and others.
- You are emotionally distant.
- You are emotionally reactive.
- You struggle with constant fatigue and lethargy.
- You have a primarily self-centric view of the world.
- You often struggle with despair and desperation.
- You find it almost impossible to get “unstuck” from old habits.
- You have a prominent Shadow Self.
- You feel physically unfit and unhealthy.
- You bottle up feelings such as resentment and jealousy.
- You find it hard to forgive yourself and other people.
- You suffer from a guilt complex (i.e. you constantly feel guilty about something/or seek things out to feel guilty about).
- You don’t really know what you want in life.
- You continue to make poor choices.
- You find it hard to see the beauty in life.
- You feel unfulfilled.
- Your connections with others constantly bring you pain.
- You are overly cynical and skeptical.
- You are argumentative.
- You complain a lot.
- You easily fall into victim-based mindsets.
- You self-sabotage.
- You focus primarily on the negative in life.
- You struggle to feel gratitude.
- You eat a lot of fatty or processed foods (e.g. meat, fast food, lollies).
- You are needy or demanding of others.
- You watch a lot of violent multimedia and/or listen to intense music with violent lyrics.
- You find it hard to make any real progress in life.
If you have a high vibration …
- You are self-aware (i.e. you are conscious of what you are saying, doing, thinking and feeling, as well as the effect this has on others).
- You are empathetic towards others needs and you make a habit of seeing through the eyes of other people.
- You are highly creative and are often bursting with ideas and inspiration.
- You are emotionally balanced.
- You feel connected to that which is “beyond” you (e.g. life, divinity, love).
- You have a great sense of humor towards life.
- You don’t take yourself too seriously.
- You regularly feel gratitude for what you have in life.
- Smiling and laughing comes easily to you.
- You don’t experience much disappointment because you don’t cling to passing things (e.g. material comforts, friendships, indulgences).
- You are self-disciplined.
- You can delay pleasure if it does not serve you.
- You do not “need” anything to feel happy.
- You are in-tune with your body and its needs.
- You nurture yourself often.
- You nurture others often.
- You often experience synchronicity.
- You live in the present more than the past or future.
- Your body feels strong and healthy.
- You eat raw, unprocessed food.
- You try to keep your life clutter-free.
- You forgive yourself and other people easily.
- You feel as though you have found your calling in life.
- Opportunities and new doors spontaneously appear to you in life.
- Patience comes easily to you.
- You don’t feel the need to argue or compete with others – let them win and feel right, it’s OK!
- You are open to many different types of people, ideas, beliefs and experiences in life.
- You feel confident in yourself and your abilities.
- You are attracted to profound, calming and inspirational music/movies/TV shows.
- You are highly intuitive.
- Other people easily open up to you.
- You often find yourself in the role of the counselor, peacemaker or teacher in friendships and relationships.
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The reality is that most of us share some forms of “low vibration” and other forms of “high vibration,” but the goal is to become aware of what you are excelling at and what you could improve on within your journey of inner transformation.
One of the easiest ways to determine whether you are vibrating at a “high frequency” or a “low frequency” is by paying attention to how you physically feel. Do you feel light, energized, clear and healthy? Chances are you have a high vibration. On the other hand, if you feel weighed down, repressed, oppressed, stuffy or heavy, you are most likely operating on a low vibration.
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Just want to note as a warning that low vibration doesn’t necessarily mean evil, and high vibration doesn’t necessarily mean good. Sometimes it can mean that, and sometimes a “low vibration” is just someone being depressed, stressed out, or in grief, but not evil. That, or someone in “high vibration,” is someone who’s very cheerful, excitable, and enthusiastic is just someone who’s a charming manipulator. Differentiate mood from the goodness of a person. As in, there are different shades of “high vibration,” and “low vibration.” High vibration can mean the type of high that is a good mood, the type of high that is a good person, or even the type of high that just means someone is particularly talented/competent in a skill, and vice versa with low vibrations. You will need practice to see more of the “shades of high vibration,” and the “shades of low vibration,” so you can get a gut sense of things beyond saying something is vaguely “good” or “bad.” But we use good and bad to describe a lot of things. Morality, talent, mood, situation, lifestyle, and so on. Also good and bad are subjective to us, to some extent, which influences your intuition, so let’s say that someone gets a bad vibe with a person, and it’s because they’re not very particularly ambitious as them. But in actuality, they’re happy and still a kind person even if they’re not really ambitious and just want a simple life. Or the opposite, you think someone has a bad vibe, because you associate ambitious vibes with something bad, but actually that person uses big ambitions to help people, as well as being genuinely passionate in their ambitions. It’s just. . . there’s a different set of personal values one may prioritize that may bias your intuition towards someone. I mean, there are certainly values that are not meant to be valued, but people will prioritize different positive values over the other. As in, perhaps someone prioritizes creativity and beauty, so they do good in that field. Another will prioritize discipline and organization, so they do good in that type of field too. But it’s not necessarily bad, hahaha, just because it’s a different set of personal values from you, but just two different ways to express goodness in the world. There are many “wrong answers,” sure, such as being a serial killer or something obviously bad like that, but there are many “right answers,” as well, hahaha.
Multiple people have told me that I have a dense, slow moving energy. I feel stuck but I’m making progress because I’m slowly learning new things. It just seems like my whole life in some ways has passed me by and I missed all of it because I was frozen in fear. I feel very depressed and hopeless about it, and I don’t understand how I seem to come in and out of this energy and it just never goes away. I just want to figure out how to get rid of whatever this dense, slow stuff is. What is holding me back? I’m doing all the things and putting the work in. 🤷🏻♀️
Maybe you are too in your head or thinking you are thinking ways of your past. When you have those thoughts or feelings maybe in that moment try a breathing exercise like box breathing. I do not know much, but do not let yourself believe everything you think or feel. Sometime it is of old habit.
try meditating, it really works. And if you are having porn trouble maybe that’s why. google Nofap on reddit and follow through
we are in the same field, i will tell you honestly as i find and will of course donate at the end of the five days
I would say I’m half and half, struggling mostly with feeling healthy, discipline since I procrastinate a lot and I feel like I need certain things to happen first before I can feel happy, for example like me starting meditation or hiking or exercising or reading a book stuff like that I want to do but I just keep putting it off.
if all doesn’t work then fall in LOVE. you might get a bit motivated. heheee
It wasn’t all that long ago that I was in the category in every aspect of the low. Now, as I become more myself I am about 50/50. I’ll be me soon. Thanks for the article.
How much can crystals help raise your vibrations. And is it psychological, or a state of being?
Hi, my name is Edward. I came across this article quite serendipitously. I believe in God, and I was writing a prayer to him. In that prayer, I spoke about my theory about people resonating with a high or low frequency. I then decided to do some research about it, and I found this article. I say this without hubris; I discovered that I share 90% of the qualities associated with a high vibration. I don’t know much about this kind of thing, and I’m not saying it is the be-and end-all. But to me, it seems that if, as people, we have more of the qualities associated with a high vibration than a low vibration, we are on a good trajectory in life.
I’m struggling to keep my vibration high. I have an autistic adult son and he tends to rant negatively about stuff bringing same stuff up from the past or people who have wronged him in some way. Ive tried to deflect the conversation with something more positive but he just carries on regardless until he gets into a rage. He calls me names too. I literally have to just ignore him or remove myself from the situation and leave the house. Im starting to dread him getting up in the morning as I have to really focus to stay present around him. Im really struggling to stay positive
Hi Angela! Your message really touched my heart. I hope things have gotten better for you but if they haven’t there’s a few things I wanted to say and some unsolicited advice that I hope doesn’t bother you. First, I wanted to say that no matter what, I know that you are doing the best that you possibly can right now, the fact that you’re still there for him even through all of your struggles is truly something to be proud of. I also wanted to say that although I don’t know exactly what you’re going through and how hard the situation is, I do relate to the feelings you expressed. I’ve been in a long and difficult marriage where my spouse does the same thing constantly bringing negativity around me. It really started getting to me but what has helped me through it is definitely prayer or meditation, whatever you believe in just hold onto it. Also, it’s a cliche but the saying is very true, holding onto things that we can’t control is like drinking poison but expecting the other person/event to pass away. It’s not going to be easy but as soon as he starts bringing negativity around you just take a quiet deep breath, validate his story and then release the situation. This process helps with receiving or absorbing negativity from anyone, take control over what you can which is how you feel. Lean into your own power and full potential and command those negative feelings to flee from you immediately and with time and practice it’ll become second nature to you. You are already so powerful and strong, I know you can break through these chains of negativity and reactivity, and you will become whole and feel peace. The journey to a higher vibration looks like exactly what you are experiencing, challenges will be thrown your way and once you can overcome it and make peace with it, you’ll start to vibrate much higher. A big part of vibrating higher is understanding that we are all interconnected, and our individuals struggles, whatever they may be, are all of our struggles collectively. I prayed over you and your family and I am sending you my love, light, and encouragement for your journey ahead! <3
Hi. My son’s physical body died 26 months at “33”yrs old leaving a 7yr old daughter. . I’ve spent last 22 months evolving into a person more like him…accepting all as equal and treating them that way. Sapiental Discourses series channeled from Source/God energy ,thru Elliot Eli Jackson … Souls choose to come to earth with differences to give us opportunities to raise Earth’s
Vibration. Someone said ” Look at a thing (being) differently, it becomes different. Go within, your child, you, all are God, God is us! Love and light. Sing to him maybe!. Love Tracy
I get a lot of emotional support from listening to some of the tesla healing frequencies I feel it has improved my vibes from hopeless to hopeful. classical music is another way to raise the vibes around yourself if you can’t listen to these together use ur ear phones at night while you sleep or just for a short 20 mins out of ur day pray and meditation can be done all day long if you can’t dedicate a long time God is happy with a sentence several times a day best wishes and blessings to you both if you decide to search healing frequencies on you tube just type for depression or anxiety or whatever ailment you are encountering there are free frequencies they have helped me there are psalms in the Bible to comfort your soul and inner messages will answer your many questions if you sit in stillness in nature walk in your grass barefoot daily use essential oils lavender to keep balance many people use a grounding Chrystal bracelet to keep positive vibes up and cleanse negative energy from the home via prayers 91 psalms calling upon ur heavenly angels and spiritual guides source Creator God for help father son Jesus and Holy Spirit there is so many things you can do to heal naturally by bringing all into balance mind body spirit one must feed all three to be balanced. We are no good to others if he can’t give ourselves the love we need first so take an nice long shower or a soak in the tub and let your worries float up to a higher power for help and do as often as you need to feel good first any and all mentioned in any combination will improve your mood Dont be surprised by how much a gratification a great full heart brings you more peace. Seeing an appreciation of the grass trees nature the beach a city park open windows and enjoy life as it is too short to worry it’s time to let your light shine
I came here after a friend recommend looking up about frequency, and overall felt very disappointed by what I read. I just have to say if you have a chronic illness or mental illness that has absoultly nothing to do with having a ‘low frequency’ and saying that it does is so harmful. And if you do have a chronic or mental illness or disability you should never feel guilty or like it’s your own fault, it’s not and you’re amazing just the way you are
Yes, I agree Louise. This article was written back in 2015, but 6 years later my perspective has changed. Chronic/mental illness can actually be a sign of a kundalini awakening or high sensitivity – these are not necessarily ‘low vibration.’ So I want to thank you for pointing this out, I’ve edited and updated the article.
I experience every “High Frequency” listed in this article. God/Divine Mind/Source/Consciousness/ is truly beautiful. ;)