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!
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.
Learning to unconditionally love yourself is essential for your healing and fulfillment in life. I’ve been there before, and still am at times!
So for now, I hope you benefited out of this article. Please feel free to share your experiences with low and high vibrations below.
Any advice you can share on how to raise your vibration will be appreciated!
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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,… Read more »
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. 🤷🏻♀️
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.
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
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
I experience every “High Frequency” listed in this article. God/Divine Mind/Source/Consciousness/ is truly beautiful. ;)