17 Ways to Raise Your Vibrations

 

17 Ways to Raise Your Vibrations

 

The quantity and quality of our energy flow deeply affects our emotions, thoughts and reactions. The quality of our relationships, productivity, creativity and health all depend upon creating a high level of harmoniously flowing energy. The following techniques and ways of life will aid us in building a freer and more positive energy flow and raise your vibrations.

 

1. Proper Diet: Few of us realize the powerful effect of a proper diet not only on our physical health, but also on our emotional, mental and spiritual states. A clean diet can create greater health, more positive emotional states, clearer mental functioning, and increased spiritual attunement.

 

2. Vitamins: If we suspect our emotional state may also be the result of a worn down nervous system, we might benefit from a strong multivitamin and mineral supplement for one month.

 

3. Fasting: We can dramatically improve how we feel with short one-day fasts, or a “mono-diet” in which we eat only one type of food, such as apples, watermelon or grapes. When fasting, some may experience an increase of symptoms if a “healing crisis” is provoked. A beginner in this process should be assisted by an experienced guide.

 

4. Herbs and Flower Essence: Some herbs can be very calming and/or invigorating, offering an extra boost which may give us the needed optimism we need to make internal changes.

 

5. Daily Physical Exercise: The body is a living machine, and like all machines, it needs to move or it will begin to develop problems. Exercise is essential not only for a healthy muscular, skeletal, and circulatory system, but also for a relaxed nervous system and balanced endocrine system. This systemic harmony is necessary for emotional and mental peace.

 

6. Breathing Techniques: These are essential for the abundant flow of vital energy throughout the body and mind. Bio-energy is the basis of all physical and mental functions. Breathing exercises are one of the most effective ways to increase our energy level and keep it steady and harmonious so we will be less susceptible to low emotional states or illness. We should, however, have the guidance of a person experienced in breathing techniques before we begin.

 

7. Daily Deep Relaxation: This will calm the muscles, nerves and all other bodily systems, and thus rejuvenate the body and the mind. Deep relaxation, in conjunction with the above-mentioned techniques, contributes to the development of a strong and healthy immune system as well as a form of self-therapy from psychosomatic illnesses.

 

8. Creative Self Expression: This is much more important to our physical, emotional and spiritual health and harmony than most people imagine. Humans are creative beings. Our purpose on Earth is to create in some way. We might create a painting, a piece of music, a dance, a family, a business, etc. Creative self-expression is essential for our health, harmony and happiness.

 

9. Meaningful Activity: This is necessary for us to feel that our life is worth living. If we do not see what we are doing as meaningful, useful or helpful in some way, we lose our reason to exist, and our health and happiness gradually deteriorate.

 

10. Massage: Shiatsu massage, polarity massage, spiritual healing, Reiki and other such energy-oriented types of massage can be especially effective in relaxing the nervous system and reducing negativity.

 

11. Cleansing Techniques: One simple method is to increase the number of showers or baths. Contact with water can be healing and calming.

 

12. Emotional Release: We might need to partake in a program of emotional release under the guidance of an experienced professional, who can help us release pent up emotions which undermine our health and energy level.

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13. Social Harmonization: We need to discover and overcome any fears or beliefs that prevent us from feeling comfortable with others.

 

14. Spiritual Orientation: Each of us has their own personal relationship with the universe. Whether or not we adhere to any particular religion, it is important for our inner balance that we feel and cultivate our relationship with the whole as humanity, as nature, or as Spirit.

 

15. Self-Knowledge: We need to understand our own inner mechanisms, needs, desires, fears, expectations, beliefs and subconscious workings in order to free ourselves from the negative emotions, mechanisms, which undermine our health, happiness and relationships.

 

16. Enlightening the Subconscious: This aspect of self-improvement usually requires an experienced professional who can help us reprogram the subconscious with positive, more objective beliefs and perceptions of ourselves, others, and the world.

 

17. Unconditional Love: Showing this towards ourselves and others is the ultimate key to a high and harmonious energy flow.

Are Chakras Cultural Appropriation?

Early in 2022 it was brought to my attention that the way we use Chakras in the Western world is different from the original Chakras.

 

The word Chakra means wheel in Sanskrit.

Chakras have been around for thousands of years. They have their basis in the Hindu and Buddhist religions. Chakras are part of the Tantric teachings, which you’ve probably heard of as Tantric Yoga, and if you are like me, completely misunderstood what that was about too.

Anyway…

Some Hindi believe that we have culturally appropriated chakras, and some believe that they are an open system, shared by all.

With this in mind, it is important to learn a bit more about the origins before we start using them.

First of all, this wasn’t done maliciously, it was done through miscommunication.

In Hindu and Buddhism there are many chakras and they are not connected to any specific part of the body, nor are they attached to any color, number of petals, essential oils, crystals, etc. They are more fluid and manifest in different ways, in different numbers, depending on the belief system you are using.

How did we end up with the Chakra system we use today?

 Back in 1577 Purnananada Yati wrote Shatchakra Nirupana, loosely translated, An Explanation of the Six Chakras. This included teachings about the six chakras that are in the body and the seventh above the head. He stated that this is just one version of how to use Chakras. He based this off an 13^th Century document.

Then in 1918 John Woodroffe translated Yati’s document, but he did a bad job of it and a lot of mistranslation took place. This translation took hold in the Western academic and occult circles.

Carl Jung, one of the early leaders in psychiatry, found this information and became fascinated with how the seven chakras related to consciousness. He wrote extensively on it and it is from his writings that we start to see the seven chakras connected to things like love, sexuality, instinct, and willpower.

 In 1987 Anodea Judith published Wheels of Life, in which she connects each chakra to all the many things we see them connected to now: color, planets, crystals, essential oils, herbs, etc.

 

In 2019 I began learning about Chakras as I studied Reiki. Chakras are not part of the original Reiki that Dr. Usui taught, but they were later added, and fit very well in the Reiki hand positions.

 I’ve thought about using “Energy Centers” instead of “Chakras” but at this point I’m not sure that everyone would get that I was talking about the Western version of the Chakras when I say “Energy Centers” (and it definitely has a much lower SEO ranking than Chakra), so I’m going to continue using the word Chakra. You’ll need to decide for yourself how you feel about this.

 

The Western Chakras are very much a part of my spirituality and my energy work. I use them to diagnose where I and my clients are out of alignment, showing me where I need to work.