Long before I learnt Reiki, I was lucky enough to receive a broader introduction to working with energy as I studied a variety of psychic and energy courses. Much of what I learnt is now the basis of my Energy 101 course for those interested in playing with energy without learning Reiki. I wanted to share some of that course here as I believe the fundamentals of energy work can be a little confusing when you first start exploring esoteric topics.
What does high or low vibrational energy mean when working with spirit
For anyone new to this topic, understanding terms like high vibrational or low frequency can be a bit challenging.
A simple analogy I like to use is to compare energy to water molecules. At school we were taught the 3 states of water – liquid, solid and gas – and how the difference between these states is the rate at which the water molecules move or vibrate.
When water molecules get cold, they slow down & clump together until they form ice. And when heated, water molecules speed up and move apart until they vibrate so fast that they spread out and become a gas and float away.
The same principle applies to energy (also known as chi/prana/life force). The quality of the energy is referred to as vibration or frequency. Just like a high musical note has a higher frequency (measured as smaller wavelengths) – not that it is physically/spatially higher. Just think of it as the speed at which your cells vibrate. If you were plugged into a machine it would measure your frequency output.
The slower the vibration or frequency, the more dense/solid/heavy you become. And equally same goes for ‘high vibration’ – the higher/faster frequency, the lighter you become. Have you ever noticed that when you are feeling down, sad or unwell, you can feel more dense and heavier? That’s why! You are vibrating at a lower level than normal (just like an ice cube).
And it’s also why when you are happy or doing things you love, and your vibration increases, that you feel lighter and brighter (more gas like).
I’m sure you’ll remember a graphic similar to the below from school!
How do I shift my frequency?
The water analogy I think helps visually explain what you may experience in the world and how your life changes when you start to change energetically.
Imagine a box that contains all 3 states of water (ice, liquid & gas), each state can’t interact with any of the others – they tend to move through or around each other. The gas can not merge with the ice or the liquid. The vapour can only mix with other vapour because they are vibrating at the same level. And the liquid just moves around the ice – again because they are vibrating at different rates giving them different physical structure. The ice cubes bash into each other, while the liquid moves around them, and the gas sits happily above avoiding whatever is happening below.
You can apply this principle to your own life. The box is our dimensional reality (3D), while the three different states of water can be considered different frequencies of our reality. This is how you can have all three types of ‘water’ (ie people) living in the same dimension and yet have completely different experiences of that dimension. Some folks will be dense blocks of ice bashing into each other and limited in there movement, some people will be like liquid – able to flow easily around blocks of ice, and some will be like the gas – able to effortlessly float through life (in comparison).
All foods, emotions, media ..everything…carries with it a particular vibration. And you have free will to choose what you bring into your life on a daily basis. Typically fear is one end of the frequency spectrum, while love is the other.
When you choose to work on yourself – be that through energy healing, eating better, getting counseling to heal your past – you begin to increase your vibration, and this can change your life dramatically over time. Essentially, you change from being an ice cube smashing into things, to fluid that flows around blocks until eventually you turn into gas that floats around in it’s own reality with a deep surrender to all that is.
There’s many ways you can start to shift your frequency if you feel like life is very dense right now. Self development books, eating cleaner, working through trauma and limiting beliefs, speaking kind and loving words to yourself, being of service to others, having healthy loving boundaries or energy healing are just some of the ways you can start to bring some magic back into your life. It’s about consciously choosing to bring a little more kindness and love into your life.
Perhaps a little inventory of what you consume in a day is a start to become more conscious of what you are doing. Consider everything you consume:
- Physically: Food – is it grown in a way that is good for the planet and humans. And no – you don’t need to be vegan! Shifting from mass produced to fresh and unprocessed foods is a great start.
- Mentally: media/news/socials/music/books/entertainment your mind consumes.
- Emotionally: conversations/language/ideas you take in from family, friends, colleagues. Do the people in your life uplift you?
If every cell in your body suddenly grew a tongue and was tasting everything in your average day….what would it taste like?
Now, I’m not saying that you can’t experience bad moods or get angry! It’s actually an important part of life to be able to experience negativity and to process it in a healthy way. Anger is an important indicator of where our boundaries have been crossed. In fact, it’s just as important to acknowledge the so-called bad emotions as it is the good emotions. Always pushing them away and pretending everything is fine is damaging especially to our gut health. It’s important to remember that it’s OK not be OK.
And I’m also not saying that one state of being is any ‘better’ than another either! They are just different and each state of being has its pros & cons. There are gifts in both the high and the low states of being.
I say this because it’s important to understand the following:
- you have free will to choose what you want to bring into your life, as do others in your life. And we need to honour another’s journey to change or remain the same. Sometimes that journey is about going in a different direction to your friends/family. And that is ok.
- choosing different vibrational elements will result in change over time (be they higher or lower changes). Tiny incremental changes build up. No need to go hard and fast, baby micro steps is better than no steps at all.
Real world impact of working with energy
Most people who seek out energy healing do so because they feel stressed, heavy and blocked and they’ve reached a point where it no longer serves them. And when you choose to interact and learn about energy and start to listen to the discernment of your body, you start to shift to a higher vibration. You don’t need to ‘ believe’ in God or angels etc to work with energy. It’s just physics. And science is catching up. They now know our bones emit tiny electrical charges when we walk/run, that our bodies emit a low light that can be measured. And quantum physics is making all sorts of amazing discoveries!
As you shift your vibration you’ll want to naturally move away from things/people that no longer resonate with you – or you may find they want to move away from you! This creates space so that new opportunities and people can come into your life that are a match to the new frequency you are giving off. But there can be a time of ‘being in limbo’ as the old leaves before the new arrives….and often this is where people panic and go back as they don’t trust that the new will arrive. Stay strong!
The following are very common changes that take place when you start to shift higher in your vibration:
- You become more discerning of who and what you allow into your life as you notice the impact that they have on you. You notice how you go from feeling at ease to feeling dis-ease, exhaustion or drained. This results in a change in the food, music, people in your life.
- Electrical items can misbehave when you go through dramatic energetic changes. This is because your heart outputs a electrical current of sorts which can interfere with your surroundings – eg light bulbs always blowing out, or the tv/computer getting buggy. Don’t worry – it’s just temporary.
- You may want to isolate yourself for a few days or a few weeks as life becomes overwhelming. That’s ok – trust that your body knows what you need. Give yourself permission to rest.
- People lash out at you – as you shift in vibration you may trigger others initially. In extreme situations life feels like it gets worse before it gets better. I like to think of this as a test from the universe to check how serious I am about continuing the journey.
- No matter your vibration – You attract that which you put out and your thoughts become reality. So if you are increasing your vibration you’ll find good luck follows you, random opportunities find you, life becomes more joyful and easeful. But the equal and opposite also applies – if you are on a journey to a denser vibration, blockages appear, you feel heavier or more depressed for long periods, and you’ll attract people of a like mind.
Remember the universe just responds to energy – it doesn’t judge things as good or bad – it gives us more of that which we are vibrationally in alignment with….So be kind on yourself as you start your journey. There is always a gift to be found in every situation!
