How to Raise Your Energetic Vibration and Frequency for Good

Your energetic vibration and frequency, the complex information signals you continually emit at a higher level of your multidimensional nature are something you can raise. While this language might sound abstract or esoteric, raising your vibration is a very real and concrete process—one that's supported by both ancient wisdom traditions and modern psychological research.

As a manifestation author and coach I teach that what creates amazing manifestation results is a coherent vibrational broadcast. Your vibration is also your point of cocreative attraction, your point of magnetism and influence. A coherent vibrational broadcast is the result of a well-managed and maintained biofield (bio-electromagnetic energy system) or good energetic hygiene. When you have good energetic hygiene, your energy regulation skills allow you to emit clear coherent signals, or harmonic signals. To get to that point of emitting a consistent harmonic broadcast, you can raise and manage your energetic vibration and frequency through specific practices and techniques.

In this post, you’ll learn two key approaches to create shifts in your vibrational state and permanent shifts in your overall energetic vibration and frequency. 

What Does It Mean to Raise Your Vibration?

Raising your energetic vibration and frequency is essentially about expanding your consciousness and creating energy flow habits that reflect an optimal circulation and distribution of life-force energy throughout your body and biofield. In practical terms, this means developing an optimistic mindset, cultivating emotional self-regulation skills, and adopting practices like gratitude that create permanent state changes in how you think, feel, and interact with the world.

When you develop these capacities, you're not just changing your thoughts—you're changing what you radiate outward. Emotion regulation and energy regulation are the same process, just described at different dimensions of being. Research in positive psychology demonstrates that practices like gratitude, mindfulness, and loving-kindness meditation produce measurable changes in brain structure and function, stress hormone levels, and overall well-being (Emmons & McCullough, 2003; Davidson et al., 2003). These aren't temporary mood boosts—they're permanent shifts in your baseline vibrational state.

Understanding Your Energy Anatomy

To understand how raising your vibration works, it helps to have a basic understanding of your energy anatomy. Beyond your physical body, you have an energy body—sometimes called the biofield or subtle body—that consists of energy centers (chakras), energy channels (meridians or nadis), and in some models layers of electromagnetic fields that surround and interpenetrate your physical form.

This energy anatomy isn't metaphorical. Research in biofield science has documented measurable electromagnetic fields around the human body, with the heart generating the strongest electromagnetic field in the body, detectable several feet away (McCraty et al., 2015). Your consciousness, recurrent thoughts, emotions, and physical state all influence the coherence and quality of these fields.

Your energy centers receive, encode, process and distribute life-force energy (also known as prana, chi, or qi) and information throughout your system. When these centers function harmonically—meaning they're balanced, open, and allowing healthy energy flow—you naturally emit a more coherent, harmonic vibration for your level of consciousness.  

The Science Behind Consciousness Expansion

Expanding your consciousness is a process of upgrading your worldview and belief systems, and adapting and internalizing habits of thought, emotion, and behavior that allow you to have that optimal circulation of life-force throughout your body and energy field. The more empowered and empowering your worldview and beliefs, the more optimal the circulation of energy in your being. 

Research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience supports this understanding. Carol Dweck's groundbreaking work on mindset demonstrates that the beliefs we hold about ourselves and our potential directly influence our outcomes (Dweck, 2006). When we shift from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset, we literally change how our brain processes challenges and setbacks allowing us to pursue and accomplish our goals in school and in business at a higher rate of success. Similarly, studies on neuroplasticity show that consistent mental and emotional practices create new neural pathways, permanently altering brain structure and function (Davidson & Lutz, 2008).

The ideas you internalize and the beliefs you integrate are all patterns of energy and information that calibrate at specific frequencies. Internalizing ideas and beliefs that resonate harmonically creates a shift and expansion in your consciousness. Creating such an expansion of consciousness permanently moves you into a new, more harmonic vibration.  

In my Higher Consciousness A Course for Consciousness Evolution free video training, I provide a detailed breakdown of the nine expanded levels of consciousness from David Hawkins's Map of Consciousness. Each level represents a different quality of consciousness with its own characteristic emotional tone, worldview, and energetic frequency. Moving up these levels isn't about being "better than" others—it's about expanding your capacity for empowerment, peace, joy, love, and creative expression.

Two Proven Approaches to Raising Your Vibration Permanently

There are two complementary approaches to raising your energetic vibration and frequency and creating a habit of harmonic energy flow. When used together, they create lasting transformation.

Approach 1: Daily Micro-Practices for Cumulative Energy Shifts

The first approach is to regularly use several quick and easy practices like gratitude and loving-kindness meditations to create momentary shifts and adjustments in your energetic output. Consistent practices of short durations (e.g., a 3 to 5-minute gratitude practice at the end of each day) that allow you to feel positive emotions have a cumulative effect over time. They feel good in the moment, and they also help you cultivate the habit of allowing that healthy optimal flow and circulation of life-force in your body and biofield.

Research consistently shows that gratitude practices produce measurable benefits. A study by Emmons and McCullough (2003) found that participants who kept weekly gratitude journals exercised more regularly, reported fewer physical symptoms, felt better about their lives as a whole, and were more optimistic about the upcoming week compared to those who recorded hassles or neutral life events. Another study found that a daily gratitude practice increased well-being and decreased depressive symptoms, with effects lasting up to six months (Seligman et al., 2005). If you don't have a daily gratitude journal, you can get my Minimalist Gratitude Journal for adults on amazon.

Loving-kindness meditation, where you systematically cultivate feelings of goodwill toward yourself and others, has been shown to increase positive emotions, decrease negative emotions, and activate brain regions associated with empathy and emotional processing (Klimecki et al., 2014). These aren't just feel-good exercises—they're neurologically rewiring your brain to maintain higher baseline states of well-being.

Other effective micro-practices include:

• Brief mindfulness meditations (even 3-5 minutes)

• Conscious breathing exercises

• Spending time in nature

• Engaging with uplifting content (music, art, inspirational writing)

• Acts of kindness and generosity

• Movement practices like yoga, tai chi, or dance

The key is consistency. Small, regular practices create more lasting change than sporadic intensive efforts.

Approach 2: Strategic Energy Center Harmonization

The second approach is to strategically engage with energy healing practices and create permanent shifts in how you flow and metabolize life-force (prana, chi, qi, vital energy, etc.) through your body, meridians, and energy centers. You can do this by creating and following through on a personal healing plan that addresses the harmonization needs of each of your energy centers.

This approach requires more intentionality and often benefits from working with trained practitioners in modalities like chakra healing, biofield tuning, reiki healing, somatic therapy, or body-centered psychotherapy. These practices help you identify and resolve hurt from past experiences and establish new patterns of energy flow.

Research in fields like polyvagal theory and somatic psychology demonstrates that our nervous system stores memories of trauma and stress in the body, affecting our capacity for self-regulation (Porges, 2011). Practices that work directly with the body and energy system can help discharge this stored activation and restore healthy functioning.

Here’s a general summary of the harmonic expression of each energy center when you have a high or positive vibration:

Harmonic Expression of The Root Chakra — Feeling grounded, feeling trusting of life and the Universe, making a strong impression in the physical world (having embodied presence), having healthy and appropriate boundaries, experiencing ease and comfort in your physical body, feeling safe and secure, feeling stable.

Harmonic Expression of The Sacral Chakra — Healthy emotional awareness, taking pleasure and savoring the good in your life, taking pleasure in your physicality, nurturing yourself and others, being flexible and responsive to change, having a healthy sexual identity, having healthy and appropriate boundaries.

Harmonic Expression of The Solar Plexus Chakra — Having a sense of efficacy in your life, having a warm personality, having loving regard for your physical body, feeling your belongingness in the Universe as an individual, feeling accountable for your experiences, taking responsibility for yourself and others, not taking yourself too seriously, having a healthy balance of empowerment and humility, being able to be spontaneous and playful, and having a sense of humor.

Harmonic Expression of The Heart Chakra — Feeling compassion for yourself and others, expanding your circle of love and compassion beyond your immediate family and friends, seeing the whole person (both their strengths and undeveloped aspects), having healthy empathy for others, receiving support from others, having and maintain healthy relationship bonds, giving and contributing to the well-being of others.

Harmonic Expression of The Throat Chakra — Communicating and expressing your ideas clearly, expecting fulfilling and nourishing experiences, receiving fulfilling and nourishing experiences, having a healthy professional identity, and being satisfied with and enjoying your career and profession.

Harmonic Expression of The Brow Chakra — Accessing and listening to intuitive guidance, being imaginative, having a good memory, being able to recall your dreams, thinking symbolically, visualizing mental concepts, following through on your creative ideas, having accurate perceptions of yourself and others.

Harmonic Expression of The Crown Chakra — Feeling your spiritual connection, being able to question and keep an open mind, having wisdom and a broader perspective of life and the Universe, being able to perceive and internalize or reject information with discernment, thoughtfulness, being able to entertain complex and diverse ideas, being able to self-reflect.

What Happens When You Raise Your Vibration?

When you commit to raising your vibration through consciousness expansion and energy management practices, you experience tangible, real-world changes. These aren't abstract spiritual concepts—they're observable shifts in how you think, feel, and engage with life.

Enhanced Emotional Regulation: You develop greater capacity to experience and process emotions without being overwhelmed by them. Research shows that mindfulness and self-regulation practices strengthen prefrontal cortex function, improving your ability to modulate emotional responses (Tang et al., 2015). You'll find yourself less reactive to stress and better able to maintain equilibrium during challenging circumstances.

Improved Physical Health: Studies demonstrate clear links between positive emotional states and physical health outcomes. People with higher levels of optimism and positive affect show stronger immune function, lower inflammation markers, and reduced risk of cardiovascular disease (Pressman & Cohen, 2005). When your energy flows harmonically, your physical body benefits.

Greater Clarity and Mental Focus: As you establish healthier energy flow patterns, many people report improved mental clarity, better decision-making, and enhanced creativity. This is reflected in the research that shows that meditation practices improve attention, working memory, and cognitive flexibility (Zeidan et al., 2010).

More Authentic Relationships: When you operate from a higher vibrational state, you naturally attract and maintain relationships that are more aligned with your authentic self. You communicate more clearly, set healthier boundaries, and engage with others from a place of authenticity and genuine compassion rather than obligation or codependency.

Increased Synchronicity and Flow: Many people report experiencing more meaningful coincidences, opportunities appearing at just the right time, and a general sense of being "in the flow" of life. While this is harder to measure scientifically at this time, it reflects a shift in how you perceive and interact with the world around you.

Deeper Sense of Purpose and Meaning: Research in positive psychology shows that people who engage in practices that promote self-transcendence (like meditation, gratitude, and service to others) report higher levels of meaning and purpose in life (Vago & Silbersweig, 2012). You develop a clearer sense of your unique contribution and feel more connected to something larger than yourself.

Increased Goal Achievement and Manifestation Success: Research on self-regulation shows that individuals with stronger emotional regulation capacities demonstrate greater goal persistence, better strategic planning, and higher achievement across domains (Baumeister & Vohs, 2007). When your internal state is coherent—when your beliefs, emotions, intentions, and actions are aligned—you eliminate the internal contradictions that typically interfere with progress. You make clearer decisions, take more consistent action, and maintain motivation through challenges. Additionally, your coherent broadcast naturally attracts opportunities, resources, and relationships that align with your intentions. People sense your clarity and commitment, making them more likely to support your endeavors. You become more attuned to synchronicities and possibilities that were always present but previously unnoticed. Your expanded consciousness allows you to perceive pathways to your goals that weren't visible from lower vibrational states, while your improved self-regulation ensures you actually follow through on the actions required. The result is a measurable increase in your capacity to bring your visions into material reality—not through wishful thinking, but through the enhanced coherence and effectiveness of your entire being working in alignment toward what matters most to you.

Use These Two Approaches and Raise Your Vibration and Frequency for Good

There are several effective energy healing approaches that can help you resolve imbalances of all kinds and bring much more order and coherence to the functioning of each of your energy centers. These include practices like Reiki, acupuncture, somatic experiencing, breathwork, sound healing, and many others.

By creating and following through on a personal healing plan, and by regularly making use of quick and easy practices like a daily 3 to 5-minute gratitude practice at the end of each day, or a loving-kindness meditation you do each week, you'll create that shift in how you flow life-force throughout your body and biofield. You'll raise your vibration and frequency for good.

The journey of raising your vibration is not about perfection or reaching some final destination. It's about progressively expanding your consciousness, developing greater self-awareness and emotional regulation, and cultivating practices that support optimal energy flow. Each small step you take compounds over time, creating lasting transformation in how you experience yourself, others, and the world.

Remember: raising your vibration isn't abstract or mystical—it's a concrete process of developing the skills, mindsets, and practices that allow you to function at your highest potential. When you commit to this path, you're not just changing your inner experience; you're changing what you radiate outward, influencing what you attract and create in your life.

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About Kidest OM

Kidest OM is a manifestation author and teacher with indispensable manifesting books and online courses designed to help you expand your consciousness and live a more empowered life. Her books include "Anything You Want" and "Nothing in the Way: Clearing the Paths to Success & Fulfilment," which are available globally in eBook, print, and audiobook at online book retailers.