The Emotional Guidance Scale — How to Use it for Manifestation
- Kidest OM
- Aug 8, 2022
- 5 min read
Updated: Oct 4
The emotional guidance scale is a very useful tool for manifestation. Manifesting your dreams, intentions and desires involves managing and refining your day‑to‑day emotions. Thoughts and emotions are directly linked: what you think evokes feelings, and what you feel triggers thought patterns. By learning to manage your emotions, you manage your vibration—and a consistent, coherent vibrational broadcast is what ultimately aligns you with satisfying manifestations.
Understanding the Emotional Guidance Scale & Its Purpose
So what is the purpose of the emotional guidance scale? Also known as the emotional guidance system, it’s a structured guide of positive and negative emotions used to measure your vibrational broadcast.
Several versions of this scale exist; the one referenced here comes from The Astonishing Power of Emotions: Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide by Esther and Jerry Hicks. On this scale, joy‑spectrum emotions like appreciation, freedom and love sit at the top, while stress‑spectrum emotions are at the bottom. It’s a practical framework for noticing how you feel and intentionally moving toward better feelings.
Abraham Hicks Emotional Guidance Scale & Printable Resources
If you search online for “Abraham Hicks emotional guidance scale,” you’ll find many beautifully designed representations of the scale—some as printable charts. Downloading an emotional guidance scale printable and keeping it visible in your journal or workspace can remind you to check in with your feelings.
You can also create your own scale or template, listing 20‑plus emotions from the chart that you frequently experience, to help you track subtle shifts. Having the scale printed makes it easy to refer to daily as you manage and refine your vibrational frequency.
Why Positive Emotions Matter: The Emotional Spiral & Emotional Guidance System
What reflects that you are in the energy of co‑creative attraction are the “feel‑good” emotions. When you feel good, you’re in a state of allowing—you’re aligned with your inner being and receptive to intuitive nudges. Positive emotions also have a cumulative effect over time, creating an upward emotional spiral. Each small shift toward a better‑feeling emotion strengthens your ability to sustain higher vibrations, leading to greater well‑being, manifestation success and satisfaction.
Conversely, negative emotions signal resistance. They invite you to regulate yourself back into receptivity. The emotional guidance system encourages you to observe what you’re feeling and use that awareness to return to the positive end of the scale.
How to Raise Your Vibration with the Emotional Guidance Scale
Practising emotional awareness is also practising vibrational awareness. Ask yourself: “What am I vibing right now?” “What am I feeling?” By identifying your current emotion, you know where you stand on the scale. From there, you can raise your vibration by reaching for a slightly better‑feeling thought or action—whether through meditation, journalling, breathwork or movement. The goal is to move gradually up the scale, increasing your vibrational frequency one step at a time.
Four Simple Steps to Move Up the Emotional Guidance Scale
STEP 1: Identify what you’re currently feeling. You can ask yourself, “What is my current emotion?” You can use a tool like the feeling wheel to name the specific emotion you're experiencing. Naming the emotion is part of engaging your emotional awareness — sometimes, that’s all it takes to regulate your energy.
STEP 2: Look at the emotional guidance scale and see where you are vibrationally. The scale is a handy reference. When you place yourself on the scale, you give your mind and body a tangible starting point — your Point A.
STEP 3: Identify where you’d like to be on the emotional guidance scale. Where you’d like to be is entirely something you can choose based on what feels good to you. What's the next better feeling emotion you can feel? What's the next better feeling thought that can help you get there? What belief would help you move up the scale and increase your vibrational frequency? Reflect on what feels reachable. This becomes your Point B.
STEP 4: Start practicing better feeling thoughts and releasing resistance to start moving up the scale. Releasing resistance by reaching for the better feeling thought and emotion will often bring a sense of relief. That relaxation and release of physical tension is an indication that you've started to move up the scale.
There are many tools that can help you move up the scale and raise your vibration. You can use meditations, visualizations, journaling, releasing exercises, and healing practices to shift your vibration and support your manifestation journey in positive and enriching ways.
You can repeat these four steps as often as you need. Managing your vibration takes daily practice. It's a skill that you build and improve over time. The good news? It gets easier the more you do it. You develop both the emotional awareness and physical awareness to start noticing when you are in a higher vibration and when you're experiencing resistance.
Raising Your Vibrational Frequency & Spiritual Growth
High vibration emotions such as optimism, positive expectation, belief, enthusiasm, eagerness, gratitude, passion, joy and love indicate an optimal flow of life energy. Living more often in these states is the sweet spot of co‑creative empowerment. It doesn’t mean you’ll never feel negative emotions, but that you’ve developed the self‑awareness and regulation skills to return to alignment. As you spend more time on the positive end of the scale, you not only improve your manifestation results—you also raise your vibrations spiritually, enhancing your overall physical and psychological well‑being.
By incorporating the emotional guidance scale into your daily routine—especially with a printed copy for reference—you can track your emotions, aim higher and cultivate the inner harmony needed for successful, joyful manifestation.
Where to find more tips for empowered manifesting:
For a more in-depth exploration of how to be effective at Deliberate Creation, check out my book Anything You Want. It’s available on amazon worldwide and filled with answers to many frequently asked questions on manifesting and co-creation.
If you want a structured journal to help manage and regulate your vibration while supporting you in moving forward on your manifestation journey, take a look at the Manifestation Planner & Journal. It's a 52-week structured manifestation planner designed to support deliberate creators improve their manifestation results.
Kidest OM is a manifestation author and teacher with indispensable books and online courses designed to help you attract and manifest what you want. 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 on her website and through online book retailers.
