How to Raise Your Vibration (Part 4: The Body)
MIT has found a cell's health can be measured by its vibration. Let's explore some counterintuitive ways to amplify the vibration of your body.
*For your listening pleasure there is also an audio version of this article read by the author.
Updated July 2024
The How to Raise Your Vibration Series
This article continues a multi-part series exploring layers of our body we can tune to elevate vibration. Each layer is like a string on a guitar, contributing to the sound quality of the overall instrument. Today we add a fourth string; the physical body.
In previous articles we’ve also discussed how to fine-tune your vibration by exploring your soul's alignment, mental patterns, and inner world.
With one string out of tune our instrument will sound off, but people will still sing along to the song. Get too many strings out of tune and people make excuses to leave the campfire.
We personally experience this cacophony of vibrational frequency as a less than satisfying life. Probably dotted with catching too many colds, hormonal and digestive issues, headaches, shallow breathing- little signs the body isn’t in tune. Let’s look at how to enhance vibration in our physical bodies so we can experience robust health, resonate with more of what we want in life, and continue to bless those around us with our presence.
“Bridging physics, engineering, and microbiology, researchers at MIT have measured the frequency at which red blood cells vibrate and have shown that those frequencies reflect the health of the cells. ~MIT Technology Review
When the Body Says No
If life is rushed and frenzied, our cells are rushed and frenzied. I spent some time studying the work of Dr. Gabor Maté. In one of his books, When the Body Says No, he details how what happens to us emotionally also happens physiologically. There is no separation inside the body.
Suppress emotions and we suppress the immune system. Say yes to things we want to say no to, and our internal messaging gets scrambled as well, creating issues like autoimmune disorders. The micro acts as the macro. The hormonal system is literally confused when you say yes to a birthday party invite for someone you dislike.
Our hormonal, immune, nervous, and emotional systems are connected by nerve fibers. There is no hiding from the body we felt version to an activity and did it anyway. This discordance causes a vibrational disturbance. Alignment of feelings and actions is how to raise your vibration.
If we want our immune system to protect us properly we need to have good boundaries, plus the ability to speak up, and say no when we need to. How well our body functions internally is largely dependent on if we are acting in an authentic and aligned way externally.
Vitamins Can Lower Vibration [Mic Drop]
Take vitamin A. How it will alter vibration depends on the situation. Any substance we introduce to the body has a vibration that affects ours.
A low quality synthetic vitamin A is unlikely to enhance vibration. If it’s high quality vitamin A, but the liver already has enough stored, it’s lowering vibration by putting us at risk of toxicity and burdening the liver to process something we don’t need. A distressed liver can get a wonky vibration going.
If it’s high quality but we don’t have enough fat in the diet to absorb much, it leans toward neutral. A multiple carotenoid formula for someone deficient is the win. Vitamin A was only a win in 1/4 cases, yet it’s in every multi-vitamin.
To increase our vibrational frequency and elevate to a higher consciousness we want to understand nuance, and question blanket rules like “Vitamins are good for people to take every day.”
For more on the relationship between health and vibration you may enjoy Unleashing Radiant Health Through Vibration or Imagine a Vibratory Warning Siren for Disease.
Working Out Isn’t Always a Good Thing
I know, it’s like I’ve told you to stop brushing your teeth.
Yet if we are exhausted, as many of us find ourselves, continuing to expend physical energy to have our biceps flex in a s/medium T-shirt may not be a timely use of vitality. A fatigued body is less capable of casting a strong vibrational frequency.
Increasing vibrational frequency in the body is about learning to feel nuanced messages about what’s best for us, not forcing it in to do what we think is best. Let the body have a say in what will enhance its vibration. Laying around in bed can be just as powerful as HIT training to enhance your vibration.
The body’s intuitive messages can be easily felt, but are often overridden by habits, routine and “logic” from the ego. Discard these impulses, and we often end up creating resistance that may accelerate the aging process.
This is especially important for women, whose hormones run on a monthly clock, whereas men’s hormones run on a 24 hour clock. A woman’s capacity for certain types of exercise varies weekly. We are meant for yoga one week and spin another. (I highly recommend either of author Alisa Vitti's books on female hormones. She blew my mind.)
If we override this internal communication because Barry’s Bootcamp is the only place close to work, we cut off our inner guidance and risk diminishing our vibration.
Physical vibratory health challenges black and white notions society operates under. Following rules from fitness magazines instead of checking in with ourselves is like having butter flavored spray instead of butter. Ultimately, it’s a stand in for the rich experience of the real thing.
“Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.” ~Dalai Lama
Are You Dancing to the Theme Song of Your Life?
I like to imagine we’re all born with a theme song to our life. The speed our body wants to digest life. What’s the pace for you?
Are you in watching U2 at an outdoor venue in Dublin? Spilling beer on brown shag carpet in Washington while Nirvana plays their first house party? There’s magic in aligning your life so it looks like a dance choreographed to your song.
When most of us answer we’ll sheepishly admit finishing our ballet solo far before the last strains of Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers died out. We’d be left having ripped through our life; frozen on stage, music still playing. Realizing we went way too fast.
In what most of us would consider a sigh-inducing truth, expanding in to a higher consciousness often means slowing down. Way down.
If we are listening to podcasts at 1.5x speed and dashing off half-baked email replies that annoy people, we can check in with our song and see if we’ve got the right cadence. We want time to digest the experiences of our life so we can turn them in to wisdom, engage with people, take more than six minutes to eat a rainbow roll.
Learn to Allocate Vitality & Change Your Vibration
Raising vibration and finding a higher consciousness also comes from how we allocate vitality within ourselves. When I worked in tech I was constantly in my head. Metaphorically my brain was overheating, using a tremendous amount of energy that couldn’t go to the rest of my body.
In an ideal many of us, (including myself) will struggle to achieve, we want to distribute vitality around our body.
I suspect this is why people were so in love with the idea of early startup office culture. An office with a ping pong table! The ability to think with our brain, and calculate hand-eye coordination in the same day feels like a treat. Higher consciousness demands more than just our brain being used.
If we can listen to something we like, have energy for digestion, work on coordinating our legs with a sport, cry our tears, paint something beautiful, solve a problem- that’s balance of vitality. We’re moving our life force around our skill sets and lighting them all up.
This balance in the body leads to a well tuned instrument readied to cast a robust frequency. When we overheat our mind, as society is prone to putting us in position to do, we let the other parts of us wither…and our vibrational frequency withers as well.
The Benefits of “Wasting” Time
I suspect office ping pong actually does raise vibration; a precursor to traits like innovativeness. When we circulate vitality in our bodies it’s far more invigorating than staring at a screen. Our society’s collective decision to devalue leisure time likely has costs that aren’t being fully calculated.
Sure, companies get more working hours if no one is “wasting” time playing ping pong, but what’s the quality of those hours? When we work past our capacity we often make mistakes that diminish our overall productivity when we have to fix them later. There’s not only a frequency lift listening to our body when it tells us to rest, but a bump in efficiency.
We can work extended periods in bursts, followed by increased rest, but continually working past our capacity costs us more than it helps us. This is why Henry Ford suggested the 40 hour work week when factories like Carnegie’s Steel ran 80 hour weeks.
Ford was seen as benevolent. Yet he was merely observing the high rate of errors, injuries and deaths occurring in factories due to exhaustion. He realized he’d get better results with less hours.
The intrepid leaps that carry us forward often hide right beneath the surface, running counterintuitive to widely accepted societal beliefs. It takes someone breaking away from the pack and valuing the contrary to expose them.
It’s About More Than High Vibration Food
High vibration foods are something I’m sure you’re all expecting to hear about. However, it’s not just if we eat foods with a high vibration that affects us. It’s equally about the companies and ecosystems we link ourselves with to attain food.
We don’t want the person fixing our burrito bowl sneezing on the guac we paid extra for. We want them masked up, hair back, sanitized hands. Yet, we’ll often have them put chicken in our bowl that was so sick its entire lifetime it was pumped full of antibiotics on the regular to keep it alive.
We don’t want someone sick touching our food, but we will consume food that lived its whole life sick. Ultimately, the vibration of our food becomes our frequency.
When we buy food we also link ourselves to the vibrational frequency of the companies we support. One transaction isn’t much. However, all the transactions we make in a month carry an impact. It’s not the largest impact, but it’s an impact. Like watercolors slowly blending together.
The future I see is one where we are mindful which companies we mix our vibration with, and aim for those supporting all beings and workers in the chain of food production. Sometimes a loss on price is a win for vibrational frequency.