Why Fear (+ Low Vibration Emotions) Ruin Your Frequency
Solutions to problems and inspiration exist on higher frequencies. It's worth knowing how low vibration emotions may keep us away from what we want.
*For your listening pleasure there is also an audio version of this article read by the author.
Updated October 2024
How to Avoid Low Frequency Rabbit Holes
Winter is a time of constriction, and this mimics what fear does to our vibrations. Constrict. Immobilize. Thriving vibrations are expansive and fluid. Fear is one of the worst emotions for frequency health because it oscillates so slowly. When we feel fear our vibrational frequency is influenced by the low vibration emotional charge, and slows down as well.
When I'm afraid I notice my body reacts very similarly to when I'm cold. There's an ease that leaves, my shoulders turn inward, and I clench down to fortify myself. You can feel how this takes more resources from the body vs laying under a tree on a summer evening watching fireflies.
When we rewire belief structures stemming from fear or past traumatic experiences, we shift the emotional world we experience, as it’s largely composed of emotions formed as a side effect of our belief structures. The vibrational quality of our emotional life is deeply linked to the quality of our vibrational frequency.
Repeatedly taking actions from a place of fear is like walking deeper and deeper down a low frequency rabbit hole.
If you want to work on just one way to level up your vibration, clearing the vibrational charge from emotionally intense life experiences is a high impact place to start.
The vibrations from slowly oscillating emotions affect our nervous system, immune system, organs and posture. So many layers of us shift when we start massaging low vibration emotional charges out of our body and psyche.
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.” ~Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Strong Vibrational Frequencies Act Like Shields
Imagine with me for a moment that you have a vibrational frequency. That you've always had a frequency. Frequency is influenced by things like the way our inner voice lines up with our actions, the emotions we feel, and what we do when no one is watching.
For a little context, when we look at a vibrational frequency chart of emotions contentment is a medium vibration. One down from contentment is boredom which enters the low end of the vibrational frequency chart. Fear is one of the lowest vibrations, and freedom is one of the highest vibrations.
Robust and highly magnetic vibrational frequencies vibrate rapidly. Weak frequencies vibrate slowly. Strong vibrational frequencies give us a shield of sorts. Similar to what the immune system does for the body.
Picture children jumping rope. Two children are holding opposite ends of the rope. They are spinning it for a third child to jump in. The faster they spin it the more likely the third child is to fail at getting in the flow. If they spin it slowly it's easy for the third child to get in the rhythm.
We want our beliefs to create a vibrational frequency that oscillates so rapidly it only syncs with other high vibe emotions and experiences. Not just any experience should be able to sync with the flow. What would you have to believe about yourself to spin that fast?
When we are vibrating rapidly it's hard for other people, experiences, or emotions to enter our field if they are moving slower. Looking at the image below, imagine trying to poke a hand in the ring without getting burned. The vibrational quality of the emotions we experience is key because it’s largely tuning how fast we “spin.”
Emotional Transitions & When Boredom is Worth Celebrating
Fear (and other low vibration emotions) slow frequency way down, and emotional states that vibrate slowly, like frustration, worry, overwhelm and depression start to match our vibrational frequency. We start pulling in more of them.
If I have a low vibration, the emotions in closest range can be doubt and anxiety. If I raise my vibration by connecting with a good friend, I move up the vibrational frequency chart of emotions to bored instead of depressed.
Sometimes boredom can be worth celebrating.
In a way, the quality of our life depends on our ability to transition between different emotional states within an emotional vibration chart. Many times we get stuck in transitions, or glitch like a computer. We start thinking the emotional state we are in will last forever.
Under that belief structure we panic… and freeze. We get stuck exactly where we don’t want to be.
When we acknowledge that we can glitch just like a computer, we can start to recognize those glitches. When we feel we aren’t strong enough to move through certain emotional states it’s just like saying we aren’t strong enough to lift a heavy box. In the moment it’s a stretch, but we can train up to it and move through the experience.
Solutions Exist on Higher Frequency Bandwidths
Let's pretend I have a problem. I take two days off work to go kayaking. Smelling fresh air, dragging my hand in the water, I become a bit optimistic about solving an issue I couldn't see a solution to before.
Because the solution always existed on a higher frequency bandwidth than I was previously on.
I just had to improve my vibration to find it. This is the journey of frequency, and how an awareness of it can enhance our lives.
Enhancing vibration is what to focus on to solve issues. Spending hours thinking about how to solve something while in a low vibration will likely result in lateral move solutions.
It's about being mindful of our vibration, and consciously attempting to elevate ourselves to higher and higher frequency "channels" where the ideas and feelings we experience are higher tier. It's all waiting for us on the proverbial high shelf. We just need to expand enough to reach it.
Fear pretty much guarantees we will be rummaging on the bottom shelf with the cheap wine for inspiration- and as we all know from college; there's nothing down there but a headache.
Effects of Low Vibration Emotions on Frequency
Our vibrational frequency bounces around during the day. Imagine a heart rate monitor, but a bit more erratic. Little fears are like blips on the monitor. They take us to a flatline at worst, or a deep valley at best. It takes time for our frequencies to recover from fear. Sometimes they won't recover in a lifetime if an individual attempts to suppress trauma or PTSD.
My father admits he was never the same after serving two tours in Vietnam. Unprocessed events in the body lead to emotional disturbance, which disrupts a radiant frequency.
I could feel his wounds play out daily as a child, and watched him glue himself to the TV, most likely to distract himself from what he didn't know how to process. His best friend died. He had to kill someone who came at him with a knife while he was sleeping.
The emotional effects of war ripple through society generations after the event. His wounds slowly became my wounds as I internalized his lack of attention toward me. Disturbed frequencies train disturbed and unregulated frequencies. No one is at fault. Our society is just on the brink of learning to value, regulate and consciously program our vibrational frequencies.
This often means building up our emotional capacity to experience and transmute the whole range of human emotions.
Reducing Emotional Baggage to Carry-On Size
Impactful emotional experiences stick around when we don’t have help, or don’t understand feeling low vibration emotions (rather than ignoring or deflecting them) is how to move them through the body like a passing storm. Ignoring them is just putting them in the suitcase that stores our emotional baggage.
Eventually we get barred from certain life experiences until we reduce the size of our luggage to a carry-on, and begin to vibrate more rapidly.
Raising your vibration can be as easy as turning off Netflix and feeling what you’ve been avoiding. I promise you, your inner world is shifting every time you have the courage to feel the hard stuff. Emotions also loose their charge and intensity as you sit with them.
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
You can also strengthen your vibration in tiny steps if you don't want to face reprogramming larger fears yet. Consider removing small nervous system disruptors from your life. What gives your nervous system a jolt during the day? Something as small as checking email too frequently can carry a vibrational impact over time.
I eliminated financial market apps from my life for a few months. I find markets fascinating, but they can also zing my nervous system.
After eliminating them, I fought through urges to check them for about two weeks until peace kicked in. After a purge of about three months I mindfully added one app back in, and allow myself to check it only at a pace friendly to my nervous system.
Oddly, I found a way to boost my vibration by eliminating an activity I thought brought me happiness.
If you feel like shifting some lower vibration emotions out of your body, and would like a little help to jump start the process, I’d be honored to facilitate. I invite you to visit my website; many of you have been interested in cleaning up your emotional vibratory field.
I also highly recommend Annika Knepper, an embodiment coach I’ve worked with who can definitely make you a badass emotional alchemist.