Below are some timeless tips for raising your vibration, enhancing your manifesting success and experiencing more of the magnificent being that you are!

Practice Gratitude

Gratitude opens your heart and connects and aligns your energy to that which you love and is good in your life, attracting more of the same. It is a way to give (in its appreciation) and receive (through the opening created by that giving). The more you value and feel grateful for something, the more there will be to value. What you appreciate, appreciates!

In 2014, just before he passed away, I had the pleasure of meeting and listening to the internationally renowned Japanese scientist Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of The Hidden Messages in Water.

Dr. Emoto used high-speed photography to demonstrate how profoundly our thoughts, words and feelings impact molecules of water, the earth and our personal health. He found that water from clear springs and water that had been exposed to lovingwordslike “thankyou” showedbrilliantlycolourful, complexandmultifaceted snowflake patterns. By contrast, polluted water and water exposed to negative thoughts formed incomplete, distorted and asymmetrical patterns with dull colours.

Imagine the effect saying thank you can have on our bodies, which are composed of over 70% water? To tap into the gratitude frequency, practice saying thank you to people in your life more regularly, and keep a daily gratitude journal listing everything you appreciate about yourself, your life and the world.

Drink Water

Water is an essential element for the survival of life. It is imperative to drink pure water in order to stay not just physically active but also to stay emotionally and spiritually stable. It is also considered that water is a form of the life force and energy.

The benefits of drinking pure water are well known. It can help you to maintain the clarity of the mind, it keeps you energized and it flushes out all the toxins from your body. All these result in increasing your vibration which ultimately leads to happy living.

In order to reap the most benefits of water, it’s best to drink pure water. A great way to raise the vibration of the water is along the lines of what I mentioned earlier with the evidence from Dr. Emoto. Before you drink water next time, think of all the positive things and say “I love You Water” in your mind. This will infuse your water with positive qualities like love, peace and hope. Notice the difference when you do this next time.

Take Responsibility

Responsibility brings freedom and empowerment. The more you take responsibility for your life, the better able you are to change it. You create or allow all experience, whether you are conscious of it or not.

Become aware of the thoughts, feelings, beliefs and attitudes that are creating your world. Take responsibility for them and choose those that serve you and your world. Get excited about the future, own your power and get manifesting. You can move from victim to victor, from blame to gain, from fear or failure, to triumph and success!

Suspend Judgment

Judging others or yourself lowers your energy and separates you from love, truth and joy. It is a way of making yourself superior and above another by making them “less than” or “wrong”, whilst projecting hidden guilt and self-attack on another.

The more you love and accept yourself, the less you judge others. We all make mistakes. Seek to forgive, understand and love both the one you are tempted to judge and any potential shadows within you that they are reflecting.

Smile

It is a scientific fact that the act of smiling releases “happy” chemicals into your brain that make you feel better which immediately raises your vibration. Smile and hold it for 10 seconds. Hold it and just see how you feel after. Notice your energy before and after you do this.

10 seconds. That’s it. Feel your energy shift. Your brain doesn’t know the difference between an outside event that makes you smile, makes you laugh, makes you feel joyful, and you just creating that experience.

So smile more often. Smile right now, as a matter of fact!

Forgive Yourself and Others

Forgiveness of self and others is the ultimate mind-body-soul detox. It liberates you from toxic emotions and sets you free from draining attachments. It can also dispel feelings of guilt, shame and undeserving that can otherwise block you from happiness and success.

It is an immensely powerful force for healing and transformation and a most gracious gift you can give yourself and another.

Show Kindness

Giving to someone else unconditionally i.e. without expecting anything in return shifts your thinking to “I have more than enough to give to others”. Abundance is a high vibration.

In the same vein being kind (as opposed to being mean) puts you at a high vibration. As the saying goes, you get to keep what you give away.

The law of vibration states that any vibration which is sent out for good increases into higher frequencies as it moves through time and space until it returns to the sender, bringing with it the gifts of those higher frequencies.

In contrast any vibration sent out for selfish reasons such as greed or power will bring back vibrations with a lower frequency.

Perhaps you have heard the expression “give others what you desire the most”. By giving others unconditionally that which you desire, you ultimately increase that which comes back to you.

Spend Time with Positive People.

It’s been said that you become the sum of the five people you spend the most time with, so take a good look at your social circle and make sure it’s elevating, not suppressing, your vibrational frequency.

Not sure if those around you are friends or frenemies? Take a look at how you feel and how you behave when you’re with them. Are you your most authentic, empowered self, or do you put on a mask that disguises or demeans who you truly are?

After spending time with the friend or group in question, do you feel uplifted, empowered, and content? Or drained, angry, and depressed? Be honest, even if it means breaking with tradition and switching up your social circles. Your spiritual health depends upon it!

Watch Your Words

Every word you speak affects you at the quantum (energetic) level! The words you speak to others or yourself can actually be weakening your vibration and causing you to not feel good.

Your words guide your mind and body towards the experiences you want to have. For example, not saying anything negative for 24 hours will help you become more conscious about the things you say to yourself and to others. This is a wonderful challenge that you can do by yourself or with someone else. A lot of the times we don’t even realize how many negative things we say.

Always keep the power of your words in mind. During your 24 hours start saying more kind things to yourself and others. Use your words to empower yourself, affirm exactly what you wish to experience, change the words you speak and you will raise your vibration.

Meditate

Meditation has so many gifts, many of which are now being scientifically recognised and documented.

Meditation allows a calm and balanced perspective to be reached and negative states to dissipate and wash away as you centre and realign.

It also creates a gateway through which higher states of awareness can be reached, and the love and wisdom of your Higher Self more readily accessed. Meditation returns you to a place of clarity, truth and peace and allows your energy to clear and recharge.

Trust

Trust takes you towards happy desired outcomes in a magical, effortless way. Trust yourself and your power as a creator.

Trust the universe and the gifts it wishes to bestow open you. Trust the doors that are opening and those that are closing. Relinquish control and allow yourself to be carried along the river of trust, the universal flow, which will take you to your goals with grace and ease.

Remember, the 2 passwords to the Fifth Dimensional portal. Allow and surrender! And that takes trust!

Honour Your Emotions

Honour your emotions and listen to what they are telling you about what’s going on inside. If they are negative or uncomfortable what thoughts or beliefs are they pointing to that may need changing or aligning?

Express and release your feelings rather than deny, repress, control or judge them. This doesn’t mean wallowing in them or giving them undue attention if they do not serve you (i.e. nip that self-pity in the bud!), nor does it mean venting at someone inappropriately (writing a letter and burning it would be far “cleaner”).

Honour your emotions by accepting them and allowing them to be experienced and released, be that by feeling them, writing them down, sharing them with a friend, or expressing them through creativity, for example.

Know You Are Loved

You are loved totally and unconditionally by the source of creation. There is nothing you need do to win that love and nothing you can do to lose it. Become aware of this truth and allow it in.

Open to receive this love. Doing so will enable you to experience more of your inherent value, increase your sense of worth and sense of deserving, heal pain of separation and loneliness, and experience more incredible love that is there for you in every moment.

Organise Your Environment.

Clear the clutter in your life! In fact every little bit of clutter is energy, and I cannot stress enough the importance of clearing the clutter at a very basic level in your home.

Clear the clutter and you energise your life! Do not live within a mass of paper, files, old boxes or piles of old magazines. Feng Shui is very powerful. You need to do it. Even if you spend ten minutes every day clearing a little bit, it’ll make you feel so good and immediately raise your vibration.

If you are sad or depressed, clean out even one drawer. Our physical environment mirrors our emotional state; just as cleanliness is next to “godliness”, a cluttered home is a sure sign of a cluttered mind.

Even chores as simple as taking out the rubbish, washing the dishes, vacuuming a room, or making your bed in the morning can have a measurable impact on your state of mind and provide an instant energy boost.

Contact a Feng Shui expert for guidance and help if necessary.

Move Your Body.

In addition to anti-aging, mood and metabolic benefits, even small amounts of physical exercise can raise your vibration.

Whether it’s walking, running, swimming, spinning or practicing tai chi, qigong or yoga, physical exercise can help get you out of mental or emotional ruts and boost healthy endorphins.

It doesn’t matter how much you sweat; the key is moving through and away from astral energies that could be weighing you down in your current environment.

Get out in Nature

If possible, exercise outside or somewhere in nature or by the sea. It truly does wonders reconnecting with nature and refilling our energetic batteries. Our bodies need natural light and natural air. Nature provides harmonic frequencies that are compatible with our personal frequencies.

Just noticing the trees, the natural sounds of birds singing, feeling your feet rooted in the grassy earth, breathing in fresh air and the pure positive source energy will help you transcend the concerns of what can perceived to be mundane human existence. This will reconnect you with your higher self which in turn raises your vibrational frequency.

Listen to Uplifting Music

Since music is a type of frequency, an audio frequency, you can easily raise your vibration by listening to music that feels good. It’s an easy way to raise your vibration because it takes hardly any effort on your part to sit and enjoy a lovely tune.

Sound and vibration play a fundamental role in everything. Every object has a natural rate of vibration. In fact the human body is a symphony of sound; every organ, every muscle, every system, every bone, every cell no matter what size, are all in a state of vibration.

Listening to wonderful uplifting music can transform the most anxious hearts into compassionate loving ones full of positive energy. As you hear this music smile at your heart and see your heart as a flower, fresh, full of love and full of fragrance radiating out to the world.

Change your DNA

Did you know that your DNA has a vibrational frequency? Music recorded at 528 hz has been shown to resonate with the energy of love, peace and health. It is said to be the sound that resonates at the heart of creation. John Lennon used it when he recorded his song “Imagine”.

Shower or Bath

Ever heard of people who get their best ideas in the shower? That’s because cleansing helps wash away unseen energy patterns from the body’s aura (including those picked up from others and accumulated throughout the day), making room for new creative thoughts and positive energies that are always seeking to guide us.

If you, like me, love a bath, just a twenty minute soak in some healing oils or Celtic sea salts can help detoxify your astral energy field, invigorate and soothe aching muscles. Where possible, use natural, organic soap free of toxins, artificial chemicals and fragrances (which weaken the aura). In a pinch, just washing your face and hands can help freshen your perspective.

For extra energy cleansing, try the Native American ritual of smudging with sage.

Sage is a potent plant and burning it is a powerful ritual.

Burning sage (aka, “smudging” or “sage-ing”) is a ritual used to “cleanse” a space or environment from negative energy, generate wisdom and clarity and promote healing. Intention is everything with this ritual, so before you light up, ask yourself what you’re trying to purify, and/or heal from or release—inside you or in your space.

Use Crystals

Using large crystals in the home maintains high vibrational energy of your space and body.

Large crystals are the high vibration crystals because they hold the presence and energy of the earth. Earth energy reminds us to connect with the divine that created everything with the intention of love, compassion and abundance. Keeping high vibration crystals in each room will help foster a deeper spiritual life. Simply seeing a beautiful piece of the earth everyday will begin to transform your mindset.

Observe the night sky

On a clear night, gazing at the stars and other planets and observing the vastness of our limitless universe is hugely exhilarating and raises your vibration.

Unplug from the Matrix

Although computers, smart phones and ipads are great for staying connected in the information age, all electronic devices emit subtle, invisible electromagnetic fields (EMFs) that can negatively impact your energy field and drain spiritual life force.

To limit your exposure, use these devices for no more than two hours at a time before taking a break. At night before going to sleep, turn off all wi-fi equipment and even better unplug the router. If breaking with technology even for a few hours a day seems difficult, start small with a tech detox one hour a day, then just after work hours and eventually work yourself up to one tech-free day per week.

Go on a News Detox

Ever feel depressed, anxious or fearful after watching or reading the news? This is because most mainstream news outlets serve a primary purpose: earning profits. The quickest way to make a profit is by appealing to the lowest human common denominators of fear, greed and violence. As merchants of chaos, the mantra of “if it bleeds it leads” dictates what is, or is not newsworthy. As a result, a number of spiritual traditions recommend that seekers aspiring to higher states of consciousness refrain from reading and watching the news. Try it for a week and see how you feel. I personally rarely watch the news!

Clean Up Your Diet

A great way to increase your vibration is consuming foods that are filled with vital energy. Some foods vibrate at high frequencies and some lower. Most importantly pay attention to how eating certain foods make your body feel.

You’ve heard the saying you are what you eat. Remember every time you eat any kind of food you’re absorbing its energy into your body. The quality of that energy has a direct impact on the quality of your health and vibration level. Energy is the core substance of everything in the universe, without energy there would be no life.

Understanding how energy frequency works is important for your well-being. When your energy isn’t vibrating correctly you are more vulnerable to diseases, negative thinking and depression. Plants are filled with vital energy from the sun which your body naturally understands. The more you consume high vibrating energy foods, the more positive, energized and vital you will feel, ultimately raising your vibration.

Serve Others

As the saying goes, you get to keep what you give away. Countless studies have shown that those who volunteer their time regularly towards worthy causes in service to others and the world are happier, healthier and more personally fulfilled.

The next time you are feeling overwhelmed or pressed for time to accomplish all of the tasks on your ever-growing to-do list, why not pay a visit to your local food bank, spiritual centre or homeless shelter and help out for an hour or two. Just the simple act of taking the focus off of your own problems and opening up to share with others will move you into greater alignment with the natural flow and grace of the universe.

Have Fun

Fun will attract success into your life like iron filings to a magnet. It is the antidote to stress, struggle, tediousness and seriousness. When you are having fun you are open and sharing of who you are and ride on the current of spontaneity and joy. What brings you fun, happiness and joy? Commit to more of it in all areas of your life!

Love, Love, Love!

Love yourself and others. There may be times this is easier than others, but make it your overriding intention. Love lies at the heart of all that you seek, and separation from it lies at the root of your troubles and pain.

Let love be a guiding light as you create a life filled with an abundance of love, happiness, joy, health and wealth.

We all love to love and be loved! It doesn’t get better than that! It is the highest vibration there is. The more you love yourself and others, the happier, brighter and more fulfilling, purposeful and successful your life will become.

Wishing you peace, joy, love and light and of course high vibrations on your amazing journey creating a life you love and beyond!