Students and energy healing clients always ask me how to do it. Just as often, they tend to be quite surprised when I tell them. It turns out that learning how to raise your vibration looks a lot like how you’d pursue a healthy, clean life with adequate self-care in your daily routine. RELATED: Here’s How To Raise Your Vibration To Attract The Life You Want (From The Inside Out)

Why is it important to learn how to raise your vibration?

Higher vibrations are lighter, facilitate clearer communication with the higher self and the spiritual realm (universal energy), allow you to be more open to intuitive and psychic information, are associated with positive energy and positive outcomes, and promote healing and well-being. Low vibrations are consistent with dense energy and can manifest in imbalance and disease at the physical level.

33 Ways to raise your vibration:

There are many more than 33 ways to affect your vibrational energy, but this is a good place to start learning how to raise your vibration.

  1. Drink lots of water. Plain warm water is best, although, it can be lightly naturally flavored. Drinking water detoxes and clears.
  2. Be around water — shower, bathe, take a sauna, or go to the ocean, river, pond.
  3. Practice deep breathing. Take long deep regular breaths: 4 to 6 seconds for each inhale and exhale. Practice for as long as you feel comfortable. Do this for a few minutes at different times of the day if you like.
  4. Meditate. Find a practice that suits you and your needs. If you don’t have the time or patience, consider shorter sessions.
  5. Engage in physical activity that you really enjoy. Move your body! (If you don’t like doing it, lounging around is bound to produce negative health effects.)
  6. Make time for enjoyment. 
  7. Be positive. This works best if you’re honest with yourself. In other words, it’s better to choose a small positive truth, than a big wishful lie. Trite affirmations aren’t effective.
  8. Laugh, joke, and smile… authentically.
  9. Maintain a healthy, balanced diet. Eat regularly and without being rushed. Avoid processed food. 
  10. Get sufficient sleep.
  11. Be mindful.
  12. Spend time in nature. Take in the fresh air and natural light (sun and moonlight).
  13. Sit under a tree. Communicate with the tree. This creates a connection and is grounding.
  14. Smell good smells (e.g., flowers, natural aromatics, etc). Artificial scents don’t count.
  15. Go barefoot and create a connection to mother earth. It’s grounding and supportive. RELATED: 20 Signs Your ‘Vibrations’ Are Rising & You’re Becoming A Better, More Spiritual Version Of Yourself
  16. Listen to or play music. Choose only what you like.
  17. Sing, chant, or hum. Sound creates vibrations in the body.
  18. Be around art.
  19. Detox. This applies, to your diet, skin, personal and environmental energy (smudging), and thoughts.
  20. Dry brush. Make sure to stroke toward the heart. Do about seven strokes. This is wonderful for the aura.
  21. Use salt scrubs and baths. Add appropriate good quality essential oils for scent and additional physical and vibrational healing.
  22. Appreciate yourself and your qualities.
  23. Be grateful.
  24. Give and/or get a hug.
  25. Get colonics.
  26. Alkalize with food and water.
  27. Eat “raw” foods (those cooked at or below 110 degrees) so that they retain the food’s enzymes.
  28. Avoid toxins (this includes recreational substances as well), negative ideas, low or bad quality foods.
  29. De-clutter.
  30. Avoid negative people and attitudes.
  31. Avoid that which creates stress. 
  32. Reduce the sense of being out of control or not in control.
  33. Resolve strong anger and fear as well as the related issues they cause. You may be thinking that many of these suggestions are simple ways to live more naturally and improve your health. You’re right. Health and well-being are higher states of vibration. And you feel good pursuing and attaining a healthier life. Start from there and the access to more transformative frequencies will be much more within your reach. RELATED: 3 Ways To Raise Your Spiritual Vibrational Frequency To Attract The Life You Desire Patricia Bonnard, PhD, ACC is a spiritual life coach and energy healer. She is a Master/Instructor of a dozen different forms of Reiki and other energy modalities and has been practicing and teaching for nearly 20 years. See her programs and workshops at Starchaser Integrated Coaching and Energy Healing. This article was originally published at starchaser-healingarts.com. Reprinted with permission from the author.