A Different Take on Raising Your Vibration: Letting Your Essence Emerge
- Dorry Aben
- May 30
- 5 min read
We often hear the phrase “raise your vibration” in spiritual and wellness spaces. It’s usually said with good intentions—encouragement to think positively, meditate, eat better, or live more consciously. But what if we’ve misunderstood the whole concept?
What if raising your vibration isn’t about reaching for something higher, outside, or beyond?
What if it’s simply about allowing what’s already within you to come forth?
What if the highest vibration—the golden, loving, radiant essence of who you truly are—isn’t something you need to attain, but something you already are?
The Essence Already Exists
Let’s start with a radical possibility: you don’t need to become something more in order to be more.
Maybe your truest, most vibrant self—the one completely in tune with love, peace, and light—isn’t something you need to build, earn, or chase. Maybe it’s already present, quietly waiting beneath layers of conditioning, self-judgment, and the noise of trying to “improve” ourselves.
In this way, raising your vibration is less of a climb and more of a reveal. It’s like wiping the dust off a mirror that’s always been capable of reflecting light. It’s about returning to the natural frequency of your being rather than fabricating a new one.
Seeing Your Worth
So how do we begin allowing this essence to emerge?
It might start with something deceptively simple and yet deeply profound: seeing your worth.
That means really recognizing—on a visceral, cellular level—that you matter. That you’re enough as you are. That your pain doesn’t disqualify you. That your flaws don’t cancel your light. That your struggles, imperfections, and humanity are not obstacles, but doorways.
This kind of worth isn't built through success or self-help checklists. It’s remembered. It’s reclaimed. It's felt in the quiet moments when you decide to believe that maybe, just maybe, you’re lovable without needing to fix anything.
We’ve Been Conditioned to Forget
Of course, this isn’t what most of us were taught.
We’ve been conditioned out of our natural knowing. From a young age, we were encouraged to compare, compete, strive, and judge ourselves. We internalized beliefs that told us we needed to change, improve, or be better in order to be loved, accepted, or valued.
The idea that your highest vibration is already present within you? That you’re already plugged into the divine, just as you are? That sounds almost too good to be true, doesn’t it?
But maybe that’s only because we’ve spent so long doubting our own light.
A Bath of Golden Splendor
Let’s imagine for a moment that there’s a field of golden energy—a splendor that exists beyond personality, ego, and form. Not just for a few enlightened people. Not just for those who meditate every day or drink green juice. But for everyone.
What if this golden frequency of peace, love, and knowing exists equally within each of us?
And what if it’s not something we need to search for, but something we allow?
If we stop trying so hard to fix ourselves, and instead hold space for who we already are, we might realize that we are the place where the highest vibration already resides.
Tenderness Creates Space
The question is: Can we be tender enough with ourselves to let it surface?
Can you treat yourself—not just your strengths, but your messiness, too—with enough softness and love that the light no longer feels the need to hide?
Tenderness is often more powerful than force. Self-acceptance often clears more energetic space than self-criticism ever will. And love—quiet, honest, raw love—is often the most direct path to revealing the divine frequency that’s always been within you.
Let that light slip through your thoughts. Let it seep out through your feelings. Don’t try to contain it. Don’t analyze it. Just give it space.
Beyond the Body
We often get caught up in our physical experience—our aches, pains, fatigue, appearance, or limitations. We’re taught to define our reality through what we can see, measure, or touch.
But here’s a wild idea: the highest vibration within you isn’t physical. It’s not bound by the conditions of your body. It exists deeper than cells and systems. It pulses beneath the surface as a quiet, unwavering presence.
Even when your body is tired or hurting…
Even when your mind is anxious or confused…
That vibration remains real. Unchanged.
And tuning into it doesn’t require perfection—it requires permission. Your permission.
Don’t Take My Word for It
Now, I know this might sound strange. Maybe even naive. After all, we’ve been told all our lives to work harder, push further, do more.
But I’m not here to convince you. I don’t want you to believe me.
I want you to try something simpler:
Include all of yourself.
Stop trying to change. Just… welcome yourself. Hold space for all that you are—your laughter, your sorrow, your confusion, your stillness. Let it coexist. Let the divine part of you sit at the same table as your humanity.
You might be surprised what happens when you stop resisting parts of yourself and start embracing the whole.
A Coexistence, Not a Competition
The goal isn't to get rid of your human experience. The goal is to let your divine essence and your humanity coexist. When we stop treating our lower emotions, fears, or doubts as enemies, and instead greet them with compassion, something shifts.
The highest vibration doesn’t demand that you be happy all the time. It simply asks that you be authentic.
That you show up fully, even in your tears.
That you breathe deeply, even when your mind is racing.
That you stay present, even when your heart feels heavy.
That you let love in—especially when you feel least deserving.
What Do You See?
So I’ll leave you with a question—not an answer.
What do you see when you stop trying to raise your vibration and instead allow your vibration to rise up from within you?
What becomes possible when you stop chasing spiritual perfection and start trusting that something sacred already lives inside you?
You are not broken.
You are not behind.
You are not unworthy.
You are a living, breathing, radiant being of light—here to remember your essence and express it through the beautiful lens of your very human experience.
Let that truth sit in your heart for a moment.
Let it rise.
Let it shine.
You don’t need to strive. You just need to soften.
Because the highest vibration isn’t somewhere far away—it’s already here. It's in your breath, your being, your presence
The Inner Shift Sanctuary .
If these words stirred something in you… if they reminded you of your light, your essence, or even just the longing to feel more like yourself again—you’re not alone.
This path of remembering who we are beneath the noise, of letting our highest vibration gently surface, is not something we need to walk alone. That’s why I created The Inner Shift Sanctuary—a virtual safe haven where you're invited to come exactly as you are.
You are welcome here. Your softness. Your questions. Your joy. Your confusion. Your whole, vibrant self.
Step into the Sanctuary and feel what it’s like to be held—not by pressure or expectation—but by the quiet knowing that you are already enough.
You don’t have to raise your vibration. You just have to let it rise.
I will meet you there. 💛
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