When “vibrating high” becomes pressure

Several years ago, the concept “vibrate high” He settles into the world of spirituality and manifestation. This state consists, as is generally understood, of Move away from negative emotions to focus on positive emotions and, thus, be at a high spiritual frequency.

Holistic therapist Misty Zamorano (@misty.tarot) explains that “we always talk about being in a frequency of love to, in this way, attract opportunities or be able to bond better with people and better with yourself -even, leaving emotions aside. » are in another supposedly low vibration.

Today, many people consider that this concept – which has spread rapidly, like self-love – can be misunderstood through toxic positivism, particularly on social networks where there are many spirituality gurus who advocate vibrating high every day. “More than the concept was distorted, it was taken to be an absolute truth. It is believed that if you do not vibrate high, you cannot have opportunities in love, at work, or have good self-esteem. Mitsy explains.

He adds that on social media there are so-called teachers talking about the importance of vibrating high and giving advice on how to do it, but most of them involve taking a quantum leap and d ‘abandon all emotions considered negative, ignoring the fact that this is the case. also necessary to experience these unpleasant emotions. “If we refuse them, the only thing we will do is deprive ourselves of learning. The fact that our emotions do not transcend is also a form of personal invalidation that makes it easier for others to invalidate us and we consider this to be normal,” Misty deepens.

Camila González (@camila_terapiasdelser), a transpersonal psychologist and biodanza teacher, agrees that quashing these types of feelings and emotions is detrimental to spiritual growth. “People tend to hide their emotions, because of this slightly more spiritual vision It is believed that if you feel negative things, you will attract negative things. Negative emotions are associated with low vibrations and unpleasant emotions, but they are not the same. There are concepts that are false, a lot of information sometimes generates misinformation and this is what tends to happen on social networks,” explains the professional.

For the psychologist, the current concept of high vibration is understood as the cancellation of any sensation or emotion that may be considered negative by society, in order to enter the high frequency that is socially accepted and considered as something positive. Camila González advises those who wish to embark on the path of personal and spiritual growth to accept “negative” emotions. “The first thing to get on the path to well-being is to accept what happens to you. The main thing is to be aware of the dilemma, the problematic, the painful. And thirdly, you have to be able to resolve it, to act. When you take action on what ails you, you don’t need to encapsulate it, because you have already resolved it. And I’m not talking about an action with immediate effect; Taking action involves generating movement and giving movement to the energy so that it can shut down what is generating the worry. Actions do not have to encompass the entire problem. You have to see life as a process and not as an immediate process. Human processes are not like delivery. Now we are used to immediacy and it is difficult for us to see it,” he explains.

Nicol Sepúlveda, known as @lavidadenicol on Instagram for her illustrated comics, has been studying topics related to spirituality and manifestation for over a decade. As a social media user and consumer of personal growth content, she believes that “people who talk about these terms (like vibrating high) usually live in another social reality. They are very fortunate people, with privilege, and so it is easy for them to talk about always being in a high vibration, focused on the good, because they live in that environment. But to a person who doesn’t live this reality, these terms can seem really crazy. It sounds more familiar if it deals with personal growth from a more real perspective, from the suffering that people experience every day. We all see ourselves reflected in difficulties and it’s different when people find companionship in those difficulties versus someone who is very high up and calling you to be like them.

For some time now, Nicol has also been sharing spiritual growth content on his TikTok account @nikocosas. For her, it is essential to understand that “we are always changing our vibration. It’s not that we’re going to find a high vibration and maintain it. We can be in a moment of super love and someone passing by attacks us, and we will change our vibration. This positivity of having ideals and pressures does not help us deal with the emotions we have to go through, for example pain. We have to digest them, because without doing this process, we will deny certain aspects of ourselves and when we deny these things, that part becomes stronger.

In 2018, a well-known ancestorlogist launched a challenge on social networks: spend fifty days without complaining to ward off bad energies and thus attract good ones. But is the complaint necessarily a negative response on our part? Transpersonal psychologist Camila González explains that “In terms of vibration, complaint is necessary, because it concerns the discomfort we feel in relation to something. If I don’t get rid of this discomfort and keep it to myself, it becomes a low vibration. When we complain, there is liberation from a biological point of view. Your neurochemical system generates a feeling of pleasure, and that’s why we want to do it again. It’s a placebo effect, like going to the gym or eating something delicious, for example. However, if you constantly live complaining, without taking action, this also generates a low vibration. But if you complain and in doing so you are aware of the problem and try to change it, then your frequency increases.