Raising Your Vibration: A Grounded Approach Part 3: Ten Ways to Raise Your Vibration Through Deeper Self-Care

Alignment—Deepening Your Relationship With Yourself: The final part of a grounded journey toward greater awareness, alignment, and connection

Over the past two weeks, I've shared eleven practices for raising your vibration. We began with awareness—recognizing our internal state and noticing what we need. Then we explored action—the everyday choices that can help us shift how we feel.

For this final part, I want to go deeper. When I talk about raising your vibration, I'm not talking about forcing yourself to feel positive or avoiding the difficult parts of being human. I mean becoming more aware of what affects your physical, emotional, mental, energetic, and spiritual well-being. Sometimes that means changing what we're doing. Sometimes it means resting. And sometimes it means looking inward and understanding ourselves more deeply.

Here are ten more practices to explore:

1) Laughing

Laughing doesn’t just bring joy; it releases endorphins that reduce stress and enhance well-being. It helps us take life less seriously and embrace that, at our core, we’re okay. It also brings us into the present moment and helps us release fear, guilt, shame, and other negative emotions; instead, it leaves us feeling better.

2) Essential Oils and Scents

As a Registered Aromatherapist, I regularly work with essential oils. Scent can become part of a grounding, relaxation, or self-care ritual, and different aromas can create very different sensory and emotional experiences. You might diffuse an aroma you enjoy while meditating, incorporate an appropriately diluted essential oil into a self-care ritual, or simply notice which scents help you feel calm, energized, focused, or comforted.

As with any concentrated botanical product, use essential oils appropriately and with attention to individual sensitivities and safety.

3) Physical Movement

Move in ways that support your body, such as walking, stretching, yoga, strength training, swimming, etc. Movement and exercise are essential not only for a healthy muscular, skeletal, and circulatory system, but also for a relaxed nervous system and balanced endocrine system. This systemic harmony supports emotional and mental peace.

4) Deep Relaxation

Any type of deep relaxation practice, such as a sound bath, meditation, yin yoga, or other practices that calm the muscles, nerves, and other bodily systems, rejuvenates the body and mind. For those of us accustomed to measuring our worth through productivity, choosing to rest can become a practice in itself.

5) Energy Healing

Certain types of massage, spiritual healing, Reiki, and other energy-oriented massage and healing sessions can be especially effective at relaxing the nervous system and raising our vibrations.

6) Bathing

Bathing is a cleansing technique because any contact with water is healing and calming. A shower or bath cleanses and invigorates. Bathing can serve as an intentional transition ritual to wash off the day or prepare for the day. It gives us an opportunity to slow down, notice the water, and imagine releasing what you're ready to stop carrying.

7) Emotional Release

Partaking in an emotional release program under the guidance of an experienced professional can help us release pent-up emotions. Acknowledging, expressing, and working through difficult emotions can be an important part of emotional well-being.

8) Spiritual Practice

Each of us has their own personal relationship with the universe. Whether or not we adhere to any particular religion, it is important for our inner balance that we feel and cultivate our relationship with the whole as humanity, as nature, or as Spirit. A spiritual practice can help us improve our perception of ourselves, others, and the world. It helps us feel deeply connected and assures us that the meaning and belonging we seek are already within us. Spiritual practice isn't about escaping ordinary life but bringing a deeper sense of connection into it.

9) Self-Reflection

We need to understand our inner mechanisms, needs, desires, fears, expectations, beliefs, and subconscious workings to free ourselves from the negative emotions and mechanisms that undermine our health, happiness, and relationships. When we understand ourselves better, we raise our vibration. 

10) Self-Love

Perhaps one of the deepest ways we can change our relationship with ourselves is through self-love. Self-love doesn't mean believing we're perfect. It means recognizing that we remain worthy of care, compassion, respect, and belonging even when we're struggling, making mistakes, or moving through difficult seasons.

Many of the practices I've shared throughout this series are expressions of self-love: resting when you need rest; nourishing your body; creating; setting down your phone; spending time with people who support you; moving your body; allowing yourself to feel; and taking time to understand what's happening within.

Self-love isn't only something we feel. It's something we practice through the choices we make about how we treat ourselves.

What Are You Carrying?

I want to add another thought on self-reflection because it has taught me that sometimes what affects how we feel isn't simply what happened today. We may be carrying beliefs we learned years ago; expectations about who we're supposed to be; obligations we never consciously chose; pressure to get everything right; fear about what might happen if we change; or identities we've carried for so long that we no longer question whether they still fit.

These are the patterns I call the six cages in Uncaged: Free Yourself, Reclaim Your Life.

Learning to recognize them has reinforced something I believe deeply: meaningful change begins with awareness, but it doesn't end there. We notice. We question. We choose. And eventually, we practice living differently.

Raising your vibration, like becoming Uncaged, isn't about becoming someone else. It's about creating enough space to reconnect with yourself.

Over these three posts, I've shared 21 different practices for raising your vibration. You don't need to do all of them. You don't need to create another checklist of things you "should" be doing to become healthier, happier, more spiritual, or more evolved. That would miss the point.

Instead, pay attention. Notice how you feel. Notice what drains you and what restores you. Notice which people, environments, habits, thoughts, and experiences help you feel connected to yourself—and which ones pull you away.

Then choose one thing. Take a breath. Go outside. Create something. Move your body. Rest. Call someone you love. Put your phone away. Reflect. Nourish yourself. Practice kindness.

And when you're struggling, don't treat your emotions as evidence that you've somehow lowered your vibration or failed at being spiritual. You're human. Feel what needs to be felt. Listen to what it has to tell you. And when you're ready, ask yourself: What would support me now?

That is where awareness becomes action. And over time, those conscious choices can bring us into greater alignment with ourselves. Perhaps raising our vibration isn't about constantly trying to reach somewhere higher. Perhaps it's about learning how to come home to ourselves.