High Vibration Isn’t Positivity — It’s Alignment

I’ve been researching this idea of high vs. low vibration emotions. We hear a lot about “high vibration” as if it means being happy all the time, thinking positive thoughts, or avoiding anything uncomfortable. But high vibration has nothing to do with forced positivity or spiritual glossing-over.

It’s something much deeper, calmer, and more honest: alignment. With your body. With your intuition. With the natural rhythms of your life. And that alignment only becomes real when we stop treating “low” emotions like failures and start seeing them for what they are: information.

Every Emotion Has a Vibration

Every feeling you experience carries a frequency. Not “good” or “bad”, simply signals that reveal what’s happening inside you. Low-vibration emotions are not signs you’re off your path. They are messages pointing toward what needs attention, truth, or care:

• Fear shows where safety is missing
• Anger shows where boundaries were crossed
• Sadness shows where tenderness is needed
• Grief shows what mattered deeply
• Shame shows where healing and honesty are calling for you

There is wisdom in every emotion. When we stop labeling feelings as right or wrong, we unlock their purpose.

The Mind Doesn’t Feel

The mind is a storyteller. A problem-solver. A meaning-maker. But it does not feel. That’s the body’s realm. And when we don’t give emotion a chance to be processed through the body, the mind starts looping: overthinking, ruminating, reliving the moment, searching for logic where only feeling will soothe. We spiral not because we’re broken but because we’re disembodied. The mind tries to think its way through what only movement, breath, tears, or stillness can metabolize. To rise in vibration, we don’t need to think differently. We need to feel honestly. Through the body. In motion. With compassion.

The Bypassing Trap

A lot of people try to “stay high vibration” by skipping over difficult feelings:
• pushing fear down
• denying anger
• pretending everything is fine
• numbing grief
• smiling through discomfort

This doesn’t raise your vibration, it blocks it. You cannot elevate what you refuse to acknowledge. When you ignore your emotional landscape, you don’t rise above it, you disconnect from yourself. That’s bypassing or masking, and all that does is hide what eventually demands to be felt.

Your Vibration Rises When You Move Through Emotion

Healing isn’t about staying “positive.” It’s about becoming aware.

The moment you meet your emotions with presence instead of judgment, something shifts:
• your body softens
• your breath drops
• your intuition wakes up
• your nervous system begins to regulate

And in that regulation, clarity returns. A higher vibration emerges naturally from integration, not avoidance. You rise not despite your emotions, but through them by listening, honoring, and learning from them.

What High Vibration Actually Feels Like

High vibration is not a feeling, it’s a state of coherence. It feels like:
• clarity instead of confusion
• groundedness instead of panic
• intuition instead of guesswork
• truth instead of performance

It’s what happens when your mind is calm, your body is regulated, and your actions line up with what actually matters to you. It’s not a belief system, it’s your nervous system, your awareness, and your intuition working together.

Alignment, Not Belief

High vibration has nothing to do with belief…not spiritual belief, religious belief, or philosophical belief. It’s simply alignment:

• with your body’s signals
• with your inner knowing
• with the natural rhythms and cycles of your life

Belief tries to convince. Alignment simply is — felt, embodied, lived.

Your Real Shift: From Positive vs Negative to Aligned vs Unaware

The real transformation isn’t about “good vibes only.” It’s about:

unaware ➜ aligned
reactive ➜ conscious
masked ➜ integrated
fragmented ➜ whole

High vibration is not a mood. It’s integration. Awareness. Alignment. When your inner world is coherent, your outer world follows.

How Intuition Painting® Fits Into This

This is where your creative practice becomes something bigger than art. Intuition Painting® is a joyful companion on the journey of alignment — alignment in motion. It lets your body, your intuition, and your soul move together, guided by the most powerful resource you have: playful creativity.

Painting becomes a way to:
• process emotion
• listen to your inner signals
• release pressure
• explore truth
• reconnect with your center
• rise into a higher, more integrated vibration

It’s not about creating something beautiful. It’s about becoming someone aligned. Color becomes clarity. Movement becomes medicine. Creativity becomes awareness. And awareness becomes alignment.

This Is Your Journey

Not toward constant positivity — but toward honesty, integration, and coherence.

A life where every emotion has a place, and every part of you is allowed to speak.
A life where alignment is something you feel, not something you perform.
A life where your vibration rises naturally because you are present, not perfect.

This is the journey.
This is the work.
This is the alignment that changes everything.

From my soul journey to yours,

Maria

Maria Rasimas

Maria Rasimas is an educator, operations leader, and expressive arts facilitator dedicated to helping others access their inner wisdom through creativity. After more than 40 years in higher education administration with California State University San Marcos, Maria founded Soul Journey Arts, where she offers Intuition Painting® workshops and creative retreats designed to inspire self-discovery, healing, and transformation. Her work bridges structure and soul—bringing together her analytical background and her lifelong passion for art as a path of growth and renewal.

https://souljourneyarts.com
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