In this personal‑development monologue, Aaron Doughty explains the meaning of “raising your vibration” using his chart of consciousness (shame, guilt, fear, anger, neutrality, willingness, acceptance, reasoning, love). He argues that the emotional state you inhabit creates a matching external reality, so shifting from low‑frequency emotions (fear, anger) to higher‑frequency states (neutrality, willingness, love) transforms the world you experience. Doughty shares his own story of an abusive step‑mom, a 9‑to‑5 job at Nordstrom, and his decision to start daily YouTube videos in 2017, illustrating how limiting beliefs about worthiness and identity kept him stuck. He outlines practical steps to raise vibration: (1) cultivate neutrality by observing thoughts rather than trying to control them; (2) practice daily meditation (10‑15 minutes morning and night) to develop this observation skill; (3) develop willingness/willpower to act on new intentions; (4) identify and rewrite limiting stories about love, money, success, and health; (5) consistently act in alignment with a new self‑identity (e.g., “I am a meditator,” “I am a creator”). He emphasizes that reality is a neutral mirror that reflects the meanings we assign, so changing internal meanings rewires our dominant vibration. Consistency, even when boring, is presented as the key to permanent transformation. The video concludes with a call to let go of unworthiness, pursue passion daily, and trust that the external world will shift accordingly.
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Why would you even want to raise your vibration? And this esoteric term of raise your vibration, what does that even mean? Like Aaron shows that chart of consciousness all the time, and what does it mean? Why would you want to do it? Well, think of it like this. Your vibration, if you are at the level, let's, you know, you see shame, guilt, fear, anger, neutrality, willingness, acceptance, reasoning, and love. If we are in states and we have heavy energies within us of fear and anger, and we're mad at somebody else, well, guess what? We are going to experience a reality that is equal to that vibration. We're gonna find ourselves around, attracted and attracting angry people into our lives, or we may get angry with other people. We feel fear, we may feel like we're in a little box, even though we wanna do something. I know when I first wanted to get on YouTube, I was afraid of what other people would think. I was in a fear mentality. But eventually, as you raise your vibration, you get more clarity, and then you start to, realize that you can change yourself from the inside out by changing your beliefs about who you are, changing your identity, and that as you change that, you then change your reality. So think of this in a way like a vortex. When you go in this side of the vortex, you are one identity, you are one way. When you come out the other end of the vortex, you're a completely new, high vibrational version of you that is free to be the way that you wanna be. And in this video, what I wanna do is I wanna show you step by step how to practically raise your vibration and change your identity from the inside out. Because realize that also all this reality is, when you look outside, when you look to the external mirror, like this mirror right here, I'm looking at you in the mirror, this is just a reflection, that's it. So if I go to the reality and I believe that like, I used to have this belief where I would like hold myself back from really connecting deeply with women because many of you know my story of having the abusive ex-stepmom in my life. I developed a belief system that said that it's dangerous to be like, it means I'm gonna lose my freedom, lose my control. So that helped, that got me to where I couldn't really connect to women in a powerful way because of that belief. It was a one-on-one reflection. That's why one of the most powerful things you can do is become aware of these limiting stories. What is your story, which is reasoning? The reasoning, the reasoning of the mind. It's the stories we tell ourselves about who you are. What are the stories you have about love? What are the stories you have about money? What are the stories you have about who you are and what you can do for a living? And can you do your passion full-time? As you become aware of those, guess what? You begin to take your power back. You can then do what you wanna do in life. So how do you go through this powerful transformation? Well, I'm gonna share with you a couple things that really changes everything, okay? Now, the first one, is neutrality. So you see, I've circled the two biggies. These are the two biggies over here, okay? So first off, we have neutrality. Shame, guilt, fear, and anger. These are all attachments to different positionalities, to different perspectives. I used to be angry at my ex-stepmom because of, even though she wasn't in my life after 17 years old, my dad divorced her, I still felt angry. I was angry that I went through all that. I didn't really have much of a childhood, and that was my perspective. But what I eventually learned is I changed the meaning. Now look at this too. The meaning, which is reasoning of what I was giving to my past, was making me feel like I was in a box. Fear, anger, shame, game, game. I was guilt and shame mixed, game. What happened was that was the perspective I had. What eventually changed is I realized that that led me to a spiritual awakening. Many of you listening to this, by the way, you've been through some stuff growing up. And what happened is that stuff led you to the pressure that caused a spiritual awakening. Now let me go over here. I'm gonna show you, let's go over here. Are you guys ready? Okay, here we go. So this is, this right over here is Machu Picchu. But no, look, that right there, this thing right here, you guys have probably heard me talk about this before. It is literally like the most powerful thing that I've ever done is when I learned meditation. Basically what I would do is I would just, you guys like that painting right over there as well? That painting, I forget what it's called. It's called like Blessing in the Sand or something like that. And yeah, I just love it. I love anything to do with Machu Picchu, I feel like, or not Machu Picchu but the Navajo. I think that's like the Hopi tribe or something, I don't know. Anyways, it's kind of, oh, I turned on the fan so I don't know if this is gonna go. Okay, whatever. You guys get the point, right? It's just a candle flame. Staring at this every single day for 5 or 10 minutes, what it does is it puts me into that vibration of 250, which is neutrality. Neutrality. I learned how to observe my thoughts. And the game changer was when I learned how to observe, because before that, guess what happened? I would try to control my thoughts. I was a little control freak. I was like, oh, don't think bad thoughts, don't think bad thoughts. And then guess what? Those bad thoughts keep increasing. You're trying to control, it's resistance. Instead, one day I realized, oh, if I observe them and I let them be there, they begin to go away. And that's what I did. So that's something that really transformed my life was getting to neutrality and learning to observe my thoughts. So every single day what I do is I get up in the morning, okay? I get up, this is my bed. You guys like my bed? You guys like my bed? So what I do is I get up every morning and then what I do is I walk straight over here, take a little piss sometimes before, then I come over here and I meditate for 10 minutes, I observe my thoughts. Then what happens is anything that happens throughout my day, I'm able to observe what is happening, not react. That's the power. And when I'm in a neutral state, this is when you have power and you're not in reaction. Most people are in reaction mode. They're reacting to their environment. They're reacting, what? I just ascended. Whoa, what just happened? Am I, guys, did I just ascend? Is this gonna autofocus back? Okay, that was crazy. Anyways, okay, so this is, uh, so the practical way of raising your vibration is first off you just got to understand these two things. Now, willingness— this is willpower. This is like when you go to a Tony Robbins conference or something, you're like, yes, I will change my state! Yes, I will accomplish XYZ! Yes! And then you get like super motivated. Willpower, very powerful place. And when people get into personal development That's a lot of times where they're at. They're like, I'm just reading all these books. I read Think and Grow Rich. I'm gonna manifest this. I'm gonna do that. It's great. Now the thing to become aware of is these different levels. So neutrality is when you learn how to observe your thoughts, very powerful level. Meditate every single day for 10 to 15 minutes. I promise you it will transform your life. Now what creates permanent transformation? It's not what you do once. It's not what you do twice. It's not even what you do 3 times. It's what you do consistently every single day. And it's boring. I know no one wants to hear that. It's like, I want the quick fix, I want the 6-minute abs. But the key is making it more about a lifestyle. When I began to meditate every day, think about this, when people change their, it's when they change their identity. If somebody has never really done like a lot of fitness stuff and then they start going to Bikram yoga, one of the first things you do when you go to Bikram is that they tell you, the instructor tells you, if it's your first time, you gotta come at least for a week in order to get it like the real benefits. And you go, oh, I gotta go for a week. After about a week, guess what? You start making friends. You go buy a $118 pair of Lululemons, and then what you do is you got your yoga mat in your car, and then other people see you with your yoga mat and they're like, oh, good for you, Carl, you're going to yoga. And then you're like, yeah, I'm a yoga person. You changed your identity. And then guess what? You start to identify with that. And one of the strongest human desires there is is to remain consistent to the way we define ourselves. So once we start to see ourselves as a yoga person, it's easy for us to keep doing it because it's not— That's who we are. When I started meditating, I started seeing that I'm just this, I used to literally, people were at my job, I worked at Nordstrom's in women's shoes at the time. I went in for like normal and people were like, oh, there's Aaron. And then I started meditating, my energy changed. I started becoming more grounded, more silence in between the words, more dramatic, like silence. It's just different. And what happened is it, that changed everything, what I did daily. So that's the first thing. So the first thing that I recommend you do to raise your vibration from the inside out permanently is meditate every single day for 10 to 15 minutes in the morning, 10 to 15 minutes at night. It changes everything, everything. I promise you, it changes everything if you do that. You don't wanna hear it, it's not the most sexy thing, but meditation is, Super, super powerful. I have a morning meditation on YouTube. I have a nighttime meditation on YouTube. Do those and watch how it changes your life. I promise you it will. It's just that in the first like 4 or 5 times, you may not enjoy doing it. Eventually you will love it 'cause you'll get to this spaciousness. You'll start to feel and observe and you'll feel this power coming back to you and it just changes everything. So meditation, that will change a lot. As you work up, you'll see reasoning. Now this is where reality becomes kind of a, becomes like super fun because the reasoning, the meaning you've given to things in your life, here's the crazy thing about reality. This is gonna blow your mind if it's the first time you heard it. Everything in life is completely neutral. This right over here, this crystal, it's a neutral thing. This neutral, neutral has no meaning other than the meaning we give it. Somebody may look at that and feel a lot of pain because they broke their leg on it once Or someone may look at that and be like, "Hey, that looks like fun." What is it? What it changes, the meaning this person has given it. Maybe it's a past memory that they're feeling trapped by. But the idea, everything is fundamentally neutral. If it were to rain today, it's a neutral idea. Zero built-in meaning, no built-in meaning. But the thing to remember about this is that we give it meaning. Now, the thing is, is we have these meanings that are on autopilot. We have meanings that say, "Oh, love is very hard to attract." We have meanings that say, one of the most common limiting story that almost everyone has on the planet, by the way? You guys wanna know what it is? Okay, and this is like my challenge I've been working in my own life, so I'm not saying this on the, I'm not the guru on the top of the hill that's like, look at all these unworthy. It's unworthiness. We believe we're unworthy. Or do we feel like we're enough? We grow up in a society where we're given these models everywhere and we're like, oh, I'm not as good as that person. And then we feel like we're not worthy. But the more we fill up our own cup and we don't seek validation, we don't seek people pleasing, we don't seek these things, and we seek it within and we give ourselves that love, that appreciation, the more that we begin to love ourself, the more that other people love us. Because remember, all reality is a mirror. That's it. It is reflecting back to us what we believe to be true. So what I do is I go through my beliefs about love, my beliefs about money, my beliefs about success, my beliefs about health, And what I do is I challenge the old belief system. My old belief system about women that I realized was keeping me from getting real intimate in relationships was because of my ex-stepmom situation. I become aware and I challenge that. I start to feel myself as worthy. I gave myself almost the feminine nurturing that I think I craved growing up from having the abusive ex-stepmom. And as I did, I began to heal. So that is what raising vibration is about. It's real. It's actually super simple. I wanted to make this like a practical video that you guys could all apply. And the other thing I would say is if you do what you're passionate about every single day, what you love, and you start to do it on your terms, you realize in order for you to not have a boss, you have to be your own boss. You have to take initiative. Anyone of you can do that. 3 years ago, I had a 9-to-5 job selling women's shoes. I no longer do. Why? Because I dedicated myself to this vision and I dedicated myself to making videos every single day. Remember, it's what you do every single day that compounds over time. If you wanna change your life from the inside out, make a new choice about who you are and then as you do that thing every single day, your life will transform more than anything else. I made the choice to go daily on YouTube back in 2017. Within months, my whole entire life changed because I was doing what I was passionate about and I believed in the vision. I wasn't doing it to get out of the job. I was doing it 'cause it was who I really was. And then eventually my reality changed. Think about it in terms of who are you being in your current reality? And if you are being somebody that is equal to the 9 to 5 job you have, and that's all you're doing, then you're gonna continue to get that result. I had the 9 to 5 job and I was putting 20, 30, 40 hours a week into making videos. And guess what? One trumped the other one vibrationally. And then I was able to get rid of the one I didn't like. Anyone of you can do this. I promise you, you have to believe in yourself. That's it. You just have to let go of the belief that you can't do it and then do it and then realize you, as you go along the way, change the limiting stories. There'll be stories that come and say, oh, I can't do this. Oh, what if this person judges me? Or what do my family think? And all this stuff. Become aware of these reasoning, become aware of these stories. They're just stories. And then as you do what you're passionate about every day, you're up here and you're wiring in a new dominant vibration. And as you meditate every day, you're making sure that you're, you're able to let go of the prior, the prior negative emotion. So it's letting go and wiring in, letting go and wired in, letting go of the old, becoming aware of it and meditating and wiring in the new. When you do that, I promise you everything will change. So with that being said, hope you guys enjoy. Peace, much love, and namaste.
