how to THINK in high vibration (this changed my life)

In this monologue Aaron Doughty explains that the key to raising one's vibrational frequency is not to think more positive thoughts, but to think less and to observe thoughts without attachment. He argues that habitual, excessive thinking creates stress, low‑vibrational emotions (shame, fear, guilt, anger) and keeps people stuck in familiar reality. By creating mental space—through observation, breaks, meditation, and setting boundaries—one can lower the "think‑ometer," allow divine flow and inspiration, and enter a flow state where higher‑vibrational feelings (love, joy, peace) arise naturally. He uses analogies such as a speedometer, muscle growth during rest, and animal presence to illustrate the need for gaps. He shares a personal awakening experience from 2012 where observing thoughts led to a rapid uplift in his own vibration, and he describes practical steps: taking breaks, limiting social media, doing vibrational detox, and joining his free High Vibe Tribe community. The overarching message is that the most important relationship is with one's thoughts; thoughts are a survival mechanism, and reducing their dominance lets one access the unknown, higher‑frequency quantum field and create more magic in life.
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One of the biggest shifts in consciousness you will have is when you begin relating to your thoughts in a different way. Now, most of our life, we are kept feeling, thinking in alignment with familiar thought patterns from the past. We may feel stuck. We may feel like we keep having the habitual thoughts over and over again. We attract people into our life that are the same type of energy, even though they may be different people, and most people will stay stuck in an old reality due to their level of thinking. But what is the key to thinking in high vibration? What is the key to feeling higher vibrational energy inside of your body? What is the key to being a higher vibrational you without falling back into the old pattern and without being subconsciously addicted to familiar energy from the past? Now it's not what you think, because what you probably think it is, if you were to look at the scale of consciousness, for example, we see shame, fear, guilt, anger, and then you see love, joy, peace, enlightenment. You would think it is to actually think love, joy, and peace, enlightenment thoughts, but that's not the case. The root of all suffering, I know the Buddha said it, he said attachment. The root of all suffering is thinking. It's thinking. It's the thoughts that are equal to guilt, shame, fear, guilt. The more low vibration, the lower vibrational emotions and the lower vibrational energies have with it higher degree of thinking, not higher level thinking, just more thinking. So what happens is when there is more thinking happening, there is more stress happening, there is more resistance happening. So it is not that you must feel and think a better feeling thought, although I'm not saying that that can't be powerful, but what I'm saying is that the biggest shift in consciousness I have had is when instead of focusing on better thoughts, I focused on thinking less. I focused on not trying to control the thoughts, but observing the thoughts, but realizing that thoughts and thinking are two different things. This was a game changer for me. I think that if you apply this into your life, it will change everything. Understand that you may think thoughts, but you are not your thoughts. And what happens is people think thoughts, they get attached to the thoughts, they think that in order to get further in life, they need to keep thinking about it because there's this belief that thinking equals resolution equals solution. When in fact I would say it's the exact opposite. The less you think, the more you allow the divine to flow through and the higher your vibration goes. If you think of it like a speedometer, imagine there's a speedometer and imagine that when something is revving up, the RPMs are going up, it's going up, and imagine the further up it goes, the more stressed out you are. And what happens, it's the more thinking you're doing. This is the think-o-meter. And what happens is the key is actually thinking less. And the less that you think, the more that you allow the divine to flow through, the more that you allow divine synchronicity to flow through, and the more you allow inspiration to flow through. Now let me ask you a question. Even if you look at this, if you look at that scale of consciousness and you see joy, peace, love, and enlightenment. So you'd say joy or peace or love. Think of a moment in your life when you felt the most amount of love you've ever felt, or just a very loving moment of your life. Could be when you were with a significant other looking at the beach, could be when you had a specific moment with a family member or a friend or an animal. In that moment, what were you thinking about? What were you thinking about? What you'll find is you might try to find, oh, maybe I was thinking about this or maybe I was thinking. Most likely you weren't thinking about anything. You were in a state of presence. You were in a state of observing and enjoying and being in the moment. So it's interesting because it's not like you were just thinking a whole bunch of thoughts of love. You were just in the moment. You are just present. Now think of it in the form of a flow state. People that do the best work are not thinking, they are in a flow and the energy comes through. There's less thinking happening when you're in a flow state. It's you're present to the moment. So when you look at that scale of consciousness, understand the key to you attracting your dream reality and more synchronicity, more opportunities and more people that are in alignment with this new version of you, it is not to think more, it is to think less. It is to think less and create more gaps and space in your life. Even me, when I'm doing, I go through certain phases where I'll take a lot of action, I'll create a lot of videos, and recently I took a big break from making videos. I took like almost months off and then there's old videos coming out. But just recently through that space, I have created this inspiration. I've created this new energy, this new aliveness towards making videos that wasn't there before. And also it allowed me to go inwards to do some of my own work so that I had some more information and things to share on my YouTube channel. Now, even throughout my day, If I go and I just work for like 8 hours straight, I get into— I'll eventually kind of burn out. But if I take little breaks in between and I go meditate or I go relax in nature or I go read a little bit, I'll then come back refreshed. And the key is understanding and think about it even the form of building muscle, for example. Here's another analogy. Building muscle does not happen at the gym. Building muscle is something you do, you stress out the muscles by lifting more weight and then the body adapts to it, but the body adapts to it in space, literally through the sleeping. Actually, more muscle grows in sleeping than anywhere else. So it's interesting, we think, oh, you go to the gym, you get bigger. You go to the gym, you create a little bit of stress, but then you have like 23 hours of space every day if you work out every day. If you work out every other day, you've got like 48 hours of space. That's where most of the muscle growth happens. But these are just analogies for understanding this correlation between you and your thinking. Now remember, thinking is a verb, thoughts are a noun. Most people are addicted to thinking. They're addicted to the attachment to their thoughts and they're thinking their thoughts and it's like momentum that continues to run itself. So you could say that there is a direct correlation with the amount of thoughts you think, you are thinking, to how stuck you will feel in lower vibrational emotions such as shame, fear, guilt, and anger. And you could say that the less thoughts you think, the more space you create within yourself, the more you observe your thinking, the higher your vibration goes. So when we talk about thinking in high vibration, it's not about actually even thinking, it's about thinking less. It is about diluting the amount of thoughts that are being thinked. Does that even make sense? The biggest shift in consciousness I ever had was back in 2012 when I went through my awakening and I was learning meditation. And on day 3 or 4 of meditation, there was this interesting moment where I just decided that my life was gonna change. I committed to it 2 or 3 days before that, I was trying to control my thoughts. Then I started to observe my thoughts, wasn't trying to control them. Thought would come in, negative thought would come in, I would just let it be there. I would observe it. That spaciousness right there, on day 3 or 4, I just decided my life was gonna change because of this. It was like, I don't know if it was like a, divine inspirational thought that came through and it was connected to my higher self, or it was just I decided my life's gonna change. I observed my thoughts and then I started to feel this spaciousness inside of myself. I started to feel more present. I started to feel more clear. And within a very short period of time, I felt on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 feeling horrible, 10 feeling amazing, I was at about a 3 as my base point. I moved up to about a 7. I felt high a majority of the time. To where if I were to smoke or drink, it would lower my vibration. And then eventually I gave that up because I started to feel better. And now in my own life, what I'm realizing is how much the things I do affect my energy. For example, when you're talking about thinking in high vibration, to think in a high vibration means you also have to be a gatekeeper of your thinking. You gotta become a gatekeeper. Somebody that is aware of how what you think affects how you feel. Now, of course, your thoughts equal your feelings in the sense that the thoughts create the feelings. Everything is neutral. The only thing that, whatever meaning we give things is what we feel. Rainy day is neutral. What does it mean to you? Good, bad, I don't know. Well, you'll either feel good, bad, or you won't know how to feel, or you just will feel neutral. So understand that being a gatekeeper for your thoughts is being aware. Think about it esoterically as well. There is an accumulation electromagnetically, or we have an electromagnetic energy that goes far beyond our body. And what happens is we have an accumulation of the thoughts inside our field. Now, the more thoughts we are thinking, the more these thoughts stay gravitated within our field. Then you go out into public, you meet people, you may get triggered, thoughts in your field are rubbing off against other people and you are thinking those thoughts. Now, what you can begin doing is observing those thoughts, they start to lose gravity in your field, they start to go away. But there's a habitual energy of the thoughts you consistently think in your field. And when you are watching Netflix, watching television, when you're listening to certain music, when you are around certain people. Think about it, the people you surround yourself with think certain thoughts habitually, they're in their energetic field, and then you are meshing your energetic field up with them. So if you are around someone that's very negative, if you are around someone that's very much tearing you down, doesn't want you to become the best version of yourself because then they would feel lonely, and then you may even feel guilty about trying to like better yourself, that's going to literally through osmosis keep you in that vibration, keep those energetic thought forms in your field. So thinking in high vibration is being able to observe the thoughts that you think, understanding thinking and thoughts are two different things. Thoughts is where you can observe it and then becoming aware of how that makes you feel. For example, if every time you go on social media, you're scrolling on Instagram, you're comparing yourself to other people, you might find that, hey, maybe if I do this less, I won't think I'm not worthy, think lower vibrational jealous thoughts, think about this, think about that. Now there's two sides here. One, you could observe what you're thinking or feeling because then they're just thoughts, you're not thinking so much. That's like one level. The second level is to just make the choice to not do it, to not go into social media as often because it primes you for more comparison. It primes you for more negative thoughts within your field. Now I'm not saying we have to go through the world afraid of everything 'cause everything's gonna get into our thought field, into our field of us becoming addicted to thinking. I'm saying we can become aware of it, observe it, but then have the courage to set boundaries with things that are keeping us in lower vibrational states because remember, in a high vibration, there are less thoughts. In a low vibration, there are more thoughts, there are more thinking, there's a lot more thinking. Think about even the role of thinking within our own consciousness. For many of the animals on the planet, many of the species on the planet, they just are. They don't have to think. Yes, some animals can think more than others, but in majority, they're very present to the moment. You know who has the most trouble being present to the moment? Humans. And one of the reasons we developed the ability to think is because thinking is a survival mechanism. Imagine everything's going well in society. Imagine you are, everything's going fine. You would just do what you love. You would be present. You wouldn't have to think so much. You just be able to enjoy your life. But in survival mode, thinking is necessary to survive. That's the belief. So thinking was created, in a way thinking is an adaptation so that we could begin to survive. So this is why, by the way, when you come to one of my live events or you go to Joe Dispenza's events or something like that, almost the whole entire event is for you to lessen your level of thinking. Because in the less than the level of thinking, you are then in the unknown, and in the unknown is where you can create something new. You're in literally a different level of consciousness. Not only will you feel more love, joy, and peace, but also the frequency you are in is higher. We can call that quantum field, we could call it the quantum, the alternative space. There's many different names we could give to the infinite potential of this energy. But the key is getting to a state of having the courage to step into the unknown. Now, one of the things is though, is people will resist the unknown and the magic of it because of the familiar toxic energy. It feels familiar to think a lot of thoughts. Feels familiar to be in survival mode. So in a way, we're fighting for familiarity family, keep it the same, keep it home. When instead in the unknown, there could be way more magic that can happen. Now, one thing I'm gonna do soon is I'm gonna do a full workshop on this concept in my new community called High Vibe Tribe. I also have a course in there called High Vibe 101. It is completely free. It is a free community. You can watch that. There's meditations with guided meditations that show you exactly how to apply what I'm talking about, plus daily meditations you can do that aren't on YouTube or anywhere else. You can check it out by clicking the link below or going to aarondoughty.com/highvibetribe. But in general, understand that the electromagnetic energy of your body has that of a certain energy quality to it. And understand that the more you can have less thoughts and observe and the more space within your thoughts, the more potency your thoughts and energy will have. The higher vibrational quality you will have. So now what my days look like is instead of me going out and me trying to think better thoughts, think about what I want, think about this, feel the emotions of it, a lot of it is around just lessening the level of thoughts that I'm thinking. And the more my thoughts lessen, the more I observe my thoughts, the more I'm present to the moment, the more I focus on just getting into a flow state. Like right now making this video, I'm not thinking. What do I need to think about next? I'm not thinking. There's an energy that is flowing through. Every one of you watching this has the ability to connect to this divine energy to allow it to flow through for you to add value to other people. Now, I believe as well, there's a universal consciousness, collective consciousness energy we're connected to. So when you have the intention of adding value to others, you connect to a higher vibrational thought stream of energy, almost like higher divine thoughts will flow through you because you want to add value to other people. And it also feels good. Isn't that funny? It feels good too. It feels good to be making this video. So when you allow the divine to come through, you can then add value to other people and it's like the universe sends you more resources, sends you more energy. You wanna know what's funny? I've said this in many other videos. It is easier for me to make daily videos on YouTube than it is for me to make one a week. Does that make any sense? Because every day I step in front of this camera to make a video, it's like my, in a way, energy of getting into flow. And then I do it again tomorrow. Then I do it again the next day. Then I do it again the next day until I'm completely out of the frame. You can't see me at all. But then I come back. But the key beyond the sarcasm is Every day doing it primes my energetic field for it and it gets easier with time. And also it's a step in the universal direction of just trying to help people, trying to add value, intending to add value. So understand that there is a, what the most important relationship you will have with anyone in your life or anything in your life is not a person. The most important relationship you will ever have in your life ever is your relationship to your thinking. It's your relationship to thoughts because your thoughts create your reality. And the thing is, the more thoughts we think, the lower vibrational emotions we feel. That's a stress response, that's a survival response. That's what thinking was created for and that's why we use thinking. It's a survival mechanism for us to survive. So the key to creating more magic in your life is to get out of the survival emotions, out of the familiar energy of thinking, and to actually think less and to allow yourself to get more into flow, more into presence, more into this energy of being present to the moment, doing and allowing whatever it is to flow through. It's a very different energy, but it happens with less effort and you enjoy it more. It's also the difference between doing things that are a means to an end and doing things that are an end of itself. Like I could be making a video right now to get lots of views, or I could be making a video right now because I love making a video right now. One's an end of itself. It's like my highest passion, and that's why the passion frequency is also so important. The passion frequency is kind of like flow. Get into your flow. And the more you're in flow, the more you go to a higher reality, higher vibration. So the steps to this, by the way, are one, observe your thoughts. Become aware that you may think thoughts, but you are not your thoughts. You may feel emotions, you're not your emotions. You may have beliefs, you're not your beliefs. You don't need to identify with it. You become aware of it. It's where a lot of the magic is. Then what you do is you observe it. And by observing it, you create more space. You let the thoughts be there. You don't try to control it. And the more you do this, the better you get at it. And the more you do it, the more your energetic field starts to clean. And then from there, you allow divine inspiration to flow through. 'Cause then people say, well, how do you, so then how do you, you just don't set goals anymore? You just don't set goals at all? You just like just be in this present energy? You can still have goals. You're inspired by goals versus feeling desperate. Normally that's once from thinking, once from being. You will be inspired. Creating space is necessary 'cause then it also allows you to be inspired. That's why I took time off of YouTube. I still have goals, I'm just not so attached to them. I realize they come, they stem from the space. So a huge part of this is understanding more thoughts, learn to observe, learn to let them be there, allow more space to be created in the realm of your thinking, become a gatekeeper to everything around you. That's why in that High Vibe 101 course, you also go through a vibrational detox of like kind of auditing your vibration. And understand that this is a process of elevating your frequency by letting go of your attachment to thinking. So with that being said, see you in the next one.
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