Vibrational Frequency Chart of Emotions: How to Read It
Updated: 2 days ago
Claudiu Bulaceanu, PhD
Most people arrive at a vibrational frequency chart of emotions looking for one thing, which is a number for where they are right now. The chart below gives you that. Before you use it, there is something worth knowing about what those numbers mean, because nearly every version of this chart circulating online gets it wrong in the same way.
The chart is a map of inner states arranged from the most contracted at the bottom to the most open at the top. It is a relative scale. It is not a measurement in Hertz, and no emotion has ever been measured in Hertz by anyone. I have spent 25 years assessing soul vibration in direct practice with clients in more than 40 countries, and the scale below is my own. Here it is in full, along with what it can tell you and what it cannot.
The Vibrational Frequency Chart of Emotions
The scale runs from 0 to 100 and divides into seven bands. Each band holds two expressions of the same level, and this is where my frequency chart of emotions differs from every other version you will find. The number tells you where you are standing. It does not tell you which way you are facing.
Someone in the Heart band can be living empathy, gratitude and care for other people. Someone else at the same level can be alone, unforgiving and holding grudges that are years old. The level is identical and the direction is opposite. Most charts show only one of those two columns, which is why a single number so often fails to match what a person recognises in themselves.
Read the bands rather than the individual numbers. The difference between 62 and 65 is noise. What carries information is which band you are in and which of its two columns you have been living from over the past month.
Read the negative column from bottom to top and one thing runs through all seven bands, which is Attachment. It thins from deep material dependencies at the floor to small attachments at the crown, and that thread is not on any other chart.
A printable emotional vibrational frequency chart is available at the end of this article, in a version you can put on a wall.
What the Numbers on an Emotion Frequency Chart Measure
Hertz is cycles per second. It describes a physical wave that repeats itself: sound, light, alternating current, the electrical rhythms of the brain. Real frequencies do exist in the human body and instruments pick them up. An EEG records cortical activity roughly between 0.5 and 100 Hz, sorted into the delta, theta, alpha, beta and gamma ranges. A magnetometer detects the magnetic field produced by the heart. Those readings are physical and they repeat under laboratory conditions.
What no instrument has ever returned is a Hertz value for gratitude or for shame. When a chart tells you that love vibrates at 500 Hz, it is borrowing the vocabulary of physics for something physics has not measured. As a matter of acoustics, 500 Hz is a tone a little above the B above middle C. It has no relationship to love.
The scale I work with is an ordering. The number tells you where a state sits relative to other states and it carries no physical unit. I have built it over 25 years of direct assessment with clients, and I use it because it is reliable inside my own practice. It is a research framework rather than established science, and I do not present it as anything else. I have written elsewhere about where body vibration and measurable physics actually meet.
What this chart is good for is orientation, which turns out to be most of what people need from it.
Where Emotional Frequency Charts Came From
Two sources feed almost everything you see online.
The first is David Hawkins, a psychiatrist who published Power vs. Force in 1995. He proposed a logarithmic scale from 0 to 1000 for levels of consciousness, arrived at through applied kinesiology, better known as muscle testing. His scale is an ordering with numbers attached to it. He did not claim it was a measurement in Hertz.
The second is the emotional guidance scale associated with the Abraham-Hicks material, which arranges 22 emotional states from despair at one end to joy at the other. It carries no numbers at all. It is purely a sequence.
Somewhere along the way, versions of both were copied onto image boards with Hz appended to the numbers. That addition came from neither source. It spread because a number with a unit attached looks more solid than a number without one, and because nobody copying the chart had a reason to check.
Because of the many inaccuracies I found in Hawkins' chart and others, I built this chart.
How the Bands Were Set
The order on this chart is not something I arranged by intuition. Each state was checked against the vibration of the chakras, which in my work correspond to dimensions of existence, and placed at the level where the two matched.
That is why the bands run the way they do. Ground sits at the root, where survival is the whole question. Attachment sits at the sacral level, which governs how a person holds the people closest to them. Will sits at the solar plexus. Heart sits where its name says. Integrity sits at the throat, which is why the negative column there is about hidden agendas and the positive column is about saying what is true. Wisdom sits at the forehead and Unity at the crown.
Counting from the bottom, each band also carries a dimension of vibration. Ground is the first, Attachment the second, Will the third, and so on up to Unity as the seventh. When I refer later to a soul at 6D (D-dimension of vibration), that is the Wisdom band between 70 and 84.
Reading the chart this way explains something the numbers on their own do not. The bands are not feelings ranked from bad to good. They are seven topics a person can be occupied with, and the states listed in each band are what being occupied with that topics feels like from the inside.
How I Assess Soul Vibration in Practice
A passing emotion and a stable level are very different things, and confusing the two is where most of the trouble with these charts begins.
Someone can be furious this afternoon and still be operating from a stable place well above the Will band. Someone else can be pleasant company all day and be sitting in the Ground band underneath it. The first person is having a bad afternoon. The second person is living on average somewhere the chart would place near the floor.
When I work with a client, what I assess is the second one. It moves slowly, it does not swing with the day, and it is closer to a baseline than to a mood. It reflects what a person actually lives from rather than what they happen to feel in a given hour. Working out that baseline takes a direct assessment and it is not something a chart can do for you.
The chart on this page describes the first thing: states you can recognise in yourself as you move through a week. Used that way it works well. Treated as a verdict on your level, it will mislead you.
How to Tell Whether a State Is Really Your Baseline
These emotional states are the result of beliefs held in the subconscious. Even if I force myself to feel acceptance and compassion, which sit in the Wisdom band between 70 and 84, the feeling proves nothing on its own. Only when life challenges me to hold that state in hard circumstances, when something real is at stake and I have to give up something I value, does passing the test start to qualify me for that band and for the soul vibration behind it. In this example that is the sixth dimension of vibration.
The lessons of Acceptance and true Compassion are much harder in practice than they look, and this is why they mark the sixth band. Consider that the average vibration of souls in this humanity I find to be in 3D, more precisely a grand average of 3.4D at present. Before 2020 I found that grand average noticeably higher, at 3.6D.
Among the souls I have identified at the sixth dimension of vibration are the Holy Virgin Mary, several close disciples of Buddha, and so on. My point is that a high soul vibration is not easy to reach. It has to be proved in action as well, which involves considerable effort and
sacrifice for the community and for humanity, before anyone can conclude that the level has been reached.
A Low Reading Is a State, Not a Verdict on You
Grief sits low on this chart. That does not make grief a failure. Someone who has lost a person they love belongs in grief, and moving through it properly is healthy work rather than a defect to be corrected.
Grief becomes a different matter when it does not soften at all over a long stretch. Clinicians recognise this pattern as prolonged grief disorder and the threshold used for adults is around a year after the loss. In my own work what usually sits behind it is a refusal to accept what happened, an attachment to the past that will not loosen, and often anger at God for allowing it. If that describes where you are, the first step is a professional who works with bereavement rather than a chart.
Enlightened souls went through grief as well. The Gospels record Jesus weeping at the death of Lazarus, and the Pali canon describes the Buddha speaking of the loss of his closest disciples. They felt it. What they did not do is stay in it, because they understood the fabric of reality well enough to let a loss take its place inside it. Average souls tend to stay much longer.
The same holds for fear after a real threat and for anger at something that deserves anger. These states sit low because of how they feel from the inside and how far they narrow a person's available options, not because the person having them has done anything wrong. A chart that makes you ashamed of being in grief is being used badly.
I would also ask you not to use this chart on other people. Deciding that a colleague or a family member is low vibration is a way of dismissing someone while sounding spiritual about it. I see it often and it does real damage, usually to relationships that were repairable. The chart is for your own orientation and it is not an assessment tool for anyone else.
How to Use the Chart Without Turning It Against Yourself
Four things I tell people who ask about this.
Watch direction rather than position. Movement out of the Ground band into Will looks like a person getting angry, which reads as a bad development to anyone watching. It is not. Someone who has spent months in despair and finally gets angry has moved up a band. Anger carries energy and despair does not. Judge the trend across weeks and months, because the trend is the signal worth having.
Check weekly, not hourly. Rating yourself several times a day turns the chart into a mood thermometer and tells you nothing except that your mood changes, which you already knew.
Name the state correctly before you rate it. Most people rate a vague feeling of being unwell and land somewhere in the middle. Naming it first, as resentment or as fear about money or as grief you have been postponing, gives you something specific to place, and the specific thing is what can actually be worked on.
Do not chase the top of the chart. Forcing yourself to perform peace and gratitude over states you have not yet resolved produces spiritual bypassing, which is one of the more common traps I see in people who have been practising for years. The bands near the top arrive as a result of clearing what sits underneath them. They do not arrive by being aimed at!
What Actually Moves the Reading
The unglamorous floor comes first. It's about survival here, so sleep, food and physical condition set a ceiling on everything above them. Nobody holds the Integrity band on three hours of sleep a night, and a good deal of what people bring to me as a spiritual problem improves once that is fixed. Diet does its own work on the same floor.
Above that floor, the thing that holds a level down most reliably is a belief the person is not aware of holding. Beliefs about deserving, about money, about what happens to people who take up space. They were installed early, usually by family, and they run underneath conscious effort. Someone can meditate daily for a decade and stay in the same band because the belief was never touched. Clearing those is the work I do in limiting beliefs release sessions, and it is the intervention that changes a baseline rather than a mood.
Company matters more than people expect. Spending most of your week with someone living from the negative column of Ground pulls a reading down, and the effect compounds quietly over months.
Most movement happens sideways before it happens upward. Someone in the Attachment band working through possessiveness in a relationship is usually heading for tenderness and peace at the same level rather than jumping two bands. The band changes later, and it changes on its own once the negative column stops running.
Consistency beats intensity. Twenty minutes a day for a year does much more than a week-long retreat followed by nothing, though the retreat feels like more at the time.
What does not work is repeating an affirmation over a belief that contradicts it. The belief wins, and the practice adds a layer of self-blame on top when the affirmation fails to take.
Questions People Ask
What is the highest vibrational emotion?
The highest band on this chart is not an emotion in the ordinary sense. Unity describes stillness and presence. The enlightened soul feels above and beyond the agitation of this world while staying connected to it, and it registers as an absence of agitation and attachment rather than as a feeling with a shape to it. Of the states most people would call emotions, unconditional love sits highest, inside the Unity band itself, with full compassion and devotion just below it in Wisdom.
What frequency is love in Hz?
Love has no frequency in Hz. The figure of 528 Hz circulates widely as the love frequency and comes from the Solfeggio tuning claims, which have no basis in either acoustics or physiology. 528 Hz is an audible tone and nothing more.
Why does love appear in more than one band?
Because love behaves differently at each level. I find it from the Attachment band upward, as love for a partner at 12 to 24, as open-hearted love for people in general at 40 to 54, and as unconditional love in the Unity band. On the chart I list it only at the levels where the difference matters.
Can emotions be measured in Hertz?
No. Brain activity and the field around the heart have measurable frequencies, but those are electrical and magnetic phenomena rather than emotions. No instrument assigns a Hertz value to an emotional state.
What is a low frequency emotion?
On this emotional vibration chart it is any state in the bottom two bands, which covers survival fear, guilt, grief, despair, anxiety, obsession and shame. What makes them low is not that they are bad to feel. It is that each one narrows the range of what a person can do next.
What sits at the bottom of the chart?
The Ground band, which holds survival fear, guilt, grief and the state of rejecting life itself. What these share is that they leave a person with no available move. The positive column of the same band is grounded, fearless and self-reliant, which is what the same level looks like once survival stops being the whole question.
How do I find my own level?
Place yourself on the chart weekly for a month and look at the pattern rather than any single reading. Self-placement gives you a working estimate of your states. A stable baseline is a different measurement and needs an outside assessment.
Is the vibrational frequency chart of emotions scientific?
No, and any spiritual frequency chart claiming otherwise is overstating what it is. This one is a framework from my own practice. Its value is that it gives you a consistent language for states that are otherwise hard to name, which makes changes in them easier to notice.
Rule Out Medical Causes First
If you have been sitting in the bottom two bands for several weeks, the first stop is a physician rather than an energy practitioner. Persistent low mood, exhaustion that sleep does not repair, and loss of interest in things you used to care about can have physical causes often enough that they should be checked before anything else is considered. Thyroid function, iron and vitamin D levels, sleep problems and the side effects of medication all can produce this picture.
Nothing on this page is medical advice and nothing here is a diagnosis. An assessment of vibration is not a substitute for a medical evaluation, and the two are not in competition. If you are in crisis, contact a qualified professional or an emergency service in your country.
Using the Chart From Here
The chart does one job well. It tells you which direction you are facing and whether that direction has changed since last month. What it will not tell you is why you are sitting in a particular chakra band, and that is usually the question people actually want answered.
If you want an assessment of your own baseline and of what is holding it in place, that is the work I do in a soul vibration reading. Where the answer turns out to be a belief, which it often does, limiting beliefs release sessions are what follows. Both are available through the Body & Soul Ascension Academy.
You can download the printable emotional vibrational frequency chart as a PDF and keep it somewhere you will see it.
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