There’s a saying that “everything old is new again.” We see it with art, fashion, design, and I personally see it play out time and again in the world of health and wellness.

Take, for instance, the practice of yoga. It actually goes back to ancient India, yet only became popular in the West in the mid-20th century. And it still took another 50 years for Westerners to see it as something everyone can do as part of a healthy lifestyle, not just contortionists and “free spirits.”

Organics and superfoods are two more great examples. Only recently has the idea of superfoods garnered mainstream attention, even though some have been celebrated since ancient times for their health benefits— olives and honey by the Greeks, and chia seeds by the Aztecs.

Organic food? It’s as old as farming itself — but it didn’t become a movement until recently, when people started to question all of the toxic, unnatural chemicals and GMOs creeping into our grocery stores.

When you step back and look at trends like these, they’re all about one thing—a desire to get back to our essential nature, and to embrace the aspects of Mother Nature that have helped keep us healthy and vital throughout time.

Today, yet another example of this is emerging: the high vibrational energy, or “high vibe,” lifestyle. I call it the “new organic.”

What’s old is new again…

High vibrational is a way of life…like organic, it means “close to Nature.” But high vibrational takes organic a step further by focusing on the energy of everything.

Rocks, food, stars, trees, TVs, you, me – you name it – everything in the universe is made of vibrational energy, interactive subatomic particles; and everything we consume or surround ourselves with ultimately impacts our energy and health

– for better or for worse.

The idea that everything is vibrational is not new. Energy was (and is) the theme underlying various holistic health philosophies in ancient Greece, India, and China. Here in the West, though, it took until the mid-20th century and Albert Einstein’s Nobel Prize-winning theory, E=mc2, which described the interchangability of mass and energy, to persuade us that energy and health could be linked.

The theory actually proved that the “good vibes” and “bad vibes” we get from people, places, and things aren’t just in our heads — we actually feel them in our bodies, at the cellular level.

Stay with me, here.

We generally think of the body as a “mass” of flesh, bone, and blood, but Einstein’s theory tells us that the body is also a bundle of vibrating electromagnetic energy.

And this is true. Every single cell in the body, whether it’s in your brain or your big toe, vibrates at a microscopic frequency. There’s a natural pulsation to its activity.

When cells are healthy—meaning they’re not damaged in some way and they’re able to efficiently metabolize nutrients and make ATP (the body’s most basic fuel)—their vibrational frequency is high. When cells are unhealthy, though, their vibration slows.

Living high-vibrationally means living in a way that helps raise or maintain your body’s natural vibrational frequency.

Some of those choices will sound familiar, like eating fresh, whole, organic foods that promote strong cell metabolism—and avoiding things that don’t, like cigarette smoke and other environmental toxins.

But the real magic of a high vibrational lifestyle lies in recognizing the energetic interconnectedness of everything in our world, and in learning how to combine all of those energies with our own feelings, intentions, and habits to increase our health and longevity.