How to Shift Your Energy and Raise Your Vibration When Perimenopause Has You Feeling Low — The Consciousness Practice I Use Myself

Something shifts in perimenopause that is hard to put into words at first. It is not just tiredness — you have been tired before, and this is different. It is more like a dimming. A loss of colour in things that used to feel alive. You find yourself going through the motions, smiling when you need to, functioning perfectly well on the outside — and feeling strangely absent on the inside.

Some women describe it as losing themselves. Others call it a fog. Some say they feel like they are watching their own life from a distance, not quite able to reach it.

If any of this resonates — whether you have a perimenopause diagnosis or you are just beginning to wonder whether this might be what is happening to you — then what I am about to share might genuinely help.

It is called working with the Levels of Consciousness, based on the work of Dr David Hawkins. And before I explain what it is, I want to tell you what it actually feels like when you use it — because that is what makes me keep coming back to it.

When I use this practice, the low feeling does not vanish straight away. But something changes. It starts to feel less stuck. Less permanent. Like there is a little bit of air in the room again. You go from feeling completely overwhelmed by what you need to do and how you are feeling — to being able to just sit with it and say: okay, this is where I am right now. And that is enough to start moving again.

I have used it on really dark days. Days when I could not see the point of anything. And it helped — not by making everything suddenly fine, but by giving me just enough ground under my feet to take the next small step.

First — Why Does Perimenopause Affect Your Mood So Deeply?

Before we get into the practice, it helps to understand what is actually happening. During perimenopause, oestrogen levels decline and fluctuate — and oestrogen has a direct effect on serotonin and dopamine, the brain chemicals that regulate mood, motivation, and your sense of wellbeing. So when your hormones shift, your emotional baseline shifts with them. This is real, it is physical, you are not imaging it, and it is not your fault.

But here is something I have noticed — both in myself and in the women I work with. Even when we address the hormonal side, there is often an emotional layer underneath that does not fully shift. Old patterns. Long-held beliefs. A way of seeing ourselves and our lives