Cleaning up your vibration is essential to successful manifesting. Many rely on techniques like journaling and visualization, but all you really need to get what you want is an aligned vibration. Once you get your vibe straightened out, your manifested desires arrive with greater speed and ease.

So how to clean up your vibration? Its simple: Feel Good! But because thats a foreign task for many folks, here are 12 tips to raising your vibration:

1. Food fill your body with food that feels good, regardless whether someone says its good for you or not. They dont know. Your body knows. When you eat or drink something you enjoy, your cells are nourished - regardless of carb, sugar or fat content. Enjoy feeding your body what it wants.

2. Sound give your ears a feast! Listen to music you love; enjoy the sounds of water, birds, or children laughing; avoid sounds you dont enjoy. Be selective about what you let into your world.

3. Thoughts filter your thoughts so that you deliberately entertain thoughts that feel good. Although it may be impossible to eliminate all negative thoughts, you can give them less air time. Practice holding thoughts that lighten your heart and lift your soul.

4. Activities do things you enjoy, and stop doing things you dont! This is an amazingly simple tip to clean up your vibration. Look at your current to do list. What arent you looking forward to? Cross it off. Delegate or hire it out, or decide it doesnt need to be done. Add three things to your list youd LOVE. Not only does this tip get easier as you practice it, but life becomes a lot more fun!

5. Indulge many of us were taught not to splurge or spoil ourselves. The truth is you deserve to be treated well by yourself and others. Set the example by spoiling yourself daily. Sleep in, take a long shower, go to bed early, read by the fire, let the calls go to voice mail, have a cup of hot chocolate, meditate, paint your toenails, get a massage, buy the little stuffed bear that makes you smile listen for what your heart wants and indulge it!

6. People you know those people who leave you feeling drained? Stop spending time with them. Seek out people who are fun to be around. Your vibration takes a toll each time you listen to someones tirade, and is lifted immensely when you share fun stories and laughter. Give your vibration the people it likes.

7. Books Feed your soul uplifting energy with books that turn you on. Whether its a picture book of beautiful gardens, a childrens story, Oprahs latest issue of O, Abraham-Hicks on CD - whatever does it for you read (or listen to) something that makes you feel good. And stop reading what doesnt feel good (this includes tabloids, trade journals, and daily newspapers).

8. Animals one of the easiest ways to clean up your vibration is to spend time with a four-legged friend. If you dont already have a companion animal, visit a neighbors, set up a bird feeder, or volunteer your services to a local animal rescue group. Spending time with animals works for virtually everyone and is a no-brainer way to feel better.

9. Nature spending time in nature is also very cleansing to your energy. Take a walk in the park; sit on the porch to feel the breeze; lie on the grass to watch the clouds. Even raking the leaves or shoveling the snow is good for the soul!

10. Turn off the TV this might seem inconceivable at first, but trust me, youll grow to love it. Filtering the vibrations you allow into your world is one of the best ways to clean up your own vibe. Know that if theres news you really need, someone will tell you. If theres a show that truly makes you feel good, tune in and then turn it off afterwards.

11. Metta practice regularly experiencing love and appreciation will get your vibe squeaky clean in no time. Buddhists call it metta practice (loving kindness); and youve probably heard of Random Acts of Kindness. Practice sending out waves of love and appreciation to everything around you: mailmen, street signs and strangers included.

12. Declutter cleaning up the energy of your immediate environment will improve your vibration as well. Practice simplicity. Let go of things in the house you dont need or want; be selective about what you let in; and organize the spaces that need attention (basements and closets especially).

Start intially with the two tips that got your attention. As you clean up your vibration, you may experience minor side effects as your body adjusts to the new chemicals youre flowing. This will pass, and it becomes easier to naturally maintain a high vibration bringing you that much closer to dreams come true!