Why Low Vibes Feel Unbearable: Intuition, Energy and Clearing

Something has shifted for a lot of people, and Sonia Choquette wants to give it a name. In her video "Your Intuition Is Waking Up in 5D!", she describes a growing intolerance for certain rooms, moods and personalities: a corner store that seems to push you back out the door, a dance floor that suddenly feels sad, a celebrated restaurant that tenses the body the moment you step inside. Her central claim is that this is not pickiness or a character flaw. It is intuition switching on to register three things, energy, frequency and vibration, and it is pointing you toward environments that lift you. Drawing on client stories, a few household rituals and a short list of body signals, she builds a practical method for reading a room and clearing it. The framework is spiritual, rooted in her language of higher self, angels and guides, and this piece unpacks how it works, what she actually recommends, and where you might take it.

Why do certain places suddenly feel wrong?

Choquette opens with a question most people will recognize: have you become "slightly allergic" to certain types of people, when before it did not bother you much? Her answer is that the change is in your sensitivity, not in the people around you. She frames it as "the front door of the rising vibration and the passage to the fifth dimension," a phrase that anchors the whole video.

Her first example is a corner grocery store. A woman she spoke with, she says, had gone there for years on her way home from work, buying packaged staples for dinner. Then, about a week before she told Choquette the story, she walked in while exhausted and was overtaken by a feeling she could not explain. "Everything in me knows that if I buy anything there, it is going to be bad for my health," the woman told her. She had not researched the store. She simply walked out, went a couple of blocks to another shop, bought fresh produce and made a salad. It had happened more than once by the time she described it.

"It's almost like something pushed me out."

(a woman describing a corner grocery store to Sonia Choquette, in the video at about 1:36)

Choquette's reading is that this kind of avoidance is an intuitive signal. Intuition, in her account, is not only about predicting future events. It is the set of inner senses registering what a place is like right now.

What are energy, frequency and vibration, according to Choquette?

The core of the video is a three-part distinction. Choquette says intuition begins to register, first, energy: "the nature of the energy you're in all the way around." She compares it to knowing whether you are in good vibes or bad. You do not need a diagnosis to feel it; you simply sense the atmosphere.

The second is frequency, which she describes as the level of vibration. A low-frequency place is a heavy place, and heavy places drain. That, for her, explains why a person or a venue that was tolerable a year ago may now feel intolerable. The threshold has moved, and what you can stand has changed with it.

The third is vibration itself, which she boils down to a simple question: is this good vibes or bad? She treats that yes-or-no reading as information you can act on rather than something to argue yourself out of. Her point is that a body that has become more sensitive will often answer that question faster than the mind can build a case.

Why does a dance floor or a restaurant suddenly feel wrong?

The second story concerns a friend who loved going out dancing. Her favorite spot no longer felt like hers. "I walked into the place and it just felt sad and noisy," Choquette quotes her as saying. "I couldn't lose myself into the music or the fun because it didn't feel like anybody was having any fun." Choquette's suggestion was a different kind of night: Daybreakers, the morning dance gatherings she says are happening in cities around the world, where people dance before work instead of at midnight in dark rooms with cocktails and loud music. She says she had met people connected to the retreat where Daybreakers was invented, and she clearly relishes the idea. "How fun? How smart? Good vibes."

The third story is the most cinematic. A client, she says, had a rule: if a restaurant did not feel right within moments of walking in, she would leave. Friends had insisted on a celebrated New York restaurant, and she finally got a reservation about six weeks out. The room was "so tense and unpleasant and uptight" that she walked back out. Her friends were annoyed. Her answer, as Choquette tells it, was that she did not have fear of missing out, because this place did not feel good to her. They went down the block for pizza and had a great time.

What ties these three stories together is not the venues but the decision rule. Choquette is teaching a way of evaluating a place by how your body responds to it, rather than by reputation, reviews, or what a crowd agrees is the place to be.

Can you clear a home of low vibrations?

Choquette's advice begins at home. Her first question is whether your home has good vibes, and whether you feel happy when you walk through the door. She acknowledges that roommates or family members can change the atmosphere, but she argues that the space itself can still be improved, and that work is possible even at the office "to some degree."

Her first principle is that everything carries energy, so anything that does not uplift the space should go. Disorder is her main example. "Disorder is not good vibes. Low vibrations hover around disorder," she says, naming leftover dishes and garbage. Clear energy, she argues, brings concrete benefits: better sleep, more peace, sharper intuition and clearer manifesting, because you are not operating in chaos.

Her second principle is scrutiny. Look at the objects you own and ask whether each one has good vibes. She tells a story about a raincoat she bought because it was raining and she needed one. Putting it on put her in a bad mood. "The actual color has drained energy out of me," she says, describing a beige-brown that was simply "not my vibe." She chose an umbrella instead. The lesson is less about fashion than about noticing which objects you keep out of habit and which ones actually feel like yours.

Why does a coat drain you, and do you need a reason to walk away?

This is where Choquette is most insistent. She says her teachers taught her that you do not have to explain or justify why something feels good or bad. "If it doesn't feel good, it doesn't feel good and there is a reason you don't have to know in order to respect it." For someone trained to argue themselves into obligations, that is a radical permission. It means you can decline an invitation, a meal, a conversation or a sweater without building a defense.

The same logic underlies her warning about the thing that drains most of us: our own loops of thought. Choquette recommends two ways to break them. One is a mindful walk, where you go outside and pay attention to what is around you rather than replaying the same concern. The other is a project that uses both hands, such as cooking, sewing, gardening or any craft that pulls you out of your head and into the material world. Both are simple, and both are presented as ways of returning your attention to the present.

What tools does she recommend for clearing a space?

The video's description lists her space-clearing kit, and it is intentionally low-cost. Choquette mentions a small bell that you ring through a room to shift the vibration. She recommends opening the windows to let air move through, lighting a candle, and sprinkling a light amount of salt in the corners of a room. Beauty matters to her too. Flowers, and natural scents including lavender, cinnamon and eucalyptus, are presented as ways of raising the vibration of a space for manifesting.

The point is not to treat these as magic formulas. In Choquette's framework, they are signals to yourself. Clearing, ringing, lighting and opening are deliberate acts that tell you the space is being tended, and that you are paying attention to its energy. That attentiveness is itself the practice.

How do you recognize what is draining you?

Choquette keeps returning to the body. She names sudden irritability or agitation as the signals that an energy is not right for you. The feeling may arrive before any explanation does, which is why she asks you to begin "to name or identify the quality of the vibration" you are in throughout the day. Keep a running check, she suggests: is this good vibes or bad? Notice where the answer shifts.

She also counsels a kind of selective distance. The point of noticing is not to become hostile to people, but to protect the energy you need in order to live the life you want. "You never need a reason to honor what does not feel good," she says in her closing summary, and she frames the whole practice as a "vibe check" you can start today.

Where to go from here

If the framework resonates, start small. Choose one room and walk into it with the question Choquette returns to: does this feel good? Clear what does not uplift it, ring the bell or open a window, and then notice what changes in your body and your mood over the next few days. Try the mindful walk the next time a thought loop starts to run, and test the morning-dance idea if you have a favorite night spot that has gone flat. And when a place or person gives you that quick, unexplained no, practice honoring it without building the case first.

Choquette offers all of this from a spiritual perspective that centers intuition, higher self and guides. Whether you adopt her language or simply her habits of attention, the practical core is the same: pay closer attention to how your body answers the room, and give yourself permission to act on the answer.