Her Higher Vibes

Written by Iyesha Gee

There is something deeply beautiful about this generation choosing mental wellness. We are naming trauma, setting boundaries, and finally saying out loud that survival alone is not success. I love that for us. I truly do. But there is a shadow side we don’t talk about enough—what happens when healing becomes passive, when awareness replaces action, and when prayer is treated like a substitute for responsibility.

Growing up, we learned a simple scientific truth in school: energy cannot be destroyed, only transferred. That lesson didn’t stop being true just because we became adults. Energy moves—through people, through spaces, through experiences. Trauma doesn’t disappear because we acknowledge it. Pain doesn’t dissolve because we pray about it. If it isn’t processed, it is passed on.

That truth explains so much of the surprising negativity and destructiveness we see today—often from people we never expected. People who talk about peace but move in chaos. People who preach healing but bleed on everyone around them. Many don’t realize the energy they’ve picked up, and even more don’t know how to fight it, release it, or transform it.

Mental wellness without discipline becomes indulgence.

Spirituality without accountability becomes escapism.

Prayer without works becomes noise.

The Bible said it plainly: faith without works is dead. Prayer was never meant to be the ending point—it was meant to be the ignition. You pray and you move. You ask for clarity and you change your patterns. You pray for peace and you stop entertaining what disrupts it.

Just praying isn’t enough.

You can’t pray away habits you refuse to break.

You can’t pray away cycles you keep choosing.

You can’t pray away energy you won’t confront.

This is how we ended up in a chaotic world—full of people who are self-aware but not self-responsible, spiritually loud but emotionally untrained, mentally “well” but energetically reckless. Energy has been transferred, not transformed.

Healing requires work.

Growth requires action.

Peace requires participation.

Prayer opens the door—but works are what walk you through it. Let’s choose the glory that comes from the hard work from the instructions received after prayer, I’m sure this is what the word spoken by James in 2;14-26 meant.