Anne: [00:00:00] Hi, I am Anne, and I'm Helen. And welcome to Metaphysical Street Smarts. What is Metaphysical Street Smarts? Helen 

Helen: Physical is everything you can see with your human eye. You can see, touch, feel, taste as a human. Metaphysical. Is that what you cannot see? Wifi microwave energy. When you feel somebody staring at you, you can't really feel eyesight.

Helen: So metaphysical is that what you can't perceive with the human eye? Street smarts means let's take the woowoo, the energetic, the airy fairy, and add it to logic so that you can have a better experience of yourself. In the one. 

Anne: As always, we invite you to take what blesses you and leave the rest. We're so glad you're here.

Anne: Let's jump in. 

Helen: Hi, Helen. Hi Anne. How are you doing today? I'm doing very good. [00:01:00] Enjoying, well, maybe not enjoying the heat. Uh, I am, however, enjoying all the babies, growing from the seeds I planted. Ooh, what did you plant? Lots and lots of flowers. A few. I have eggplant, I have herbs. And yet I'm not really doing vegetables this year I'm really, um, catering to the hummingbird and butterfly population.

Helen: And yet when you plant seeds, it's so joyous to go out and talk to them every day and see who's growing. And I have a few buds popping up out of the, you know, the plants. And it's always magical and amazing to me that from the teeniest tiniest seed. A plant can grow and produce fruit or massive amounts of flowers for the next very many months.

Helen: It's just every year a miracle that I get to witness. 

Anne: I love that reminder. 'cause that's, I mean, that's everything. It just starts from the tiniest little thing and it turns [00:02:00] into this huge tree or forest or it's crazy, or a little plant that's just beautiful if you 

Helen: water it and care for it and. Provide for it.

Helen: Right. That's how our minds are too. Mm-hmm. And I often think of that when I'm weeding. There's also a lot of weeds. And I, I think, oh, you know who, first of all, I have a little fun game with it. Like who am I to decide what stays in the garden and what leaves? And I think each week puts lifespan and I pull it out.

Helen: And I think this is just like working with my mind. To stop focusing on the fear-based thoughts and focus on the love-based thoughts. 

Anne: I love it. And it doesn't make, it doesn't make it wrong, it just makes, it's what you're choosing to, to not have in your garden. That's it. A 

Helen: practice in, I'm choosing this.

Helen: Fair pleasure. 

Anne: Yeah, there are so many up to upsides, to gardening. And this is just another one, 

Helen: and I, I can't even remember now, it's been so long, but I read [00:03:00] somewhere that, you know, plant from seed because it connects you more to the cycle of life and the patience and, and I will say I've been doing that longer than I can remember now.

Helen: And. It is fascinating to me. Gardens and plants and even, you know, your vegetable plants or your flowering plants, they're nothing, nothing, nothing. And then they're over abundant. I haven't quite figured out the, the spiritual lesson in that yet, but. I will. Um, so what's your cosmic nudge 

Anne: this week? Yeah, so, um, we've talked about, and I've been on, I've been on a journey with rekindling my love for reading, and I'm learning to balance it as a fun part of life instead of medicating with it.

Anne: And I feel like it's going pretty well. I'm still working on it. And one of the things that's helped that I wanted to share. Because I think it applies to [00:04:00] anything that I use to numb or medicate with. I, I read that there's this idea that because we are inherently creative beings, when we lean heavily into the consumption side of consuming versus creating balance, that we can fall into a depressed state.

Anne: And that resonated with me. So when, now, when I am, when I feel like binging on anything, books, shows, music, social media, food. I have been making time to intentionally create. I'm setting aside time, maybe not in a one-to-one ratio, but I am. If I'm feeling like I'm being a little bit obsessive about something, I'm like, okay, well, I'm taking this as a message that I need to spend time allowing myself to create hula hooping, singing, playing guitar, making something up, painting, whatever it is.

Anne: I mean, [00:05:00] even, even creating through cleaning or like creating a space that I'm enjoying. I'm just, I'm just, it's helping me find the balance, so I wanted to share that. 

Helen: Oh, I love that. I love that so much. Creating through cleaning. I, I get that now. Thank you for saying that. It's like I'm creating the experience, you know, like when I clean a room or something and then I look at it.

Helen: I have created a feeling place of appreciating it. Right? Just when I've ignored cleaning that one area for a long time, the energy is different. Mm-hmm. Um, and then I will share with you because I, I hadn't thought of it in these words, so when I read, I. For pleasure not studying spirituality. When I read for pleasure Entertainment, when I watch tv, my husband likes to unwind with TV every night.

Helen: And so we watch like series, we like limited series a lot, um, sometimes movies, [00:06:00] and I use them all. And so this is creative. I just never anchored that word with it. I used them all to develop my spiritual practice. Holy Spirit, how can I see this through your perspective? Because, you know, it's a great way to practice.

Helen: How do I come out of fear and non and and judgment into non-judgment and a broader perspective of love? And so through the years there's been different things I've been working on. When I watched that really intense series, game of Thrones took me a long time. Oh yeah. Everybody else had already watched it and my sons kept saying, you won't like it.

Helen: All your favorite people end up dead. It's not something you would watch. And finally, I did decide to watch it because I wanted to understand more. I had been studying the mind. And epigenetics, and I wanted to understand more about how do we come in pre-wired for these big emotions like shame, like guilt, like [00:07:00] anger, and watching that show, whew.

Helen: Quite an opportunity to offer more time for prayer and meditation, which is listening. You know, prayer is where you're talking to God. Meditation is where you're, you're developing your stamina to listen to the answers. And so I use books and TV as a creative endeavor to grow myself spiritually. 

Anne: Yeah, that, I mean, I feel like that would be a great technique to use as well, to come at it from, how can I see this at a higher level and instead of maybe getting as sucked in, which is fun to get sucked in sometimes, but being able to consciously choose to, if I'm not in a place where I want to get sucked in that, yeah, I can still read it and enjoy it without needing to be so just hyper-focused on it.

Helen: Yeah. Or you're that hyper-focused and then you utilize it in mindfulness of what does this [00:08:00] mean to me for what I'm learning or what I want to understand. And there is a Course Miracles teacher, David, um, Hoffmeister, I believe he has, it's called the. Movie Guide for enlightenment or something like that, I can't remember now.

Helen: And he uses, he even has a weekly group where they watch a movie together and talk about the aspects of forgiveness that it's teaching. Isn't that cool? 

Anne: Yeah. I mean, it brings mindfulness to entertainment. Cool. I love that. I love the way this is developed. 

Helen: So do we have a question for this week? 

Anne: Yes. Yeah.

Anne: So this week our question is from Ashley and uh, Ashley asked the question, I keep hearing people talk about raising their vibration, but what does that even mean and what's the benefit and how would I do that? 

Helen: That's a very good thorough question. Ashley. Kudos. Yes, 

Anne: she got it all in there. [00:09:00] 

Helen: So I would like to give a broader perspective, you know, from, from how I perceive things.

Helen: So I do call myself a teacher of vibrational law, and we live on a vibrational planet. Everything on this planet is about vibration. Science tells us and teaches us that even something that seems, um, solid, a chair, a desk. You know, a house, it's really the wood, the cement, whatever you're perceiving are atoms vibrating at different rates.

Helen: So even something that seems solid is really not solid if you have the technology to look at it. And we, we live on a very vibrational planet where. If you hear crickets or frogs over here, others will answer. If you put two grandfather clocks on a wall in two different rooms, but they share a wall, their pendulums will actually sink up.

Helen: Put a bunch of girls in a door [00:10:00] room together and their menstrual cycles will sink up. Put a bunch of humans that are not conscious into a mob environment and they will get triggered and angry and act in ways they would never act alone. I think, I don't know how many thousand people now, it's many thousands that Tony Robbins will put in a stadium and he can have all those people feel better about themselves.

Helen: He can hold the energy that strongly, that people can entrain to what he's saying. So for me. Teaching from a vibrational standpoint crosses all the boundaries of belief systems, religious, spiritual ideas. It's really about what you resonate with. And so there are many studies now on, um, sound healing. And what we know so far is that the military has figured out how certain sounds.

Helen: Can kill [00:11:00] people. Like it's something less dire than killing people, but like a flash bang can make your body misfire so you just fall down and can't function. Right? Like they will use these flash bang biases. So crazy. Right. And we know, well, I know because my neighbors showed me her garden and she had a hot wire around it and I, and she said, don't touch that.

Helen: And I didn't mean to touch that, but I did end up putting my hand on it and nope, blanked out for a minute there. It threw my whole story tree outta balance and I was no longer conscious for that moment. Gosh, when was that? That was years ago. But I, wow. My brother, who at the time was working with elephants in England, they had the.

Helen: This very aggressive male, a bull elephant in his enclosure. They had hot wires, but I mean, not like the garden one. I'm talking big hot wires 'cause it's a massive elephant. And my brother touched it and it threw him five feet, right? So we know that [00:12:00] frequency or energy or electricity, all these things that work with vibration intensely lightning can make your, you know, your brain, your body functions, your nervous system, fire.

Helen: Off or power surge. So that's extreme ideas of, of frequency and power. Like we know electricity is not static, it's not, you know, just solid. It's moving. It's a current, so humans have a current, that's what life is compared to death. We have a life force current running through us. We know from science and many, many research projects that a healthy organ has a higher frequency, a higher vibratory weight than a diseased or sick organ.

Helen: We know that when we laugh, it's a higher frequency than when we're depressed. So if you think of depression, it feels heavy. It's so heavy, right? Or grief is so heavy. When you're in real grief, it feels like an elephant is sitting on [00:13:00] you. You just have no energy and no, get up and go. So if you think of vibration like this, and I'm sure there are people who could explain it better with things like, um, RPMs, the rotations in a car, an engine.

Helen: It's all about, you know, vibrational counting, I guess, of some kind. So for the human body, for me. My goal as a person in, in human form is to always increase my frequency because I believe that the higher frequencies of Christ consciousness, the higher frequencies of love, I can perceive vibration now and the higher frequencies to me feel well.

Helen: I dunno if I have right words. You'll help me on this. Ann, you and I, we get high when we're doing these podcasts, right? We're in a higher frequency of love, non-judgment. Um, there seems to be no concept of linear time. There's a lot of like, true presence is a very high frequency when [00:14:00] you're in worry and apathy and anger and lower fear.

Helen: Vibrations, you're very anchored in suffering and time, and those are lower frequencies by my definition, right? So higher vibes means that you're more aligned to the things that feel good. Happiness, generosity, kindness, forgiveness, appreciation and lower vibes are, it's hard to get outta bed. It's hard to listen.

Helen: It's hard to engage. It's hard to give or receive. It's hard to, uh, feel youthful and vibrant. And so how do you raise your vibrations? Well, there's so many different levels of that. Gratitude is really a big one. Um, eating high vibrational food is another movement is a higher frequency than stagnant energy.

Helen: We know that, like, think of water. Water that's moving is very different than water that's just sitting there getting [00:15:00] mucky. So physical movement in the body, physical focus and stamina, building in the mind, a mind that keeps learning. Is much younger than a mind that's limited and can't remember and repeats, repeats, repeats.

Helen: Um, a body that has more movement than just a few certain moves is younger than a body that's limited in movement. So for me, raising my vibration means engaging in thinking higher vibrational thoughts, which are aligned to. What we know love is described as, um, versus lower vibrational thoughts, which are the fear-based emotions that don't feel good and make your face scrunch up and your, you know, your wrinkles on your forehead.

Helen: Mm-hmm. Uh, we know speaking higher vibration is kinder, happier, uh, more forgiving, more joyous, more generous than speaking anger or resentment. Or trying to guilt somebody or manipulate somebody. [00:16:00] We know that different foods have different frequency or living foods have way higher vibration than your processed foods.

Helen: Um, sprouts have way, microgreens have a way higher frequency than say, vegetables that have been frozen. You know, so there's all these different levels of frequency. Uh, what else? Body, mind, emotionally we know. Again, like I said, happiness skill is a higher frequency than grief. Doesn't mean one's right or wrong or good or bad, and you should avoid anything.

Helen: It just means that when you're able to choose, uh, actively work on increasing your, your vibes, and then you're in alignment. Vibrationally for better and better feeling experiences. So think of being with friends. If you play on a party and you think, Ooh, let's have yummy food and let's have good music, and I want everybody to have a nice time and feel comfortable and have [00:17:00] good conversations, well that's a very high vibe party.

Helen: Versus everybody coming around and talking about how awful politics is and eating processed fast food, that's a lower vibe party. Does that make sense? 

Anne: And I mean, they each have their place, right? You get to pick which one you wanna have. Yeah. 

Helen: It's not right or wrong, it's just if you're talking higher vibes, you'll know.

Helen: Um, basically you'll know by how you feel. Your face will smile, your brow will be relaxed. You, you will feel connected to people. Lower vibes tend to connect you through pain, suffering, worry, and stress. Higher vibes connect you through lavish abundance, joy, youthful vitality, movement, um, 

Anne: happiness. It's one of those self-evident, you know it when you experience it.

Anne: Yeah. Um, okay. Well, do you have a question for Ashley? 

Helen: Yes. So Ashley, if you were [00:18:00] interested and have had higher vibes, there are some questions you could ask yourself. When you watch a TV show, like we were talking about, what's your intention of watching it? Does it make you align to higher vibes or lower vibes and any kinda show can, depending on your perspective of what you're watching, why you're watching it, and what you wanna take away from it.

Helen: Right? Mm-hmm. It doesn't all have to be, you know, a Mary Poppin show to be high vibes. It can be, it can serve you if you set your intention in any way you desire when you're eating food, even if it's, you know, if you're a meat eater and it's cooked, or your vegetables are cooked. It doesn't mean that has to be a low vibe meal compared to like live food.

Helen: It's your intention when you eat it. Are you in gratitude? Are you nourishing your body? Are you grateful and happy and feel wonderful being in a body that you can feed good, nourishing food to when you're speaking? Are you speaking from a place is your vibration? You'll know how the other people receive it.[00:19:00] 

Helen: If it lights them up, if they're happy, if they can receive, you know, you're in very high vibration. If you're talking and you and the person listening, you're just getting angrier and getting more gossipy and more complaining, well then, you know, that was a lower vibrational, right? So again, not right or wrong, not, you don't have to pick one or the other, except Ashley.

Helen: I would encourage you decide what feels better to you, higher or lower, and aim for that. And try it on for size even. Even your home can have a higher or lower vibration. Haven't you ever been somewhere where you feel immediately comfortable and other times you go somewhere you don't wanna touch anything 'cause you just don't feel comfortable there?

Helen: That's another way to describe our psychic senses. Our um. Energy, body perceiving energy or you can get around somebody like say you're in an elevator. There's some people you don't mind being crowded in with [00:20:00] and there are other people you don't want to get close to. That's vibrational interpretation that an aspect of you is picking up that's not intellectual.

Anne: Yeah, that makes so much sense. 'cause I'm just thinking there are times where I'm around the same person and Yeah, it's all about where they're, I mean, where I'm at. But I also, what they're giving off affects my, how comfortable I am feeling. And it's not about the person, it's about the The vibrations.

Anne: It's about the energy. Yeah. That's cool. 

Helen: Yes. And so, one example I use, if you've ever seen the TV show about hoarding, there are people in their homes like. I'm talking about excessive, you know, scary looking hoarding, extreme hoarding. That's where a person has collected so much stagnant energy. You know, things piled on top of things so they're no longer used.

Helen: And eventually the things in the house take on a stronger, [00:21:00] stagnant energy than the human. The human loses all choice and they get irrational about staying there. That's an example of like, that's a, a less dramatic compounded effect example versus like a mob scene. And it's fascinating for me. I love it.

Helen: I always like to think in vibration. So my goal in my work is that I can hold a vibration of authentic. Care and love and logic for coaching so that when I'm around people who are at a lower frequency of struggle and confusion and pain, I don't entrain down to them and feel horrible, which I did in the beginning, right?

Helen: I would have sessions and then go home and take a nap. Instead, I can hold steady so that they might raise their vibration. And so what I personally noticed about frequency and within myself is when I was my. Previous self of just [00:22:00] angry. I was very much an angry person. Um, and then I got on a spiritual journey and started learning how to think and got very interested in higher frequency.

Helen: That's when I noticed people would say, Hey, I need a Helen fix, or, I love being with you. I always feel so good. Which I never heard before I got on this journey, just saying. 

Anne: Okay. So there's hope. Oh, that's amazing. Thank you. Um, anything else you wanna add for this one? 

Helen: Yeah. So for, you know, going a little deeper, so for me, I seek out teachers, books, videos, meditations that are at a, at a level just beyond my comprehension.

Helen: Just a little bit out of my comfort zone because when I study those things and that means lots of repetition's, what makes sense to me? I can feel the vibration much higher. It makes me feel like, wow, I just don't [00:23:00] get it yet, but I want to get it because I like the feeling place of it. That's when I know I am building stamina for higher frequency.

Anne: That's like me with my obsession with some day understanding time, space, the, the fabric of the universe and the way that it. It bends and curves, and I'm like, I don't understand. It cannot explain it to anyone, including myself, but I know one day I will and I will keep watching the videos and reading the books, and one day it'll click and I'll get it.

Anne: That's true. And I'll know it. That's true. That's exactly 

Helen: how you do it. Right. 

Anne: Uh, okay. Well, Ashley, thank you so much for sending in your question that just flew by for me 

Helen: and I, I will just mention that Anne and I feel like this podcast is a very high vibe because we always have fun. We're always smiling, we're always so grateful and appreciative to people who send in questions and that we get to be in this sharing mode through.[00:24:00] 

Helen: Language. So we thank everybody. Ashley, thank you so much. And yeah, we feel it's very high vibe. We love doing this. 

Anne: Yeah, keep listening, keep showing up. You're, you're part of the high vibe, so thank you everyone. All right, Helen. Well we will check in next week. Thank you so much for being here. Ah, love it.

Anne: Thank you. That's all for today. We'll be back next Thursday with our next episode. You can subscribe if you'd like to get new episodes when they drop. And reviewing and sharing the pod will help others find our community. We love getting your questions at Hello at metaphysical Street Smart. Dot com and enjoy connecting with you on Instagram or wherever you've found us at Metaphysical Street Smarts.

Anne: You can leave comments or questions there, which may be featured on our rapid fire segment. For information on upcoming events and consults with Helen, please visit Helen Rays. Dot com. That's [00:25:00] H-E-L-E-N-R-A-C z.com. 

Helen: We invite you to re-listen. Join us on our next episode, send us questions because it is our intent to support you at this tumultuous time on Earth into the best experience of you.

Anne: Thanks for being here. Until next time, stay grounded.