Elevate Your Spiritual Journey: Exploring Vibration, Energy Practices, and Personal Growth with Susie Smith

Explore the transformative power of raising your vibration with my friend and energy peer, Susie Smith, as we embark on a journey through the themes of my new novel, "The Red Magus." Discover how aligning with higher frequencies like happiness can elevate your spiritual evolution and learn how energy practices such as Reiki can cleanse and harmonize your soul. Susie shares her expert insights into practical methods for raising your vibration, including using crystals and essential oils while emphasizing the necessity of grounding and protection. Together, we paint a vivid picture of how connecting with light beings and higher energies can enhance your perception and foster personal growth.

We also examine the roles of our higher self, soul, inner child, and ego, and how these layers of our being contribute to our spiritual journey. Engage with tools like oracle cards and meditation to gain insights from guides and energy helpers who support us through life's transitions. Susie introduces the healing power of sound meditation and her experience connecting with the Red Mages, offering listeners the opportunity to feel vibrations and explore their energy fields. Join us as we share personal stories from our 20-year friendship, illustrating the profound impact of becoming more present and balanced through these enlightening practices.

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My new novel The Red Magus has recently been published in conjunction with the Unbound Press.  An entralling mystical adventure set across time and space, where past and current lives converge.  Find it on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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Chapters

• 2:30 Raising Vibration and Connecting Light Beings
• 10:34 Connecting With Higher Self Aspects
• 20:49 The Healing Sound Meditation Experience

Transcript

Speaker 1: 2:30

so welcome everybody to this extra edition of barn to the soul. So over the last few days, to celebrate the launch of the red magus, my new novel, we've had an episode or we've done an episode with some lovely guests every day, and today we're doing an episode with my friend and energy peer, susie Smith. So welcome, susie.

Speaker 2: 2:58

Hi, hello everybody. Thanks for having me again.

Speaker 1: 3:01

No problem, and if you look back through the episodes of Barnes and Soul, you'll see that Susie's been on quite a few times, so go back and listen to those episodes. But today we are going to talk about an aspect that I wrote about in the book, and that's about raising your vibration and connecting to light beings, and when I started off many years ago, I always was quite confused as to what does that actually practically mean? What, because it was always talked about. You know, you get involved in spiritual healing because you want to raise your vibration, and I was always a little bit I'm not sure what that's on about. So enlighten us, sus, susie. What is it all about when we talk about raising our vibration?

Speaker 2: 3:57

for me and, and I always say, we all have our own understanding, definition, beliefs of these, um, like words, you know, like the definition. So, for me, raising your vibration, and it's something, it's something so much of a journey. When you begin raising your vibration, you know, if you think everything is energy, everything is frequency and, to make it really simple, to be happy is a high vibration, to be sad is a low vibration, is a low vibration. So, and I think, before we step into what is healing and what is spirituality, typically we can be more caught up in the humdrum of perhaps lower vibrations because we've just not learned how to cleanse our energy. It's not something that we're taught. It's not something that we're taught how to be energy conscious. So I know for me that when I first stepped into raising my vibration, that was through the healing modality of Reiki. And actually what I always say to my students when I teach Reiki is that Reiki is this high source vibration, connecting to love, connecting to the source of the universe. And, um, what we're doing is we're bringing ourselves into harmony with this energy. So we're bringing in a new frequency, a high frequency, and anything that doesn't match that high frequency almost is like sieved out, it's shaken up, it can't exist, like unconditional love and a low vibration don't exist very well together, that they're not. They're not harmonious. So those lower vibrations shift. So that may result in becoming aware of emotional patterns, or like negative feelings and anxieties, and it's almost like a sense of releasing those.

Speaker 2: 5:52

So, um, I think that that's the start of what is raising your vibration, and then we can go into raising our vibration through continual spiritual practices, through meditations. Um, it's almost like sitting in that place of bliss, sitting in that place of joy, um, and then by sitting in that raised vibration, again, similar to the, to the Reiki analogy. Those grumpy, sad, angry feelings can't coexist when we're in that place, present space of bliss. So that's an example of how we can work with that through modalities. But we can also raise our vibration with crystals, with oils, with herbs, with plants, with any sort of healing modality. They're going to show us how to raise our vibration, yeah.

Speaker 1: 6:47

I love that and actually I use. I talk about Reiki in the book. I think that's an amazing place for people to start. It's a real sort of it's a foundation for me from where I started. It introduces you into becoming into energy work, but it helps you to become quite sensitive to feeling the energies, doesn't it as well?

Speaker 2: 7:11

I believe so, feeling the energies? Doesn't it as well? I believe so and I think you know we can. We see and hear a lot of spiritual spirituality and raising your vibrations on social media, in books, in podcasts. We can read and understand it, but it really is about feeling and absorbing a vibration. So I know that some people and I've got friends that have shifted their consciousness through reading. But I also believe actually experiencing, you know, actually experiencing a healing, such as like a powerful meditation or a deep connection or like stepping into a mentality.

Speaker 2: 7:48

And, like you say, reiki is a really beautiful beginner platform because it teaches you about protection and safety, grounding. It encompasses all of the foundations that you need to be able to raise your energy. And you know, when we raise our energy, we always want to ensure that we are grounded, that we are safe and we're protected in this work that we're doing. Because, again, if we think back to before we step into this new way of raising our vibrations, we're not taught how to look after our energy. We're not taught how to ground ourselves. So you know, when we and I guess this is then bringing in the you know the term light beings, when we start to connect to light beings and and um, ascended masters, what have you? Their vibration can be so high that we can get so giddy that we then almost like our energetically, we're tripping over ourselves because we're ungrounded. So that you know that there's many different ways of raising your vibration, but also ensuring that you're anchored in your reality when you do so.

Speaker 1: 8:54

Yeah, definitely. And I talk about Cassie expanding her energy and connecting, and really, when she connects to the higher self of the red magus, I think I talk about how that really accentuates um, her abilities to see. It's almost like it plugs her in somehow and it plugs martha in as well and she's like I don't usually see things like this, but it's accentuating it, it's it's and that's what happens, isn't it when you, like you say we get a bit, we can get a bit giddy, but it can really help us to see things in meditations, in um, in everyday life, there's a sense of clarity that comes through.

Speaker 2: 9:46

So we, we connect to a new vibration. Um, like you say, cassie, with the red mages she connects, she's connecting to the red magus, she's bringing that energy, that frequency within her and through the experiences that she goes through with the past lives, she, she shifts and she releases old habits and patterns and then that allows her to then expand and really receive these new vibrations. So when we expand in the conscious, grounded way, then we heighten our psychic abilities, which are always there. So we can, and our psychic abilities can be through sight, through sound, through, through sense, feeling, through, through smell. So raising your vibrations can be many, many different ways. Um, and yeah, it's.

Speaker 2: 10:34

It's amazing how cassie is connecting with that higher self aspect and it's important to say that we all have a higher self aspect working within our being. We are more than just this um incarnate human being that we are in this lifetime. We have aspects within us. So we have our higher self, which is a raised vibration that is always connecting to that source and teaching us wisdom from from a higher source level. And then we have our soul aspect, which, again, cassie is journeying through the book, isn't she? Um, going to her, her past lives. So we all have our soul and our high self as connections. And then perhaps the other two aspects I always like to work within in healings is the inner child and the ego, or the human personalities, and those two can be aligned with the high frequencies, but can also be aligned, uh, with more the like the lower frequencies, because they're more teaching, they're showing us lessons, teaching us how to evolve, how to raise our vibration.

Speaker 1: 11:40

Yeah, yeah, it just makes it so much more understandable, doesn't it? Energy, therapies and what we're trying to do. If you think of us as almost like just many layers, as almost like, um, just many layers, it's almost like we, as we expand, we, we go through all of these layers, don't we? From the inner child, the ego, and then we expand out to our higher self. But that's all part and parcel of us. It's just about finding ways to connect to all those parts, isn't it? Does that make sense? It is about finding ways to connect to those those parts, isn't it does that?

Speaker 2: 12:13

make sense.

Speaker 2: 12:14

It is about finding ways to connect to those parts and we can do that through um different ways. So I I quite often like working with oracle cards, um, and and I like choosing a card, and I do this fairly regularly on a daily basis. If I can and I'll choose an oracle card, and whether it will be a crystal card or a divine guidance card, and whatever aspect comes through it may be Master Yasui, it may be a crystal skull, it may be Mary Magdalene, and that energy that the oracle card has a message and I sit and I ask for that message to come through. So, in fact, it's raising my vibration. Perhaps, if I'm feeling a little bit low that day, it's giving me an understanding, showing me how to go within you know what's causing me to feel a little bit low this morning and just get some understanding and clarity so again, I can expand my energy out. If perhaps it's feeling a little bit drawn in, if you're not feeling um woken, in the best of moods you pinched my last pack of angel cards I did.

Speaker 1: 13:39

My last pack of angel cards, I did. And what else do I mean? Like you know, we use crystals, don't we? I talk about crystals in the book a lot. That's a really great way and then a great way to raise your vibration, because of course they have their own vibrational signature. And then we try, and the two of the two, our energy and their energy, trying to sort of find the same frequency. So they often draw us up to a higher state yeah, they do and there's oils.

Speaker 1: 15:02

There's all sorts that you can use, isn't there?

Speaker 2: 15:06

sound. Yeah, and that's what I was just going to step into. So actually, everything has a frequency and every frequency has a sound. So, yes, you can hold and I think I've said this before in previous chats with you, tash yes, you can hold a clear quartz crystal in your hand and literally you can feel the vibration, you can feel the hum in your hand and literally you can feel the vibration, you can feel the hum in your hand and you know, and that accentuating out into your aura. But equally, you can sit in um in in the place of meditation, going within, connecting with your heart space, and you can ask for the frequency to come through of the clear quartz crystal and bring that through into your energy. That way, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 15:51

I think, and this is and I guess that was a concept that came to both of us in the last probably 10 years and if you think back 10 years prior to that, when we were first starting out, we weren't aware of that. So, again, it's expansion of knowledge and wisdom that brings through different ways of working with different energies and frequencies.

Speaker 1: 16:13

Because, if you think about it, every clear quartz has the same vibration. You can connect to all of them using liquid crystals. You can connect to the frequency of them all that oversoul frequency. You can connect to the frequency of them all that over soul frequency. And another way is, of course, with our guides, because we all have our guides and if we can connect to our guides now, they might not be an act, they're not an aspect of us necessarily, but they are an energetic being who is helping us in a particular situation. But I always, I always feel and I always experience them as being a higher vibration, because they're here to guide us and give us wisdom and um. But maybe they aren't always like that. I don't know if you've always experienced them like that.

Speaker 2: 17:08

My guides, my spirit guides, my energy helpers I always feel them stepping in. So when I change, when something is changing in my life maybe I've shifted or there's something, a new direction coming in for me I will receive a new guide. It's almost like a new guide coming in for me. I will receive a new guide. It's almost like a new guide steps forward, and that guide will make themselves very known to me as they're bringing their energy through and it tends to be quite visual, or more like an awareness of a vision, because I'm not so visual in, I've not so much sight, but more of a sense of knowing. And it's almost like when they've got my awareness and they're like. It's like they're waving a flag at me or something.

Speaker 2: 17:55

Susie, oh, yeah, right, so I can feel this guide coming forward and then, once I've made that conscious connection with them, I integrate with their energy and then I guess I let go of that thought process and that's when I know that that connection is made in there. Um, so again, it's raising the vibration, isn't it that there's a shift that happens as this guide comes through and is supporting me for whatever part of my journey that I've stepped into?

Speaker 1: 18:27

yeah, and I also talk about um, gods and goddesses. Energy which is can be incredibly powerful, but I always feel like it's a bit like um. I always feel like it's a collective energy. So I've been told that it's like many, many beings. The power of that energy is like many, many beings, um, and, which is quite interesting, but they're all powerful energies to play with, connect with yeah, and I guess I guess would.

Speaker 2: 19:02

Would the term be like where there's many beings connecting to them at one time so that they're omnipresent, aren't they? They can be everywhere at once, so they're not just working with that one person, they're working with everybody who chooses to, because there is free will when we're connecting with these beings and it and again, it's really important for me to say this if a being is forcing themselves upon you, then I would question whether that being is coming through in a divine, higher aspect way. So if you're feeling bullied or pushed into making a connection, take a step back, bringing protection for yourself, um, and know that any guide, any deity, any god, angel, any being that's coming through for you will do that in a very loving, compassionate, heartfelt way and a very positive way.

Speaker 1: 19:58

So if it's very positive when you're hearing isn't positive, you're absolutely right. Then get some help if need be, but that is not what we're talking about. We're talking about a very positive, uplifting process, and when we do raise our energy, what happens to us as people? What do you think? How do we feel that if we you know if if you say to somebody you know you're going to feel like this.

Speaker 2: 20:28

Well, you're like this. You know I think that's it's. It's. That's a tricky one because we're all so different in how we feel. I can only really explain from my experiences that I know that I'm a much happier, content person by raising my vibration. I've never been hugely anxious as a person, but I haven't. You know, I rarely feel anxious.

Speaker 2: 21:04

I feel very content with where I am and I feel more happy and present in my life, and that's been over a period of time, and perhaps, if I do look back to being in my twenties, I thought I was having a good time. I was having a good time, but now, when I time in, but, but now when I, when I connect back to that, it was um, substituted by, perhaps, behaviors and patterns that I wasn't aware of in that in that moment in my life. So, um, I think by raising your vibration, you are bringing yourself into being more present with who you are and understanding yourself, without being drawn into the negative aspects of living.

Speaker 1: 21:46

Yeah, I think you're right. I'm the same. I feel much more at peace with myself. I feel much more upbeat than I did when I first started the journey, but that doesn't mean that you don't sometimes feel, have a bad day or feel a bit down. That's not what we're talking about. But generally, you can move through life in a much more centered and balanced way basically, I agree.

Speaker 2: 22:12

I agree. I think, even if I go back, probably even five years ago, I think that you begin to observe life experiences rather than being caught up and reacting within life experiences, so you're able to see the happenings around you and go, oh, I don't like that. That doesn't make me feel comfortable. However, I'm not drawn, I'm not, I'm detached. That process and it's, it's a way of you. You still go through, like the, the lower feelings and emotions of the scenario, but it's not as all-consuming as it can be no, and obviously that's just our experience.

Speaker 1: 22:52

You know there might be people well, there will be people who have their own experience because we are all completely unique in the way that you know we travel our path. But generally it's an uplifting experience. I would hope to get involved. It's a beautiful experience. It really is. It's a very beautiful experience. It's not a quick fix, is it? It is a lifelong process. I mean, we've been doing it for years, haven't we? I think we've been doing it for years, haven't?

Speaker 2: 23:20

we I think we've been friends almost 20 years tash and we met at a reiki share and we've really, if we look back to where we were 20 years ago when we first met, and then we've supported each other, we've raised each other's vibration.

Speaker 1: 23:34

we all have issues coming up, yeah you, yeah, neither of us thought we had any issues 20 years ago, but we're still doing it and we're still clearing stuff.

Speaker 2: 23:46

Yeah checking on my energy. You know, send you a text, yeah.

Speaker 1: 23:51

So it's a process. It's a process, but a lovely one. Now, you, susie, are a sound channeler, as we know, and if you listen back to the episodes, you can hear Susie. But you are going to channel for us today, aren't you? I am. You're going to channel the Red Mages, which is very exciting.

Speaker 2: 24:11

Yes. So I've not channeled the Red Mages before and so, again, when I'm channeling, when I'm bringing in a light, being a different guide, it is through a heart, conscious choice. So I will take some moment, I will center my energy and, through intention, I will pull through the red mages and we were chatting earlier on. And I have read your book. It's brilliant, I loved it.

Speaker 1: 24:40

You did some proofreading for me right at the beginning didn't you, I did, I did.

Speaker 2: 24:46

And we know that the Red Magus is a high priestess in her higher divine aspect and she's about alchemy and healing. She's a compassionate healer. So, um, we're going to, through the sounds and, like through a meditation, we're going to connect to the red magus and that high divine aspect of her and ask that her alchemy, her healing, her compassion comes through for you as you're listening. So when I channel the sounds, if you think, think sounds are light, sounds are light.

Speaker 2: 25:24

That's quite a difficult thing to say. It doesn't seem to flow quite so easily, but everything is light, everything is energy and when I'm connecting in with the sounds, I'm connecting into that light frequency. So when the sounds come through, they come through as they're meant to. So sometimes they can be quite low or they can be quite high, but when we channel sound, um, sometimes people hear it differently to another. So you're always going to be healing, hearing it in your divine, highest divine aspect form. So, again, it's about sitting in with your heart energy and just allowing yourself to receive and knowing that the sounds will, they, it's almost like they, they, they travel through your, your being, your consciousness, your aura, your energy, and it will go where it's divinely guided to clear release, or even bring in whatever's right for you.

Speaker 1: 26:23

So if listeners sit and close their eyes, obviously if you're driving or anything while you listen to this, don't do that. But if it's safe to do so, close your eyes. Do people sometimes also see colours and you know energy in that way?

Speaker 1: 26:41

see colors and you know energy in that way, because we can interpret sound and energy and light in so many different ways can't we, you know, maybe they will see colors, they will feel the vibration, maybe they'll be drawn to a particular part of their body, their energy field, definitely all of that, and as within any healing modality, whatever is your way of experiencing healing, you can receive that.

Speaker 2: 27:05

You will receive that with the sound. So if you're visual, you'll see lots of images and if you're a feeling person, you'll feel it in your body. Quite typically, with the sound, people do feel it more in their physical body. There's a sense of like vibration that travels through. But whatever is your usual way, that will typically come through, and maybe a little bit more too as well.

Speaker 1: 27:32

Yeah, sorry, my dog went mad then, so I'm just going to mute myself. Carry on Susie.

Speaker 2: 27:40

OK, right, so I'm going to guide you all through a sound meditation now to connect to the divine, high divine aspect of the red mages. So, if you're able to just get yourselves nice and comfortable, whether you're seated or laying, allowing yourself to feel supported, gently closing your eyes and taking a few deep breaths here, allowing yourself to find the stillness within, so breathing into your heart centre and, as you're exhaling, just letting go of today jobs, work, home, life letting go of the outside world and allowing yourself to arrive within Two or three nice small deep breaths. For me Now, with intention, I invite you to drop fully into your heart space, into your heart consciousness, into your heart consciousness into your heart wisdom.

Speaker 4: 28:58

Now I could take poor recognition to record a Kia Nora capino, course, yes. Or a critic, yes. Our critic here, you know correct, but it, yes, it occur. A critic in our critic, yes, yes. Or Naraka tikkiya sisu rakha patekkiya.

Speaker 2: 29:16

So, just dropping deeper into your heart space and as you're breathing in and out, your heart is sending waves of unconditional love, of safety and protection for your being at this time.

Speaker 4: 29:32

Naraka tikkiya sisu rakha patekkiya sa. I will not let you go, I will not let you go, I will not let you go, I will not let you go.

Speaker 2: 29:54

Raka tikiya, oh yeah, naka siya, sir, katika Nikita Raka patika sir, nyanako siya sir katika and I'm inviting the high divine aspect of the red mages to channel through in sounds, bringing through her compassion, her healing, her alchemy, and asking that it channels through to your heart, consciousness and you're receiving it in the highest and best way, for yourself. The red major is saying just go a little deeper, breathe little deeper. Let go of that conscious breath and breathe through your heart.

Speaker 4: 30:59

NERKTIKIA SIA HARKTIKIA SISURKOTIKIA, sarkotikia, nerkupia, sisurkotikia, sanerktikia, sisurkoturkupia, hassia, sarktia, sarkatya, oh oh, oh, you oh me, hmm, so, oh, oh. O'er, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Nupurrk tiki asit nyanukurrk tiki esi esetnikurrk tiki Nasaar rrk tiki kiturrkup nyanik esi esu tkurrk nyanik esi saar rrk tiki Nurrk tiki esit turrk tiki nikia saa tkurrk nyanukurrk posi esi tiki.

Speaker 2: 35:54

I'm going to read a little vase, a little potion bottle within your heart space and she's been dripping oil. This is a sacred oil that she's been bringing through into this like little vase within your sacred heart. It's been scattered around with herbs and there's also been crystal gems and crystal frequencies have been placed around this and it's almost like a love potion for the heart for you love alchemy for your being Papa Ricky.

Speaker 4: 37:33

It's a good dear Sarah, katie, keanu, niana key, to keep to go to get love alchemy to transcend your heart to a higher source of love Papa. Rickety kiss or cuttie care nor camera. Rickety kiss is, sir, dear you know.

Speaker 2: 37:51

Rickety kia, sarga kia, su mark tiki a sarga tiki, and this potion is alchemy of love within your heart space will stay for the time that it's needed, as in alignment with your highest self she invites you to heart.

Speaker 2: 38:19

Breathe now. Breathe deep, deep breaths through your heart. No-transcript. Just becoming aware of how you're seated or how you're laying, becoming aware of the room, that, moving your fingers, sending your breath all the way down to your base chakra, to your toes, to your feet, and just allowing yourselves to gently fully step back into now and when you're ready, you can open your eyes.

Speaker 1: 40:02

Thank you for listening, thank you, oh, thank you, susie, I feel like I could drift off now into somewhere incredibly peaceful.

Speaker 2: 40:14

I hope so. So just to so. When I'm creating the sounds, sometimes I see what's going on and after the first bit of light language, the first sounding that was coming through, I got that it was like transcending fear there was. It was more of a clearing energy that was happening with those sounds. Now, receive that differently, that's fine, but this is what I was tuning into as I was channeling that through, and the first part of the sounding was very much a clearing energy.

Speaker 2: 40:45

And then you could hear that the sounds I don't know if you remember, but the sounds changed a little and that's when I could see like a drop of an oil coming through. I don't know what it was, but I could feel this oil coming through and like a little vase being placed in that and the crystal energy and some herbs, and it was almost as if we were in Hinae's cave. That's what it felt like, that we were in Hinae's cave where she would chant and she would create her alchemy, her energy, healing potions there. So, but this is just all of love. It's a reconnection to a higher source of love for you all.

Speaker 1: 41:25

So, um, love to hear your feedback on that yeah, and when I was, when you were doing the sounds, I could see her with her arms up, you know because? And that's how she stands in the cave. So that was that's lovely, isn't it? Yeah, really nice, but it felt really lovely. Thank you so much, susie it's my pleasure.

Speaker 1: 41:47

Thank you for having me and thank you for listening people yes, lovely, and of course people can play that as many times as they want to get the healing and to connect into that feeling and that heart expansion. And I love the idea that she's just dripping oil into like a vessel in our heart area. I think that's lovely. Yeah, and I hope everybody will take the Red Mages to their hearts.

Speaker 2: 42:15

Most definitely Definitely.

Speaker 1: 42:17

Brilliant. Thank you so much, susie. I really appreciate you coming on and supporting me, as ever, so if you've enjoyed listening to us, of course I'll put Susie's details up, as always, and please like and share, and I will speak to you all again soon.