"Raise Your Frequency"???

The New-Age nonsense of trying to buzz like a hummingbird.

You. Are a symphony.

Your body, your mind, and biofield, your very spirit, is a vast orchestra of electromagnetic possibilities of immeasurable potential.

Yet spiritual types have this annoying habit of wanting everyone to raise his or her frequency. As if “raising frequencies” is good—and not raising them is bad.

Raising your frequency can be as mundane as cutting yourself off from bad news. Which might include throwing out your TV (I'm in!) or spending less time with people who drag you down (like toxic family members).

Fair enough.

But raising your frequency also suggests some pretty debilitating mental gymnastics.

—Like the blocking out of "bad thoughts."

—Or the avoidance of noticing anything “bad” in your surrounding world.

By purifying yourself of so-called negativity—through the technique of avoidance—supposedly, you'll be moving up the invisible vibrational ladder.

You won't be just YOU anymore. You'll be buzzing like a hummingbird. Perhaps everyone can still see you (or maybe they can't?), but whatever they are seeing—is just so damn better.

What——ever!

You are NOT a hummingbird! And we don't need more bumblebees, either. Or dragonflies. Or unicorns.

In my books—YOU—are you.

Wherever you stand now—this very minute—is the place from which you should vibrate.

Besides being a sage, I am also an independent filmmaker. And while creating my last low-budget feature film, I took a deep dive into the art of movie sound design. The creation of sound for a scene in a movie involves the layering of dozens of noises of varying frequencies.

For example, a scene that takes place in a coffee shop requires multiple layers:

First, a mono, empty room tone. Next, the stereo sound of a barely audible air-conditioner. Then, a soft track of traffic outside the coffee shop. A couple of layers of background voices (the shop patrons), which in sound-editing is called walla.

By the time you've layered in enough tracks, you get a rich-sounding environment. But that's just the environment. The dialog, the action (the sound of the coffee shop clerk typing on her cash machine, the sound of the main character dropping his tray on the floor), and later the movie's music soundtrack—are also made up of many layers.

One of the most critical tasks when choosing each sound layer is selecting from a wide range—of frequencies.

Because if every noise were to occupy the same frequency, the whole scene would sound muddy and confusing.

So the air conditioner might have a low frequency. Clinking coffee cups will be high and faint. The traffic outside the coffee shop will vary greatly (from low-frequency truck engines to high-frequency honking horns).

But above all, you MUST leave plenty of room for the frequencies of the human voice—the dialog of the main actors. Because the last thing you want is a pile of background sounds lumped precisely at the same frequency range as the human voice.

In other words, if the AC and traffic sounds compete with your actors' vocals, you're screwed. Your audience will be unable to hear the dialog.

The point is that to have a rich and believable-sounding movie requires a vast broadband of frequency.

And YOU—my friend—are like the scene of a great movie—a million frequencies in the waves of a great ocean.

Each organ in your body has its own resonance. And your so-called chakras, or energy vortices, are said to resonate at varying frequencies.

And have you ever noticed that honest people speak with deeper and calmer tones? That their voices have depth and timbre? And that people with singsongy, apologetic voices fluctuate between jumping-bean-like, higher-pitched tones?

Are we supposed to believe that jumping-bean, higher frequencies are somehow more spiritually evolved?

No way.

Stay true and stay grounded in yourself.

Stand firm in your convictions. And if you don't have any (convictions), be HONEST—that you are working to find some.

A person who has just sobbed his eyes out will speak in much deeper, more down-to-earth tones after recovering from the emotional outburst. It's as if the act of breaking down, the releasing of emotions, has grounded his voice.

So, instead of running away from your emotions, stay real.

The fundamental point I am making?—is to acknowledge ALL of your frequencies. Or as many as you can handle in the present moment.

Every thought needn't be full of conviction.

In fact, thoughts, in my opinion, are simply ideas that are still in flux that have yet to nail themselves down. But they're trying. And so are you.

Refrain from forcing yourself to be always sure of everything.

Let fleeting thoughts—let's call them HIGHER frequencies—float high and loose. Until they settle and become concrete.

If you are afraid or in a LOW place, don't pretend like it doesn't exist.

Dodging your feelings, even the crappy ones, is a recipe for future problems—for trapping discordant tones in your orchestral biofield. From which later they may haunt you.

In the Tarot, water is the symbol of emotion. Sometimes, the waves are high and rough. Sometimes calm and crystal clear. Such is life.

Learn to appreciate the still waters, while learning to ride the high waves.

The key here—is to be real, to resonate with the frequency of honesty.

Don't be a walking, talking Stepford wife!—always cheerful and smiling, all-knowing, and high-frequency. The very point of The Stepford Wives is that they are FAKE.

In movies, a high frequency can actually be a horrible sound! (Think of the shrieking violins from the shower scene in Psycho.) High-pitched, discordant sounds are like nightmares.

The trick is to become more resonant, more in harmony—with yourself.

Nothing is more ugly or unhealthy than an obsession to make things perfect. To make yourself and everything around you always better or flawless. What does perfect even mean?

So don't think of lower as negative. Or positive as higher.

Think of honesty.

And exercise your full orchestra. Don't cut out your bass drums, and play only your whiny flutes and violins.

Speak—and harmonize—with your honest self.

Such a beautiful sound you will make.