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Into Nature – by Lorrie Kazan
My existence is defined by transformation and magic. But not magic that’s really about trickery or sleight of hand. Magic that underlies the true nature of our being. Magic where we remember we’re made from star dust. Magic where we create a new life by changing our thoughts. We need to feel connected to something deeper, to each other, to the earth, to the sea, to all that is. We feel it in meditation but so often we forget that feeling when we’re in our everyday life. Reality. We yearn for the altered state. Some people say that we’re always in an altered state and meditation is the time we’re really not altered but on point. Wisdom says that we come into this human realm to combine heaven and earth and yet once we’re down here, we come down with forgetting. We love sunrises and sunsets and glorious natural realms but we forget that we’re part of it, or it’s part of us. Extraordinary isn’t a word we often use about ourselves. We’re all-powerful beings who forget how to access the operating manual. Meditation reminds us that the operating manual is within us just waiting to break free. Channeling andInto Nature – by Lorrie Kazan
Mandarin Sky – by Stephen Fearnley
The point before dawn when the shadows are pushed away and warm tones infuse the blues. The opening notes in the music are dissonant and then they clear into harmonies before the Indian Bansuri (flute) enters the scene. This music is minor key with wistful piano and falling drone waves. It is spacious and contemplative and quite melancholic- which is a good thing. Lets call it “happy-sadness”. This article by Sarah Newman is worth a read . She describes the psychological benefits of mixed emotions: “For a long time scientists believed that happiness sustained creativity and that negative emotions were detrimental to it. But a review of emerging research on the subject shows it’s mixed emotions that fuel creativity. Generally speaking, the creative process includes not only inspiration and strong emotion, but also calm attentiveness (Sarah Newman, MA).” The work Naomi Janzen and I do at One Mind Live is holistic. My music as well as Janzen’s tapping (EFT) addresses the shadow as well as the light-person. It doesn’t force, like so many modalities do, a happy state of mind. We know that’s two-dimensional. We know its unrealistic and not whole. I hope you enjoy this music. Its full ofMandarin Sky – by Stephen Fearnley
Body Boost – by Fliss Wheeler
Diving Into Body: Listening to my Body Boost Bonus Meditation as I write this post, I am amazed again at how quickly bringing focus to my body can make me feel better. My body feels warm and grounded and stable and gentle – it’s a lovely antidote to the scattered, frenetic and frantic feeling of my mental energy. How beautiful just to dive into the depths of body from wherever I am, like jumping into a body of water that is exactly the right temperature to soothe and refresh. Just breathing and smiling is a really quick way of returning to my body. Just to feel myself breathing can pull me down out of the clouds and help me come back to earth. Here, in my body, in the present moment, there is a power that helps me to respond to the truth of what is really happening NOW. This can help me to feel calmer, slower, more in control. And this can help me to manage my energy more easily so I can feel and function better. As someone who has a tendency to disappear into over-thinking and worrying, I love being reminded and guided back into my bodyBody Boost – by Fliss Wheeler
Renewal – by Stephen Fearnley
“Renewal” is a happy piece of music. I think it’s because after weeks and weeks the rain has stopped. Where I live has a specific microclimate where the Highlands meets the coastal air currents and voila! Fog is born. Fourteen days of fog on my mountain. White-out and humid and everything sticky. Today the sun is here and the sheets can dry on the line. Simple joy. And then there is Ovid! I discovered Ovid, not via the classics or Shakespeare (I was never taught in school what a legacy The Bard owed to him) but via Ted Hughes’ book Tales From Ovid. For a view into the ancient world, this is a great window as Hughes, poet laureate, has re-woven Ovid’s stories, retold, renewed for a new generation. This is one of my favourite Ovid quotes: “As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.” ― Ovid, Metamorphoses Stephen Fearnley is an award-winning filmmaker, artist and composer. He composes transformational soundscapes forRenewal – by Stephen Fearnley