This Points of Light just has a few thoughts about healing through music.
Below are the promised links:
Healing Composers: http://deutermusic.com/
https://www.stevenhalpern.com/prod/so…
Playlist from Healing Circle https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list…
My personal healing playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list…
And remember I offer healing sessions incorporating your use of music, movement, and art to help you access and release your deepest emotions.
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it t
ook to blossom.” – Anais Nin
2015 was a breakthrough year for me. I have faced a lot of fears. I had been on three months of mental health leave from my full-time job. A few days into the New Year, I started back part-time and eventually transitioned to permanent contract work.
I started the year in the arms of my fiancé. A few months later, following some really hard discussions and decisions, we parted ways.
Elizabeth, James, and me in our new home/healing center New Year’s Eve 2015
I learned to walk my own path again. My clients and students reminded me of what I know and what I’m capable of. I moved with my kids across town and expanded my business. As with any new business, we’ve struggled to make ends meet and sometimes despaired about being able to do so. At the close of 2015, I was ready to embrace life’s ups and downs, trusting that this will be a year of growth and healing. I am ready to breakthrough once more.
I have used a lot of tools for healing and personal growth during the last year: Reiki, meditation, yoga, Moksha Magick, Oneness Deeksha, art, journaling, mental health counseling…the list continues on. They all have value, and I am blessed to have them all in my toolbox to use in whatever combination makes sense in the moment. I have shared about most of these in one way or another with my students, clients, and blog readers.
Towards the end of 2015 my dear friend Monica introduced me to a new tool. It’s called Breakthrough. It is a workshop developed to help people of all backgrounds and levels of experience in their healing and personal growth through song performance. Since October 24th, the fabulous Mick and Tess Pulver have guided a group of nine seekers to greater understanding of ourselves, where we have been, and where we want to be. For someone who loves to sing and is actively healing and growing, this was a perfect fit! With the guidance of Mick and Tess, I have continued to learn to embrace trust in all aspects of my life. I have also become aware of a fear I didn’t even know I had: letting my true self break through the mask I tend to wear.
More than that, I have to share how much I admire some of the other people on this journey with me. I love to sing. I try my best to stay active in my healing work. For some of the other participants, singing in front of other people is very scary, and doing the deep work needed to really heal is downright terrifying! Yet they’re doing it! They are my heroes! It is such an honor to witness the healing and growth of everyone in Breakthrough and to share my healing and growth with them.
The culmination of all our hard work, play, and healing is a concert on January 9th at 7 pm at the Unity Church in St. Petersburg, FL. If you would like to be a part of an uplifting evening of song and hold space for some amazing performers as they share their breakthroughs, please join us!
If you are ready to do some breaking through of your own, click here for information on free introductory sessions and registration for upcoming workshops.
I wish you a blessed 2016, however you choose to breakthrough.
I consider myself to be a performing artist to some degree. I love to sing and dance, and from the age of 10, my home away from home was the local community theater.
I’ve never thought of myself as a visual artist. When I was a kid and the Sunday School teacher asked us to draw a picture to make the morning fun, I would end up in tears because it never looked the same way on paper as it did in my head. In my Reiki II class, I became completely intimidated when we had to learn how to draw the symbols.
When I began doing the Journey of Yes courses a few years ago, I was nervous about doing the art prompts, much less sharing them with the professional and semi-professional artists in the course. I finally talked myself into doing some of them and posting them on the Facebook group. Everyone was so supportive of my stick figures and wavy lines. They truly appreciated the symbolism I put into my attempts of self-expression.
Imagine my surprise when I realized that I was actually enjoying doing this kind of art.
Not only was the artwork helping me to process and express my emotions, it was actually fun!
Then, joy of joys! During the Hell Yes course at the beginning of the year, a piece of the class included some tutorials on how to create memes and other digital artwork on Picmonkey.com. All of the sudden I could visually express the pictures in my head!
Here is my first attempt at digital art: 
I created it to encourage myself in my journey as I learned to speak up for myself.
I used these creations to help me process what I was working through at therapy and at home. 
Pretty soon, I started making memes for others,when they needed encouragement as well: 
Some memes came to me as messages in meditation 
like this one that I wrote about in the post Have Courage. Speak out and this one that was related to me by a fellow student in my Core Shamanics class 
This one was inspired by current events
(the historic Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage).
Most continue to express my thoughts and feelings as life has continued to evolve.
(I couldn’t decide which one I liked better here.)
This one is a self-portrait showing myself what it would look and feel like to have achieved my goal of trusting myself and allowing blessings into my life, as I wrote about in a previous post.
The last few memes have honed in on some quotes by figures I admire and am learning from. These messages inspire me so much that I want to create art incorporating them and share them to inspire others.
Including this last one that I just made today.
Thanks for letting me share here once again. I really encourage you to explore a new art form. Push your boundaries, and express yourself.
And have FUN!