Thinking in Terms of Energy, Frequency, and Vibration

Message with Music, written October 2017

NOTE FOR THE READER: A Message with Music is intended to be a multi-layered, brain-stimulating experience. It will include my written ideas connected to the title. There will be an invitation to enter into meditation, either: (a) through a spoken audio clip of me guiding the meditation or (b) through short written instruction and assumption that you will allow space for your silent meditation before you return to the remainder of the Message. There will be at least 3 songs (99.9% of the time, original songs from Bob Sima) that are intended to be played to activate your brain differently than reading words. Lyrics are usually offered below each song if you wish to follow along or to refer back to at a later time — this message does not include lyrics for reasons outlined below. Most of all a Message with Music is intended to create a launchpad for you to contemplate internally and externally.

In the words of Kelsey Grammar,

“Praying is talking to god; meditating is listening to god; music is both.”

This message is going to be a lot of praying and a lot of meditating! There are 8 songs included, along with audio clips of my spoken message between the songs. It is quite a journey of contemplation and discernment. Since this message is about energies, frequencies, and vibrations, I want it to be audio-centric because those concepts are delivered differently when read silently or heard audibly.

I remember creating this talk and planning the integration of Bob’s music. During the actual live presentation, Bob sang only my pre-selected portions of his songs rather than the full songs, which roughly mirrored the length of my speaking for each section and fit beautifully into our allotted time at the conference.

I considered clipping the songs for this post, to make it shorter for you, the listener, who is probably already consumed with the task list you wish to accomplish today, tomorrow, and the next tomorrow. Then I heard my internal voice ask, “Why are you making adjustments for these presumed expectations?”

In truth, I want you to experience the complete journey that I took during my original creation process. I did not create within time constraints, nor did I dissect my creative process. I only performed the surgery when I was forced to prepare the final package.

So here we are. You get the full monty! My understanding of Substack is that it is a platform to share creativity and bring people into a creative process, which is sometimes messy, uncomfortable, unfinished, unpolished, and a work in progress. Ultimately, the reader/listener is empowered to choose to dive in, swipe left, swipe right, return, avoid, or ignore if and when you want.

Remember that the lyrics of the songs are as much of the lesson as the spoken words.

I invite you to allow the music to be your heartbeat and the spoken words to be your medicine.

I invite you to set an intention to allow the heart connection with the music to align the mind and the gut to the frequency of the heart.

I encourage you to move, to close your eyes, to stand, to sit, to snap, to scream “Aho”, to dance, to cry, to allow into vibrational form whatever energy wants to be expressed in an inspired moment. Without judgment. Without question.

Allow your soul to express the vibrations it is feeling within. Allow your body to express the vibrations it is feeling without.

If you allow your heart to become the music, there may just be a rapture. Oh yes my friends! There is an intense feeling of pleasure and joy that will frequent you when you allow your soul to be serenaded with the consciousness of this music. It will visit you - gently at first - and eventually capture your spirit until the energy becomes you and you become it. That ah-ha moment, that revelation, that awareness that has been knocking at your door. If that inspires you, then please allow yourself to be inspired.

Right now, I invite you to get in touch with your breath, make yourself comfortable, close your eyes if you wish, and bathe in these vibrations.

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