'I instinctively knew that the miracle of manipulating energy and tapping into an infinite source of power and harnessing it in a small space with your friends was what I had been put on this earth to do'
Inspiring, magical! Thank you Anthony Kiedis for sharing your wonderful story with us in your autobiography 'Scar Tissue'.
I knew there was a reason I like certain bands more than others - I really think I'm going to discover that the bands I like the most are divinely, or magically inspired somehow.
This post is part of a divinely guided (I feel) project of mine to find Sirian or ancient, stellar wisdom in the work of my favourite celebrities.
For years I have tried to brush off my attraction to certain celebrities. After all, I'm not a teenager anymore! Yet as the fiery lust of my teen years has dwindled and as I have begun to think about attraction along different lines, I have begun to think - the sheer magnetism, the soul connection I feel with my favourite celebrities: what if, were we ever to meet, we actually really got on with each other? Were peas in a pod, soulmates?
Of course I would never want to freak them out, appear like an obsessive fan (I freak enough people out in my personal life with the soulmate thing - sadly, some people can't handle the depth and magnitude of the amount of love that we can feel, platonically, for another - when will humankind wake up? You don't actually need drugs or booze to feel that power or express it either!)
Saturday, 26 November 2011
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Vocal Range - Some Thoughts
Looking at my new All Woman Jazz book, the tessitura or vocal range of the songs is from E below middle C to top Eb (two octaves).
If I were to look at a Soprano compilation book, the range would probably be from G below middle C to top C or even D or above (just over 2 octaves, but set higher).
Why?
-Do jazz ladies sing lower than other lady singers because more jazz singers smoke?
-Are jazz singers more relaxed because of their enhanced creative freedom, thus enabling lower notes to flow?
-Are jazz songs lower cos they're traditionally sung by men?
-Can black ladies sing lower for some reason?
Eg. were white ladies more likely to be classically trained, and did classical training teach ladies that 'low notes are for the boys'?
-Is the Classical industry infused with glass ceilings of gender stereotypes, pigeon holes that don't suit, thus someone decided that all women should only sing from G and above, regardless of their individual range?
-Did the invention of electronically amplified sound (ie the microphone) enable previously quiet lower notes in ladies to be heard better?
Hmmm!
A friend has said to me that when we train classically, our range can get smaller. I silently didn't like this idea and now, I have decided I openly disagree with it.
I have a radical theory.
I think that in the classical industry, a singer is sometimes forced or encouraged into pigeon-holing themselves to a particular vocal category.
An assessment is made once someone is of a certain age and training level, to determine which box a singer fits into: soprano, mezzo soprano or alto?
And later, coloratura soprano, dramatic soprano, lyric soprano, soubrette, etc. etc.
I have thought to myself, what box do I fit into?
I decided I must be a lyric soprano because I can sing up to a top C (and an Eat a push), and down to an E below middle C (or a C at a push). 3 1/2 octaves when I work at range extension.
One teacher though I was a mezzo soprano. Another firmly rejected this. So I got the idea that to be a mezzo was a bad thing, underselling myself, denying myself top notes. And I feel this may have been right at the time - I had a residual complex about singing high back then and I am glad I went along the soprano path now.
My current thoughts are this:
I feel that it is important for all ladies to develop their top notes - to try and use the soprano tessitura as far as they comfortably can. BUT, I feel that the soprano repertoire doesn't cater for ladies' lower ranges adequately. I feel that it denies ladies lower notes that they might have.
Is this a feminist issue?
Do even altos and mezzos have enough lower notes written into music for them?
Maybe in the acoustic environment of Classical music, the lower notes wouldn't carry as far. But if they were developed?
Still, for me Jazz music is now very important as it is the one genre, providing the song is in a low key, that truly enables me to use a half of my voice that I just couldn't in the Classical arena.
I often somewhat guiltily sing mezzo songs and arias, (how can I list myself as a soprano AND mezzo soprano?) but it's just not been enough..
Good old jazz :-)
I am going to cast away fears that developing my low too much will reduce my top.
I bet I CAN have it all and sing as high as I could when I was a kid maybe, but as low as an adult too...
And I feel men should do the same!
If I were to look at a Soprano compilation book, the range would probably be from G below middle C to top C or even D or above (just over 2 octaves, but set higher).
Why?
-Do jazz ladies sing lower than other lady singers because more jazz singers smoke?
-Are jazz singers more relaxed because of their enhanced creative freedom, thus enabling lower notes to flow?
-Are jazz songs lower cos they're traditionally sung by men?
-Can black ladies sing lower for some reason?
Eg. were white ladies more likely to be classically trained, and did classical training teach ladies that 'low notes are for the boys'?
-Is the Classical industry infused with glass ceilings of gender stereotypes, pigeon holes that don't suit, thus someone decided that all women should only sing from G and above, regardless of their individual range?
-Did the invention of electronically amplified sound (ie the microphone) enable previously quiet lower notes in ladies to be heard better?
Hmmm!
A friend has said to me that when we train classically, our range can get smaller. I silently didn't like this idea and now, I have decided I openly disagree with it.
I have a radical theory.
I think that in the classical industry, a singer is sometimes forced or encouraged into pigeon-holing themselves to a particular vocal category.
An assessment is made once someone is of a certain age and training level, to determine which box a singer fits into: soprano, mezzo soprano or alto?
And later, coloratura soprano, dramatic soprano, lyric soprano, soubrette, etc. etc.
I have thought to myself, what box do I fit into?
I decided I must be a lyric soprano because I can sing up to a top C (and an Eat a push), and down to an E below middle C (or a C at a push). 3 1/2 octaves when I work at range extension.
One teacher though I was a mezzo soprano. Another firmly rejected this. So I got the idea that to be a mezzo was a bad thing, underselling myself, denying myself top notes. And I feel this may have been right at the time - I had a residual complex about singing high back then and I am glad I went along the soprano path now.
My current thoughts are this:
I feel that it is important for all ladies to develop their top notes - to try and use the soprano tessitura as far as they comfortably can. BUT, I feel that the soprano repertoire doesn't cater for ladies' lower ranges adequately. I feel that it denies ladies lower notes that they might have.
Is this a feminist issue?
Do even altos and mezzos have enough lower notes written into music for them?
Maybe in the acoustic environment of Classical music, the lower notes wouldn't carry as far. But if they were developed?
Still, for me Jazz music is now very important as it is the one genre, providing the song is in a low key, that truly enables me to use a half of my voice that I just couldn't in the Classical arena.
I often somewhat guiltily sing mezzo songs and arias, (how can I list myself as a soprano AND mezzo soprano?) but it's just not been enough..
Good old jazz :-)
I am going to cast away fears that developing my low too much will reduce my top.
I bet I CAN have it all and sing as high as I could when I was a kid maybe, but as low as an adult too...
And I feel men should do the same!
Life and Death - Oh how cheerful!!
Life and Death: A Cheerful Blog!!
Eva Cassidy, Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, Wolfy Mozart: the world's greatest musicians? Yet they died too young.
The thought came to me yesterday all of a sudden as I struggled to focus myself into compiling a short set list: the songs I felt I must learn, my favourite artists, all died too young.
But did they? If they'd continued to live, would their work have become more and more brilliant, or would it have dwindled in quality a little, as the work of some bands has once they find chart success? Chart success seeming to influence a band in the way of writing popular tunes, mellowing a little somehow.
Or am I being negative or cynical?
Neil Hannon, Matt Bellamy, Björk, after all, are still with us. Bach lived a long life, as did Purcell? Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye...some, if not all, members of RHCP, Smashing Pumpkins.
This comforts me a little.
But I cannot help reflecting on my own life. My talents. What I have to give. When I was young, I had a distinct sense that I would live until I was 70-80 at least, and would try to live longer. I had a distinct feeling that I wanted to, and would marry and have kids young-ish: at the age of about 26, I decided.
Well it ended up being at the age of 24, so I was close. Too young, I now feel but we always look back with regret don't we, it's no use however - I can't change the past and probably couldn't have done if I even went back myself and tried to persuade my wilful past self differently!
But... Why do I feel that I might die young?
Having my handbag stolen by that scary angry man (who looked like he had far more money than me - he could obviously afford to finance his weight-lifting hobby the b***) shocked me. It made me feel vulnerable. Words from 2 weeks prior rang in my ears: to protect me, that my naïveté was almost childlike, that I had to be careful. I felt they were wrong. I felt that if we open our hearts to complete love and trust of humanity, if we look for the seed of good in all others, we will be safe and the angels will help us with this. So the handbag theft, a shock, felt like it was proving her right.
Since then, my attempts to protect myself have dwindled. It was too stressful putting all my energy in to clutching my handbag tight, looking for my possessions all the time. Maybe the angels were even starting to protect or guide me again, now my crown chakra was more open and I was consciously accepting universal help?
And guess what: I lost my handbag again. Was it stolen? I don't know. I didn't even notice where it left me - on the train or in a station?
I don't want to put all my energy into protecting myself, running away, hiding, eating healthily, trying really hard not to spend any money. So I can see that angels or guides might not want to either.
I just want to be. To be myself. I want to be able to sit on the bus and listen to music, play with my phone, without fear of becoming a victim. I don't want to let them beat me.
Donating a kidney... My ex has made me scared again. He would be the only person to say this. He says I have the rest of my life ahead of me, something to live for. Why did him saying that make me feel the opposite? Brought out feelings that I don't have long left. That I have to give and give and give in case I donate a kidney and it kills me.
I do feel that way. I have been living for today for a long time, with no clear vision of the future.
I have been suppressed for so long - your time will come, be patient, don't start to heal others before you're ready, too many people start before their ready, out of their own need rather than the needs of others.
This still makes me cross and now the added idea that I might die any day makes me feel that I must do as much as I can, give as much of my wisdom to the world as possible, before I demise.
Except I now feel I have little of any use to give. I'm just doing it for myself, for my own pleasure, for money. Kind of.
I've lost the sense of my specialness. I don't feel special or unique, world-changing or world-shaping anymore. I don't feel like I have something to give that no-one else could possible give, which fuels me on, to go on living because only I can give it, only I can save the world so that's why I have to keep on living - to save others.
Meditation, Time, Control
We're nearing 2012 and even traditionally sceptical me is beginning to think that something special, an acceleration, might happen. Things are certainly changing bloody quickly in my life!
Christ, I've moved house 3 times in 12 months. Acquired some cats, then had to let them go, hopefully to a better home. Endured marriage break-up, my first flea infestation, gone from looking after my babe 5 days a week to 2 days a week (now increased to 3, maybe 4 hopefully). Gone back to singing and try as I might, I can't just focus on Classical and Baroque. I am just too pulled in the direction of pop, indie, jazz, blues...I've missed it all so much! I spent my degree and postgraduate degree focusing mainly on classical vocal styles and that left me with no time to follow popular musical progression, or even listen to instrumental music.
And I have never fully understood the history of the blues - high school and GCSE education taught me the words, the dates, all about slave emancipation, apartheid etc. but I don't feel I truly understand it all, deep in my heart.
So I am learning to sing a blues scale. To bend blue notes. To identify a blues song by ear and sight, from among all the jazz standards and from among other popular songs in all traditions, and parallels in music from other cultures.
I think I can sing a Lydian scale now! Yay! I never thought I would ever learn the modes. I never thought that I would ever have the brain capacity to extend my knowledge of music theory beyond Grade 5.
Maybe that's it!
I feel guilty - I've spent so long training to be a healer so why an I do eager to gain all these skills I've never had the chance to gain?
I've been advised to focus on just one or two things but I actually can't. Although after that advice, I have found a bit more focus - I've let a few things be until I get others in place.
Secret ambitions?
-Grade 5-8 Piano - Rockschool or ABRSM?
-GCSE German
-Counselling Qualification
-Healing Course - so I have a stable healing technique and structure that I can actually cure others' physical ailments with (yes we're not allowed to promise a cure but we should bloody try otherwise what's the point in being called a healer?!!)
-To Sing and Recognise all the Modes and Jazzy scales from memory in a variety of contexts.
-To bring the beautiful music of Jeff Buckley, Eva Cassidy, Nina Simone, Matt Bellamy and Neil Hannon to my friends, family and audience, and to sing them just for sheer fun! And balls-out experience!
-To work out how to help and cure people who can't sing in tune!
At least I am feeling more positive after writing this. I feel more content about being in the present, not worrying about how long I live. Just being. I wasn't going to post this - I have been trying to reduce the amount of my negative detritus I put out on the www, but a ghostly being has suggested I should.
I want to put more spiritually inspiring and perfect stuff out there but there's so much of it already! No one talks about the troubles we encounter along the spiritual path. Maybe I'm the only one who finds it hard? No? The email I had from a healer teacher the other day really upset me. They obviously weren't totally aligned or whatever.
I do hope these articles help people anyway. In the sense of finding someone else out there who has troubles from time to time - a life that isn't always perfect.
I will try and write about some perfect times this week too! To balance it out.
Eva Cassidy, Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, Wolfy Mozart: the world's greatest musicians? Yet they died too young.
The thought came to me yesterday all of a sudden as I struggled to focus myself into compiling a short set list: the songs I felt I must learn, my favourite artists, all died too young.
But did they? If they'd continued to live, would their work have become more and more brilliant, or would it have dwindled in quality a little, as the work of some bands has once they find chart success? Chart success seeming to influence a band in the way of writing popular tunes, mellowing a little somehow.
Or am I being negative or cynical?
Neil Hannon, Matt Bellamy, Björk, after all, are still with us. Bach lived a long life, as did Purcell? Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye...some, if not all, members of RHCP, Smashing Pumpkins.
This comforts me a little.
But I cannot help reflecting on my own life. My talents. What I have to give. When I was young, I had a distinct sense that I would live until I was 70-80 at least, and would try to live longer. I had a distinct feeling that I wanted to, and would marry and have kids young-ish: at the age of about 26, I decided.
Well it ended up being at the age of 24, so I was close. Too young, I now feel but we always look back with regret don't we, it's no use however - I can't change the past and probably couldn't have done if I even went back myself and tried to persuade my wilful past self differently!
But... Why do I feel that I might die young?
Having my handbag stolen by that scary angry man (who looked like he had far more money than me - he could obviously afford to finance his weight-lifting hobby the b***) shocked me. It made me feel vulnerable. Words from 2 weeks prior rang in my ears: to protect me, that my naïveté was almost childlike, that I had to be careful. I felt they were wrong. I felt that if we open our hearts to complete love and trust of humanity, if we look for the seed of good in all others, we will be safe and the angels will help us with this. So the handbag theft, a shock, felt like it was proving her right.
Since then, my attempts to protect myself have dwindled. It was too stressful putting all my energy in to clutching my handbag tight, looking for my possessions all the time. Maybe the angels were even starting to protect or guide me again, now my crown chakra was more open and I was consciously accepting universal help?
And guess what: I lost my handbag again. Was it stolen? I don't know. I didn't even notice where it left me - on the train or in a station?
I don't want to put all my energy into protecting myself, running away, hiding, eating healthily, trying really hard not to spend any money. So I can see that angels or guides might not want to either.
I just want to be. To be myself. I want to be able to sit on the bus and listen to music, play with my phone, without fear of becoming a victim. I don't want to let them beat me.
Donating a kidney... My ex has made me scared again. He would be the only person to say this. He says I have the rest of my life ahead of me, something to live for. Why did him saying that make me feel the opposite? Brought out feelings that I don't have long left. That I have to give and give and give in case I donate a kidney and it kills me.
I do feel that way. I have been living for today for a long time, with no clear vision of the future.
I have been suppressed for so long - your time will come, be patient, don't start to heal others before you're ready, too many people start before their ready, out of their own need rather than the needs of others.
This still makes me cross and now the added idea that I might die any day makes me feel that I must do as much as I can, give as much of my wisdom to the world as possible, before I demise.
Except I now feel I have little of any use to give. I'm just doing it for myself, for my own pleasure, for money. Kind of.
I've lost the sense of my specialness. I don't feel special or unique, world-changing or world-shaping anymore. I don't feel like I have something to give that no-one else could possible give, which fuels me on, to go on living because only I can give it, only I can save the world so that's why I have to keep on living - to save others.
Meditation, Time, Control
We're nearing 2012 and even traditionally sceptical me is beginning to think that something special, an acceleration, might happen. Things are certainly changing bloody quickly in my life!
Christ, I've moved house 3 times in 12 months. Acquired some cats, then had to let them go, hopefully to a better home. Endured marriage break-up, my first flea infestation, gone from looking after my babe 5 days a week to 2 days a week (now increased to 3, maybe 4 hopefully). Gone back to singing and try as I might, I can't just focus on Classical and Baroque. I am just too pulled in the direction of pop, indie, jazz, blues...I've missed it all so much! I spent my degree and postgraduate degree focusing mainly on classical vocal styles and that left me with no time to follow popular musical progression, or even listen to instrumental music.
And I have never fully understood the history of the blues - high school and GCSE education taught me the words, the dates, all about slave emancipation, apartheid etc. but I don't feel I truly understand it all, deep in my heart.
So I am learning to sing a blues scale. To bend blue notes. To identify a blues song by ear and sight, from among all the jazz standards and from among other popular songs in all traditions, and parallels in music from other cultures.
I think I can sing a Lydian scale now! Yay! I never thought I would ever learn the modes. I never thought that I would ever have the brain capacity to extend my knowledge of music theory beyond Grade 5.
Maybe that's it!
I feel guilty - I've spent so long training to be a healer so why an I do eager to gain all these skills I've never had the chance to gain?
I've been advised to focus on just one or two things but I actually can't. Although after that advice, I have found a bit more focus - I've let a few things be until I get others in place.
Secret ambitions?
-Grade 5-8 Piano - Rockschool or ABRSM?
-GCSE German
-Counselling Qualification
-Healing Course - so I have a stable healing technique and structure that I can actually cure others' physical ailments with (yes we're not allowed to promise a cure but we should bloody try otherwise what's the point in being called a healer?!!)
-To Sing and Recognise all the Modes and Jazzy scales from memory in a variety of contexts.
-To bring the beautiful music of Jeff Buckley, Eva Cassidy, Nina Simone, Matt Bellamy and Neil Hannon to my friends, family and audience, and to sing them just for sheer fun! And balls-out experience!
-To work out how to help and cure people who can't sing in tune!
At least I am feeling more positive after writing this. I feel more content about being in the present, not worrying about how long I live. Just being. I wasn't going to post this - I have been trying to reduce the amount of my negative detritus I put out on the www, but a ghostly being has suggested I should.
I want to put more spiritually inspiring and perfect stuff out there but there's so much of it already! No one talks about the troubles we encounter along the spiritual path. Maybe I'm the only one who finds it hard? No? The email I had from a healer teacher the other day really upset me. They obviously weren't totally aligned or whatever.
I do hope these articles help people anyway. In the sense of finding someone else out there who has troubles from time to time - a life that isn't always perfect.
I will try and write about some perfect times this week too! To balance it out.
Thursday, 3 November 2011
Warmth for the Winter if You're Short of Money, Or of Love
If you can't afford to heat your home this winter:
Some practical tips.
Action: Obviously search with all your might for the answers to your problem.
Look for money from a job, benefits, ask for help from friends and family.
And anything else you can think of.
Don't wear yourself out to the point of stress though. The exercises at the bottom
should help here to unwind, just be, fill yourself with love, relax, enjoy the gifts
of this earth - the natural, free gifts.
Clothing:
Wear a hat in bed, if your hair is wet, and in the house in the daytime too. (A headscarf/bandanna if you have one and are style conscious or embarrassed) Winter hats will keep you warmer if it's very cold.
Wear a scarf in the house. Once more if you're style conscious and you have one to hand, wear an 'indoor' scarf eg. satin, silk, cotton, wool, pashmina, etc. Winter scarves may keep you warmer though!
Wear tights, leggings, long johns or long socks under your trousers.
Wear socks or tights in bed (a fresh set of clothes and shower beforehand if you're going to bed clothes so your skin has time to exfoliate, renew and breathe)
Wear a vest under pyjamas, wear long sleeved pyjamas with long trousers.
Wear a third layer if necessary!
You don't want to overheat but you don't want to be cold.
Buy a furry, fleecy or woolly sole for your shoes, boots, even trainers if you like! So warm for your toes, they can really make a difference.
Wear gloves if needed -
Material Choice for Scarves, Hats, Jumpers and Gloves
I recommend fleece if you are buying anything new as it's the most durable, doesn't shrink in the wash/dryer, seems to be the warmest of all fabrics (take thinsulate for example) - woolly gloves just don't warm up my hands enough on the coldest days?
Exercise
This makes an incredible difference.
I used to go for a run for twenty minutes in winter mornings and I was warm for the whole day from the circulation boost.
Today, a day's worth of housework and walking really helped me to stay warm!
Wiggling your toes can really help avoid frostbite and general exercise to boost whole body circulation.
I did get colder in the evening, as the temperature dropped and I became more idle, so I covered up with a more fleecy hoodie with longer sleeves, covered my head with the hood, and later was blessed with warm food and drinks, and had a shower, sat in front of the fire.
Cups of Tea and Soup
Worldwide money saving choices, as they are mostly water, these are great for winter - I really find that eating warm food or drinking a warm drink helps me to stay warm for an hour or so after.
Warm water or warm salted water are really really money saving. Hope it never gets that bad for you guys although natural (sea or rock) salt on the tongue provides a wealth of essential minerals if you can't afford vitamin pills, although I'm not sure if it contains b vitamins or vitamin c.
Fire
A fire made with found wood, if made safely, can obviously be very warming and is very peaceful if you look into it meditatively, gaze at the beauty and warmth of its colours, and really enjoy the feeling of warming seeping, radiating into your bones and skin, deep into yourself.
It's like love - we often associate love with warmth. A gift, perhaps, from creation.
The Sun's rays too can be incredibly healing in winter. Warming, especially if felt from the inside of a double glazed window, and cleansing, loving, gentle, beautiful, when outside. Piercing light, that cleanses our souls and minds in winter.
Allow that love from the loving, conscious light of your soul's vibration equivalent - your soul's healer the sun to envelop you. The sun is a gift. To us as humans - the gift that created us, that enabled us to exist! That continues to enable us to exist. The sun is a loving, conscious, pulsating and radiating, breathing gift of life.
Some practical tips.
Action: Obviously search with all your might for the answers to your problem.
Look for money from a job, benefits, ask for help from friends and family.
And anything else you can think of.
Don't wear yourself out to the point of stress though. The exercises at the bottom
should help here to unwind, just be, fill yourself with love, relax, enjoy the gifts
of this earth - the natural, free gifts.
Clothing:
Wear a hat in bed, if your hair is wet, and in the house in the daytime too. (A headscarf/bandanna if you have one and are style conscious or embarrassed) Winter hats will keep you warmer if it's very cold.
Wear a scarf in the house. Once more if you're style conscious and you have one to hand, wear an 'indoor' scarf eg. satin, silk, cotton, wool, pashmina, etc. Winter scarves may keep you warmer though!
Wear tights, leggings, long johns or long socks under your trousers.
Wear socks or tights in bed (a fresh set of clothes and shower beforehand if you're going to bed clothes so your skin has time to exfoliate, renew and breathe)
Wear a vest under pyjamas, wear long sleeved pyjamas with long trousers.
Wear a third layer if necessary!
You don't want to overheat but you don't want to be cold.
Buy a furry, fleecy or woolly sole for your shoes, boots, even trainers if you like! So warm for your toes, they can really make a difference.
Wear gloves if needed -
Material Choice for Scarves, Hats, Jumpers and Gloves
I recommend fleece if you are buying anything new as it's the most durable, doesn't shrink in the wash/dryer, seems to be the warmest of all fabrics (take thinsulate for example) - woolly gloves just don't warm up my hands enough on the coldest days?
Exercise
This makes an incredible difference.
I used to go for a run for twenty minutes in winter mornings and I was warm for the whole day from the circulation boost.
Today, a day's worth of housework and walking really helped me to stay warm!
Wiggling your toes can really help avoid frostbite and general exercise to boost whole body circulation.
I did get colder in the evening, as the temperature dropped and I became more idle, so I covered up with a more fleecy hoodie with longer sleeves, covered my head with the hood, and later was blessed with warm food and drinks, and had a shower, sat in front of the fire.
Cups of Tea and Soup
Worldwide money saving choices, as they are mostly water, these are great for winter - I really find that eating warm food or drinking a warm drink helps me to stay warm for an hour or so after.
Warm water or warm salted water are really really money saving. Hope it never gets that bad for you guys although natural (sea or rock) salt on the tongue provides a wealth of essential minerals if you can't afford vitamin pills, although I'm not sure if it contains b vitamins or vitamin c.
Fire
A fire made with found wood, if made safely, can obviously be very warming and is very peaceful if you look into it meditatively, gaze at the beauty and warmth of its colours, and really enjoy the feeling of warming seeping, radiating into your bones and skin, deep into yourself.
It's like love - we often associate love with warmth. A gift, perhaps, from creation.
The Sun's rays too can be incredibly healing in winter. Warming, especially if felt from the inside of a double glazed window, and cleansing, loving, gentle, beautiful, when outside. Piercing light, that cleanses our souls and minds in winter.
Allow that love from the loving, conscious light of your soul's vibration equivalent - your soul's healer the sun to envelop you. The sun is a gift. To us as humans - the gift that created us, that enabled us to exist! That continues to enable us to exist. The sun is a loving, conscious, pulsating and radiating, breathing gift of life.
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
I love my Ego :-) Thoughts People? (Does anyone read this ;-) )
Does anyone read this blog or is this just my ego's airing space? ;-)
I still don't know what ego is, and I don't like the word. To elaborate and put it a little more academically, which I sometimes dislike, I don't like the way that the term ego has become, to my own vision, imbued with a negative energy, originating, perhaps from various traditions.
But it's all part of our emotional clearing! We are still learning and progressing and this energy can be healed and cleared :-)
I think and have thought a lot recently that our ego is nice. It's just our inner voice :-)
'Ego is a Latin word meaning "I", cognate with the Greek "Εγώ (Ego)" meaning "I"' (Wiki)
So perhaps this is one of those words whose meaning has become altered, perhaps even misconstrued over time.
So if so, why do some spiritual teachers dislike 'I'?
Do they dislike an aspect of themselves, labelling that disliked aspect 'Ego'? Pushing it down instead of loving and understanding it?
I think if we all listened to the voice of our naughty, arrogant, attention seeking, pleasure seeking or questioning (or whatever!) ego then we would all be truly whole.
If you like this article, please say so. I need constant praise :-D
I still don't know what ego is, and I don't like the word. To elaborate and put it a little more academically, which I sometimes dislike, I don't like the way that the term ego has become, to my own vision, imbued with a negative energy, originating, perhaps from various traditions.
But it's all part of our emotional clearing! We are still learning and progressing and this energy can be healed and cleared :-)
I think and have thought a lot recently that our ego is nice. It's just our inner voice :-)
'Ego is a Latin word meaning "I", cognate with the Greek "Εγώ (Ego)" meaning "I"' (Wiki)
So perhaps this is one of those words whose meaning has become altered, perhaps even misconstrued over time.
So if so, why do some spiritual teachers dislike 'I'?
Do they dislike an aspect of themselves, labelling that disliked aspect 'Ego'? Pushing it down instead of loving and understanding it?
I think if we all listened to the voice of our naughty, arrogant, attention seeking, pleasure seeking or questioning (or whatever!) ego then we would all be truly whole.
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