The Whole Music Experience

Ever so often, I get a song that I hadn't heard in decades playing on the repeat mode in my brain. I used to complain about these ear worms, especially since they are usually rooted in songs I never actually liked, but that had strong text. Then one day a woman that I met in passing told me to pay attention to the text because it's carrying messages. So here's the practice. Pay attention to songs that pop into your thoughts, especially after you have prayed or meditated on a situation or asked a question to the Universe. Not only that, pay attention to songs you hear in the background at stores or at least any snippets you might have picked up. You could also encounter these synchronicity messages on YouTube in your feed or someone could mention a song, or a song comes on the radio or plays in the soundtrack for a movie. Since we're all busy we could forget about these songs during the course of the day. So I recommend carrying a small notebook that you can use as...

Photo by Patricia Herlevi In the past two years I have noticed an acceleration of healing coming from following threads of old songs deep into my subconscious mind via memory.  I have a feeling that I'm not alone on this healing journey and that many of you are encountering songs from your past with no real understanding of why those songs are coming to you now. I've explored this phenomenon through writing in my journal and other avenues such as following the threads to see where they lead.  And I have found at least two ways in which these songs return to us now so we can heal and clear old wounds.  The first way is we remember a certain song out of the blue as it just pops in our head.  Then certain feelings come up with the song which might be dread, panic or joy.  Or maybe we experience a mix of emotions that we haven't encountered in a long while because we stuffed those emotions deep into our subconscious to move forward with our lives.  These ...