Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Feeling Very Inspired
I am Feeling Very Inspired. I am Feeling Very Inspired for many reasons - Family, Love, Friends, Connection, Community, Service.
Family - last night my Brother and Sister-In-Law and my three beautiful Nieces (who I call Princess, Gorgeous and Beautiful) came to visit. It was exciting as my Nieces tried on their Flower girl dresses for our Wedding - and they look wonderful - I love them so much. They make me smile. They bring me alive. I love their hugs and their kisses and spending time with them. I feel Inspired to be the best Aunty ever, to be the best person ever, to just be there with the people that I love.
Love - being in love is special and sacred - and I am very Grateful for My Man. He is loving and giving and supportive. I feel Inspired to be the best Wife. I love being at Home together - he is HOME to me. For Valentine’s Day I gave My Man some cubes - H O M E - I told him that it stood for Heart Open Mine Evermore. I also love when My Man buys me flowers - brightens our Home, brightens my day, my week.
Friends - today I saw my oldest and dearest Friend. It is hard to capture the words of how much this Friend means to me - my heart feels the fullness of my love for my Friend - a woman I have known for over 30 years, who is an incredible Inspiration to me. I am Inspired being in her Presence. I could write 1000 words about my Friend and tell 1000 stories - and yet the most important Truth is the reality that we have are both living with Joy and Happiness - and I love that my Friend has found her Calling and is so loving her work. And so important to me is that even though it has been a long time since we spent time together, today there was no distance - just closeness. And I walked away Inspired to spend more time with my Friend -with all my Friends.
Connection Inspires me.
Community - a big one for me. I am Excited that I have found my Community - another place where I feel at Home. One of my happiest times was when I was a part of my Running Community - I loved Running and what I loved the most was being a Member of a Community. When I attend Church I love that everyone is very warm and friendly, without an agenda, simply just loving people. I love the language of the Pastors and the messages that they share - I feel Inspired and Energised. Today’s message was about Community - encouraging each other, motivating each other, supporting each other, inspiring each other, embracing each other, getting beside each other, united not divided. The Pastor talks about our Community being a place of loving, caring, love, light, joy, light, laugher, a place that is “exciting”. He talks about releasing and refining, letting go so that we may become freer, so that we may become “extraordinary”, “so that we may be all that God has called and created us to be”. I usually get emotional at Church, seeing people caring and loving so deeply about each other.
Service - I feel very Inspired every week and now I am very Inspired to be of greater Service - “Faith is an active word” were the words today. Now that I am a Life Coach, I am Inspired to Volunteer and be of Service to people in the Community, to my Community. I was also Inspired today to hear about two Members of the Community who have been away for a year building a school and Community in Cambodia - wow - I am Inspired. This Husband and Wife Team talked about their experience in Cambodia - and he used the words Grateful and Contentment. Each week when I go to Church I feel Inspired - and I love the Music. I love these songs from today that speak to me
I am Feeling Very Inspired. And now it is time to follow this Inspiration through to Action - and so I am planning to attend a Women's Vision Group this Wednesday and I am also looking at doing a Course. And each day I will ask, I will Pray “Please God show me how I can be of Service today”.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Music Moves Me
Balance is important to me. Sometimes I like silence. I especially love silence when I am out walking - I don't like listening to music while I am outdoors in Nature - I just love the silence and the Space. And I love when I can enjoy silence at home, silence in the car - just time to have Space. I am so fortunate that this year I have been able to enjoy more Space in my life.
And at other times I love listening to Music. I love Music. I love when I am cooking and I remember to put on one of my favourite CDs and I dance and sing around the kitchen. Or it is after dinner and I put on a song and My Man and I dance around the loungeroom. And I love when I dance around with my three beautiful Nieces, we hold hands and spin around - it is a joyful time. I recently found hundreds of CDs in my garage and I have been meaning to gather some of my favourite CDs and bring them into our home to enjoy.
When I am driving to work I also love listening to songs that make me feel Inspired - I love when Music Moves Me. I love when a great song comes on the radio or on one of my CDs and I turn up the volume and feel Energised.
Two of my favourite songs that I listen to when I am driving to meet with my Coaching Clients are by Shannon Noll - 'Lift' and 'Shine'.
I love 'Lift' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gUWbPzDGuo
The words of this piece of Music Moves Me:
- "I know you're hurting"
- "Seems like forever
That you've been falling"
- "Your life is calling, yeah"
- "This was never meant to be the end
Close the book and start again"
- "Cos I know how hard it can get"
- "I know you're stronger"
- "You've got to lift yourself up above all
the hurt - Don't give in"
I also love the song 'Shine' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_9id4I0pCw
I love the song since my Business is called 'SHINE Coaching' and I love the words and passion of this song - I definitely feel Excited and Inspired.
I love these words:
- "Today's the day you hold the world with your song
Go now, go now, go now, help escalate
Angels come down, help with this parade
To hear your voice ring out
Come on and shout it
Let your song be heard
- "This is the time
This is the day that we've been waiting for
All the world will stop to watch you shine
This is the time
This is the day that we've been waiting for
All the world believes that you will shine"
These songs help me feel positive and uplifted. Music definitely has the power to make me feel wonderful. And yet today when I was looking on 'youtube' I came across a short clip with Music and images that touched me with a deep sadness. This song and clip is definitely not uplifting - instead it makes you very much stop and just sit with hard realities
I love to be positive and uplifted and yet this clip is also a reminder of the tragedy and pain in the world that affects individuals, families, communities, countries. And as I sit and watch the images I almost watch in disbelief and the world stops around me, as I sit with the horror and tragedy of the world events. I am humbled and I feel compassion and empathy for my fellow brothers and sisters.
Watching this clip reminds me that there are so many things that we cannot control - and yet we can choose to love others and Spread The Yellow - offering Connection and Acknowledgement - sitting and sharing Sacred Space with another in good times and in times of pain. We can choose to offer a smile, a kind word, a hug. We can see the light in another and help them see the light in themselves and the light in their world.
And we can hold the Paradox - Gratitude for the Joy and Light in our own lives and also holding the realities of darkness and sadness. And I definitely feel Inspired after watching this clip to be active, to help others and work in Community, to Make A Difference, and to take a Stand for human rights and what is right.
And we can hold the Paradox - Gratitude for the Joy and Light in our own lives and also holding the realities of darkness and sadness. And I definitely feel Inspired after watching this clip to be active, to help others and work in Community, to Make A Difference, and to take a Stand for human rights and what is right.
I am so Grateful for the Light in my life. I would like to share one last clip (not to take away from, or forget, the sadness of the previous clip). This is a great song that I heard the other day. My Man and I are currently planning our wedding - and I am feeling Excited. We are planning to have this as our wedding song - it is fun and I love the words "you take me the way I am"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBKAPazypwc&feature=relatedThis clip and the words make us laugh and we are blessed to have found True Love with each other. In True Love we can share the happiness and the sadness, the joy and the pain - we can embrace life together.
Labels:
Acknowledgement,
Coaching,
Community,
Connection,
Grateful,
Gratitude,
Make A Difference,
Music,
Nature,
Space
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