The experiment I mentioned in the last entry continues! I find it inspiring and challenging and enjoy it totally. I hope you do too – and invite your comments/feedback.
Read the recent post on the unified Awakening blog here
Oneness – in blogging too – continued
One world, one blog – an experiment
These days and months everything seems to come together for me in all areas of life – and also I notice how it has been separated in different ways. For example, besides this blog I have several others. Right now it feels most natural to me to bring it all together in one place and see how it works. This one place will be The Awakening Blog here. In fact, that’s where I’ve written what this is all about – I hope you will find it inspiring too.
Read about Dancing between Oneness and Separation here
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Awakening
Awakening is a natural state of mind and heart that we tend to forget. It’s like the freshness, the joy for no reason that you can feel as your eyes open, and before your mind starts running. The simple experience of the first moment of the day exactly as is.
A moment later you may get so busy with thinking, acting and talking that you forget that first simplicity all together.
But then again, you can have both. That fresh simplicity can be found and enjoyed even in the midst of life’s complexity or challenge.
I find myself remembering when as a child I started exploring my sister’s piano. I remember the physical experience of the instrument, the fragrance of the wood, the beauty of the black and white pattern of keys. I remember the cool feeling under my finger and the amazing magic of touch becoming sound. It didn’t matter whether it was harmony and disharmony, melody or noise. Such labels didn’t exist in my mind. It was plain wonder.
After that came years of learning, notes, scores, techniques, ideas, styles, demands and it was all about good music as opposed to bad music, harmony as opposed to disharmony, melody as opposed to noise. A few years with that and the innocence was all gone.
Or so I thought. As I discovered later it was just hiding, just waiting for me to find it again, for me to come back to the pure joy of experiencing the sound of music, rather than labeling it. Awakening to the wonder of it, again.
How about you? What is awakening to you?
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Tagged balance, beauty, childhood, emotions, expression, happiness, instrumental music, piano, relaxation, simplicity, stress
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What is the real cause of stress?
Twitter is such an amazing place when it comes to experiencing what people say/do/think/feel spontaneously, in the heat of the moment. The other day I noticed that a lot of Twitters (and others too I’m sure) mention being stressed because of work and so needing a vacation. Also, a lot of Twitters (and others too I’m sure) mention being stressed because of vacation! preparing vacation, not enjoying vacation, coming back to work after vacation. So it doesn’t look to me like vacation is as much of a stress-relief as some people would like it to be. What is then?
The obvious question is to ask: What is the real cause of stress? – and create inspiration or figure out the answer from there. So this is my question to you (whether you’re on Twitter or not 
). Until I start seeing some answers, I’d like to share the one I received in a dream this night:
I dreamt that I was extremely stressed. Which was amazing by itself, given the fact, that I don’t remember the last time I felt this way. It must be many months if not years ago. But here I was: really tense, far beyond what you’d usually find enjoyable. A powerful experience, although I can imagine using my power in more expansive ways. Anyhow: I was standing in an open door and I knew, that it was time to simply step out, move out, move on. But for some reason I was holding on to it. That’s what caused all the stress. I was going against my own, natural flow, in time, in space, in awareness. I woke up and knew it was about holding on to something that is dead and buried, and about not expressing myself creatively to the degree that I really feel inspired to, the degree that is natural for me.
Aha.
If there is any stress in your life whatsoever, what do you think is the real cause of it? And is there anything you feel inspired to do about it?
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New Age music artists and titles to be explored
While re-recreating this New Age music part of the blog, I decided to at least take notes of New Age music artists and titles that I’d like to explore in the future and perhaps write about. This post will be growing, so keep an eye on it – and also feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments. Let’s see what we create here!
So here we go:
- Spiritual Women Singers
- Jay Red Eagle
- Atomic Skunk
- Marcomé
- Deborah Martin
- Diane Arkenstone
- Jonn Serrie
And then there are those that I am familiar with – and still would like to write some more about