Oneness – in blogging too – continued

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

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

Music for awakening emotional balance

“Awakening” is the title of Marc Enfroy’s new CD and it emanates emotional balance. It is like awakening to a new day: a new chance to experience life on Earth as is, with its promise of happy beginnings and happy endings.

This instrumental piano music makes me think of the kind of happiness that most people are familiar with and cherish – like home, like rural landscapes, like the joy of simple living. Like harmony.

Marc Enfroy does have a strong sense of harmony. Yes, his music is emotional balance itself. It is like watching a golden field, like in a movie from the good old days, from a time before things got complicated and difficult. Just listen to the instruments: the freshness of a real flute, the sweetness of a real violin – not just a synthetic imitation. Even the vocal, although sounding a bit manufactured, is the real thing.

While listening, I found myself remembering my childhood’s piano lessons – the physical experience of it, the fragrance emanating from the piano, the fascination with notes and sounds, the amazement of simple harmonies flowing through my fingers and into the air, the happy feeling within, the experience of everything somehow coming together, in an innocent sort of way.

But that’s just my memory. Because even if you could call Marc Enfroy’s work instrumental piano music there is far more than a piano sound and feeling to it. The piano is in the good company of both acoustic instruments and a whole range of beautiful symphonic sounds. The same is true for the emotional expression: Even if emotional balance is maintained all the way, it ranges from the quiet song of a morning bird to the midday choir of a magical garden.

This being said, even if there is a certain grandeur to the titles of the 11 musical pieces, my overall experience is perhaps best compared to home made food when it’s best. It is nourishing and tasty, it’s not pretentious, it’s not complicated, it’s not all too innovative – and it makes you go “Aaaah – this feels so good!”. It is something you really appreciate when things get too difficult and stressful, and you say to yourself: “Enough! I can’t solve all my problems all at once. I’ll leave it at that for now – I’ll just relax and enjoy this evening as is – and then see what the morning has in store for me.

Instrumental piano music

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?

The Journey To the Wild Divine

Imagine this: It’s been a long working day and you really need to rest. Rest – not sleep. Or maybe you’re just yearning for an inner experience that goes beyond the ordinary. Something inspiring, something up lifting. So you fasten the 3 biofeedback sensors – your Magic Rings – on your fingers. You take a deep breath. You’re ready to take another step on your Journey To the Wilddivine

The game started with you watching galaxies being created. You were then invited to this special part of your universe where the Wild Divine lives. Here you can learn to master your mind and your body in ways that were not possible before.

You have wandered around some amazing gardens and temples, listened to some beautiful new age music and met some of your teachers and guides there. They have shown you a couple of simple and yet powerful ways in which you can control this game and at the same time control your body and mind.

And now you are in the middle of a garden and Sofia (your present guide) shows you 3 small balls. She shows you how you can make them dance in the air, as if there was no such thing as gravity. You can control them with your emotions and with your thoughts – without lifting a finger.

After playing a while you decide to look around. You enter a mysterious castle, and find yourself in a room with a fire place. In order to lit the fire you must breathe deeply, and slowly. So you do – but then you’re so excited about the possibility of making fire with your bare breath that your breathing becomes shallow and fast-paced. No fire gets lit this way. You need to focus more on your breath now, and let go of attachment. It takes a while before you master this one.

And so the journey goes on, through changing landscapes, experiences, challenges and insights. It’s fun, it’s magic – and it’s useful. Because what you learn in this game can be easily transferred to the game you play all day long – your Human Game. The Journey To the Wild Divine can help you learn to stay calm and focused in the midst of a stressful day. And just like your thoughts, emotions and bodily reactions influence the computer game, so can your ability to stay in conscious contact with your energy influence your daily life: your work, your relationships, your experience of yourself and your life as such.

Watch a demo of Wild Divine here! As you can see the game offer great film-like graphics and music that’s worth listening both with and outside the game.

The Project is an American team with a great vision. They wish to contribute to a more balanced life, a more magic life for everyone. For that they utilize computer technology. They have brought computer games to a new level, both with regards to content and concept.

Their first multi-media game, which is called “The Journey to the Wild Divine: The Passage” is an adventure with spiritual inspiration and challenges. It involves the player in a very unusual way, since the game is being controlled by the player’s energy level, as measured by three biofeedback sensors. The characters in the game teach you how to control your body reactions and how to overcome challenges by changing your body rhythms with your thoughts, your emotions and your breath. The skills you’ll learn here, are not only useful in the game itself, but will also support you in your “real” life, in creating a greater well-being as well as personal growth.

The Journey To Wild Divine will

• Help you relax
• Reduce stress and anxiety
• Enhance your creativity and intuition
• Increase your ability to control your body and mind
• Increase your mental and physical performance level
• Give you a sense of balance, of being connected and in the “Zone”

You can enjoy the game regardless if you ever played computer games before or not. I’m not into computer games at all, but enjoyed this one tremendously. It’s such a rich experience, on all levels, and so full of surprises. It’s a highly enjoyable way of opening up to the magic within – and the magical world outside.