I highly encourage you to take a minute and download the Spotify app if you don’t have it yet on your devices. It will open up a big and beautiful world of music to you. It’s a no brainer. No big musical decision to make at this point, just go ahead and try it (there’s a free version). You’ll see why.
I speak in music, mostly to myself; sometimes to others. My new discovery is having a power song. My girlfriend started me on it. This is hers, Amber by 311. Keep in mind that yellow/orange/gold, they’re your power colors, the colors associated with your third chakra. I used to totally diss the concept of chakras. New age, crystals, chakras – all lumped together for me. Recently I realized that information on the chakra system has ancient roots in India, and is thousands of years old. What was I thinking??
According to A Handbook of Chakra Healing (2002), written by Kalashatra Govinda, “The knowledge and teachings on the chakras come from yoga – the oldest system addressing the development of the whole person.” According to the book, “The first reference to chakras is found in the Vedas, the most ancient religious texts of India, which date from around 1500 B.C.E.” The book also says, “Chakras are centers of awareness in the human body. … The term chakra comes from Sanskrit, the sacred language of ancient India. It literally means ‘wheel’ or ‘turning.’ In fact, chakras revolve continuously. … Through the chakras, we take in energy from our surroundings.”
Anodea Judith has written much about the chakra system, specifically Eastern Body, Western Mind (1996). This is a little of what she says in her Chakra Balancing Workbook (2003), “Just as the electricity running through your computer allows your software and your hardware to work together effectively, the mind (software) and the body (hardware) are brought together by the life force running through you. Some call this energy prana, chi, charge, or subtle energy, but these are all words for the same basic life force. It is this vital energy that the chakras organize. The seven chakras, along with the many highways and back roads that connect them, comprise the energy body – that mysterious essence that makes you uniquely alive.”
I’m gonna have to go there. But for right now I’m jumping to chakra #3, because of my power song. It feels so good. Play it again.
Here is more from the Chakra Balancing Workbook about the third chakra, the Manipura chakra, also known as the naval chakra: “It is here, in what is commonly called the power chakra, that you build strength and develop your will. … Power comes from the root podere, which means to be able. Power is the ability to carry out a task, complete an action, or make something happen.”
Amber is my first power song. When I hear it, it gives me an overall sense of well being and inner strength. (Read in voice of Aunt Bee from Mayberry R.F.D.): “Comes in real handy some times.”
Have you got a power song yet? I’d like to check it out, somebodyelseswisdom@gmail.com. Hit me.
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