LightSong

In my training years ago I learned that one of the ways indigenous people identified people that needed a soul retrieval was that they had stopped singing. The joy that usually emanated from the person in their natural state of wholeness was missing. Something or some part of them had left and the result was a lack of broadcasted joy. This lack of joy caught the attention of others and something was immediately done to bring the quality of joy back to the person. Life was to be lived with attention to a state of wholeness, not fragmentation. Fragmentation was dangerous to not only the identified person but to the rest of the community. Attention and intention to the process of staying well – staying in joy, balance and the heart space was a priority.

In our non-indigenous culture, this attention is absent. Many people don’t “SING” (the poetic term for broadcasting a state of joy and wellness). Fragmentation that happened years ago is still unattended to and has created multiple fragmentations until the whole of society is fragmented. It seems overwhelming doesn’t it? But it is not. Each day you can care for your soul in such a way that you can sing yourself home and bring back energy and stay full.

Using the idea of singing (although it doesn’t have to be in the literal form), you can intentionally sing yourself back home. Call your name as you envision different places that you have left your energy. An example might be a difficult conversation that you had with someone – your boss, a coworker, or family member – where you felt drained or upset. Those negative feelings are an indication that you lost some of your divine essence or life force to that particular situation. As you remember and envision that conversation, call your energy back to you. Reach out your arms and hands and collect it and then pull it to your heart. Feel it move back inside of you.

What about driving on the highway. Did you lose any part of you there? How much of you gets lost in the space where you work? Go to your job location in the omnipresence of your mind and gather yourself up. Get in a habit of doing this every night before bed and feel the amazing results it has.

If you would like to bring song and sound back into your life, LightSong Associate Teacher Lauri Shainsky is offering a Sound Intensive this weekend. Go to http://www.hiddenlakeretreat.org/component/eventlist/details/8 for details.