Music & Healing

" There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is." William P. Merrill

Music, where does it fit in your life?  Is your radio set at certain stations while you drive through life?  Do you listen to the same song or CD over and over until you can't listen to it anymore? Do the songs you listen to reflect the state of your life? How does music effect your life and your healing?

I would avoid music, not that I don't like listening to it, but because am not able to hear all the words or cords of a song ...and constantly being denied music as a child- I shut it out.  I could barely listen to the radio in the car, it would give me a headache, until I discovered something, it is not the music that I dislike, it was how I was processing it.  I did a little experiment, I took one of my favorite songs ( even though I am not a hard core music buff, I still have ones that remind me of my crazy days, loves that I have lost, and sometimes things that I had to let go of), but back to my "big bang moment"...

I took the song "someone like you' by Adele, and found the instrumental version of the song, and pulled out the movie scores that I had bought but never listened to...the words in songs can call you, make you cry, lift you up, get you through tough times, make you feel better, or make you smile...but the musical notes and cords, are the ones that heal your soul.

Once I listened to the instrumental verison"s of the songs I loved, I realized something, see, I always wanted to play the piano.  When I was a kid, my parents took me to the school to see about lessons, but they could not afford to send me, and considering I over heard the teacher tell my parents, if she is not serious, don't enroll her, because it will be a waste of money for you.  From that, I just gave up...pushed away all sound, all music - everything that honestly, makes my heart sing and fills my eyes with tears.

I know that I would not have been a concert pianist, but I would have loved to play, to be able to create music, even just for myself, would bring me such joy.  I don't believe that it is ever too late, so for now, I will listen to classical music and place my intentions to learn and hear the beauty of a musical sound, in order to heal that part of me that I didn't even know was there until my tears came and I could not stop.  Music was taken from me, but I have a choice, and I want it back in order to heal and to hear. 

Take the words out of your favourite song, listen to the notes, picture the movement of the fingers over the keys, nothing could be more healing or loving that watching someone play...it is love without borders. 

When Ludwig van Beethoven ( one of the world's genius composers, who had gone deaf), was on his death bed, his last words were:

" I shall hear in heaven"

Music is a prayer coming alive, so listen and pray.

xoxo
BT&HB