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Mini-Miracles and Piano Scales

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Sometimes frustration and annoyance can lead to very useful discoveries. And for me, the best aha! discoveries are when a pattern reveals itself to me.

Okay, so there I am sitting at the keyboard with my pandemic resolution to learn some scales on the piano. Seems like a doable and worthwhile goal, right? Wrong! Worthwhile, yes. Doable, embarrassingly, no. I really don’t want to tell you how long I sat there trying to play the simplest of all scales, the all-white-key C scale, with both hands, up and down two octaves. It was totally demoralizing. I mean, isn’t this the first thing little kids learn to play on the piano? It should not be this hard!

Well, fortunately, along came a pattern to the rescue. It was like magic. As soon as I saw the symmetry of the fingering I could play the scale instantly. It was like night and day.

Very often, our focus on the details of what we are doing blocks us from mastery. When we take a step back and open ourselves to a perception of the pattern, everything falls into place. It reminds me of those 3D images where you have to let your eyes go out of focus in order to see the third dimension. Sometimes we have to let go of our tight focus in order to see the big picture.

It definitely worked for me in a miraculous way with those piano scales. In fact, I was so blown away by how instant the transformation was in my ability to play scales that I decided to teach my method. If you want to find out more about that, head on over to http://e-jamm.com

Whether or not piano scales are on your mind, I want to offer you this quick thought. When you feel frustrated, stuck in a rut, or blocked from moving forward in any way, take a step back, go a little out of focus, and see if a pattern reveals itself to you. You might just have a mini miracle.

Who is in Charge? (Includes Improvised Chant)

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Let’s look at setting your own tone.  And hey, let’s do it literally.  In this episode I end up improvising a chant.  It’s rough, unpolished, right out of the moment. Headphones are always recommended for YOFA Chants.

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Today Only: Chant to Support the ACLU

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Get your Headphones on and Stand with Bandcamp in Support of
Immigrants and Basic Human Values

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Today, when you buy music on Bandcamp, they are donating their portion of the proceeds to the American Civil Liberties Union.

AND…

When you buy my music on Bandcamp today, I am also donating  my portion of the proceeds to the American Civil Liberties Union.

So today is a great day to start your YOFA Chant practice because you can tune in to your essence so that when you look at what is going on in the world, it does not get you down

AND..

at the same time you are taking action to affirm our civil rights and the principles of our democracy.  See you in Bandcamp!

How to Use the Chants

To get the maximum benefit from this music in sitting meditation:

To get the maximum benefit from this music in daily life:

  • listen while walking
  • listen while doing chores
  • some tracks can be beneficial for sleep

YOFA Chant is intended to elevate your vibration for joy, love, and inner peace.

Thank you BandCamp.  Thank you ACLU.

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Energy Healing Intro Recording

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This recording was a webcast right before a YOFA Energy Session for members of The Journey 2U.  On this call I talk about what energy healing is and what it does.

Here are the links mentioned on the call:

Listen to the song and get instructions on how to use it for healing

Find out more about The Journey 2U

Become a member of The Journey 2U

In response to a question about money concerns and how to launch a new business I gave this link with a free download of the product launch blueprint but it may not still be available when you click this.  You can still sign up and get it when it comes around again.

 

Disclaimer:  *Disclaimer: This is offered for general well being and does not diagnose nor treat medical
conditions.

Happy New Year of Mastery!

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Happy New Year!

Have you gotten used to writing “2015” yet?

I’m actually enjoying this number.

It feels fresh and clean.

And with the brisk weather here, and bright white snow outside, well, we are sparkling!

So, here’s a little overview of my intention for The Yoga of Alignment (YOFA) for this year, and it includes you.

Inner Guidance

We all know about Law of Attraction. But knowing about Law of Attraction is like knowing about gravity. It doesn’t make you an Olympic gymnast. Those people who seem to fly through the air not only know about gravity, they have mastered their interaction with it.

I want you to not only know about Law of Attraction, I want you to reach a level of mastery. And that’s all about inner guidance. So this is going to be the context of much of what I offer this year. It’s about becoming masterful in the living of your life by tuning in so closely to your inner guidance that you kind of fly though your life.

Watch the blog or the podcast for short videos that help you find your way as you train yourself into alignment with your essence, and as you work with the book Rooted in the Infinite.

Keep watching for ways that it all leads back to you gaining greater and greater access to your inner guidance.

Music

The guitar that’s hanging on the wall of my bedroom is the guitar I bought back in the 1960’s on the same day I went to see the original production of Hair on Broadway. Haha. Ok, so now you know a few things about me.

  1. I’m old.
  2. I’ve been playing guitar for a really long time (even if you can’t tell by my playing!) and
  3. Music has been a big part of my life way before YOFA ever existed.

And now music is about to become a big part of YOFA.

Music, as we use it for affirmative contemplation, has the power to bypass the self sabotaging mental patterns of conflict that keep us stuck in patterns that don’t serve us.

Music has the power to lift us into a new vibration that tunes you to your essence. And Music has the power to bring you into alignment with all that you desire so that you live the life that makes your soul smile.

I posted the first YOFA chant to Youtube as a holiday offering, but this chant is good to use all year round. You can still download it at http://yofa.net/journey

And in fact, it is one of the chants in the upcoming inner guidance training I’m working on. (This thing is taking me way longer than I thought it would — so it’s not going to be available for another little while) Anyway, since that program is going to have chant as a part of it, and since the program is taking so long to get ready, I leaked out this song so you can get a sense of the chant energy that’s becoming a bigger and bigger part of the Yoga of Alignment experience.

I’ll tell you more about all of this soon, but I really just wanted to give you a context for our new year together and I want to thank you for your interest in my work, for your participation in my programs, and for receiving my offerings with such an open heart. It means the world to me.

Happy New Year!

 

Circle the Globe with Love and Light

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I created this chant for the upcoming “Inner Guidance Revealed” program, but it’s simply not ready yet.  I always forget that these things take longer than I expect to get all the pieces in place.

This inner guidance program is the first of my trainings that will actually include some of my music and I’m excited about this new energy in my work.  I’ve been wanting to include music in the YOFA experience for a long time now.

But it wasn’t ready.

And now that it is flowing, I didn’t want to wait for the inner guidance training to be complete before I released at least one of the songs.

So here is the “Journey” chant, offered as a holiday card, from me to you.  

Thanks for all the emails I’ve been getting! I’m so glad you guys like the chant!  You can also leave comments here or directly on YouTube.  Thanks, and Happy Holidays!