What’s All This Shift?
No Shift! Meet The Shift. Our awareness is in transition. From the Age of Enlightenment through Modernism, things worked pretty well. Around the time of John F Kennedy’s assassination, a Post-Modernist period swung back against Modernism, and our recent global pandemic will probably be marked as another pivot in awareness. Some have begun to refer […]
Music: A Full-MEPS Practice for Wellness And So Much More
We do physical things such as run, work out, swim, or get regular massage for our health. We practice Qigong, have acupuncture, meditate, or attend church for our spiritual/energetic health. Curiosity, psychotherapy, regular reading, and continuing education keep our mental health sharp. Practices such as journaling, gratitude and forgiveness support our emotional health. Together, the […]
This Changes Everything for Good
▶️ Listen to this article now (12 minutes) ▶️ What if… What if there was a way to improve every aspect of what you’re already doing without having to un-do any of it? What if you could support every best practice you already use in a way that would deepen those practices without competing within […]
Mind Blown: Why Creativity Matters
Just finished Rich Kirkpatrick’s “Mindblown: Creative Insights from Science and Magic.” It’s a quick compendium of the scientific basis for creativity and the sociological reasons why being creative matters. And creativity does matter: to both our success and our sanity. Have you ever wondered why there are so many more “negative” emotions than “positive” ones? […]
Four Important Ways Music Works In Groups: Wellness, Psychological Safety, Bonding, and Creativity
Whether you lead an enterprise, an agency, a recovery center, or a family, you’re probably already aware of the powerfully transformative technology that we call music. The trouble is, most of us have forgotten how to use music purposefully and at scale. Before we get to that, let’s review four important ways that music works […]
Attunement
There is a grand effort being made these days to advance “sound healing” in ways that have little to do with how human beings actually respond to sounds, timbre, rhythm, and melody – “music” as it is commonly called, or “music healing” such as advanced by the profession of music therapy and other music healers. […]
Reason Isn’t Dead – It’s Just Not Everything
Disclaimer: This article was created without access to or use of artificial intelligence. It intentionally violates many commonly-accepted SEO conventions. If that’s not acceptable to you, please stop reading now. The Age of Enlightenment threw shade on perceptions that weren’t solidly grounded in rational thought. It gave us durable, rigorous Science, celebrated Reason and sparked […]
The True Power of Story: Relationship Matters
Your story matters. Just guessing here: your personal story has progressed beyond the “once upon a time” and is closer to the “happily ever after,” right? And don’t we all want that “happily ever after” sooner rather than later, thank you very much? That’s the true power of a great story with feeling and the […]
Don’t Blame Cereal Boxes
Remember breakfast? A table full of cereal boxes, bowls, spoons, sugar, and pitchers of orange juice and milk? On Saturdays sometimes there would be toaster waffles or pancakes, bacon and eggs, and maple syrup? If you were really lucky, oatmeal or grits? Sometimes fresh biscuits with butter and honey? And how about those cereal ads […]
Stranger Things and Your Power Music
Running Up That Hill is clearly a powerful song for Max’ heroic journey in the latest season of Stranger Things. Evidence from the music therapy field supports this decisive moment: the power of music is personal. Our choices about the music we love, combined with our emotional connection to those specific songs, can literally save […]