Music Meditations: Sound Healing Bites w/East Forest

When something goes what comes in? When you leave one thing behind what are you moving towards? When something leaves something invariably fills its place. Balance is sought. Our job is to bring intention to the void.

The brighter the light the greater the shadow that may be cast. Amidst the darkness of chaos and desolation so also exists cooperation, forgiveness, and new ways of being. As light intensifies the shadow slowly recedes eventually being completely consumed by the ambient all pervading brightness. The fire will burn out -- hold on to your inner knowing that all will find balance and peace.

Sometimes it can be so hard to allow the quiet stillness of who you are. In a material external world we often have a good deal of 'matter' between our heart and our mind. Forgiveness opens the doorway and behind forgiveness lies the great I Am. The release into being is beautiful and this track invites you to surrender to what is: the perfect balance of this eternal presence, the perfect balance that is you.

I don't know about you but my mind often wants to know everything. But maybe we are not meant to know it all. We live in a world of information sickness where any mundane answer is a few key strokes away but the greater answers of our lives remain elusive and behind the veil. Such is our path. At the end of the day, the path is all we know. It is everything. And it is all we need to know.

The first track from a live ceremony held on a farm lovingly called the Crystal Starship. Hop on board and see where the journey takes you. You can download the entire ceremony at, http://www.eastforest.org/downloads.

Just returning from a weekend of live work and really feeling the vibe. This meditation asks where you are dreaming to go? Perhaps it's time to bring a little intention to our vector, Victor.

Special guest Katy Kanfer adds her amazing vocals on this musical improvisation of swirling tones. Also in the Love Tuning. I hope it swims around your heart. Thank you Katy!

Now in Solfeggio/Love Tuning frequencies! - this week's podcast kicks off the use of a new tuning, the "Solfeggio Frequencies or Love Tuning". I have retuned my music to be slightly away from the traditional A=440Hz tuning into what is described anecdotally as the "love tuning", a tuning reportedly more in line with the frequencies and vibrations of our natural world. More information to follow on the Music Meditations podcast page. And, this week's release is accompanied by a video version of me snow shoeing at Crater Lake. You can check out the video here: http://www.eastforest.org/?p=862 Check it out and let me know if you feel a greater heart awareness with these frequencies?

Sound is the physicality that emanates from your body and ripples across time and space, sending your signature resonance, your filtered interpretation, your call to being, to all of the universe. Like a stone dropped into the ocean the ripple continues. Sound is your physical connection to all that is. Consider the power of your words. What do you want to incarnate? What do you want to call? Do you dream a more beautiful world your heart tells you is possible? Speak it. This Sound Meditation is the third in a series from a live ceremony held in Portland Oregon held on 1/1/11.

I'm just going to say it: I think we are almost there. Where is "there"? If it isn't somewhere then it is a whole lot from nowhere. It is the center that has no center, the end point that marks the beginning, it is a completion that is both ugly and beautiful at the same time - confusing and confounding - a complete and utter mind melter. Lead with your heart, Know, walk with the intuitive wild abandon that has led you right where you are. There is nothing to fear because it is looking like we designed it all ourselves -- we can never be lost. This is the second release in a series from a live ceremony head in Portland, Oregon on 1/1/11.

How far have we traveled to get to this moment? How long have we been on the road? Do you sense a closing of tasks and time? Perhaps we are at a place ripe for clearing out of the closets and for welcoming in our highest selves. We're almost there, what are we waiting for? This Sound Meditation is the first in a series from a live ceremony held in Portland Oregon held on 1/1/11.

What's real?

I recently finished a cleanse. The master cleanse that is. I had known intuitively for several months that I wanted to do the cleanse but my mind had other ideas. In short, I was terrified of starting the endeavor and my ego came up with all sorts of wild 'what if' scenarios in a blitzkrieg attempt to keep me from diving in. But once I got into it, it really wasn't as scary as I had been thinking. Challenges came up, I dealt with them, and moved on. Like so many ideas or events in our lives that we might have major mental blockages with, you often just need to start - like jumping in a cold lake - you just do it. The sooner we can allow in what is knocking at the doorstep of our lives the less mental suffering we will have to endure. And more often than not, the process isn't as bad as we thought. What is asking to be allowed into your life?

How would it change your thinking if you lived under the premise that we always get what we want? Maybe it's time to start defining your desires and proclaim them out to the universe, allowing the intention to ripple in space time, ricochet, and see what bounces back. Is it coincidence or synchronically? Are you running a victim mentality or a co-creative collaboration? Perhaps we just need to wake up to the fact that out hands are on the joystick of life whether we like it or not and it's time to define (out loud) what we want.

I have been thinking this week about how the search can sometimes be the surrender. We sometimes feel that we are on a continuous wheel of searching, wanting something more, something in the future, something missing in this dualistic existence - always running. And simultaneously we can recognize that the end result is always surrender - letting go to what is, releasing our grasping, ending the "search". But the search leads one to that realization, it fuels the surrender. It is a sort of paradox that happily coexists and needs to exist. The in and out of our consciousness, the grasping and releasing is the fuel of existence, the fuel of the being. So run if you want to run as you will always end up in the same place.