I’m a sensitive. Most creative people are. If you write, sing, paint or create new things in your surroundings, you probably are very good at pulling information in through all of your senses. I often hear songwriters and vocalists acknowledge that this “curse” of feeling everything around them is also the Heart of Their Art.
I feel the cold in the air during the holidays and the landscape is dotted not so much with sugar plum fairies, but with sadness and hopelessness. For many, this has been a tough year and the season brings a mixed bag of emotion marred by tight malls and even tighter wallets. If you sing, the opportunities to heal, uplift and encourage are endless during the holiday season. The planet needs healing, the continents need healing, and our families need healing as we continue to search for healing in ourselves.
You have a grand window of opportunity this December to use your unique voice and personal expression to heal the landscape around you, and inside of you. Give yourself the wonderful gift of personal time with music and singing. Discover new ways to ramp up your internal creativity so you can offer the best of yourself to others around you. If you are reading this blog, you just might be ready for a challenge, so here goes.
Choose one of the following 10 ideas to do before the end of the year:
- Spend three consecutive hours listening to new music.
- Download a karaoke song and sing it OUT LOUD when you’re home alone.
- Record a Christmas Song and give it out as gifts to those home alone this season.
- Take yourself to a concert.
- Find a song that you normally wouldn’t sing. Study the lyric, melody and rhythm carefully.
- Buy a soundtrack CD from your favorite movie.
- Buy yourself a small hand held recorder to capture any new songs, lyrics or music you create.
- Read a story to a young person using all your best vocal expression to bring the story to life.
- Have a small party with friends and sing holiday songs together.
- Organize a few friends and sing at a hospital or senior citizen home.
Small activities like these will increase the reservoir of solace and strength you gain as you enter into the new calendar year. Your deserve it, and those around you deserve your Heart Shared Through Your Art. Remember, the gift you give to others just might be the gift you give to yourself.
