{"id":699,"date":"2011-01-04T20:34:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T01:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/?p=699"},"modified":"2011-01-07T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T16:52:02","slug":"do-it-yourself-chantdance-empowerment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Do-It-Yourself Chant\/Dance Empowerment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glory Hallelujah! \u00a0You have come to the home of <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Wellness and Spirituality Teachings:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Consider this:<\/strong><\/em> Your life is exactly what and how you think. You are as you are!….Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

You <\/span>know<\/span><\/strong> how a song can stick in your mind. You <\/span>know<\/span><\/strong> how a song can lift your heart. You <\/span>know<\/span><\/strong> how a song can get you movin’ and groovin’. You <\/span>know<\/span><\/strong> how a song can “speak to you” and express what you are feeling or want to feel. So it makes sense, obviously, to use music and lyrics to empower ourselves by re-programming ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s the thing. All the “success” coaches out there \u00a0say that we can and do create our own reality. And reality creation is based on our attitudes, our mental and emotional programs, our thought-life and our feeling life. A great quote from Jack Canfield says it succinctly: <\/span>Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. So when you think a sustained thought it is immediately sent out into the Universe. That thought magnetically attaches itself to the like frequency, and then within seconds sends the reading of that frequency back to you through your feelings. Put another way, your feelings are communication back to you from the Universe, telling you what frequency you are currently on. Your feelings are your frequency feedback mechanism!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Frequency? Don’t we \u00a0all know that “frequency” is the heart and soul of rhythmic sound waves….aka music?<\/span><\/p>\n

You bet it is!<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore….Because music paired with words can impact us emotionally, reinforcing the message of any chosen lyric…. why not write your own lyrics, or chants, custom made to program your particular reality?<\/span><\/p>\n

Look at all the spiritual traditions that have utilized chanting–music paired with repetitious lyrics–throughout the world. Christianity has its “Kyrie Eleisons” meaning, “God have Mercy upon us.” And Native Americans have their “Haya haya haya hayas”–“I send a Voice to the All.” Somewhere along the line, the ancients grasped the potency of this combination, repetitious music and lyric…ie. chanting.. And of course, these were also paired with repetitious, ritual dances in many traditions. Thus the programming of the consciousness could extend not only to the mind but right into muscle or cellular memory via the principles of kinesiology.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve thought a great deal about the medieval “Kyrie Eleison” chant, having sung some beautiful masses during my years in college glee club. Meaning no disrespect..but the sort of programming that the repetition of “Lord have Mercy upon us” strikes me as serving to reinforce a consciousness of disempowerment…as if a person had better grovel and feel guilty and cower before a rather judgmental, imperial God who would deign to respond only after hours and hours of pleading.<\/span><\/p>\n

The God of Love in my universe would wish that each and every human delivers the holy Message that they came to deliver….and be blessed with health, wealth and happiness. Therefore, we can participate in ceremony of chant and dance as a collective of People who wish to manifest particular mutually beneficial outcomes. And\/or we can create our own chant and dance in the privacy of our own backyard, living room or basement and reinforce our own particular talents, gifts, identity and well-being. I have, for instance, danced and sang, “I am health, wealth, happiness” many times….This is a kind of upbeat, universal chant that can work for just about anyone. If you really get into it, it can do double time as an aerobic workout. Or to feel empowered financially, I’ve chanted and danced, “Checks in the mailbox, checks coming to me.” The imagination has no limits!<\/span><\/p>\n

My teacher, the Venerable Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha has said, “No one is powerful enough to effect or control your life;it’s all you; like it or not, \u00a0it’s you.”<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

So, take an honest look at the kinds of thoughts and feelings that you carry through your days and examine what they may be creating. If you see that they are self-sabatoging, then I suggest you re-create your life by devising a new set of mind mantras…and dance and chant your dreams alive!<\/span><\/p>\n

Aho!<\/span><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Richie\/Du’Tsu<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glory Hallelujah! \u00a0You have come to the home of Wellness and Spirituality Teachings: Consider this: Your life is exactly what and how you think. You are as you are!….Grandmother Pa’Ris’Ha You know how a song can stick in your mind. You know how a song can lift your heart. You know how a song can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[57,8,58,26,42,140,6],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-wellness-and-spirituality","tag-dutsu","tag-grandmother-parisha","tag-jack-canfield","tag-love","tag-parisha","tag-wellness-and-spirituality","tag-wellnessandspirituality-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}