| Do you want to live a life of more ease, | | | | to your subconscious. |
| happiness, balance and prosperity? Of course you | | | | Music can be your passkey. Take this song (you |
| do! Why is it so hard for some to move closer to | | | | will see at the end of this article a link that will |
| these goals? The answer lies within. | | | | take you to this free song) and sing it (after |
| Each one of us carries deep within us | | | | you've heard it a few times) several times a day |
| subconscious beliefs that contribute to our actions, | | | | to yourself. Sing along with the CD in your car, |
| and thus the actual conditions of our lives. If we | | | | and try to listen and sing early in the morning, or |
| believe at this level that we only deserve a | | | | right before bed, when your subconscious mind is |
| certain amount of happiness, or that life is a | | | | more receptive. |
| struggle, or that we are unworthy of very much, | | | | Music provides the focus that is often the missing |
| then we act accordingly. As a therapist working | | | | ingredient in people's path to their goals. It's easy |
| with others and myself on changing the | | | | to let everyday errands, unexpected events and |
| circumstances in our lives, I have come to the | | | | work and family priorities shift focus. It's not that |
| realization that it is imperative to modify our | | | | the intention is no longer there; it's that we allow |
| beliefs. And, as a musician, I have found that | | | | other things to 'take over' and we can let days, |
| music can be the tool to heal your soul, change | | | | weeks and months slip by without completing the |
| these beliefs, and thus to change your life. | | | | steps that lead us closer to our dreams. |
| We all know music can be powerful, but can one | | | | Music Gets "Stuck" in Your Head and Provides a |
| song really change your life? Absolutely. Here's the | | | | Positive Focus |
| story of one of my most recent songs. | | | | Music provides the reminder, in a gentle and |
| Music has been coming through me ever since I | | | | persuasive way, that our dreams matter, and |
| went through some life-changing events 20 years | | | | that we are worthy of having and pursuing our |
| ago. This music was a gift for my healing and | | | | dreams. This particular song stands strong in that |
| then I began to use it in my work as a therapist. | | | | very way. If someone likes the song, they are |
| I recently went through some more life | | | | likely to play it often, and they are more likely to |
| challenges, including a car accident, the death of | | | | stay focused on those steps on their journey to |
| my father, and the death of my marriage. | | | | a rich, purposeful and joy-filled life. Also, we all |
| When I wrote the song, "The Magnificent You," I | | | | have had the experience of singing a song over |
| saw that this song had a power that went | | | | and over in our heads--whether we wanted to or |
| beyond some of my other songs. It has the | | | | not! This feature of music makes it a natural tool |
| ability to heal the wound of unworthiness that sits | | | | for creating new thought patterns that support |
| in our hearts. It has been helping people to change | | | | your desire to change. |
| their thinking and their beliefs about themselves | | | | Through repetition of this song, you can form a |
| so that they can take the steps to reach their | | | | new pathway in your brain that tells you how |
| goals and dreams. One person said, "It's my soul's | | | | magnificent you are and that you can step into |
| song. I long to hear it every day." | | | | your power now. The more you sing it, the more |
| A friend who is in the medical profession said she | | | | you will form a new habitual pathway that tells |
| would like to put it on a prescription pad and give | | | | you what you really want to hear. It has been |
| it to her patients. It is a song that is to be taken | | | | proven that what we tell ourselves through |
| like one of your most life-enhancing supplements, | | | | positive and negative self-talk has a profound |
| daily and with the intention to move into your | | | | impact on our behavior and what we attract to |
| magnificence. | | | | us. |
| Music Creates New Software in Your Brain | | | | Why Not Just Say Affirmations? |
| Most of you are already on a path to realizing | | | | This musical passkey is better than saying |
| your wholeness and your dreams. You read | | | | affirmations. Why? It is because the vibrations of |
| books, take classes, listen to teleseminars, and | | | | the actual music bring the message deeper into |
| you apply these principles to your life. Perhaps | | | | your being. It's like a massage to your psyche. |
| you wonder why you aren't progressing faster. | | | | The musical vibration allows the place where the |
| Here's one reason: You don't truly believe you can | | | | beliefs reside to be loosened, allowing space for |
| do it and that you deserve it. Those subconscious | | | | the old to be uprooted and lifted out of place, and |
| limiting beliefs are sabotaging you over and over. | | | | allows the new beliefs a place to take root. The |
| Think of your thoughts, statements about | | | | repetition of the song will help to form a strong |
| yourself, and your beliefs about how the world | | | | pathway to this newer, more positive belief. |
| works as the software that runs your life. | | | | Also, the subconscious mind absorbs this |
| Unfortunately, much of this software lies hidden | | | | information better when you are more relaxed |
| within us and we don't realize how we continually | | | | and the brain is in an "alpha" rather than "beta" |
| choose to keep running it and allow it to interfere | | | | state. The addition of the musical accompaniment |
| with all our hard work and the steps we have | | | | to affirming messages helps to induce this |
| been taking towards our goals. | | | | receptivity, thereby increasing the likelihood of the |
| Music Bypasses Your "Keep Things the Way | | | | positive messages gaining access to the place |
| They Are" Radar | | | | where the beliefs reside. |
| Music has the ability to get past our intellectual | | | | You Have the Choice to Change and Be the Best |
| radars, the ones that keep really good information | | | | You Possible |
| from getting to our core, to that place that | | | | Now is the time to own, to really own your |
| makes or breaks us. We all have beliefs and | | | | personal power. Now is the time to discard |
| habitual patterns of response built up over the | | | | feelings and deep-seated beliefs of unworthiness |
| years, making it difficult to make lasting positive | | | | or of feeling you can only have and do so much. |
| changes. No matter how hard we try! It isn't | | | | You are only as limited as you believe you are. |
| enough to read about these things and to listen to | | | | Bring this song into your innermost self and hear, |
| the experts giving us tools to change our beliefs. | | | | and then sing its power to transform you. |
| We have to get past our cognitive 'filters' because | | | | You won't be disappointed. Do me a favor. Don't |
| they are the gatekeepers to our subconscious. | | | | listen to the song once. Listen at least three times |
| You Must Be Your Authority | | | | when you are not distracted, when you can take |
| Another problem is that too often we look to | | | | a few deep breaths and open your heart and |
| others to be our authorities, to help us find our | | | | mind to the richness of it. Let yourself imagine its |
| way. It's ok to go outside ourselves to gather | | | | power to transform some area of your life that |
| information. Then it us up to each one of us to | | | | isn't moving the way you'd like it to, an area or |
| choose what information we will accept and to | | | | issue that feels 'stuck.' |
| give ourselves the message that we are going to | | | | Here's What People are Saying about This Song |
| be changing, getting rid of what hasn't worked, | | | | of Power: |
| and trying some new things. We must put | | | | "Standing ovation, Marcia! That was beautiful. |
| ourselves back in the position of authority so that | | | | Beautiful message, music and voices. Hope you're |
| our subconscious will accept the new beliefs. If we | | | | creating more."-Dr. Michael Norwood |
| only listen to others telling us we can do | | | | "Total - head to toe goose bumps! It is beautiful. |
| something, or singing to us about our | | | | You've created something extraordinary."-Peggy |
| magnificence, we are still making others the | | | | McColl |
| authority. Each of us is in charge of our own | | | | Give yourself a gift for the New Year, a song to |
| growth. Rather than listen to someone else tell | | | | heal your soul. And, if you like it, tell others about |
| you what to believe, activate your own passkey | | | | it and write me with your comments. |