{"id":2455,"date":"2012-02-09T21:51:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T02:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2012-02-09T21:51:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T02:51:36","slug":"what-your-soul-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2012\/02\/what-your-soul-sings.html","title":{"rendered":"What Your Soul Sings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Woke up a few days ago to this song that I had never heard before. It echoed with the thoughts that I most needed to hear at the moment (of course, since I sense that the Universe always provides what serves for our growth), because there are times when in an effort to ‘find myself’, I lose myself in wheel spinning, co-dependence. As a child who was showered with love and approval for being a\u00a0 precocious high achiever, people pleaser. I believed; perhaps on an unconscious level, that if I wanted to keep receiving that nourishing energy, I better oughta keep doing what I thought of as ‘The Shirley Temple tap dance.’ The adults around me never even knew that these thoughts were going on in my head and to this day, I still carry them, even as I do my best to off-load them since they keep me from being genuine.<\/p>\n

I have long been in the ‘people business’, as a social worker\/minister\/journalist\/motivational speaker and am called on to be aware of the dynamics between myself and\u00a0others in order to keep these relationships honest. Transparency is important to me, as I am allowing for the full human experience. Keeping up appearances takes alot of energy. I was engaged in a ‘battle royale’ with my 24 year son recently over a difference in world view. Although he was raised by two sorta hippie parents (until age 11 when my husband\/his dad died), with tree hugging, Law of Attraction values,\u00a0there are times when you woulda thought he\u00a0grew up with\u00a0cynical, see the cup as half empty parents, since that is his perception at times. Then I realized that each of us, for whatever reason, has our own destiny to live out and perhaps his is to do whatever he is doing for as long as he chooses to do it and his soul song may be quite different from mine. The intention I hold is that at least they play in harmony and not cacophany.<\/p>\n

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What Your Soul Sings<\/p>\n

by Massive Attack<\/p>\n

Don’t be afraid<\/p>\n

Open your mouth and say
\nSay what your soul sings to you<\/p>\n

Your mind can never change
\nUnless you ask it to
\nLovingly re-arrange
\nThe thoughts that make you blue
\nThe things that bring you down
\nOnly do harm to you
\nAnd so make your choice joy
\nThe joy belongs to you<\/p>\n

And when you do
\nYou’ll find the one you love is you
\nYou’ll find you
\nLove you<\/p>\n

Don’t be ashamed no
\nTo open your heart and pray
\nSay what your soul sings to you<\/p>\n

So no longer pretend
\nThat you can’t feel it near
\nThat tickle on your hand
\nThat tingle in your ear
\nOh ask it anything
\nBecause it loves you dear
\nIt’s your most precious king
\nIf only you could hear<\/p>\n

And when you do
\nYou’ll find the one you need is you
\nYou’ll find you
\nLove you<\/p>\n


\nhttp:\/\/youtu.be\/8jRzm3dJ-_c<\/a>\u00a0 What Your Soul Sings by Massive Attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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