The First Step Can Be The Hardest

Dear Friends,

This is my first post on my new blog, I have been hesitant to write it. Like starting any new project, relationship or endeavor, it's the first step that can be the hardest.  
The title of my new blog, is: drumroll... "The Sounds of My Heart"! I am a musician and a healer and my intention is to bring my heart into the world through music and sound. I have been a Songwriter and Singer for as long as I can remember, but "officially" for the past 16 years! When my daughter Miranda was born I was so profoundly changed and moved by the presence of her shining soul, that it became almost instantly clear what my path would be. She is my angel and my teacher. 

So many are teachers. When I first heard Snatam Kaur's music http://snatamkaur.com/ I was enchanted with her music, I was enchanted with chant! I could not listen to enough kirtan. I had it playing in my house, I sang it, I went to kirtans. I felt the way it elevated me, almost instantly! Music is powerful. Devotional singing is the ultimate power because it calls forth Love straight from the heart. The heart that lives in you and in me that is divinely connected to All That Is. The Love that has the power to change visibly and invisibly all things around and inside of us.

Here are the lyrics to a new song I just wrote called "Riotous Singing" Singing is healing, joyful and upliftingly riotous! 

riotous~

1. proceeding from or of the nature of riots or rioting

2. inciting to riot

3. characterized by boisterous or unrestrained merriment

*riotously adv.

*riotousness n.

singing~

1. Music

a. To produce the musical sound of

b. To utter with musical inflections

c. To bring a specified state by singing

2. To intone or chant

3. To proclaim or extol, especially in verse

* Music n

*A gathering of people for group singing

*To call out: To sing loudly

Riotous Singing

Close your eyes, breath in the night, close your eyes
See the colors, twirl and twirling, orbs of light

And this riotous singing, brings me closer to You
And this riotous singing, brings me closer to You.

Hear this music, feel this Love, 
How can we stay in this impossible dreaming?

And this riotous singing, brings me closer to You,
And this riotous singing, brings me closer to You.

Close your eyes, breath in the light, 
breath in the light

All these angels, all around us,

How can we stay in this impossible dreaming?

And this riotous singing, brings me closer to You

And this riotous singing, brings me closer to You.

Ong Soung Wahe Guru...(a chant used in Kundalini Yoga)

Ong So-hung~

Ong -The Creative Consciousness of the Universe

So-hung -I am that!

Chanting this mantra stimulates ond opens the heart chakra.  It is a beautiful recognition that each of us is a part of the Creative Consciousness of the Universe.

Wahe Guru~

Wahe -is a statement of awe and ecstasy.

Guru- is the one who brings us from darkness to light.

This is a mantra of the Infinity of ecstasy and dwelling in God. It expresses the indescribable experience of going from darkness to light (from ignorance to true understanding). It is the Infinite teachers of the soul. 

(translations taken from the Spirit Voyage Mantra-pedia http://www.spiritvoyage.com/mantrahome.aspx)

Here is a chant that will open your heart and clear that space. Try it!

*Notice how you feel in your body, tense, happy, sad, any places that are hurting either physically or emotionally or both. Now chant or sing "Ong So-Hung" for 11 minutes. You could be sitting quietly or you could be doing the dishes or working in the garden, walking or driving(keep your eyes open while driving please!)...You can chant it out loud or quietly in your mind. I suggest chanting out loud if you can! Notice how you feel afterwards. The same? Different? Enjoy!

Love Always,

Lana 

*Come hear this song, and (maybe?) sing along, at my workshop, The Voice of Your Heart, Finding Your Inner Voice, at Unity Church of Lawrence http://www.unityoflawrence.org/, this Sunday, April 7th, at 1pm. If you are interested in joining the workshop you can contact me at: lanahaas1@gmail.com
You can also find the facebook invite at: https://www.facebook.com/events/344391685660937/?fref=ts