Musical Reflections

The U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving is coming soon! It is one of our favorite holidays. How about you? It is less stressful (and frankly, less work) than Christmas/New Years. And more importantly, it is a time of gratitude, thankfulness and appreciation. We love to reflect what we are most grateful for from the previous year:

• Our customers – that’s YOU!
• CoVid gave us the opportunity to discern about what’s the “next generation” of our work/business. Stay tuned for exciting new launches coming soon!
• We also love our “sister businesses” – the BioMat and Young Living essential oils. We love these products personally and enjoy sharing the benefits with those we serve. It’s a win-win!
• We have loved working with our therapeutic harp lesson students. These students already know how to play the harp, but want to learn more about playing at the hospital and hospice bedside. What a joy and honor to work with them!
• Every time someone signs up for our new on-line course called “Sounds of Healing for Wellness Professionals,” it brings us joy! We love sharing our content in this unique, cutting-edge format.

Since Musical Reflections’ inception on May 21, 1999, we have been passionate about offering various products and services to contribute to your healing journey. What an honor! We are so grateful … Happy Thanksgiving!

Today is Election Day in the U.S. of A.!! While every election day feels important, this one is likely the most significant in our lifetime … be sure to VOTE today (if you haven’t already done so).

We will be hosting a virtual Peace Meditation from 1-6 p.m. CST. A select group of our friends will be in meditation throughout this time. I’ll play harp songs throughout the afternoon to keep our vibration high, as we hold space and intention for the Highest Good for our country and the world. It is a very powerful experience to be in community with this awesome group! At 6 p.m., we will meet in a local restaurant and then return to our respective homes to watch happy election results on TV … hopefully!

Again, PLEASE VOTE!!

In the last blog post, I discussed using Zoom for presentations/performances. And frankly, my somewhat negative experiences using it for those purposes.

On a more positive note, where I have seen Zoom work very well:

• My therapeutic harp lessons – I have been working with students who already play the harp, but are interested in learning more about playing at the hospital and hospice bedside.
• Virtual harp therapy – I wrote about this in an earlier blog. I am excited to offer this as a virtual healing modality and the opportunities are endless … around the globe!

So, CoVid-19 has blessed us with many changes and using technology, specifically Zoom, in some beautiful, unique ways. I am grateful to be here at this amazing time in our human evolution! If you are interested in additional information for either of these, I look forward to connecting.

Everyone’s on Zoom … I am, too! And here’s “my take” on it. After doing numerous live events over the past 21+ years, I wasn’t sure how I would like performing on Zoom.

I did two harp group events during the initial lock-down of CoVid-19. While the actual virtual events went OK, the hardest part was ending in a quiet house (my living room) without any audience feedback. So, the quiet after presentations/events has been a big adjustment!

That said, I’ve recently invested in upgrading my system and am excited about offering many different types of Zoom sessions! Interested? Let’s connect! I look forward to working together …

In the International Harp Therapy Program (IHTP) Facebook group, we have been discussing if harp therapy is effective virtually. I had a personal experience to say “YES, it is!”

I have been teaching therapeutic harp lessons for harpists who want to improve their musicality and learn more about playing the harp at the hospital and hospice bedside. One of my students is from the Netherlands and in one of her lessons, she played a Schubert lullaby for me. As she played, I became aware of a painful area in my lower back and I “sent” the harp vibrations to the sore spot. I could literally feel it dissolve.

It was an incredible first-hand experience of how virtual harp therapy (on Zoom) is powerful and healing…almost as good as in person! I believe this opens up many opportunities and possibilities for therapeutically trained musicians. If you would like to explore virtual harp therapy sessions, please reach out and let’s connect!

I was recently talking to one of the BioMat distributors on my team and her comment/observation was, “Never has there been a more important time to pay attention to your health!”

I know from personal BioMat use and serving many customers, the BioMat is an important component to many peoples’ health and healing. CoVid and the need to boost our immune system heightens our need to use the BioMat. A unique blend of three healing elements, the BioMat utilizes far infrared heat, amethyst crystals and negative ions.

If you are interested in more information about how the BioMat can help you and your health journey, let’s connect!

I was recently on a Zoom call and someone asked the question, “What are the blessings you’ve received from the coronavirus?” Honestly, the question took me aback, because there’s been so much focus on the negative. Even though I don’t feel like I’ve personally lived in the negativity, I wasn’t prepared to list my blessings. After taking some time to reflect, here’s a few things I’m grateful for:

• Playing my pedal harp to “send out” peace and calm energetically every day.
• A deeper connection/relationship with my friends and support system.
• Easing up on Mother Earth (reduced pollution, cleaner waters, less frenetic busy-ness, etc.)
• Daily walks in nature and breathing in fresh air. (I’m also so glad the pandemic “hit” in mid-March vs. mid-January in Minnesota!)
• Connecting daily with people I had lost touch with or hadn’t connected with for a long time.
• Meditating daily to help fill “the field” with love and peace.
• Cleaning. Cleaning. Cleaning. My house feels lighter and more organized, and I love this feeling!
• Working with my harp therapy students. As we have connected each week, we spend the first few minutes of each lesson processing our CoVid experiences, as well as mutually supporting each other.
• Working on a couple exciting, new creative projects!
• Time to enhance and deepen my self-care practice.

I could go on … I’m amazed at how long the list already is! What’s on your list of CoVid blessings? As we “hold space” for the struggles and pain of CoVid, we can also be grateful. I invite you to reflect on your CoVid blessings (if you haven’t already done so)…

Have you heard the spiritual terms 3D and 5D? “D” stands for dimension and as a planet, we are upleveling our vibration from the third dimension (3D) to the fifth dimension (5D). So, let’s explain:

• 3D is about separation which means us vs. them, right vs. wrong, good vs. bad “guys,” and also who is to blame, who can we invade/which countries can we take over, etc. You can probably see this is where we have been as a culture and world for a very long time!
• 4D is the awareness we are more than just our physical body; we claim our soul. The spiritual component is “I create/co-create my reality.” This stage in the Ascension energy progression is taking actions such as saying mantras, affirmations, paying attention to our positive/negative language, etc. It is also about setting intentions and manifesting.
• 5D is unity consciousness. In other words, we are all connected. The world is a mirror and we change the mirror by changing ourselves. 5D is also about deleting any limits on joy, peace, love, possibilities, etc. which ultimately increases our vibration. We can say, “Wouldn’t it be nice to feel/experience XXX?” and then, we watch it happen!!

Hopefully these explanations are helpful and you can see where you personally are at on the 3D/5D continuum. While this can be a challenging time, it is also quite exciting! We wish you expanded peace and blessings at this time on your journey…

The new “Sounds of Healing for Wellness Professionals” on-line course is now available for $58. A brief description is healing music can play a unique role, augmenting one’s self-care methods and contributing richness to one’s personal healing journey. This experiential course will explore how music nurtures you, the healer/wellness professional, and those you serve. Tami Briggs, therapeutic harpist, weaves together practical tips, powerful stories and plays musical examples, demonstrating music’s role in wellness—for yourself and those you serve.

The course objectives include:

• Explore musical applications that support your wellness practice, and optimize you and your clients’ well-being.
• Discuss the benefits of incorporating sound healing in your wellness practice.
• Experience a musical journey where you can reflect, relax, and renew, with specific applications to the healer’s personal journey and self-care.

Go to this link to learn more:  https://courses.centerwithin.com/p/sounds-of-healing-for-wellness-professionals.

Two continuing education units (CEUs) are available for many healers, so you get the benefits of learning + obtaining your needed credits.

Feel free to reach out if you have questions or need additional information. I look forward to connecting!

So, what does this mean?!!

A Coherence Hotspot is a commUnity to learn about and practice personal coherence and apply this to global coherence. (Coherence is the healthy state when our heart, mind and emotions are in energetic alignment.)

Coherence is “achieved” by the Heart Lock-In Technique created by Heart Math. Here’s the steps … and we encourage you to try this:

• Focus on your heart by placing your hands over your heart.
• Imagine your breath flows in and out of your heart/chest area, breathing a little slower and deeper than usual.
• Inhale five slow counts; exhale five slow counts.
• Once a steady, even rhythm is established, focus on a feeling of love, appreciation, gratitude, kindness, compassion, joy, peace, balance, bliss, elation, etc. (You can also focus on a person, pet, special place, accomplishment, thing/object, etc.)
• This is coherent breathing.

This is powerful when done personally and the energy gets even more “amped up” when done in meditation groups. As meditation groups are forming all over the world vis-à-vis Coherence Hotspots, this is creating global collective coherence to effect social change. This is an opportunity to positively impact humanity, our future and the Earth. For example, when a group of people become coherent, the structure of the plasma and electromagnetic field of the Earth beneath them changes!

I am a Coherence Hotspot facilitator and the co-founders (Dirk Terpstra and Hilary Davies) are looking for at least 350,000 facilitators worldwide. If this resonates with you, learn more at www.CoherenceHotspot.com.