I enjoy mastermind groups, especially ones where the members really fit nicely together. This week, it was my turn to be in the hot seat with one of my groups.

This particular group is based on Law of Attraction concepts and includes life and love coaches, an artist, and myself. We bring our business or life issues to the table and ask for whatever help we need from the group. It is an eternal spring of epiphany, insight, enduring support, and creative ideas. It feeds me.

This last session, I talked about the transformation my life is going through, how I am shifting and how I felt I needed to go 40 days into the desert to figure out what to do next. One of the members told me she thought that I had already been in the desert and it was time to envision getting out. She also recommended to use my favorite every day actions to help me, so as I described the feeling I get when I am singing, she told me “Your Song is Your Eye”. Her statement felt like a lightening bolt up my spine.

They all commented next on how I use metaphor based in music and song to describe life -  harmony, flow, tempo, beauty, scale, performance, being in tune. I had never really noticed it so much, but it was dead on. Could music, which I so often neglect, and song, which I am always longing to do more of, really be such an instrumental vehicle of spiritual growth for me? Apparently.

So, I made the commitment to sing every day as a sort of meditation. And, for those of you who don’t sing, here’s what I have to do to sing well – I have to activate and allow my natural and trained talent, relax my gut, breathe deeply, use a gentle and purposeful push without too much force, allow the words to take on a life of their own, be aware of singing to an audience but not overly concerned about it, practice, have confidence, become the Song. It is an immediate feedback loop that sends beauty out and relaxation in.

My singing is my way of letting Life flow through me. When I am singing well, it feels like I am having a conversation with God. That may sound corny, but it’s how I feel. And, it wasn’t until it was brought to my attention by loving friends that I realized it. Indeed my song is my eye.

So, now I’m wondering about you. What is your metaphor or life story vehicle? Do you have one? Do you perhaps use gardening to describe your point of view – cultivation, careful tending, weeding, and harvesting the fruits of your labor? Do you use sports – competition, discipline, training, winning? No life metaphor is better than any other but I am beginning to feel we probably all have one. What’s yours? You’re invited to share.

Be well!

Vicki

P.S. Here’s a small snipit of Time After Time from my first practice session with my new guitar friend. It’s our first time together, and it’s just an open mic recording, but it is nice – and it only gets better from here. Enjoy!