When people hear about song, they usually try to make sense of it by connecting it with something they know, which is usually music or chanting.  They tend to expect song to either sooth those that are hurting, or to be a type of sound therapy that uses frequency and vibration to impact the emotional system.  The songs of Life are neither of these things.  They do use sound, but they don’t just use frequency and vibration to heal.  Instead, they share Life—the power of Creation—with those in need.

The songs of Life are a tool that would fit well within Native American cultures because Natives used to live lives that were very close to and connected with the earth.  Because of this, they knew firsthand that the earth had Life infused within her, and that It could be harnessed and used to help humans heal.  For us, this tends to be a foreign concept that seems to have no real practical value.  To be honest, if I wasn’t given song and spent so much time using it to transform my own and other’s lives, I probably wouldn’t have ever been exposed to or tried it myself.  But sometimes Life has Its own plans for us.

“I write about Life and Creation because I want the reader to understand how I was shaped into a practitioner.  I don’t consider these connections to be religious, or even spiritual in nature.  For me, finding Life is a human thing, and so it’s on that level that I try to share my story and the songs of Life with others.”

The best way to come to know the songs of Life is to experience them, ideally over time as a part of a healing process so you can wake up to how it impacts you as you build a relationship with it.  When people receive song, they rarely feel better right away because song orients towards healing, not relief.  In the beginning, song progressively wakes up torn up core emotion that has been shut down and placed at a distance.  My clients then learn to meet and work with this emotion so they can help it have what it needs to heal.  As the core healing process gets moving, and my clients learn to play their hands-on role within it, the impact of song starts to clarify.  My clients start to tangibly feel stronger and more whole emotionally while also becoming more capable of meeting and being a part of life. 

Song impacts the deepest part of the emotional system, which is the main reason why it’s so consistent in producing such tangible and lasting results.  This depth allows you to work towards, into, and through the heart of your issues and problems so you can generate change from the inside out. 

The impact of song is inextricably tied to the singer that shares it because he’s the weak link in the connection between those in need and the almost limitless power of Creation.  The stronger and more skilled the singer, the more powerful his impact is on his client’s emotional system.  Singers aren’t trained in classrooms, they learn by doing.  This is why they need to heal through and overcome their own struggles so they can earn the strength and knowledge needed to help others navigate their own. 

Song is shared in a very focused way.  The singer learns to connect with the client’s emotional healing process within their emotional system.  This allows the singer to read the emotional landscape so he can pinpoint where the healing process is at and what part of it needs a boost.  The singer then has his client focus in on some core negative emotion that’s connected to the area that needs this boost.   The client holds and feels this emotion while the singer connects to it as well, and the singer then begins to share song from there.

The songs of Life aren’t structured like a written piece of music.  They’re more like the DNA that sits within our bodies, serving as a grouping of blueprints that allow us to heal.  Unlike DNA, the songs of Life are infused with a force that not only guides, but also drives the healing process.  The songs sit within Creation, which is why the songs need to be given to a singer so he or she can serve as the bridge between them and those in need. 

When working with a client, the singer connects with the ongoing struggle the emotional system is fighting through, and then marries it to the living blueprint that is the songs of Life.  The singer then shares song as a result of this marriage.  What goes into this union is impossible to explain.  The singer basically connects to the story that’s playing out within the struggling emotional system, and he shares the song that matches it and so he can give it Life.  When the healing process is connected to the power within song, it gets supercharged, giving it the energy it needs to progressively move towards and ultimately reach the resolution it seeks.

When my clients receive song, the boost it offers is experienced emotionally in the days and even weeks after they receive it.  It creates a momentum within their healing process that my clients learn to meet, work with, and even direct.  By working as a team, we help the healing process move forward from song to song, which we do every two weeks as a part of session.

When clients receive song, they begin by feeling the negative emotion we focus on to begin song.  This serves as a starting point to a journey that song takes them on. How this happens varies from person to person.  Sometimes it’s an emotional journey as song touches on the different parts of the person’s debilitation that’s healing; other times there’s a mind’s eye type of experience where clients remember certain experiences that are connected to the emotion their healing through; other times my clients experience energy moving through their bodies as they experience the direct boost song provides.  The more my clients are able to stay with the journey song takes them on, the more they’ll be able to use it to learn about their unfolding healing process.  They can then take the knowledge that comes from these experiences and apply it to their ongoing work. 

In the end, the songs of Life allow the singer that carries them to bring together the power of Creation with an emotional system that’s in need of help.   To be honest, after years of trying to explain what this means and how this works, I’ve accepted the fact that you don’t know what you don’t know.  This aphorism speaks to two types of ignorance.  The first deals with the reality that you can’t really know something until you experience it firsthand.  The second speaks to the creation of a blind spot that comes with not having experienced something in life.  Not only do you not know, but you don’t realize you don’t know.  That’s how the songs of Life are, and it’s why you need to build a relationship with them to come to know them yourself.

For me, the thing that matters the most about song is that it works.  When I was given song 30 years ago, it turned out to be the beginning of a journey that has allowed me to struggle into a deep and fulfilling relationship with Life.  The deeper I’ve built into this relationship, the more powerful the songs that I share have become.  Power matters, but unless it’s used skillfully, it won’t have the needed impact.  So, I also needed to gain an extraordinarily deep, hands-on relationship with the mechanics of the emotional system.  To accomplish this, I needed to learn how to practice something called seeing.