So, you may be asking: What does a song have to do with health and healing?
Everything I say, everything!
Musicians weave soul magic with their words and the musical notes. Human healing begins at the soul's level. Remember me writing about how healing the physical body begins with healing the emotional and spiritual body? What better catalyst than music!
An earlier post, about another favorite song, urges using forgiveness as a self-healing tool.
My new favorite song and how it fits into this whole story...
As you know, from a previous post on blasting belly fat, I recently ventured down into the Havasupai Indian Reservation in the Grand Canyon. After I posted this adventure story, a dear friend sent me the link to a song I had not heard in years: In the House of Stone and Light by Martin Page.
Listening to the hauntingly beautiful music and soulfully insightful words of this song returns me to the same peace, deep inside my heart and soul, that I felt down in the Havasupai's canyon world.
(See pictures below.)
The House of Stone and Light as we walked into the Havasupai village.
Meandering through this House of Stone and Light!
Little Navajo Falls In The House of Stone and Light. Yes, we swam there! In fact, I am on that beach!
The sunrises and sunsets on the canyon walls were completely mesmerizing. The light, on the sandstone walls, absolutely glows. (I live in a sandstone home, I recognize my stone home's beauty and, yet, this canyon home is an intense sandstone home space!) American Indians speak of sacred places where there are high levels of spiritual energy. It was obvious to me that this oasis, in the Grand Canyon, is one of these sacred places, a vortex of energy.
The sunrise, hiking out of The House Of Stone and Light.
I would love to take my healing energy back to Havasupai. Maybe I could offer my nutrition and whole health healing to the Havasupia people. I could support their health around the high incidence of diabetes and diabetes related health problems. I could be giving back to the people who opened their canyon home to me and my family!
For now, I listen to my new favorite song, over and over again. My kids tell me I am obsessed with this song about the canyon home. I tell them the hike down into this beautiful home of the Havasupai was a deeply moving and soul cleansing experience.
If they hand me my backpack and tattered Teva hiking sandals, I will know they are sending me packing back into the canyon! I will go, willingly!
My dirty feet and tattered Teva sandals after a day of canyon hiking!
Your Take Away Health Information: Find music that soothes and excites your soul.
Sing, dance, let the music flow through you like the healing energy it is. Much Love, Paula
PS The lyrics of the song are deep, meaningful, soul searching! Tell me this is not a healing experience...
O Mount Kailas uncover me
Come my restoration
Wash my body clean
I've been walking
Along a crooked path
Where the walls have fallen
Broken me in half
I'm telling you
I will not rest till I lay down my head
I'm gonna go
In the house of stone and light
I shall not cry
For the blind man I leave behind
When I go
In the house of stone and light, yeah
In the house of stone and light
Holy lady
Show me my soul
Tell me of the place
Where I must surely go
Old man waiting
At the gates for me
Give me the wisdom
Give me the key
I'm telling you
I will not rest till I lay down my head
In the house of stone and light
I make my way
Oh, gonna be such a beautiful day
In the house of stone and light
In the house of stone and light
Let me in beneath my skin
In the house of stone and light
It's been too long
My spirit's been at war
Havasupai Shaman
Let me be reborn
And I will embrace
The sun upon my face
Come the day
I awake the child inside
In the house of stone and light
And when I go
I will op', op', open my eyes
In the house of stone and light
I will see you
In the house of stone and light
Looking in beneath my skin
In the house of stone and light
Going inside
In the house of stone and light
(Stone and light)
Looking for the child
In the house of stone and light
(See myself got such a good shelter)
In the house of stone and light
In the house of stone and light
(I'm gonna let this child come washing of water)
In the house of stone and light
(He's speakin' softly to me)
(I must go there, to find my soul, yeah)
In the house of stone and light
(I can see so clearly now)
(I will go there, to find my soul, yeah)
In the house of stone and light
(Well keep on knocking on my door)
(I must go there, to find my soul, yeah)
In the house of stone and light
(I will go there, to find my soul, yeah)
In the house of stone and light
(I must go there, to find my soul, yeah)
Songwriter:
His albums are awesome. Check them out for some soul soothing, healing music!
