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  Eveline Maria : Peace
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Music ~ “Harmony is the Greatest of Virtues.”

Eveline Maria said Oct 13, 2006, 12:12 PM:
 

I felt drawn to create a thread in Water for World Peace dedicated to creating awareness of the power of music. In Dr. Masaru Emoto's latest book “Love Thyself the Messages from Water III” you'll find amazing crystal photographs validating the effect of good music. Imagine its healing potential. As a certified Hado Instructor I implement the messages from water into my being and daily life whilst encouraging and sharing with others here on our path to also listen to messages from water.


The idea of using Art, Dance and Music as mediums to express a particular emotion or thought has always been a fascination. This led to the development and creation of my Soul Art and Collage workshops.  You and I we are all creators….. We each are the artist's of our life! “Soul Art” is connecting and freely expressing that artist within. It was early in 2000 when I felt guided and inspired to create and begin presenting my Soul Art, Affirmative and Journal Collage workshops and I have been presenting them to adults of all ages ever since with each session being joy filled, unique and special.

The Colors Of Light copyright 2006     The Clouds In Looging Glass Copyright 2006 
The Colors Of Light and The Clouds In The Looking Glass copyright 2006

I connected with Sue Esserwein's channeled healing music through Sharon Stellmach, Sue's sister. I met Sharon through the World Gratitude forum :)) I love it when synchronicity plays out. I have been presenting my Soul Art and Collage workshops at Camp Mak-A-Dream since September of 2000. Spring of 2006 I made the choice to include new age music in my workshop presentations and felt drawn to Sue Esserwein's two newest CDs Colors of Light and Clouds in the Looking Glass. They are available for purchase from Sue's CD BABY site.


What I have observed when playing Sue's healing music softly in the background as workshop participants create and visit is they all love them! The first time I played these CDs they shared how relaxed listening to them made them feel. One thing I noticed they didn't want to leave three stayed just visiting through the second session. After playing these CDs for several workshops I soon became aware not only is this music helping participates to relax it frees some to release what needs releasing within their being; with some tears flow as they share their healing steps while others acknowledge their letting go of emotions of anger, fear and guilt.


I encourage and look forward to everyone sharing their thoughts on power of music here in Water for World Peace.


Blessings in Love, Gratitude and Peace
Hado Instructor,    Eveline Maria Smith

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  StarfireSongbird : Teacher, Mentor, and Music Promoter
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Re: Music ~ “Harmony is the Greatest of Virtues.”

StarfireSongbird said Oct 14, 2006, 12:27 PM:
 

Emotion and art go hand and hand, especially in education.  Along with promoting the Starfire Artists of Starfire-Muse Studio Productions, I teach English 11 full-time at an urban public high school in Virginia Beach, VA.  My students enter the building with a whole host of challenges each day.  Most of them are living in single parent households, where very little communication and guidance take place.  Situations we take for granted (like sitting down to dinner with the family on any consistent basis or discussing our day with a loved one) simply doesn't occur for these people.  Many of my students arrive at school each day feeling alone, frustrated, or angry.  Equally important, they often lack the academic skills to achieve success and embarrassed, they attempt to hide this dilemma by “acting out”.  ADD/ADHD is a common label for so many of the students, and they use it as an excuse to misbehave or to lack academic progress.  Often times the only attention and nurturing they receive is when they are in the classroom.  Now although this may appear as a hopeless situation, I can tell you wholeheartedly it is not.

What I have intuitively discovered is that MUSIC–the universal language of love and acceptance–makes all the difference in the world to low achieving students.  Each day as my pupils enter the classroom I play New Age music that soothes their anxiety and frustrations.   One can literally see the changes take place in their physical demeanor.  The body language goes from a stiff, erect stance to relaxed, open arms.  Most times when we are about to take a quiz/test, my students will ask me to leave the music on,

So….last school year (2005-2006) I decided to do a study with my English 11 classes.  I played my favorite New Age/Meditation CD, Morning Forest Rain Magick, during class time and quickly discovered that my students (especially the ones who were labelled ADD/ADHD) were able to focus for great lengths of time on their assignments.  Even writing sessions (typically 45-50 minutes long) were productive and my juniors were constructing logically structured, imaginatively creative compositions.  Better yet, I continued to play this CD during tests and quizzes and student scores began to climb.  Excited at the outcome, I decided to conduct an action research study, attempting to reproduce these results.  I invited three of my colleagues to use this music with their classes.  The CD was unmarked and I voiced no expectations to my colleagues.  I simply asked them to use the CD during a testing situation that required focus.   Then they were to match an equally constructed testing situation without the use of music and compare the students' scores.  In all three cases, when Morning Forest Rain Magick was used during testing, academic student achievement rose.  Imagine how delighted we all were!

This school year I have added to my collection.  After hearing the amazing work Eveline Maria Smith has done with her workshop participants at Camp-Mak-A-Dream, I decided to use The Clouds in the Looking Glass with my students.  And just as I experienced last year, my students are able to focus better while listening to this music and their test scores are higher with the use of this particular CD as well. 

Sue Esserwein, the artistic creator of Morning Forest Rain Magic and The Clouds in the Looking Glass, has a truly astounding talent for creating healing music.  No doubt–her channeled scores gift the public with soothing vibrational energy and nurturing focus that allows them to tap into their inner resources and divine wisdom.  I am so very grateful to have the continued opportunity to gift my students with her music. 

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  Andrea : SoulSongs
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Re: Music ~ “Harmony is the Greatest of Virtues.”

Andrea said Jul 10, 2007, 7:13 PM:
 

Well, my goodness, this post was 269 days ago and I just read it. But knowing time is timeless, I'll carry on.

Harmony is why I give my music to the world. My angelic choirs and music of the spheres beagan with an angel visitation, was broadened by a figure that looked like Jesus, and after being blessed by Ammachi, I present it to the world . I would like to have all who are interested in this thing go to www.myspace.com/healingsoulsongs1 to hear it.

Also, at www.healingsoulsongs.com you can read more about this music.

Harmony is the key. We must teach harmony. We do that by our lives.

Thank you for stressing this.

I love it.

Blessings,

Andrea

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  Eveline Maria : Peace
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Re: Music ~ “Harmony is the Greatest of Virtues.”

Eveline Maria said Oct 3, 2007, 7:17 AM:
 

Andrea you healing music is amazing!  All of the ARTS are being used in Therapy now with music therapy becoming more known. ~Music Therapy~ is the use of music to produce a positive change in behavior that endures over time. Music is a medium through which participants can acquire language, learn pro-social behaviors, develop communication skills, improve self-concept, gain or regain a sense of self-control, and express themselves intuitively. Music Therapy is the utilization of music, including listening to it as I do when I present my Soul Art and Collage workshops. It is also and creating music, in a rehabilitative or educational setting, in order to meet specific wellness goals of an individual or group.

I'm so happy you are here and look forward to getting to know you and learning more about your work and the beautiful healing spiritual music you create.

Blessings of all things good always in all ways with love, gratitude, respect, and peace…..
Eveline Maria

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