What Is A Power Song And Where Do I Get One?
by Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls

Power Songs are oral prayers expressing your true self, your nature, your individuality, your power. All cultures have power songs but you can have your own power song too. We think of the power in a hymn or an African chant, a Shamanic ceremony song or even in the howling of wolf. And there is definite power in sound.

All Shamans have several power songs because the vibration of the notes in the voice and in the fourth chakra of the throat stimulate sympathetic vibrations in the universe to respond. Everything is connected. What you put out comes back to you. When  a butterfly  flutters his wings in Cost Rica the winds of Africa are stirred. And when a sound is offered, the universe responds.

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Gratitude: The Secret Behind Creativity
by Nancy Marmolejo 

When you think of being more creative, what comes to mind? Most people think in terms of artistic skills, but creativity manifests itself in a number of ways beyond the obvious. Picture creativity like a jet stream that flows all around us: when we step up to the flow and dip our hands in, we easily grab wonderful ideas, refreshed insights and innovative actions.  At times, things get in our way and we lose our contact with the creative flow. We consider ourselves in a rut, not creative, unproductive, dull..  There is a simple practice that magically ignites the creative juices and brings joy to all parts of life. It takes practice, commitment, and an open mind.

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I yawn, stretch my arms behind my head and stare at the ceiling. I've been in bed for a few minutes. Ahhh, the peaceful quiet all around. The room is dark. The kids are asleep. It's an expansive moment for my mind. My mind seems to fill the entire room.

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Stress Relief And Healing... It's Only A Sound Away
by Gina and Mac Horwood

Let’s face it…stress is a part of every day life and has been since man took his first step. High levels of stress can result from a bacterial infection, when we face possible danger, a major life change, as well as, inner conflict, worry or physical trauma. However, research has proven that we live our entire lives in continual low level stress. For instance, you’re probably living with low level stress if your work requires you to meet several deadlines each week. Low level stress can either work for us or against us as it can help us accomplish our goals or suppress our immune system. It all depends on how each of us thinks and perceives the world around us. Stress occurs because our thoughts produce electrical impulses, which can be measured in both amplitude and frequency, so that extremely emotional thoughts can contribute much greater amplitude to the electrical energy produced by our brain...

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Little Turns Large
Timothy Latus, Ph.D., DPMP

With an early career as disc jockey, record producer and record company executive, I’ve made the rounds with dozens of leading performers of all varieties.  But one I hadn’t had the privilege of meeting until recently has to be one of the most unusual.

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"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great inspiring people have influenced people in every area of life throughout centuries. Henry David Thoreau, the great 19th century transcendentalist writer, was influenced by the great Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau was the impetus for Ghandi's and Martin Luther King Jr's civil disobedience, which ultimately changed the shape of the world for a better humanity. Socrates taught Plato who taught Aristotle, who collectively remain the greatest philosophical trio in history. We often stand on the shoulders of giants. And we can notice connections such as these throughout history--a lineage--a passing down of wisdom.

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Ambassador Of Joy: An Interview With LeRoy White
by Carol Bedrosian

Playing the stage for 38 years with the likes of Ike and Tina Turner, Kiss, Tim Harden and Herbie Mann, maverick musician LeRoy White says he's received the best schooling a musician can get. "I'm good at what I do," declares LeRoy. "I have an energy source that never ends and I'm the best LeRoy there is. I say this in absolute power so that I can give you the best I've got."

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Where Dead Voices Gather
by Nick Tosches

Many years ago, I wrote a book called Country. Two of the chapters closest to its heart were devoted to the mystery of Emmett Miller, whose startling and mesmerizing music seemed to be a Rosetta Stone to the understanding of the mixed and mongrel bloodlines of country and blues, of jazz and pop, of all that we know as American music.

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The Biology of Success
Build Mental Capital
by Robert Arnot, M.D.

Mental energy is the basic foundation of success. Look at corporate titans such as Michael Eisner, Martha Stewart, and Jack Welch, or world leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Tony Blair, and Margaret Thatcher, or super moms from Maria Von Trapp to Barbara Bush. High mental energy is what they all have or had in common. Mental energy is the brain's power supply -- the more power you have, the longer and harder you can work. Compare your work output the morning after taking a red-eye to that after a refreshing night's sleep. It's brain energy that makes the difference.

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An Interview with Jimi Two Feathers /
Co-founder of Earth Drum Council 
by Carol Bedrosian

CAROL: Is there such a thing as non-native people?

JIMI: I don't think so. The question is native from where? Also, where do you think you are from and where do you feel connected to? I can say I am native to Cambridge, Massachusetts, because I've been here all my life. I look around and I see a lot of other people that I do not consider to be native to this area. That's a judgment on my part because I have been here for X amount of years and you have only been here for a fraction of that. So from my perspective you are not a native. But from your perspective you may have only been here for five years and feel really connected — more connected than you have anywhere else. So you feel this is where you are from because it is part of your home. It's a matter of perspective. 

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Sound, Music, & Medicine
by Julianna Souza, RN, HNC, HTP.

Recently I have been delighted to observe an increased emphasis on music and sound as a medium for healing. Perhaps because music has been an integral part of my life I am more keenly aware of this phenomena. On occasions when I have felt my soul inspired by a particularly beautiful piece of music, I have realized that I would literally wither if music were not a part of my daily life. For me, music assumes many forms and I am as deeply touched by the musical sounds of nature as I am by a beautiful concerto.