When you take any part of life—a relationship, a life experience, an emotion—and frame it in a song, you treat it as a sacred thing.
By framing your experience in chords and melody, by writing about it in words gracefully arranged in rhyming patterns, you connect that experience to the divine process of creation.
Whatever it is—something pleasurable such as falling in love, or an unexpected challenge such as losing a job—writing a song about it will allow you to be present to that experience in a way that allows for harmony and integration.
Whether your song turns out to be "popular" doesn't matter.
Simply by paying enough attention to your experience to respond to it authentically in song--by taking the time to try to write the song well--you will be paying attention to yourself in a new way: through a process that invites growth and transformation.
William Blake wrote “Everything that lives is holy”. The experiences of your life are holy.
When we see them as sacred, and use them to inspire our songs, we bring out a beauty in our lives we may never have seen before.
When we see them as sacred, and use them to inspire our songs, we bring out a beauty in our lives we may never have seen before.
