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Electronic Awakenings

10/4/2011

As a sound healer, being someone who understands how sound waves and vibrations are used as a tool for transformative healing I had to blog about this film, Electronic Awakening.

I have been to many weekly dance gathering such as, Dance Tribe, Dance Church, Sweat Your Prayers, Dancing Freedom, 5 Rhythms Dance, and Ecstatic Dance, all where you are provided a safe space to have a spiritual experience through dancing with yourself or with others. It's a place where you don't come to pick up on someone or dirty dance but a place to have an inner dance, or an open connected dance. The music that is played is from a myriad of genres and styles depending on the DJ. Though I have not experience a lot of the electronic music played at these dances I have experienced electronic music at festivals. Though I don't always connect with the raver electronic music I do connect with the community of dance as a spiritual practice.

Whether you dance at a festival or with a weekly group, to electronic or mellow music, DANCE! Dance to be free. Dance to connect. Dance to see. Listen to feel. Dance with the music.
Dance and see this film.
Create the positive shift through
Music.
Dance.
Community.

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Enlightenment through HBO

10/4/2011

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The upcoming 10-10-11 energetic gateway is surely bringing big openings of change for our society. This is reflected in the 10-10-11 premier of the new HBO show Enlightened. The series centers around one women's self awakening after she has a blow up at work that causes her to go treatment in Hawaii where she meditates in order to find herself. After her retreat (treatment) she is able to go back to her old job in a lower position. She brings to the office a new found since of purpose, environmentalism and a passion for positive change. Though not everyone around her shares the same ideals, she sticks to living her new enlightened way of life.

Having gone through my own enlightenment process and still going through it with new levels, I can relate to this character. I've done what she does by coming home and telling her parents and friends how they can improve their lives whether they want to hear it or not. Though the show makes fun moments like those, it is important insight to learn from what most people go through in these situations. Most newly enlightened tend to be so excited and feel a since of responsibility to change the world that they share what they have learned with others before the recipient is ready to receive. Which can leave them frustrated and feeling alone in this new world. But when you find someone who is ready to understand the insights and teachings it can be a validating accomplishment.

The character not only reminds me of myself but of my friends within spiritual communities and festival scenes. We are able to have gratifying moments of meeting friends who are on similar enlightenment paths within certain communities and festivals. I feel this is where we are able to find others on our wavelength. Otherwise we are met with the people whom this character interacts with in her office; people not understanding or unwilling to change for the betterment of humanity and themselves.

This leaves us frustrated, not wanting to be in typical job situations. Yearning to do more for the planet and with ourselves, but not having the model in which to do it, therefore being looked at as crazy in the process. Welcome to enlightenment! For the real test of enlightenment isn't just the ability to center and find yourself but to hold your own knowingness of true self while others around you aren't.

And this is exactly what HBO has captured in Enlightenment.

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Thrive and Play it Forward on 11.11.11

10/1/2011

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I am super excited to see the premier of the film Thrive on the launch of the Play It Forward platform by Elevate Films. Play it Forward is a new distribution platform that leverages socail media networking to share Transformative Films. The first film Thrive seeks out to find answers on a range of subjects that if improved could help us thrive. From corporations to free energy this film looks like it will be a mixing pot of sustainable, spiritual and politically conscious films all wrapped up into one. Yum yum.

Play It Forward Platform Preview

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Electronic Awakenings

Enlightenment through HBO

Thrive and Play it Forward on 11.11.11

Melissa Laine

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