From the book,
"Healing Your Grieving Soul,
100 Spiritual Practices For Mourners"
by Alan D. Wolfelt, PH.D.

45.
LISTEN TO THE MUSIC

*Music perhaps more than any other external experience, has the capacity to bring you home to yourself and to restore your broken heart. Beautiful music can communicate to you on many different levels. Music can take you to your favorite place or to another world.

*Music transforms you, taking you to a "safe place" in your soul, helping you feel that you and the world around you are filled with grace and peace. Music can uplift your mood, soothe you when you are agitated, and open you to harmony , beauty, love and generosity.

*Beautiful music that nurtures your being is by its very nature healing. It restores and relaxes you in way beyond words. Music allows you to access spirit through sound. Music can infuse your body, mind and spirit, and bring an inner calmness that comforts your grief-filled nerves. Music encourages you to express your grief from the inside to mourning on the outside. Music is an invitation to feel whatever you feel----sometimes even paradoxical emotions, such as happiness and sadness at once.

CAPRE DIEM
Commit yourself to bring music into your daily life and open yourself to the spiritual nurturing it brings.