2010 - Your Year to Thrive!

Living the Life Your Soul Intends 

In an ancient wisdom tradition when an African woman knows she is pregnant, she goes out into the wilderness with a few friends. Together, they pray and meditate until they hear the song of the child. They know every soul has its own song - a vibration that expresses its unique flavor and purpose.

When the women attune to the song of the child, they sing it out loud. Then they return to the tribe and teach it to everyone else.

When the child is born, the community gathers and sings the child's song to him or her. Later, when the child enters education, the village gathers and chants the child's song. When the child passes through initiation to adulthood, the people again come together and sing. At the time of marriage, the person hears his or her song.

Finally, when the soul is about to pass from this world, the family and friends gather at the person's bed. Just as they did at his or her birth, they sing the person to the next life.

To this African tribe there is one other occasion upon which the villagers sing to the child. if at any time during his or her life, the person commits a crime or engages in aberrant social act, the individual is called to the center of the village. The people in the community form a circle around the person. Then they sing the song of that person's soul to him or her. 

The tribe recognizes that the correction for antisocial behavior is not punishment; it is love and the remembrance of identity. When you hear your soul's song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another.

Photo by Fran Kelley

A friend is some who knows your song and sings it to you when you have forgotten it. Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself.

They remember...

• Your beauty when you feel ugly.
• Your wholeness when you are broken.
• Your innocence when you feel guilty.
• Your purpose when you are confused.

You may not have grown up in an African tribe that sings your song to you at crucial life transitions, yet life is always reminding you when you are in tune with yourself and when you are not. When you feel good, what you are doing matches your song, and when you feel awful, it doesn't. In the end, we shall all recognize our soul's song and sing it well.

You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have the great singers. Just keep singing and you'll hear the beauty in your soul's song.  ~Author Unknown

Sing your soul's song. Let it help you THRIVE in 2010!

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