What am I saying with my harp?

Submission #1 (Bedside Harp) Reflective Journaling

“What are you saying with your instrument?”

Was my life’s script written from infancy to age seven? Some research supports this belief. Was I programmed to not make mistakes?

Pluck a strong wrongly! Repluck the string wrongly a second time to “really mean it.” What fun that is!

To support making a mistake and yet, improvising the mistake into beautiful music.

Let’s do likewise with a decision we are making. Make a decision that you are tentative about. Make it again after a period of reconsideration and prayer. What fun it will be to live out the decision. Was it wrong? Will it be right?

The most damaging belief is that the whole point of making music is to please others.

Don’t please anyone but yourself and your Higher Power. 

Free yourself from such beliefs that can damage your enjoyment.

From the list of don’ts select several that you need release from and perhaps, even add some of your own don’ts.

1. Don’t change - I can change my mind (which I am told that I do often) and I can change my attitude and I definitely can change my desires. 

2. Don’t call attention to yourself - I have decided to start “tooting my own horn.” If I write a piece and am successful I should tell someone. If I am published I should tell someone. If I am not published I should tell someone. If I need a friend I should ask someone to go to lunch. If I want to stop at the thrift store I should take a break and do so. This latter thought has nothing to do with calling attention to myself, yet I included it here. Hmmm….interesting!

3. Don’t be different - I sometimes wonder if I am different in any way, shape or form. I suppose I have a bit too much energy for an eighty-two year old. Yet, I don’t have the energy some older wiser women have that exercise frequently and work physically in their yards. I feel not that much different than any other woman I meet spinning, weaving, singing and gardening.

4. Don’t try new things - I cannot imagine being told that. I keep looking for the next “new thing.”

             

Frankly, I do believe I have found it in harp therapy! 

A very new commitment with a very teacher and a very new online program. Hooray!

 

And now to answer the original question - I am going to play my harp right now and figure out what I am saying. Such thoughts: 

I can play this.

I can play slowly.

I can practice shaping my hands.

I can say that I am going to be very successful as a harp therapist. 

I can say that I am enjoying this foray into music therapy.