Here’s my recording (direct into my phone, so a little rough) of ‘Love, Songs and Words’, which I wrote in Oct-Nov 2022.
Actually like most creative works the song emerged and grew, because creative works have a life of their own.
We perhaps ‘channel’ creativity from somewhere - connecting with energies that we need not understand - instead, let them come, emerge and see what they become.
Rather like healing. It can be channelled from energies we need not understand.
Here are the words of the song:
Love, songs and words, and letting go a world and part of me
You see, inside my soul, the hole of ambiguity..... and
We, make everything we dream, real
I want you
I want you
So, hold me in your heart, as if there's not a start or end of us
Cos these lives we're livin' in, that we're imagining and when
We, make everything we dream, real
I want you
I want you
About neuroplasticity, from my experience
Traumatic shocks that we experience in life - including in the womb and at our birthing - but at any time in our lives - change:
the connections in our brain,
our neurological bodily systems,
our connections with external energies such as nature; our friends and families; our built environment; water, food and drink; cosmos - weather, sun and stars, etc;
our connections and relationships with everything actually.
And this shocking change ‘re-wires’ how we think and feel about everything, including how we think and feel about ourselves, which is the prism by which we judge - consciously especially - everything that we sense.
Our ways of making our own sense of reality depend on how our brain and neurological systems are ‘wired’ and connected.
Reality is different for each of us.
A medical term which attempts to explain the effects of traumatic shock to our minds and souls is PTSD - Post Traumatic Shock Disorder.
The label ‘disorder’ - which is then commonly extended to mean a ‘mental illness’ - is for many people not very helpful, because this opens the way for ‘western’ diagnosis, and then prescription of pharmaceuticals and/or other ‘modern medical’ interventions that for many people make matters much worse.
Addictions and grief are strongly connected, and powerfully leveraged by big corporations.
Many ‘experts’ in trauma and recovery suggest that certain types of ‘mental illness’ are a disease which can never be cured. I disagree very strongly with this position.
Instead, walking in nature every day, good nutrition, and getting good sleep, are much more helpful. So are mantras and maxims, said out loud, while walking especially, to re-frame our negative false beliefs, and switch them to positives.
When we walk we rewire our emotional ancient ‘primitive’ brain.
It’s natural. It’s how we’ve evolved.
Rituals of yoga and other relaxing strengthening activities are immensely helpful too, rather than inflammatory activities that stress and hurt our minds and bodies.
Be kind.
Be kind to ourselves. Re-connect with our hearts and love ourselves.
When we know that we can ‘rewire’ and ‘reprogram’ our own minds and souls, so, then it starts to happen.
It’s happening now for you, if you need and choose so :)
We become increasingly grateful for our traumas, because that’s how we grow stronger, emotionally and physically, because our physical strength is in our minds too - how we exercise, what we eat and drink, how we transition away from addictive substances and actions - towards forgiveness and love - especially of and for ourselves - to gratitude, and then comes abundance, and incredible power and fearlessness.
We actually need not know what has traumatised us, in order to fix our traumatised brains and soulful connections, although implicitly, we must believe in what we are choosing to do.
Placebo and nocebo are powerful. What we imagine, is our reality.
There is actually, for many people, no need to ‘regress to childhood’ on the therapist’s couch, nor to immerse ourselves in weeks, months, years of talking groups of similarly traumatised or addicted people.
Reinforcing and revisiting our traumas can keep us ‘stuck’ in a traumatised state.
The solution is to ‘rewire’ our connections - to switch dark to light.
Embrace the dark, because then we see the brilliance of the stars.
Focus on the stars. Embrace the dark.
To heal, reinforce the rewiring that we are healing, and healed.
Walk and speak our mantras ‘as if’ we are already healed.
Walking, talking, ‘heel and heal’.
“Heel and healing, heel and healing, heal and healed”.
Walk, every day, say it, believe it. It’s real.
This is not prescriptive, it’s a guide.
Each of us is different.
Make up your own ways. Adapt and create. Find what feels fabulous and calming and strengthening for you.
It’s about grief, ultimately; letting go of who we thought we were, and what we imagined we wanted to become.
This is the point of the trauma and the pain; it’s how we grow.
Life is how we come to know who we are.
Neuroplasticity is actually just a modern word for a natural very ancient way of healing.
Walk the talk.
Breathe, feel the sun, or the rain, smile, laugh, sing and dance, whatever thrills your heart.
It’s how we are evolved and designed.
Love it.