Music and dancing

 

reggaeDancing is great for the body and music merges the right and left hemisphere making speaking easier to retrieve for those who suffered a stroke. Well I haven´t as far as I know had a stroke but I have been burned out and forgot just about everyhing from time to time so now I have a good reason for listening to music right. My kids don´t always agree with my choice of music and right now I am back in the Reggae mode. I used to hang out here before.
As a kid my best friends dad used to sit in his home office shuffling papers back and forth playing Bob Marley LPs really loud. It was like the SUN came shining upon my sweet adorable 7 yr old face. But it wasn´t until I got in my 20s, right after my punk, grunge, metal era that a brand new friend intruduced me to I JAH MAN. Oh man!! A four track record on reapeat must have driven my neighbours nuts! But the summer was ON and I was YOUNG and pretty (in my imagination at least) and the incense was smelling of patchouli and nag champa. And I jah man was taking it away on my cd-player in the kitchen and the veggie sponge cake was cooking in the oven for our party.

Rastafari is a religion that I am not really that familiar with and I think I like to stay that way. I read some really weird s… about it so I just enjoy the music and sing along.
I jah man was also the music me and my husband played at our wedding. Yeah.
Married in the religion of his choice at that time, Bahai, to the soundtrack of I jah man. My 70 yr old grandma must have been teary eyed by pure confusion.

Well here are some of my favourite Reggae Albums so far. If you have anything to add that is just DA BEST in your pov please be sure to fill in the contact form on that other page somewhere around here and let me know. Please. My kids are hiding my phone away as I am playing the same song over and over and over. Haha. Right now it´s “Sin City” with the fab (and omg gorgeous!!) dude Gentleman. If only I wasn´t married, and he wasn´t married and I´d be his type and he hadn´t had kids and I hadn´t had kids and I spoke German and.. naw. I´m good thanks for asking.

  1. Gentleman – MTV Unplugged DeLuxe edition. GIVE ME A BREAK AND GO SEEE THE YOUTUBE ASAP! This is HEAVEN!
  2. Gentleman- Diversity.
  3. Gentleman  – Confidence. Including the HIT SONG Superior. If I ge to listen to only one song my entire life this would be it.
  4. Gentleman – Another intensity. At one time I spent two full hours with “Serenity” on repeat. Luckily with headphones. I was not in a good place but what better to mend a broken heart than some music huh.
  5. ANY OTHER Gentleman Album. So there.
  6. Bob Marley….

Nope this is not gonna work. I´m gonna sum this up with some songs from my current playlist.

I Jah Man – “Bob & Friends over there” – what a superduper song. “Just the other day I saw in a dream Bob Marley” so sweet a song
Bob Marley “Bend down low” 1968 version. The intro is FANTASTIC.
Gentleman – well what can I say.
Alborosie ft Gentleman- “Journey to Jah”
Ziggy Marley- “Never deny you” romance.. and easy to singalong to in the shower.
Suga Roy, Alborosie, Conrad Crystal – “Run Come” ayaayaayyayaya wohooo! Take it away and DANCE!
Stephen Marley and Capletown. “Break us apart” Just that intro… that intro.. oh man!
New Kingston “Today” Be good. Do good. Play. Today.
Beres Hammond “In my arms”.. reminds me of my first cd with Inner Circle.
Ziggi “Need to tell you this” Love sweet love!
Jah Cure, Flo Rida, Mavado, Jr. Reid…- “Hot long time” from the heart
Chizidek “All my life” – yay! Perfect soundtrack when cooking dinner
Fantan Mojah – “Rasta Got Soul” Reggae like I think of it basically.
Bunny Wailer ” Blackheart man” flutes. FLUTES.
Bob Marle & The Wailers ” Africa Unite” , “Trench town Rock” and the FAB “Iron Lion Zion”!!! WOHOOO! I could dance all night!
Gentleman – “Memories” In ten sec this got me weaping bringing up every heartbreak from forever.. I miss you I miss you I miss you…

I realize I could go on and on and on and on so I´ll leave you with this old fav.
“Jah Heavy Load” Our wedding intro song. Listen to those percussions. I´m flying…

 

 

 

 

 

Good people

Last night I found this really intersting book at the library. I always seem to enter the library with a bag full of books that are delayed for return keeping me always on the edge of debt and thinking today I shall not borrow any books because I´ll only forget to return them.. only to find myself looking like a hunchback with bags full of books as I leave. Shaking my head but singing in my heart.

Is there anything greater than a library? Sometimes in a different dimension I wish I was a librarian and I could snatch all the new books first and lock myself up in some small room and read and have crisps and just read and wake up in the middle of the night and the police are searching for me and…oh I digress.

Well this book then. It´s called “Encyclopedia of new religions”. 447 illustrated pages on religions that people are engaged in. All in the search for the light that will lead them to inner peace. Or so I assume. There is a big chapter on New Age which I dove right into.
New Age. What a fantastic concept in the realm of spacetime. Timelines. Time.
Old age, new age. Hm. Well anywhooooo. Religion is dear to my heart and also really undear. Religion messes people up in ways we cannot even conceive of. And it can also bring out the best in people. But then that best can also fuck things up.
I just also spotted a book called “Pathological alturism” (Barabara Oakley et al). Fantastic!
Now I know why I am so messed up 😉

Some research suggests that we have an innate skill to be honest and authentic as it takes less effort. We are more prone to being kind. And yet this kindness can be totally mistaken for help. A need to be helpful. Even when it´s really not a great choice. Some people call it curling, esp around kids. When people treat other people in ways that may come from an intention of kindness but really is not, it just makes the other person think they are stupid/less than/incapable and what not it actually leads to depression and even burn out syndrome. Who knew. Well obviously some who wrote this really long book that´s like £50 so I am probably not gonna get it bc I will never read the whole thing either way. But I found this really nice YouTube yesterday that I highly recommend.
Alturism isn´t bad. It´s just that we color everything with our subjective points of views and that is not always the best choice. But hey. We are all humans. Je t´aime.

 

Melancholy

Someone told me once I have a melancholic Karma of sorts. Isn´t that kinda funny?
Well today it´s raining cats and dogs outside. My electric bike is calling for me but my wellies are stashed away somewhere safe and my rainy days clothes too. Seems like a good day for studying today. Along with my long time friend Lloyd Cole. Oh that dude!
Brittish English at its best about love and lost love and lost pens and broken records and all that kind of stuff that melancholic people think about.

I remember the day we first met. Me and Lloyd Cole. Not irl. Not at that point, that came later. I saw his face on a cassette tape.  It was a choice between this unknown dude and some australian rockband with a well known radio top ten song. Luckily I picked Lloyd. My dude.  This must have been in the beginning of the 90s. The album is called “No blue skies” which of course brings us right back to this rainy day. Nothing like having morning coffee with hazelnut milk singing along to the theme song for the Album…

“you wanna leave me baby be my guest
all i’m gonna do is cry
and then i’m gonna find there’s someone else
and tear the stars out of the sky
looking for something when there’s nothing there to be found
make it easy on yourself
go out and find your body someone else
and tear the stars out of the sky

Words. Oh words I love words. They can create and destroy and break hearts and build hearts. Oh I think I need another song along with my breakfast boring gluten free sandwich. I have a predilection for songs that makes me cry and this song just hits it every time. Nothing as delicate as a broken heart… For crying out loud.

“I took 15 years to break your spell
I loved you then, I love you still
I wake up cold, I wake up wet
My body weak, my mind is spent

I fill my days, I pay my rent
And I have no need of electric light
Because I dream the same dream every night
I call my man, I know it’s late
Could you fix me something
To put me straight?

‘Cause I need your love
I need it now
God speed your love
For crying out loud, hey yeah

You took all I have, there is no more
Mother nature lied, there is no cure
So I take my pill, I close my eyes
And I wait for sleep, I wait all night
But I see your face, I hear your voice
I call your number, I have no choice

‘Cause I need your love
I need it now
God speed your love
For crying out loud, hey yeah”

I realize lyrics without music is like a gluten free sandwish without ketchup. Weird.
So check out Spotify or whatever means you have. Youtube. Dare to be melancholic. Cry your heart out. Be dramatic. Be authentic. Be unauthentic.

 

My fav neuroscience dude

I don´t know how Dr. Joe Dispenza would react to being called that but that is how I think of him.

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Dr. Dispenza has written books in the field of self development and brain science for quite some time now. He also teaches classes around the world about how we can all go beyond the limiting beliefs that our minds holds and how this affects our bodies and lives.
He recently started including meditations in his classes as research has proven that if we go into a different state of brainwaves we are able to reprogram ourselves into change, something that is merely impossible to do in a state of Beta-waves, the state where the brain is only in the mind thinking and making conclusions.

Anyways I really wanted to share with you something that Dr. Joe so generously provides for those of us interested but not really able to travel and/or attend classes.
Every month he offers a LIVE TELECALL that focuses on a subject of interest. Some teleclasses are Q&A:s where you can send in your own questions.

The topic of neuroscience is so interesting.
Why is it so hard to change?
What can I do and how does the brain work?  How can I be more present in the moment?
How come habits are so hard to get rid of?
The brain is superawesome but it´s really of great importance that we use it in our own favour rather than to be run by the beliefs it has collected. Dr Joe has such a great energy and space and he totally sweeps me away with the new possibilities on how to live.

The telecalls are only like $10 a month and if you wanna check it out please visit

https://rf127.isrefer.com/go/teleclass/stinadevi/
Dr Joe was also interviewed in the movie “What the Bleep do we know!?”

 

 

 

What do we know?!

One of the things that really got me started to study the field of Energy Medicine was a movie called “What the Bleep do we know!?”

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As a summary you might say that it´s a movie based on interviews with resarchers like Ph.D. Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. Dean Radin, the late Dr. Masaru Emoto and Dr. Joe Dispenza and spiritual teachers like Ramtha talking about the quantum physics of the world and how we really think we know a lot of stuff… but do we really?

Some of it I found really mindboggling but then again that is what I like most about being alive. I also did get the extended version Down the Rabbit hole and if you keep your head cold you don´t get sucked into the wormhole of it all. You may feel a bit nuts. Or you may get really in awe of what else is possible.

After I saw this movie I was like YEAH!
The plot is about a girl who starts to wonder and question reality and starts to understand more and more about what we actually do perceive mixed with really great explanations that those of use sniffing on quantum physics may actually undertand. Althought as Richard Feynman said “If you think you understand quantum mechanics you don’t understand quantum mechanics” for me I find that just knowing there is something beyond what seems real is surely enough for my heart to sing.

I was lucky enought to get to listen to a talk with Lynne McTaggart at the QUANTUM ENERGY MEDICINE SEMINAR in Stockholm 2007 and also managed to have a few words with her and got her to sign my copy of her book “The Field”. Reading that book and listening to speakers like Dr James Oschman led me to study the field of Energy Medicine even further which I am sure I´ll come back to later.
I know this movie sure has some years to it now but even so I wanna spread the word. Remember that the medicinal use of Essential oils go back more than 2 000 years and the allopathic medical system that runs most of the western world has only a few hundred years to it. And considering that Energy medicine as it is being scientifically proven is still a kid. So this is so not outdated.
I highly recommend checking it out if you are into more

http://www.whatthebleep.com/bleep/

First blog post

Wow! The first post – yikes!

Well Hello to you my beautiful friend I hope you are well today.
Outside my window it´s raining. Just got some new wellies for the kids so they
can continue to play outside 🙂

So you probably just went on the Home page here and saw that I like to hang out
on my couch reading books, listening to books (eveywhere) on my phone and that I am
into what some may call “alternative” medicine. I also LOVE to check out youtube
videos about this and that most often in the realm of neuroscience, philosophy, religion and mindfulness so if that is of interest to you I am so glad you found me!

Have a WONDERFUL day !

Stina