Free Your Mind

So you wanna be free? So do I. I am stepping out into pursuing my dreams as a singer more and more these days. I am finding myself blocked at every turn, but not from the places you would think. Not from the external, not from friends, family, or fellow artists. All my road blocks exist in my mind. Have you ever wanted something so bad it paralyzes you? You just don't know how to begin, or how to start again. Feeling like you have to catch up?

Well I woke up yesterday morning with the words "Unlock your mind. Liberate your dreams." searing in my mind. The problem is that what I want to do is something I have not seen done before. This has everything with building my faith but it is hard to ignore one's own thoughts. In yoga today my teacher said "Most people don't realize that the body opens from top to bottom and bottom to top. So if you want to open your hips you have to open your ankles first. If you want to open your heart you have to open your mind."

The mind is so powerful. We need it to survive, but it has one main service/function and that is to keep us alive.  It is all logic never innovation. Always ice cream never sundaes. That is where we need faith, to see beyond our seeming.  To see one star in the sky and believe that there are more. To see a wall and know that you will get to the other side. I met a really successful composer the other week who compared getting into the industry to banging your head against a wall over and over and over and over again. He said you will definitely get a headache but eventually the wall will start to crack.  Maybe it has to be that way. We can not keep our true selves locked up in our hearts and if we cannot unlock our mind then maybe we do need to crack it open.

 I truly believe that if we do not believe that we can and will bring our dreams to fruition we are killing the world one dream at a time. The world needs us and our dreams. We were created by a loving God with a purpose unique to us and if we don't live that dream who will? It is selfish and prideful to hold back because we fear it might be too hard or complicated.

The Dream Is Mightier Than The Vessel.

And here is a little song to sing when you feel you mind closing . . .