"Joel, your music is amazing... what happens in the energy and the physical body I can only say wow!!! Thank you for including explanations... they make for very powerful meditations, and I will be using your music in my sessions. you are a gift. . ."
Healer & innovative bodywork teacher, Val Guin in Los Angeles http://forearmdance.blogspot.com/
“This is not just music, but a journey through sound into different times and spaces. Joel is so very masterful in weaving a sonic bridge between worlds. I loved this CD and can hardly wait to hear his latest, Time Troubadour!”
Healer & transformational workshop leader, Christan Hummel in Bellingham, WA
http://earthtransitions.com/
Did you know that the thrilling and mysterious power of grace has touched your life many times? You’ve noticed it on one of those days where everything flows smoothly. You may have experienced grace as divine assistance, as perfect alignment, or a delightful surprise. Perhaps it was an action that flows with supreme ease, the delightful surprise of synchronicity, or an experience of feeling in perfect balance. You can access that feeling again. . .
These deeply meaningful solo piano harmonies bring you the enchanting energy of divine grace, and help you cultivate grace as a feeling-- a vibration within you that nourishes and cultivates sacred flow in your daily life. Let the awakening touch of grace move you, enrich you, and delight your heart, mind, and soul. May you breathe in grace, may you walk in grace, and may you find your grace-filled place even amidst the tumult of the world.
Let each musical piece awaken an empowering aspect of grace within you. . .
1. Releasing Veils Of Illusion
When you are granted the vision to see illusion for what it is, you may pass through moments of judgment, self-judgment, disillusionment, or confusion. Breathe, and notice your breathing. This centers you. See the illusion as a lesson. See yourself self as able to move beyond that situation. Imagine the illusion as energy, dissolving into tiny bubbles. The bubbles float away from you like a cloud. And you become more solid, real, and balanced.
2. Simplicity Recognized
Moving beyond illusion, you discover simple truths within. Some truths are so basic that they seem obvious, and this is perfectly fine. As you immerse your attention in these inner simple truths, the space for grace expands. Some of the truths are as simple as noticing that you are still you, and that you exist in this moment. From these humble recognitions, you gently expand your awareness to notice that you are part of the universe, and that there is order in the universe. Each breath lets you quietly notice this, and helps you align with the universal blessings always available to you.
3. Arrival At Goal’s Door
Are you waiting for proof that reaching your goal is possible? If so, take yourself to your goal’s doorway. Just sit there, waiting patiently at the door, and breathe easily as you recognize that you are ready to step through the door in just a moment. Now, take a breath and put your hand on the door knob, gently turn the knob, and notice that the door opens easily. Keep breathing as you step into a beautifully well-lit and comfortable room that contains the essence of your goal. You may recognize this in an obvious way, or you may simply have a feeling or intuition about your goal. Whatever steps are necessary to obtain your goal, you can now step through your goal’s doorway anytime to access the feeling. This gives you the confidence and grace to attain your goal with ease.
4. Grace Between The Moments
When you are rushing about, you miss the grace. Sit and become aware of some of the subtle details of this moment-- colors, shapes, and textures of objects around you. This cultivates poise. Now imagine that a comfortable space gently expands in-between this moment and the next moment. Let time slow down, so that you have enough time for grace. Let yourself feel that in-between space between the moments. Time still exists. You are still real. Everything is as it was, yet you are now filled with grace, and everything can proceed with grace and ease. Keep breathing, and gently let time resume. You can access the grace this way anytime you need it, just by remembering this experience.
5. An Ancient Truth Re-discovered
An often-repeated saying may sound at first like a cliché. It is, except when you apply it to your specific situation, for then you find that it frees you to see your life with fresh understanding. As you explore your situation, you now approach it as if you were repeating the old ancient truth for the first time. And this frees you to experience your life with the ancient wisdom that releases you from narrow limited thinking. It empowers you with the insight you need for your next step. Explore ancient sayings, and when you find the one that applies, it is as if it were made just for you, in this present moment.
6. Past Lessons, Present Wisdom
You can remember situations in your life that gave you wisdom and understanding. Scan through your memory, and bring the understandings that you need into this moment. This is the grace that you have given yourself through your own experiences. You may have learned through adversity, by persevering through limitations, by learning patience, by discovering a creative solution, or by letting something go. You may have learned by observing someone in your life go through these experiences. You will intuitively bring the appropriate learning forward into your mind, perfectly applicable to the needs of this moment.
7. Spontaneous Awakening
When you awaken from limited thinking, you look about, and wonder why you have felt so stuck. You can generate the grace of a spontaneous awakening now. . . Look about, and imagine that you are looking beyond the walls of the room. Slowly and gently look in all directions, as if you were amidst a wide vista of possibilities. Let yourself feel the grace available in that broader space. Breathe it in. Let it flow through your body. Look at present situations. Notice what happens to your perception. Then look beyond your room, and feel the broader space, alive with new possibilities. Each time you breathe the expansive energy into your body, your body relaxes, and your mind opens to new ways of thinking about your situation.
8. Shift In The Weather
When you need the blessing of grace, it is as if you are amidst a storm, and yet this may well be a storm of confused thoughts and feelings. Imagine a clear spot in the sky, and let it gradually become bigger. This helps your mind shift from the immediate storm, and open a space for clarity. Let your attention go back and forth from the storm to the clear blue space in the sky, and this helps you unhook from the storm, so that the calm weather can bring you the grace you need.
9. Quiet Feel Of Grace
You can feel the presence of grace. You have room to breathe. You feel stable, and yet curiously light and free. Notice your breathing. As you inhale, imagine that your energy is gently expanding outwards, giving you all the room you need. As you exhale, let your energy gently contract back towards your body. Gently expanding and contracting, you create the easy peaceful feeling of grace, and so the gifts of grace become available to you. Breathe them in, and enjoy the wisdom and serenity that comes to you.
10. Hidden Beauty Revealed
You can easily find examples of superficial beauty. And yet, a more deeply transforming revelation expands your world when you discover beauty hidden within something you had perceived as flawed. In that moment, the light of your deeper perception reveals the small details of what had seemed mundane, recognized now as a full and rich gem that magnetizes the heart and mind to consider how such a beauty came to be. This moment of grace can occur in the most seemingly ordinary circumstance, in which the previously plain becomes splendidly sublime.
11. The Path Made Smooth
One step at a time, you can become more attentive to your path. As you may be surprised to discover when you bring your attention to each step, time expands around you, so that you can move forward with greater ease. It is not the path that has changed, but rather your attention to the small matters in each moment, such as stepping each step mindfully. In that moment that you realize that the path has changed and become smooth, you find the grace that shows you your hidden power: Your mindful care with each step brings you greater grace than from any external source, for your mindfulness has brought you the gift of a grace-filled path with every step you take.
12. Grace-Propelled Forward Motion
As you look forward into your future, you may see blocks and obstructions, or you may notice some clear spaces of opportunity in the distance. Notice the clear spaces, and move towards them, however small or unclear they may at first seem to be. A curious thing happens when you approach a space of opportunity. Step into that space, and let the grace manifest for you there. You can now expand that space, and be amazed as the blocks begin to fade. Now the clear space of opportunity is becoming more stable and real, for the grace could only manifest when you stepped into it.
13. Resources Now Available
Every situation requires many skills, yet you do not recognize the skills you already have. You believe you require extraordinary abilities to attain your dreams, and yet the abilities you utilize each day in many mundane activities actually reveal you as more capable than you had realized. Take in your mind, for a moment, any seemingly mundane activity in your day, and notice that in accomplishing this task, you are actually utilizing a series of skills, simple though they may seem to be. As you take this inventory of your abilities, you recognize now how these skills may be applied to anything you choose to do. With this recognition you are freed to expand your vision and understanding of who you are and what you are capable of, and this opens the door to greater possibilities than you had imagined possible.
14. Serendipitously Supportive
When the universe works with you, this is called grace, and yet you may not have realized that you can choose to have this grace whenever you like. In this moment, you can notice your world around you, and choose to be in positive alignment with it. Start simply-- notice something in your immediate environment, such as a chair, and choose to be in harmony with it. Now do this with a few more items near you, and you may discover a subtle peaceful feeling emerging within you. Everything in the universe is connected with everything else, in a beautiful divinely created arrangement. And so, when you choose harmony, grace chooses you, for this is the law of the universe. As improbable as it seems, you can choose harmony and grace at any time. Harmony with a chair may seem like a rather insignificant place to start your journey to grace, yet the rewards that flow to you will feel like miracles.
15. Expansive Dreams
When you imagine an ideal reality, you may regard it as a mere fantasy. And yet, you have the right to access this dream in your imagination. As you absorb the feeling of this dream, and as you imagine all the possibilities there, let yourself breathe in the feeling. In this moment, grace appears, for when you breathed in the air of that imagined reality, some of that dream merged with your here-and-now reality. When that possible reality became part of you, you became a participant in that possibility, such that the players in that play can now participate with you. As you practice this, you may realize that certain elements in that dream need to be modified, and so you change the dream, and breathe in the air of that changed dream. May you dream a reality that brings good to one and all.
I want to thank you for co-creating heaven on earth, moment by moment, and breath by breath. After all, your mindful and centered thoughts and actions are an important part of what we call grace. When you generate grace, your participation brings forth the grace capacity in everyone, in great and small ways. Your experience of grace and harmony aligns you with the deeper forces of creation, and this subtle divine awareness sanctifies each moment of your day. May blessings grace you throughout your journey.
As a spiritual healer and teacher, and inventor of the Powerforms subtle-energy aura healing tools, I created Awakening Touch Of Grace as a musical healing and transformation experience. It is created to help heal your inner heart, and bring poise to your mind and soul. Although new age music is often regarded merely as a simple stress-reduction tool, this richly evocative neo-impressionism helps your inner-self become regenerated and healed. . .
The subtle harmonic shifts in this music access layers of the self that would not ordinarily be available. As the harmonies shift and morph into new harmonies, this helps free the stuck places within you, so that your self can beautifully re-arrange itself in new, higher alignments. This helps clarify and brighten your body and soul, so that your multi-faceted self emerges with greater awareness of its potential, and greater awareness of the infinite Divine universe.
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