Enjoying “The Other Side of Life!”

In order to experience the experiment of life, we must be willing to overcome our fears!  Yesterday, my 25 year old daughter asked me if she could plan a date with me.  “I want to show you the other side of life!” She said.  I was hesitant at first, wondering where she might take me.  We started out the morning with a wonderful walk.  Later, in the afternoon, she picked me up and took me to a wonderful salad bar.

After lunch, she pulled out swimsuits, shorts and water shoes and said, “C’mon Mom, let’s go change in the bathroom!”  I was skeptical at first, not knowing where she was taking me.  I wasn’t necessarily in the mood for swimming, didn’t want to get my hair wet, etc.

Up the hill we drove, to the canyon.  “Do you know where I am taking you?” she said cheerfully.  “No… I don’t…” I replied, wondering how long this little adventure was going to take.

Soon, there was a sign which read, “High Canyon Rafting”.  I could see the river from along the highway.  I had passed the river on various ocassions over the past twenty-something years, but, I had never “experienced the experiment” of playing in it!

Soon, we were equipped with life jackets, baseball caps (to shelter us from the sun) and now she was snapping pictures of my face, covered in the false pretense of cheerfulness, masking my fear of the experience awaiting me.

I noticed the others who were just pulling in from their ”experience”.  All looked happy and seemed glad they had participated.  I was still a bit concerned, I must admit.

Soon, we embarked our two man khayak and began heading down the six mile descent through the most beautiful landscape!  As I saw my feet dangling over the little bow of the khayak, I reminsed about how my dad used to take us sailing every Saturday, and how I would sit on the bow, my feet yearning to dangle in the water!

This time, I could let them be submerged up to my knees if I wanted to.  The fear left me completely as soon as I connected my happy childhood memory with the present moment.  I exchanged the scene of ocean waves and endless water for the narrower pathway and small waves surounding me. 

Soon, I was singing at the top of my lungs, the ”sailing songs” of my childhood!  I loved the entire ride!  Ashley, my recreational therapist, was darling as she called out her cheery commands from the backseat of the khayak!

Just recently, I have been praying for an outdoor activity that I can love, that feels safe and that I can look forwad to doing often!  I want to “experience the experiment” of living life in the place where God has arranged for me to live!  Right here in Utah!  The canyon is literally up the street about 15 miles from my home!

It was a wonderful day, experiencing the joy of nature, of the movement of my arms, of playing with my daughter, of singing down the six mile journey, of dangling my feet in the water, of feeling alive and of being refreshed from all the responsiblities of being a single mother-provider!

This morning, I woke up and said, “Ashley…wanna go for a walk?!”  It only took two positive experiences yesterday to remind me the joys of walking and now, the new joy of khayaking!  I want to do it again!!!!

I am so grateful I trusted Ashley and let her show me “the other side of life”!  Who is joy-coaching who?

Karyn Grant
The Joy Coach
www.cherishingplace.com

The Cellular Symphony

Beginning “The Cellular Symphony” starts with tuning the instruments in your symphony. Visualize a great conductor standing before you. She taps her music stand with her baton. She calls for the attention of the violinists, the cellists, the flutists, the woodwinds, the brass section, the drum section. She directs the attention of the smallest piccolo and the percussionist who is holding the tiniest instrument of all, even the triangle in his hands. “Every body ready to play Pachobel’s Cannon in D?” she announces. The instrumentalists look at each other in confusion…”But…they begin whispering to one another… stammering…but we aren’t even tuned up yet!!!”

The conductor smiles and nods. She knows that if she does not tune each individual instrument the song may very well become variations of “D”. For unless all the instruments are vibrationally attuned to the same sound waves, this orchestra will be a sore sight for ears. She wanted to know if the process of “attuning” themselves with one another was a priority for them!

One by one, she focuses her baton upon each section. She leans in, with a listening ear, checking to see if there are any instruments out of “attunement”. There is one cellist that is definitely not playing the same tune as the other strings. She stops and points to the musician seated behind the beautifully designed instrument. “Please check you’re A string”. She smiles intuitively. “It’s sharp.” Then she motions to the violas. She points to the second chair viola. “Check your D string”…it’s flat.”

The conductor goes to great lengths to measure the vibration of all the instruments in her orchestra. She is making sure that each musician is playing their instrument, neither sharp nor flat…but just right…then she calls out… “Everyone together? Every instrument in tune?!” With a graceful wave of her hand, the music begins serenading her ears with precision and perfection. Pachobel’s Canon in D never sounded more beautiful!

And so, are we the conductors of a great symphony! We too can measure the sound waves, the vibrations, the frequencies, the resonance in the instruments (the body systems, organs, glands and cells) of our physical beings. We are not only God’s instruments, we are each a part of His Divine Orchestra! Is there a section that is playing too sharp or too flat? What is making that particular instrument (gland or organ) to continue playing out of attunement?

Can the sound of music truly inspire our body systems to become vibrationally attuned to the frequencies, vibrations resonances and ratios that must be acquired if we are to play in perfect harmony? As the Savior said to the people in third Nephi, “are there any sick among you? Bring them hither and I will heal them! He may have well said, “Are there any who are not vibrationally attuned to My A-TONE-ment? Bring them hither and I will “attune” you to the perfect tune of My a-TONE-ment!”

It worked. For the scriptures say that “Surely a happier people could not be found in all the land. For after he healed them, attuning each “instrument” to His divine TONE, this group of people became a grand orchestra who now joined in playing together, “The Song of His Redeeming Love” and “The Song of Everlasting Joy!” Without a visit from the great conductor himself, they would have continued warring with each other, warring within themselves…never having experienced the full measures of song that they could play, as the creations of his hands.

The Savior is our Great Conductor. We are the instruments in His great orchestra. This course is designed to bring all aspects of your BEING, even down into the very cells of your soul, back into complete harmony, timing, rythym by raising your resonance to JOY through the atonement of Jesus Christ, throught the nurturing gifts of nature, by learning to play and sing, “The Song of Redeeming Love”. This simply means that through focusing upon Him as our PURE LOVE ENERGY SOURCE, we are bringing ourselves into the fruition of God’s original intention, which is that we have a DIVINE ESSENCE, and must become attuned to His original blueprint, or Music Score, even the blueprint of our Spiritual Creation. And what is that blueprint/music score? What is the song we came here to learn how to play and sing by heart?

“Woman is that she might have joy!” That is the program. And what is the command to make this program run through the very cells of our being like a well-tuned, well-timed symphony? It is simply stated in the positive, no matter what our affliction of “too sharp or too flat”may be.

I have searched the scriptures. The question is always the same… “Dost thou believe?” The command is always the same as well…He never asks the symptoms. He never is concerned with who sinned and why they have the affliction, the torment, the suffering that they have…the command is simply this; “Thy Faith Shall Make Thee Whole”. Through the gifts of the divine senses we are going to be learning how to “attune” ourselves, vibrationally to the TONE of His PURE LOVE ENERGY. With the Savior’s guidance, and under His tutelage, I shall simply be His T.A. in instructing you on how to become, the Conductors of your own “Cellular Symphony”! Everybody ready? Are we ready to play…”The Song of Redeeming Love”? Or do we need to stop and get in “attunement” with each other.

9/30/06

Karyn Grant’s Divine Appointment