Flutes

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When I was young I learned to play the flute. After a number of years I stopped playing. Partly because ‘life happened’ and other things became more important to me; partly because at the time I felt I wanted to express myself through song rather than the flute.
Over the years I have tried several string instruments ~ even took singing classes. But I never quite got into the song thing. Eventually I chose a number of creative ways to express myself ~ writing and creating my line of Mystical Jewelry being two of them...

Yet the flute kept calling me.
In meditation I recognized other life experiences where playing the flute was a means of communication that ~ in that particular environment, in that time ~ allowed me to ‘play a message’ that could be heard over quite a distance...

As I dug up the flutes I had played when I was younger though, I found I had forgotten how to play them ~ I would have to re-learn playing if I really wanted to get back to playing at all...

Then something changed.
I really didn’t notice it at first, until I suddenly came to the realization that my desire to play ‘regular instruments’, creating ‘regular music’ had all but disappeared. At this point in my life I am way more interested in playing instruments that help me connect with the energies around me ~ with the energies of nature. Like frame drums. And flutes.
Instead of singing the words to a song, toning and chanting now have much greater appeal...

The thing that the shamanic drums, the flutes, and the chanting all have in common is that they are musical expressions that seek to connect to the environment. Each in their own way they express a state of being. And that state of being can be cultivated or celebrated through the music ~ or if one so desired, can be changed by changing the rhythm, changing the chant, changing the tune...
This way, a balance is created between people and their environment ~ a balance that can bring comfort and healing to all those who listen to it.

And the Universe works miracles. It has a tendency to fill a need ~ whether we are fully aware of our need or not... I was given the opportunity to find ‘my flute’. A Native Flute, in energy tied to my totem: the Eagle.
It is a flute made to play the wind, and the mountains... It haunting sounds predicting the changes in the weather... And sometimes it shrieks as the breeze competes with my breath...
It is a flute that dances in my hands. It helps me remember different times that have long gone ~ yet its music weaves a new web ~ a new connection to the earth.
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