When your heart is open to music, you are open to all of the higher vibrations in the Universe. When you listen to music without opening your heart, you open yourself to a vulnerability to lower vibrations. This is one reason that people who truly feel moved by the music they listen to can often more easily open their hearts than those who are not touched by music.
Now we know that some of you are wondering about the new kind of music that the young ones are listening to. We would tell you that many of them are making themselves vulnerable to undesirable vibrations because of their music. But many adults would throw out all types of the music the young folks enjoy even though not all are harmful. The kind of music that makes them vulnerable has a message of lower vibration, frustration and anger and uses certain beats to move this message deeply into the young person’s psyche. They do not realize that this is happening but it is manifest in them in a surliness and frustration that can turn to anger against those in authority. Some of this music disturbs the brain waves of the youth so that they are vulnerable to the next encounter they have with someone else, whether that encounter is good or disturbing.
To recognize the effect of the music, listen for yourself and notice how you feel in your heart center of energy. If you are disturbed, then the music is probably not the healthiest vibration. Assess, though, whether your reaction is a dislike of the music or a genuine vibrational disturbance. Then play some music that stirs you in a pleasant way and compare how you feel after that experience. Do not use this as a way to try to change the young people in your life. Rather, try to understand what they are experiencing and why they seek that experience.
Now try to find other examples of both types of music and notice how you feel with each. A particular piece of music from a particular genre might have a different effect on you than another piece of music from the same genre. Make a list of pieces of music that feel uplifting to you and create a playlist that you can use when you wish to feel uplifted. Make other lists of music that have different effects on your own vibrational level – those that energize you, those that make you feel peaceful and serene, those that assist you in meditation, those that help you think through problems clearly. There are many ways that music can affect you and the same piece of music might fall on several of your lists.
If you have a young person in your life, take time to listen to some of their music with them. Ask them why they like a particular piece, how it makes them feel. Share with them how you feel when you hear it, not to criticize or say that they are wrong for we want you to honor their honest feelings, but to demonstrate that different people can react differently to the same stimulus. Then share some of the music from your list with them and ask them how they feel. Remember to focus on the heart center. Share how you feel when you are in the vibration of that music. Make sure to use this opportunity to have an experience of sharing differences without criticism on either side.
This is a good exercise to do with a partner or loved one as a practice of sharing differences without criticism. You might find several similar reactions and you might be surprised by differing reactions, even widely differing reactions. Again, make sure that this is a sharing and that neither party is trying to influence the other. Notice if there are compromises that can be reached if the two parties choices are very different. Dinner music, for example, can be something chosen together to relax and aid digestion while each can listen to their particular preferences in their own cars.
Enjoy group experiences of music so that the heart centers of many can become connected in that vibration. Concerts are so popular because many people are opening their hearts to others and enjoying the connections. Noticing how music makes one feel is a part of Conscious Living. We urge you to pay attention to the energy vibrations that you resonate with as a part of your growth in Consciousness.
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Mystic Messages 
MUSE-INGS: Eat, Drink and Be Conscious
February 2, 2010 — RosemaryBut it seems we live in a crazy world where the food that goes into their bodies isn’t anywhere near as healthy as it should be. Breakfast foods that aren’t really food don’t prepare the children for a good day of learning at school. McDonald’s meals might not provide the healthiest balance of ingredients that they need. Many kids refuse to eat the foods that Mom & Dad know they should eat. What can a parent do?
Sometimes kids are kept out of the kitchen to be out of the way for their own safety. I used to worry when I heard that my little girl was peeling carrots in her Montessori classroom but she showed me at home, standing on a chair at the sink because she was so short, that she could safely handle a peeler and a carrot. She learned to cook standing on a chair by the stove, with me close by. Bring a child into the kitchen with you and teach her to use a recipe to prepare something delicious.
But it’s not just food, is it, that is harming our kids? We need to understand how complicated life is in this 21st Century. We’re all breathing air that is less than perfect for our bodies. We all have to drink water and we pay huge amounts to try to get healthier water that doesn’t have chlorine or fluoride or bacteria in it but that does have the minerals we need. I tried to get an ice cream cone in London from an American chain and was told they don’t carry Rocky Road because the ingredients are genetically-modified, not allowed to be imported there. How many food products are we eating that contain molecules of pesticide in them? And we don’t even know the answer because we have no way to find out.
So Conscious Living would require us to pay attention to what goes into our bodies and the bodies of the children in our lives. Do you know the source of the food you eat, the water you drink? Have you paid attention to the air quality in your area?
For some people this will spur them into political action to demand that their environment and what they take into their bodies is as healthy as they can get it. For some it will become a crusade to make sure that they and their family are careful about these things. I’m hoping that some will think about areas of the world where the people are desperate for anything to eat or drink and where help is needed in meeting the simplest of requirements for life.
We in the Western World have the luxury of examining the chemical content of our food while there are many on Earth who would love to have that concern. Let’s be careful about what we eat and drink and the air we breathe while we also do something about all those children who have nothing to eat, no clean water to drink. Maybe we can achieve a balance so that this wonderful Mother Earth can provide sustenance for all her children, healthy sustenance that keeps them all alive and healthy and thriving to advance humanity into evolved consciousness.