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Your Song
By Alan Cohen, author of Living from
the Heart
When a woman in a certain African tribe knows she
is pregnant, she goes out into the wilderness with a few
friends and together they pray and meditate until they
hear the song of the child. They recognize that every
soul has its own vibration that expresses its unique flavour
and purpose. When the women attune to the song, they
sing it out loud. Then they return to the tribe and teach
it to everyone else.
When the child is born, the community gathers and sings
the child's song to him or her. Later, when the child enters
education, the village gathers and chants the child's song.
When the child passes through the initiation to adulthood,
the people again come together and sing. At the time of
marriage, the person hears his or her song
Finally, when the soul is about to pass from this world, the
family and friends gather at the person's bed, just as they
did at their birth, and they sing the person to the next life.
There is something inside each of us that knows we have
a song, and we wish those we love would recognize it and
support us to sing it.
If you do not give your song a voice, you will feel lost, alone,
and confused. If you express it, you will come to life. We attract
people on a similar wavelength so we can support each other to
sing aloud.
Sometimes we attract people who challenge us by telling us that
we cannot or should not sing our song in public. Yet these people
help us too, for they stimulate us to find greater courage to
sing it.
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