SHE RADIATES HER LIGHT FOR THE WORLD

SHE RADIATES HER LIGHT FOR THE WORLD

I’ve given in to my childish temptation to throw away my graceful adultness. Sulking into shadows, denying anyone the satisfaction of cheering me up, refusing to share my gifts with my family, too stubborn to enjoy myself, to enjoy ME and all the light that I know I can shine. How exhausting it is being a black hole. Before quarantine, I was dancing on my couch in lingerie, blasting music for the neighborhood, sunbathing naked, playing with my pirate sword. What happened? Why am I on guard? Did my soul go into lock down too? My throat closed up. There’s a rock in my chest. Eye contact is like trying to push the wrong sides of magnets together. Creativity, those magical vibrations that loves to free flow through my body, is sadly clogged in my pours. I’m trapped inside my body, festering, unexpressed.

Before quarantine, I was splashing in solitude, space and silence. Now people can hear me and watch me work and this means they can see inside me. We’re living on top of each other and everybody is at home all day long. My work is not invisible; it’s captivating and I cannot escape attention in my most vulnerable moments of play. The inescapable pressure to be open and so seen, even among loved ones, is enough to scare the most courageous artist into her darkest corners.

For years, I’ve run away from home, breaking cages and jumping off cliffs into bohemian adventures. So free out there in the world, expanding. Singing my soul secrets to strangers. Now, in this home again, with these people again, I contract. I fall into the old ways. My weaknesses plague my mind. I’m moody. I remember the feeling of being too shy to perform and it takes over my body again. Did I walk back into the cage or am I smashing through the last remaining bars? One more push and it will be gone forever. Perhaps quarantine, is the blessing; shoving me into close quarters with my vulnerability until I give up my childish clingings and shine for everyone. Will quarantine be my chance to learn compassion? To break my ego? Will I finally let go of how things have always been, how I’ve always reacted and finally step forward fresh? Will I finally do the things I’ve imagined and refused for so long to take seriously?

As the world changes around you, it doesn’t matter where you live, who you are with or what you are doing. Right now, you can close your eyes and find yourself inside. This moment of darkness, this moment when your soul is wrestling, uncomfortable, this moment when you hate on everything and everyone around you, this is the moment of your greatest opportunity! The doorway to your new way of being is wide open, right now, if only you’ll walk through it. Will you? Step forward differently than you did yesterday and the gateway will welcome you as you create your evolution. Gather up your goodness and radiate your glow. Your cold blood will warm up. The rock in your chest will dissolve if you return to your breath. Now is the time to let go of the shell. You don’t think you can and yes, you can. The shell keeps away the love and freedom for which you’ve been longing. Imagine the sun. She never holds back from shining! Are you grateful for her light?
We are certainly grateful for your light. Please shine for us.

Repeat after me: “The freedom and delight in my soul is fucking marvelous. I let go of my shell so I may shine love and freedom. Nothing kills my vibe.”
May we all radiate our light for this world. She is with you and I love you.
CHA 🍍 WILDE

TAKE HER WITH YOU

SHE IS A GALAXY OF DANCING EMOTIONS

SHE IS A GALAXY OF DANCING EMOTIONS

Have you been to an online dance party on Zoom yet? We threw one last night for Davey’s birthday and over a dozen friends were dancing in their living rooms, wearing funny costumes, holding their wine glasses up to the webcam to virtually “cheers!”. Our faces, smiling through the screen, remind us in the middle of quarantine and global crisis, life always goes on. We give ourselves a reason to dress up and celebrate and we heal together. Birthdays, breakthroughs, new skills, new love, work opportunities, and just another Wednesday night still alive on Earth are all valid reasons to throw your next online dance party. Stream the music from one person’s computer and mute all the microphones. Before quarantine, we were at parties dancing AND TALKING. Now, we’re just dancing. Turns out, the talking wasn’t all that important. My most meaningful and memorable conversations are not usually at parties. They are events in their own right. The best parties are the moments when we shut up and dance! Do you feel me on this one? From quarantine, Zoom dance parties are a blessing, tossing us straight into word-free cozy dance floor full of smiles and eye contact. Plus, it’s never awkward because you get to peace out at the click of a button. Seeing the faces you love showing up to be in this moment with you, seeing inside other people’s homes, seeing other people put themselves out there just to make you smile; it instantly feels good in the blood. Happy hormones flood the body. Soul medicine. Boosting our immune systems and deepening our community. Be the one to host the party. People are so grateful to be invited. I get so many text messages pouring in afterwards saying how much they appreciated being included. It’s very heartwarming and worth it! If you are suffering today, remember you are a galaxy. Within you are all the emotions and states of being. Beside your sorrow, sits joy. Within your darkness is light. Celebration holds hands with grief. Today of all days is the perfect day to dance around the house in your underwear and fur coat.

Shout-out to our most upbeat buddy Seth Pearson of Love Amped for DJing our dance party last night!
Cheers to everything in life that is still wonderful. Peace to all the world. She is with you and I love you.
CHA 🍍 WILDE

TAKE HER WITH YOU

SHE WALKS ALONE TO STAY CONNECTED

SHE WALKS ALONE TO STAY CONNECTED

I sat in the middle of the street and stared at the full moon. My husband walked away back to the house. At first, I was sad to feel him leave but then a mysterious weight lifted off me. I was alone out here. So much time in quarantine, in the house, with the same people, all day long. I’m grateful to the constant company and solitude has become sweet. How would I feel if I were in solitary quarantine, alone in an apartment for weeks, like my cousin in Wes in LA or my friend Emi? Is the loneliness too painful? I’ve felt too lonely. Last summer, my car was broken and my roommates all went to work and I was home alone day after day, making music. I would go on a walk/run each day and have dinner with Davey but that was the most variety I had. Back then I wasn’t even using technology to stay in touch with people. I was straight up isolating and my mental health marched downhill. I suppose the only difference is that this year everyone else is in quarantine with me. The entire planet is in quarantine together. All of us are always ‘in quarantine’ inside our own bodies. From the moment we’re born until the moment we die (or until Tesla invents a way for us to body travel), we are stuck in this one body we wake up with each morning. All of our thoughts, feelings, creative energy, love is in this one body that you have. If you are in quarantine with other people, I invite you to step outside and walk alone. If you are alone in quarantine, I invite you to step outside and walk alone with all of us who are outside walking alone with you. Walk alone on the earth, perhaps barefoot, and feel how many blades of grass are tickling your feet and shaking your hand. Smile at the stars and the sunshine. Kiss the wind as she arrives to play with your hair and stroke your soft cheek. Walk alone to stay connected. In your solitude and meditation you find peace of mind, sense of self and strength of soul. I am outside walking alone with you. She is with you and I love you.
CHA 🍍 WILDE

TAKE HER WITH YOU

SHE FEELS WHAT SHE CANNOT SEE

SHE FEELS WHAT SHE CANNOT SEE

My grandmother died today. Covid-19, amongst other things, attacked her body and she was so tired in the end she didn’t want to eat. My brother got dressed up in all the protective gear and was allowed in to be her last visitor. He made her laugh. Today, my family is with all of the families who are losing loved ones. Life becomes more beautiful because of death. I drank my tea and watched the little birds in the bush and the beautiful sun was shining so slowly on me. I can still see my grandma in my minds eye. I know what she looks like when she laughs and just that thought makes me feel her in my chest. I went to the store and bought pretzels today because those were her favorite snack. How much grief is in the human energy field right now and surely it is matched by equal depths of peace and gratitude. Today, I give you this sparkly little woman who will sit with you, eyes closed, absolutely pained and absolutely peaceful. She sits with you here in the center of the universe where you find stillness and everything moves around you. Rest your hands on your lap, breath deeply. Can you feel the invisible? Can you sense your connection to those who are always with you? Be still and know. You are never alone. We are all right here with you. Slow down and feel our pulse through the fabric of this universe. Feel what you cannot see.
She is with you and I love you.
CHA 🍍 WILDE

TAKE HER WITH YOU

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The Only Way to Overcome Stage Fright and Fear of Public Speaking or Singing

If you’re afraid to sing when other people are listening, telling yourself to “not worry about what people think” is not going to help. It’s like telling you not to think about the elephant in the room. Most of the advice on the internet, trying to help you with public speaking, stage fright and overcoming your singing shyness, is completely and utterly useless. People tell you to relax, stop thinking about other people’s opinions and remember that your unique voice is special. That’s all useless advice because you already know that stuff. You’re telling yourself that ‘everybody loves you’ and ‘everyone loves someone who is confident to sing’ and ‘everyone loves seeing someone get up there and try even if they suck’. If that advice actually helped you, you probably would have been able to help yourself right off the bat and you wouldn’t be Googling for more confidence.

When it comes to glossophobia (your fear of public speaking or singing) this is probably the only thing that is going to help you. Single minded focus. You are either going to disappear into your own creative flow and the rest of the world is going to fade away. You’ll be so consumed in your own vibes that the very notion of fear won’t cross your mind. You’ll be enjoying what you’re doing and feeling free and present. Alternatively, you’ll connect deeply with the audience, probably one person in particular. You’ll speak directly to them and feel the oneness that you share. Everything else in the world fades away.

Your stage fright is a paralysis that is fed by overthinking, too much stimulus. You’re simultaneously trying to focus on your speech or song while also juggling your observations of the room, your speculations at how you’re being perceived and generally freaking out because you’re freaking out. Downward spiral.

You need to close your eyes. Breath. Wiggle your left big toe. You need to slow down and listen closely to to the sounds you are making and the way the music or the words feel in your body. Let everything else get fuzzy and disappear into the background. This is the only way. You must become one with the music you’re creating out of pure love and joy. You must be connected to your deeper purpose in life. The WHY behind your singing. WHY do you want to be there. This is where you’re meant to be right now. This is where you belong. You are delivering a gift that we long for. Someone listening to you is so ready to receive what you are giving. Be there with them in this confidence. It’s beautiful. When you step into the flow, your performance becomes so much greater than you, so much more than you. It’s not about you anymore. It’s about a mystical shift of energy and something like stage fright just evaporates when a mighty power like that is allowed into the room. You’re the conduit, the channel. Let yourself be used.

LOVE
CHA🍍WILDE

She is The Ocean - Cha Wilde Painting

What World Do You Want to Live In

What world do you want to live in and how can you spend more time there? I like the world I enter when psychedelics enter my system. The world I drop into when I close my eyes and listen to music. The world that fills my mind with color as I dream of far away places that sparkle differently than the world where ever I’m sitting. I also love the world that moves gracefully around me when I sit still; the forest and the ocean. Nature is a beautiful world to exist within. I just love creating and finding more ways to create more. A life saturated to the brim with creativity. That’s really all I want. Whatever we’re doing today, how can we make it more creative? How can we rearrange plans to make more space for art? There is shallow art, pretty colors that just make us happy and there is deep art that is ooey and gooey in the soul. To swim at all depths and in all weather, yes please! To roll in the colored waters and gaze at the changing sky and feel totally present with the soil beneath my feet. Yes please! I want to soak in the space around me and watch what pours out of me. Once I’ve lived in these worlds, I have zero interest in the worlds I see on the screens, in the corporate offices, in the bustling socials. The buzz there is so empty by comparison. I want to walk into every room and grab bustling hustling people by their shoulders and seduce them into the moment with me. I want to stare them straight in the eyes, look deep in their soul, far past the uncomfortable point until comfort bleeds in and we both feel most alive again.

LOVE
CHA🍍WILDE

Turn Yourself On With Cora Boyd

Happy TURN YOURSELF ON Day! -- Why people want to hang out with you. Why delighting yourself and turning yourself on is so fucking essential to creativity and business success. If you’re creatively frustrated, you’re probably sexually frustrated. Today's guest on The Cha Wilde Show: Cora Boyd, attraction and relationship coach, my friend in a fur coat and the best thing that's happened to you in a long time. Cora helps ambitious creatives cultivate romantic magnetism + become active agents in their love lives.

🍍 Cora and I met in a coffee shop and feel in love at first sight. She gave me her Instagram on the spot and we’ve been playing dress up and dancing in the living room together ever since. She’s skyrocketing in her career as an attraction and relationship coach, every month she hosts Pillow Talks and Date Night Live in Seattle (very fun way to spend an evening meeting new friends with candor) and she’s recently gone viral on YouTube. Have you seen her on The Cut? Holy dick!

10 Steps to Go From ‘Afraid to Start’ to ‘Not Giving a Fuck’
1. Accept that you’re always going to feel fear
2. Just do it, get out there, take action
3. Conversations like about, discussing the creative process of facing fear and how we ‘just do it’, talk about it with other people
4. Consume content that encourage you to go for it
5. Work with clients who inspire you by their bravery
6. Encourage others to go for it, you’ll end up encouraging yourself in the process
7. Through the work, you’ll see the impact you’re having, this will motivate you
8. Break rules, it makes the whole process more fun
9. Live life, have your own adventures like going dancing and lounging on your favorite couch in silence
10. Always be learning, when you’re not learning you’ll feel bored, constrained, uninspired

Cora Boyd

♡attraction + relationship coach @thecoraboyd
♛I help ambitious creatives cultivate romantic magnetism + become active agents in their love lives
➺ work with mewww.coraboydcoaching.com/discoverycall

LOVE
CHA🍍WILDE

Risque, Sophisticated, Welcoming Creativity

Never Doubt Yourself, Do All That Depends on You

Never doubt yourself.
Do all that depends on you.
You are music — you are every genre.
That’s why you’re here.
— Timbaland

What do you mean Timbaland? Welcome to my dark magic music classroom. Today we’re talking about this: Why do you waste your time doubting yourself? Doubt is the shitty voice in your head. Where did these little devil thoughts come from? Inner speech can take almost any form from making lists, playing out past conversations, imagining scenarios and making up fucking lies aka untruths about ourselves. I bet you’re going to be plagued by doubt until the day you die. Stop trying so hard to stop the doubts. Instead, just accept that they’re going to be there and let them leave. Do not let them stop you. Doubt is just a though or a feeling. It is not you and it does not control you or your action. You are what you choose to do and be. Not the thoughts. What will not exist if you don’t do it? You are a human. That means you are an expression of emotion. Does Sophia the robot have emotions? Can you make music? What would the robot say if we asked her, “Are you music?” As a human, you can find something for YOU in every genre of music. Every genre touches on the same stuff in it’s own way. As a listener of music, you can find yourself in all kinds of music. You can find yourself in all humans. You’re here to create the thing that only you can create, expressing the emotions that come out of you, to connect with the emotions that are coming out of everybody else, so you can participate in that sharing. You are here so you can feel what other people and other people can feel what you feel. We’re all feeling this experience together. Together, WE are all the genres and we are all the music, so why would we doubt ourselves? Anything you do is a valid expression of you. What depends on you that is INSIDE of you? You doubt because you’re afraid because you don’t know what’s going to happen. Of course, you don’t know what’s going to happen. Nobody does. So just get in there and do it and delight in the pleasure of seeing it unfold before you. Don’t waste any time or precious energy trying to figure it out. Now I just get to enjoy it for what it is. When you don’t listen to the doubts, you get to enjoy your creations the way other people enjoy it.

READ IT AGAIN
Never doubt yourself.
Do all that depends on you.
You are music — you are every genre.
That’s why you’re here.
— Timbaland

Go buy your pair of Wilde Leggings!
*Remember, you get extra long foot massages in Savasana if you show up to my yoga class wearing Wilde Leggings! ;)

LOVE
CHA🍍WILDE

How To Cast Spells On People with Creativity

How do you captivate someone? How do you cast a spell over an audience and hold people’s attention? What does it mean to be enchanting? The dictionary and thesaurus will help us today as we explore why we want this and how we can use creativity to get there. Listen to The Cha Wilde Show 7: How To Cast Spells On People with Creativity w/ Featured Song: Hello My Love by Cha Wilde and a little live music play on the Ableton Live Push 2 at the very end of the episode (we WILL turn this machine into a toy!)

For the next 30 days starting (Feb 11, 2020), I’m showing up on The Cha Wilde Show, an episode every day for you. 30 days in a row, relatively raw, evolving as we go; a little sprint to get consistent and going deeper. What is this show? Who connects? What sticks?

In my journal this morning, I wrote “The Cha Wilde Show” at the top of the page and then felt annoyingly awkward about it. Why so shy, Cha? It feel ostentatious for launching my own show on the world. Who needs it? I’m just shining the spotlight on myself, a little spectacle of self. I specifically re-branded my podcast to name it after myself and have my own SHOW. At the beginning of this episode I explore what it means to have a ‘show’ and realize that we are all showing up, showing what we know, showing off, showing the way for each other, running the show, stealing the show. I made this show so I could show up. I’m carving out my own little corner of the universe so I can invite you in and we can be together here. We can discuss what is troubling, create for our healing, feel the deep longing to let go of whatever is holding us back and reinvent ourselves together each day. How can we evolve with courage and bold creativity? Share with me and I’ll share with you. What do you need help with? What is your current daily challenge? What journey is transforming you right now? You are super duper invited. Join me for the next 30 days of The Cha Wilde Show. It’s totally free. You can watch on YouTube, listen on SoundCloud and any podcast streaming app. —> Sign up for my emails so I can hand you each episode and we can connect. And have you checked out my new line of Wilde (yoga) Leggings featuring my original artwork? Which design is your favorite?

LOVE,
CHA🍍WILDE

Hello My Love, How to Enjoy the Journey

”I am not a journey person. I am a destination person. I hate the trip. I just can’t wait until I reach the destination and once I’m at the destination, then I can enjoy myself. This year I’m going to focus on enjoying the journey.”

A woman shared this with me at a yoga retreat. After our conversation, I wanted to help her enjoy the journey more (because I freaking love the journey). So I came home and recorded this new episode of The Cha Wilde Show, which resulted in this new song “Hello My Love”, to help her and you, anyone who feels distracted by the destination, to find presence, to enjoy the journey and to enjoy life more deeply. Listen and let me know if this helps you. Send me a message. or comment at the bottom.

The other ladies at the yoga retreat said:

“I’m turning 60 this year, so to celebrate, every day this year I’m enjoying myself fully that day. Every day will make a big celebratory year. If I die at the end of the year, it’s okay because I had a good year.”

”It’s been a hard year of doing what needs to be done. Every day I go through the list and every night I go to bed feeling heavy knowing that I have to wake up the next morning and go through it all again. I’m just searching for some presence because it’s all going by so fast.”

”Every year, I’ve been so focused on forgiving other people. This year, I just want to focus on myself and getting to know myself better.”

These comments rolled in my mind all weekend. Everybody just wants to feel present. I hope I can help even just a little bit with this new episode. I sat in my garage and created a song that I could imagine myself listening to while on a road trip. I LOVE the journey, the traveling on trains, cars and boats. I love land travel (not so much air travel but it’s still impressive). The journey fills me with joy. I love the new scenery. Rather than just telling you how much I love it, it’s best to show you. In this video I’ve included video footage of me recording this podcast in my studio PLUS footage of me out in the world on my journeys, my adventures with friends and epic scenery. I hope my joy for the journey is just a little bit contagious and inspires you to go find some “journey joy” for yourself. ;)

TOOLS FOR YOUR JOURNEY

1. Take a deep breath. Wiggle your toes. Experience the world through your senses.

2. Anticipatory Pleasure vs. Consummatory Pleasure — Listen to EDM drops! As in EDM, so in life, the drop is satisfying because of the build up. There is pleasure in the moments of the journey and pleasure in looking forward to the destination. It’s the whole package. You as a human, include beginnings, middles and endings at all times. Enjoy BOTH the journey and the destination; not one or the other. Don’t deny yourself the joy of the destination. Enjoy both, dancing together.

3. Journal. Write letters to yourself in someone else’s voice; the voice of a wiser being who knows exactly what you need to hear. You can time travel through your life and remember your journey and see your growth. Write about anything. I don’t care how old you are or how many times you’ve tried and failed at journaling. Try again. Start creating your library. You’re going to write a lot of shit and along the way you’ll find some gems.

4. Practice. Your practice will always be there at any moment and you can go to it at any moment as your portal to enter the presence. Breathing practice. Meditation. Yoga. Piano. Running. Your practice brings you into the now. Find things in life that you choose to make your practice; they become your foundation that you stand on and your train track that you travel down. Walk down the same road regularly. Go on vacation to the same place. Place yourself next to something steady so you can observe your fluctuating self. You’ll start to notice the changes and growth in yourself and this will spark your interest in your journey. Build a relationship with your practice and the present moment so it becomes a friend calling your name. How are you going to build a relationship with the present so you look forward to spending time with it? If you want to be present, you need to know what the present is and what you love about it and why you want it. You have to know what you want if you’re going to get it.

5. Play good music! Music themed with your destination helps build anticipation pleasure. Our destination is feeling our body. Choose music that wakes up your body and makes you want to dance, that stimulates all your chakras so you feel enlivened.

SOUNDS CREATED IN THIS SONG

1. Cha’s ujjai breath — atmospheric sound like the ocean or wind, starting with the breath to become present, to connect with a basic primal rhythm that always brings us into the moment, stimulated chakra #6

2. Cha’s fingers snapping in various locations in relation to microphone — humans can easily engage with this action (snapping), ignites the willpower and action that we need to move forward on our journey, moving us so we don’t feel stagnant, snapping our attention back to the present moment, stimulates chakra #3

3. Layering multiple snaps to creating a richer, deeper, more dynamic, stimulating, satisfying feeling; power of community and coming together

4. Used the breath (inhale) as a riser to build anticipation. The journey is all about anticipation. EDM drop is all about the build (anticipation) and the release of the drop. They come as a pair.

5. Train sounds to trigger subconscious visions and memories of traveling, journeying by trains. Real life sound effects can be used for all sorts of background vibes, and manipulated to resemble other instruments. It add thematic texture.

6. Guitar Loop that makes me want to sing! Whenever we find a sound that inspires vocals to flow out, we go with it. Flow with the inspiration, whatever is coming in naturally. For the first takes of the vocal tracks, I just opened my journal and started reading out loud, singing the words I wrote months ago. Sing your journal out loud and don’t be afraid of being cheesy.

7. Drums that have a punchy, grinding vibe to add some edge to the song which was starting to sound predictable, stimulate chakra #2

8. Breaking up our vocal takes into percussive beats to create an interesting melody or percussion rhythm that connects with the voice and then lining up the vocal beats with the drum loop to harmonize or replace the drum beats, chakra #5

9. Search for rhyming words (for lyrics) at Rhymezone.com — if you can’t find a good rhyme, go in a new direction. Near rhythms, no thank you.

10. Play keyboard and experiment with grand piano, glass piano and synth sounds until the sound is delicious. Stimulates chakra #4

11. Cello to add deep rich feeling in the chest. Adds so much character. Stimulates chakra #4

FROM MY JOURNAL

A LETTER TO CHA FROM GOD / Oct 12, 2019
Hello my love,
A while it has been, so lonely in the present without you,
although not more of an ache, a longing to be with you in the here and now,
Fire is a gift for you this year and always.
Sit still with her as she moves you.
You’re doing a beautiful job of doing the work; so many temptation have jumped at you
and slayed them one by one you have cleared space, engaged and progressed.
You’re learning so quickly and sowing so many seeds in a plentiful rich soil,
and the harvesting is on its way.
You will see fruits of your focused labor so soon.
Enjoy this moment of the journey; each step is cherished and essential.
Do not worry, you’re perfectly on course. Keep moving and
move in the stillness.
Love, Cha

LYRICS EXTRACTED FROM MY PHONE NOTES

I go to new places so I can feel like me.
I came back and everything was different.
I’m chasing the invisible and I can’t see where I’m going
I suppose it doesn’t matter
The pathway is still showing and I am still knowing.

Oh, wow how beautiful this day is,
This journey away from home to return home.
You feel most like yourself when you’re far away from home;
out there you see what’s important enough to bring with you.

I could travel the world singing for strangers but I would rather sing for my friends.
I keep trying to make the strangers my friends but I can’t seem to keep them.

HERE’S THE FINAL SONG WE CREATED.

still need a little more? here you go…

Gil Frosdale reminds me that we can choose “the beautiful way.” What is the beautiful way to travel, to do your work, to move through your daily tasks? You’ve probably been told to choose to fast way, the efficient way, the kind way or the fun way. HOW are you being? HOW, what is your energy, your intention, your vibe as you are acting, approaching the projects of your life. Are you rushing? Worried? Are you drifting? Zoning out? Obsessing and tight? Distracted? What does your body feel like? What’s the quality of your being, your state of being, your experience of the moment, the sensations in your body? Are you focused on the destination and what are you promising yourself in that destination? Are you telling yourself that the destination is peaceful, beautiful, enriching, in ways that the journey is not? What if everything you’re looking forward to in that destination is already traveling with you? What if whatever you’re looking for is already right here, inside you, inside the present moment? Your journey is just the movement of your body and consciousness through space and time toward one destination after the other. You’re driving in the car toward a yoga retreat. The yoga retreat is the destination. Once you’re at the yoga retreat, then you’re journeying between your bed and the kitchen, then to the yoga studio, then down the forest path. Little destinations inside your bigger destination. Your entire day is comprised of journeys and destinations. The question then is not whether you are journey or arriving. The question is how are you journeying and how are you arriving. Are you full here, engaged with each part of the living process?

If you have a moment to jump down an eloquent well curated rabbit hole, read these blog posts from Brain Pickings (see links below). They shed light on the topic of journeying from a slightly different angle. This first article is a reminder of how we love. Can you bring this loving quality to every part of your life; the journey and the destination? How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing” This second article is a reminder of how we try to segment our lives, organize ourselves into pieces. We divide ourselves into a person who works, a person who loves, a person who plays. So many sides of us. Of course we go crazy if we’re so divided, it’s multitasking constantly. Remember that you are one being, one dynamic whole, a galaxy of dancing stars that are ONE. Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Fulfillment Beyond the Limiting Notion of Work/Life Balance

What can you do with your talents, your resources, your passions, your skills so you can help uplift other people when you hear their needs? Today, I’m thrilled to use my skills as a composer, music producer, songwriter, to play with sounds and explore this idea of journeying and arriving in the present moment as we travel to a destination. A life of constant journeying and constant arriving. Let’s use musical creativity as as playground. Listen to this new episode of The Cha Wilde Show if you’re on your journey of learning how to enjoy the journey.

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LOVE,
CHA🍍WILDE