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THE MAGIC OF COLLABORATION
By Cornelia Powell | July 26, 2008
Several people have asked recently how I came to make my OPEN YOUR HEART Meditation CD. So I’ll share the story as told in one of my newsletters last fall with brides-to-be in mind…but for everyone to enjoy!
Last August I was in Ashland, Oregon — an artistic community in the high desert region of southern Oregon — where a little bit of collaboration magic happened! A friend there, who I met through Internet marketing projects, is a musician of fine talents, and we recorded a meditation CD together! Daniel Sperry played cello and keyboard and coordinated with Richard Williams, who played a variety of Japanese flutes and Middle Eastern string instruments, to create a heavenly background to my readings. A glorious collaboration!
Out of the recording session came two meditation CDs — one especially for brides and one for ”all women.” Both CDs encourage you to take some “planned stillness time” each day — and guide you through a “refreshment of ease” break!
For this recording collaboration, Daniel found a little studio nestled in the Ashland countryside near Eden Farms; a peaceful place where mistreated and sick horses are taken to be tended to and loved. It was a sweet, serene, healing environment for us to work.
Other words for collaboration are partnership, teamwork, cooperation, connection, liaison, and relationship. What lovely and powerful words. No wonder this experience was such a blessing and a joy — having all that connective energy going for it!
Planning a wedding is perhaps the ultimate collaboration and opportunity. This is one of those times — even if you like to do everything yourself — that a woman gets to practice allowing herself to be supported and “attended to” by others. A time to learn teamwork and cooperation if you’re bit of a control person. A perfect opportunity to deepen relationships or make new ones; letting go of being right and just practice being happy! What better occasion than your time as a bride, mother-of-the-bride or -groom to create liaisons with artists who inspire you? A perfect time to connect deeply — or reconnect and heal estranged relationships — with family members and old friends.
Hmmmm. There’s something to this collaboration business, yes? Is every collaboration an opportunity to create either joy or misery? Seems as though life is always giving us collaboration opportunities to find out!
Love. Listen. Let go.
… with love from Cornelia
Topics: For Brides, Meditation, Relationship, Stillness & Relaxation |