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Play & Shine
The Intuitive Entrepreneur Soundtrack
This powerful and eclectic blend of music is here to support the success of your heart-based ventures.
Play Enhancers
Learn
how to use these tunes to add more play to your work and gain greater
productivity.
Transition & Centering
Discover
how to use these songs to tap the wisdom you need to make great
decisions.
Revved for Success
Use these anthems in new ways to get your energy flowing and
be the force of nature that you are.
This collection is an ANTIDOTE to struggle, resistance, fear and confusion. Within these carefully chosen songs, you will find ease, momentum with the flow, love and the power of clarity.
These inspired artists will undoubtedly inspire YOU to do and be your best, to keep the faith and follow your truth, and most importantly, encourage you to Play & Shine!
The songs on Play & Shine offer an eclectic blend of sound and intention. We are proud to showcase these special artists from around the world, hailing from the far-reaches of the United States, Scotland and Denmark. If you enjoy what you hear, please visit the musicians' websites and seek out more of their wonderful music.
How to Use Play Enhancers
Play is essential to creation. These songs will tickle you, nudge you, and tease you, to play and loosen up your body-mind-spirit. I chose these songs in particular for those times when we need to take a deep breath, let it out with some noise and shake everything out. I use them often for the InterPlay warm-up that is part of all my workshops.
These songs have their own sense of rhythm and story. They are here as playmates. Go with the music or push against it.
Listen to what YOUR body wants and let your body lead. If you are moving, keep moving 'til your body says it wants stillness. If you are still, stay with that stillness until your body breaks out of it in its own way.
Take up space. It is enormously important for Inspired Entrepreneurs to take up space. Especially if you've been at a computer or behind the wheel of a vehicle, you need to open up that great imagination of yours that resides in your entire central nervous system. Unfold your limbs and swing them around. Noodle yourself around and see how much room you can take up. Move right off your spot.
This is a great time to interact with your muses. You get to be surprised about what your body wants, to find yourself doing moves you didn't know you had. Maybe you get to finally indulge in that long awaited cat stretch and notice the little bubble of an idea that pops in at the end of it. Maybe you get to just remember how fun it is to move like a kid and flop on the floor, to wander around aimlessly, playing with whatever catches your fancy. Get lost in your imagination for a while and have fun with the characters you meet there.
How does this help productivity? The truth about the natural creative process is that it is wild and organic. It's about as far away from grinding your teeth as you can get. If we wait until we've got a stiff back, bleary eyes or mild headache, we've already been losing productivity. We think with our entire central nervous system. I am utterly convinced that creative thought does not confine itself to the blobby end of that network of electricity.
So, think of it this way. When we focus steadily and intently on something for a length of time, we feel a building concentration, that seems productive. We're busy right? And so busy because we're really concentrating, and that makes the task feel really important. Right?
Busy + Important = Productive, right?
You know it's all an illusion. I'm sure you've worked really hard on something for a while and then, suddenly it falls apart or you get interrupted, and then what happens? Sometimes there's frustration and anger. And sometimes there's a giggle of recognition that the illusion bubble has just burst.
And then what happens? (this is the juicy part) We get away from it and let go. Go see what our body wants. Potty break? Snack? Play with the dog? Take a deep breath and shake it out one way or another. We take a break and when we return, the situation has changed. We solve the problem in record time -- even if it means calling for help. Something that was taking hours to do, is suddenly fixed or rebuilt in minutes. What was hard a short time ago, now seems easy and obvious.
Now you tell me. What's more productive? Play or hard, hard work?
Oh, I can hear you. "What about engineering? And those more technical tasks that take intense focus?" I come from a family of engineers and artists. We know the process is the same. Both engineers and artists do their best work by oscillating between hard and soft focus, stepping in close and stepping back. This oscillation, this swinging in and out, is a form of play. It is our dance with the thing, much like a kitten with a toy on a string.
How to Use Transition & Centering
Learning naturally occurs in an action-reflection cycle. These songs support starting from where you are, going inside for wisdom, and moving through whatever it is you need to move through.
I was quite picky about these songs. They had to start in one place, allow for meditation, and then shift somehow to a new perspective. No elevator music here. These songs support journeys inward, then back up and out again.
The process I describe here is rooted in discernment and the body wisdom of InterPlay.
Make sacred space. Shut the door. Ask someone to guard your space in the meadow. Post a sign. Turn off the phones. This is about going inside and finding the stimulation that is there.
Start from where you are. Wherever that is. Feeling tired? Lean against something or go right to the floor and get some support you can feel with your whole body. Feeling excited? Bounce around for a while. Start from where you are. Whatever that is.
Stay with it. The best way to go within is to really stay with yourself. When we truly let our bodies be in charge, there is a discovery process that unfolds. Be patient. Listen. Really have whatever it is you are having. Wait for the satisfaction. Or the break through. Stay with your process across the divide between songs. Let the new song stir something new in your persistence and noticing.
Witness yourself. Notice what you want a lot of. Have a journal or big pad of paper handy. Move color around on the paper as part of your own movement. You may even want to invite a friend to witness you and be your scribe as you notice your experience out loud.
Support yourself with touch. A hug. A gentle hand on a sore knee. A strong hand on an aching heart. Your hands will know where to go to connect the parts of yourself that need to have a conversation.
We are made of water and electricity. Through basic training in Healing Touch and experiences in helping others to work with personal energy, I have come to think of our hands as simple, yet sophisticated, electrodes. It often feels like I just need to connect the dots and let the electricity do whatever is needed to release or connect what is broken.
Notice the Voices. Two songs in this group have voices and words. To me, these are the voices of our dreams, our ventures, our risks, our muses. Reassuring us that "she will carry you" and that "I just want your fragile love."
Great decisions come with being able to notice our own vibration and resonance. Transitions and Centering songs help us find clarity, by clearing anything we've been resisting. Then we can see the match. Then we can find what is aligned with our BodySpirit.
How to Get Revved for Success
Ever notice a twang of nervousness when you are headed out on an adventure? Help that twang morph into excitement! These songs will bring your energy UP to meet the challenges that await you.
Gestalt therapists explain that "Anxiety is excitement without support."
What support do you need? Some time outside in the fresh air before entering a big negotiation? To listen to some upbeat songs on your way to that new networking group? Ask your body. You know what you need. Some of us access it quickly just by closing our eyes. Others prefer to write in a journal or talk it out with someone. Get what you need.
Remember who you are. These songs were chosen for their affirming messages and challenges, like "don't go for second best, baby, put your love to the test," and "do your thang, y'all!" You are indeed a force of nature and you know that when you are excited and revved up, great things happen, large and small.
Celebrate the Good. Notice your "lucky, groovy kinda wonderful world" flowing out around the edges, between the wild parts of your day. Just like frosting in a big 3 layer cake. Celebrate it. Respond to the life you're dishing up! Thank goodness for you!
Keep the faith. "Don't worry about a thing, because every little thing is gonna be alright." Faith comes from joy. It's a steady, reliable and robust form of energy. Get revved up on a regular basis. Make joy and faith your good habits and then spread them around!