Seasonal Stillness & A Musical Meditation Ep 83

[00:00:00] VO Artist: Welcome to Your Creative Chord Podcast, where host Jenny Leigh Hodgins, author and educator, shares unique insights dedicated to empowering your creative flow and inspired living. Through solo reflections and dialogues with creators and wellness experts, Jenny Leigh shares holistic wisdom influenced by her Buddhist practice, alongside poetic insights and practical strategies for living authentically.This podcast helps you overcome challenges and unlock your full creative potential.

[00:00:43] Jenny Leigh Hodgins: Welcome to Your Creative Chord. I'm Jenny Leigh. In the Reset Framework I teach in my Creative Empowerment Coaching Program regularly resting our body, mind, and spirit is essential for restoring creative energy and zest for an inspired life. Today's short episode is to gently remind you to take time for yourself and to wish you a joyful holiday season filled with peace and inspiration.

To model what I teach, I'm taking the full month of December to rest, recharge, and enjoy quality time with my mother. Research shows that regular rest, including short breaks, to embrace stillness for prayer, meditation, chanting, listening to, or making music, poetry, art, reading, and nature helps calm our nervous system, rejuvenate our creative energy, and boost our mood in that spirit.

To mark this seasonal pause, I invite you to take a meditational moment of music and stillness with my piano piece. You've got my heart. This is my holiday gift to you, a gentle space for taking a breath and reflecting on what you need right now. We all need these periods of white space built into our daily, weekly, and work rhythms.

Even short breaks like this musical experience, bring the gift of restorative rest and creative rejuvenation. If you'd like the full visual immersion, my piano music is set to beautiful images of autumn colors, forests, mountains, and lakes from Kentucky to Tennessee. You can watch that video version on YouTube, which pairs my piano music with the nature scenes for a calm, restorative experience.

You'll find that link to the video version in the show notes below. Whether you are watching the YouTube video or listening to the podcast only, please enjoy this peaceful, calm in your day. 

[00:02:42] Music Meditation

[00:04:36] Jenny Leigh Hodgins: I hope you enjoyed that musical meditation. May it remind you to find more opportunities for stillness throughout the busy holiday season, so you may nourish your spirit and energy.

You deserve that. These small, simple practices are research proven to enhance our joy, confidence, and creative energy, allowing us to bring our best selves to the people in our lives. Wishing you a happy and warm holiday season filled with peaceful moments and joyful creative flow, and I'll see you back in the new year.

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