Return: Somatic Music For Those Feeling Wired and Unable to Switch Off
Somatic music for a mind that's running too fast.
Dear friends,
Feelings need to be felt and emotions need to move. For this, music works as medicine, and here is the latest dose.
This is RETURN, track number 6 of my somatic music series. This track is by far the peppiest, and most likely to get movement happening throughout your body - not just internally, like the others, but externally too. It sometimes serves as my ‘walk to gym’ or ‘grocery shopping’ soundtrack. I make this music to help me, and it can help you too.
RETURN is offered to everyone - The Resonance Room Plus+ members continue to get exclusive early access to the other somatic tracks before they’re released into the wild.
This track sits as the last in a sound journey designed to re-invigorate once the others have done their work, but it can also work as a stand alone.
1. RELEASE
2. RESET
3. RESTORE
4. RECONNECT
5. RADIATE
6. RETURN
7. REMEMBER (bonus track, on its way)
This music works as medicine for the moments when you need a gentle interruption to short-circuit the loop the mind can get stuck in, while actually being something the body wants to groove to. If your mind is running too fast trying to make sense of the chaos around you, or if you simply don’t like the frequency you’re sitting in, this is how you change it. Let this music be medicine - and let the calm it brings be what you carry back into the world.
Put on your headphones, close your eyes and just let go. Let the music do what it needs to and let your body respond how it wants to.
You have to feel it to free it.
Another little tip - if your mind is really fighting, and the overthinking feels impossible to turn off, then try active listening. This means focusing intently on the music. Notice when a new instrument enters or leaves the sound, or if they play quick notes or long notes, or try to name what instruments you can hear.
P.S. I’d love to know - how did your body react to this one?
It was a fully immersive experience. I literally saw it in vibrant colours, pulsing, swirling, shape-shifting, like a psychedelic light show projected on a huge screen or backdrop. Just graphics initially but then individual bodies took shape and morphed into different ones. A bird took flight just as it began to end. Heard it, and felt it, and I could swear I even tasted it. It was alive and completely engaging. Like an acid flashback, except without the "back" part and actually just the trip itself in real time. You pulled more than a rabbit out of your hat with this one. Can you possibly top it?