Welcome to the 2Muse Podcast.  An exploration of music and ideas.  Each episode will briefly explore a new idea over the course of 2 songs.  Plenty of music and just enough spoken word to inspire your own curiosity and spark a new muse.

This week's Muse:  Mastery In The Art of Living

What does it mean to live masterfully?

How can we move toward living more masterfully in our lives?

"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between their work and their play, their labor and their leisure, the mind and their body, their education and their recreation. The hardly know which is which.  They simply pursue their vision of excellence in whatever they are doing and leave it to others to determine whether they are working or playing.  To themselves, they always appear to be doing both."     ~ Francois Rene Chateubriand

What does it look like to live masterfully?
 - Being Present
 - Being creative
 - Being fully expressed - physically & emotionally
 - Having/sharing passion and purpose


Consider a more Heart centered…SELF centered perspective on mastery in the art of living.  Beyond money or material gain.

 How do you fully express yourself?

How can you live more masterfully?

How do you creatively express yourself and your experience?  How close are you to that practice right now?

What is one area of your life that you'd like to be more Present to?…one person?

Mastery In The Art Of Living

The Power of Questions

"Questions are more powerful than answers."

What makes questions so powerful?
     - Question are invitational
     - Questions enable and empower action
     - Questions lead toward something not away from                   something

"Questions are not meant to be tests.  Their value should be in the self-searching that they inspire and the decisions they provoke."    - P. Sholtes

Questions that work:
     - the right question…at the right time…with the right intention.

Tracklist:

The Posish Ambassador - Kids Music For Adults ('Ecozoic' album 2013

Wildlidhgt - Oh Love (Ryan Herr Remix) ('Hers Was A Thunder remix album 2013

Both albums available on Bandcamp and Soundcloud - name your own price


The Power Of Questions

This week's muse:  Mindfulness for Social Justice

What is mindfulness and how is it developed?

How does mindfulness support social justice? 


"Mindfulness is simple - we breath, we sit.  We open the mind's clenched fist."   ~ Jey Ehrenhalt

Mindfulness leads to:
- An awareness of our interconnectedness which serves to break down socially constructed barriers

- A vision of seeing myself in you and myself AS you which helps to overcome the Luxury of Ignorance (being or choosing to be unaware of injustice because I am not affected by it)

- Awareness of personal judgements, assumptions, biases and stereotypes that we hold about ourselves and others

These lead us to question our actions and consider how we can better serve ourselves and others.

What are you doing to cultivate mindfulness in your life?

How are you working to support the good of the many?

Tracklist:

Jordan Rakei - Blackbird (Live Studio Recording) Fat Freddy's  Drop 

Tom Misch - Dusty Memories

You can find both of these songs on Soundcloud

This muse inspired by:

http://www.decolonizingyoga.com/how-mindfulness-supports-social-change/

Mindfulness For Social Justice

This episodes Muse:  WORD POWER!

Our worlds create our world.
How do words create the capacity for positive change?
How do words help to sustain vibrant, positive realities?

Science, intuition and experience tell us that:
- What we focus on expands
- Words invite our dreams into reality
- Words reinforce and support what we've already created

We must very intentional and conscious of the words that we use - personally and organizationally.
Where can we begin shifting our language to create new, positive realities?

"Your conversations help create your world.  
Speak of delight, no dissatisfaction.  
Speak of hope, not despair.  
Let your words bind up wounds, not cause them."

	~ Tao Te Ching

Become aware of whether your words - written and spoken, personally and organizationally - are moving you toward your desired outcomes.

Track List:
ODESZA - 'Say My Name' (Hermitude Remix)
SaQi - 'Drippin'  (feat. Worth & Human Experience)


Word Power

I am a group leader.  I design and facilitate group process.  I listen.  I guide.  I ask questions.   And I create space for people to connect.  I help others turn ideas into action.

This podcast is the integration of my wide ranging ideas, experience and musical expression. This is my creatively inspired approach to blogging.  Here, I invite you to consider a new muse and how it may be manifest in your life.  I invite you to explore music that you may never have experienced before.  I invite you to explore with me the intersections of work and play,  labor and leisure, education and recreation, mind and body.  You may find, like me, that they all follow the same path.