NOTES ABOUT EACH PIECE

Solemn Greetings Beautiful Soul -- Each and every person is a beautiful soul, who forms an identity over the years; often one that includes regrets. But nothing tarnishes the beauty of your soul. Open to the dignity of your beautiful soul, and the honor due you.

Lost One -- Whether we are the one suffering, or if a loved one is, there is such a mix of emotions, decisions, and dynamics which can leave us lost. You are held in this.

Locked Ache honors the suffering most often done silently and alone, and that nothing seems to release.

Forgive Me God honors that we most often would rather not face the suffering than trust in God. Accepting this, and calling upon God is the musical bridge of this piece.

Encircle yourself with God's Love that will embrace you.

Triumph of Love musically takes you through the greatest suffering; and how, with Love, you can emerge with a renewed sense of life and an inner treasure of wisdom, compassion, and peace.
When we step beyond denial of just how bad our life is and choose to face it we begin the journey; even if only dismal outlooks, with awful consequences appear to us. We finally know we must choose what the best and right path is.
The piece starts with that self-determination. But as the person gets into the actual process, they begin to lose confidence. They think back to the time when they did not have to deal with the suffering and loss they now face; and some of their determination erodes. The first part ends with the piano and french horn -- a hesitant heart and lingering self-doubt.
A few drops of rain begin to fall. The person thinks of the tears falling within. But there is something special about the drops; and the person listens. There in the rain is God's Love, softly and gently calling, "Listen to me, I will be with you." God's Love swells into a Love Storm; and the person's faith opens to God for help. With this togetherness the third part of the journey begins. The person and God together face what must be faced; and the person realizes that they could not have faced this alone. Thus with gratitude and deepening faith the person can now go on. Even as the situation worsens, and more is taken or lost, or the anguish increases, there is realization that nothing could be worse than avoiding any longer what had to be faced. Clinging to God's Love, the final agony and pain is endured,.
The single notes of the piano begin the fourth part of this piece: the first steps into new life. The Love that increased through the ordeal now gives a newness of being: one of freedom and peace. The losses that came are being replaced by the real possibility of new opportunities. We integrate what we have been through, and find we are so much more than we thought. Grieving still must transform parts of our life. But underlying this is a new grasp of "nothing good is ever lost in God" and the triumph of Love.

Totally Yours – Through the suffering may you find your way to Infinite Love, who is totally yours now and forever.

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NOTES ABOUT EACH PIECE

The first piece, Solemn Greetings Beautiful Soul, honors the "you" that you may not even know you are. You pieced together an identity for the world, but there are greater depths of who you really are - an incredibly beautiful soul that is ever so much more than your identity. Receive the honor due you, casting aside the inner voices that deride and disbelieve who you truly are -- you are Love, however worn, beaten down, wounded or suffering.

Hold Me God and the next piece, Hear My Plea, are where you can lift up all that is suffering within you. You are a vessel of Love, and you can bring your suffering to the very source of Love and be replenished. A person suffering from medical conditions that have little relief, a child that needs to be held but no longer has a parent, a lover/spouse that seeks to be embraced but endures without their beloved, a parent who no longer can hold their child, -- can turn this need to the very source of Love, and receive the incredible peace of being held by Love itself, that unconditionally loves you. (A myriad of Names have been given this Love - God, Allah, Yahweh, That Which is, etc.)

Encircle --Even though you may not know where to find the love within you or the Source of Love; in the asking, both will be found. And in this you can be Encirlced with transforming Love. Be Filled with this Holy love through the music. Take it in utterly and thoroughly.

There being encircled by Love itself comes Rays of Hope. The barrenness receives the Light of Love that shines warmth and intimacy within.

Coherence - When you reach with your love to Love itself you will find peace and Coherence of being. Find the unquenchable love within you, and touch Love.

And now within Love, relax and soak up the Healing Waters. What you are suffering needs and deserves tending. This music flows the healing to you.
The final piece, New Star, celebrates and honors the radiance of you being able to reach and tend your suffering. Remember you are Love, and Love is eternal. All suffering and loss is embraced and held by Love. Through this music may you feel loved and held.

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NOTES ABOUT EACH PIECE

Genesis Dawn is a musical dawn beginning a new day of "being" for you." You are so much more than the identity you have had to form for others, and the situations and circumstances that have shaped and taken so much out of you. Let the music lead you to a "Dawn" where you find that there is a "you" that none can take or tarnish; and no suffering can destroy. This "you" is called by many as your "soul," eternally beautiful, loving, and wise. Whatever one may call it, there is "Self" (this self is capitalized) that is greater than the events of your lifetime. This is the dawn of your discovering this deeper Self more than ever before.

Rays of Hope now shine on what has felt barren, broken, or lost. Follow the musical Light that brings harmony and life to you.

Deep Breathing will now let you relax and fill each area of your body with re-vitalizing oxygen. Use the gentle rhythm of this piece as you start with your toes and feet, that literally carry the weight of your life, all the way in and through your head, that figuratively carries the weight of your life. Expand and increase your life vitality in each cell. And, when you are ready, fill each cell with that Greater Self, bringing the most subtle but greatest life-giving energy.

Unite With More has a babbling brook with a warm morning sun relaxing you. Imagine yourself relaxing in a beautiful setting, and allowing yourself to just "be."

For the next 23 minutes breathe rhythmically with the Waves of Bliss. Let it softly carry you along. For once you do not have to think or deal with. Give your self the gift of peace. Fill your being with this peace that releases the tensions sapping your energy.

Compassion's Caress can be felt when there is peace within. It is the Presence of this greater Self. When lonely, depleted, sad, or suffering, this Self holds us gently with compassion. (It is through the Greater Self we come to God's infinite Love and Compassion for us.) To always have access to this greater Self provides a refuge within, especially when there is none without, as well as energies otherwise untapped.

The final piece, New Star, completes this "Genesis Dawn" of new being for you. The most beautiful part of you that you may never have had so affirmed before is yours now. This music will be your companion guiding you each time you need to get to this greater Self. The star dust that you are composed of now sparkles the warm radiance of a "new star."

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NOTES ABOUT EACH PIECE

Lost One honors when we feel lost in a situation or a time in our lives. All of us go through these. May this music be a soft companion holding you in the lostness.

Hold Me God is a piece that expresses the inner call for help when lost. You do not have to believe in God's Presence to utter the call for someone to be with you. Love is Present at all times. May the music help you feel this Presence of unconditional Love.

Locked Ache is often what happens when we cannot find anyone we can trust with inner pain, fears, and despair. This piece of music both expresses the ache and reaches out to hold you in it.

Hear my Plea Finding the right person(s) to trust and open up to is not easy, nor may they be available when you most need. Pour out your plea through the music and give Love time to respond.

Forgive Me is a musical release - to forgive ourselves, others, God -- as well as to be forgiven for hurting others, holding back from others, and turning away from good people, out of fear and/or anger, who offered good help.

Rays of Hope come with releasing within and to those who have earned our trust. The piece begins with the sense of inner barrenness we can feel, and musical rays begin shining and bring harmonies of hope. Open to it.

Coherence comes through the process of releasing and opening to hope. Nothing is resolved, but there is no longer the agony, lostness, or anger.

Love's Reach is boundless. There is absolutely no act that will ever, in the least, block the stream of Love into you. Silence any inner voices of self doubt or condemnation.

Healing Waters soothe and comfort. Allow the music to bring healing to your inner pain, ache, anxiety, etc.

New Star honors what comes forth when we take the inner journey from hurt, despair, lostness, and anger, to find Love's Reach and the Healing waters of that.

Every person, at any age can find themselves in need of this "Soft Light." This music acknowledges, honors, and gives to those who find themselves in need of it. The music has come from my own times of need. My hope is that it help you in your time of need. Pheo

 

SOUL BRIDGE Program Notes

All is One, and the One is Expressed in a Myriad of Rhythms and Harmonies. This album was created to give you a variety of listening experiences: You can simply enjoy this music as easy listening.You can let the music bring you from a place of quiet to one that pulses with vibrant rhythms. You can continue the journey to self integration that you began with the Soul Bridge CD, increasing your capacity to hold more than one focus and enabling you to enter more deeply into the focus being held. Pheo Rose music can soothe, refresh, and bring you to the deeper places of the mind and the soul. For more information, look inside, and visit: myspace.com/pheorose

More About this Album:

This album can be enjoyed as easy listening. It can also launch you on a journey of self integration by helping you bridge the gap between consciousness and the deeper, more subtle, levels of the mind and soul.

•  When you are able to recognize the many voices clamoring for your attention you are building the bridge.

•  When you have learned to quiet the brasher voices and can hear the softer voices of your deeper mind and soul you have begun to cross the bridge.

•  When you can choose the voice of wisdom you have arrived at the place the bridge takes you.

 

How the Music Relates to the Journey of Self-Integration:

Imagine yourself in a small room with many people, all trying to get your attention at once. Whom do you pay attention to first, the one with the loudest voice? Certainly that one voice can drown out many others.

Your consciousness is no different. As in that small room, there are many voices trying to attract and capture your notice. Which do you pay attention to, the usual barrage of sights and sounds, along with all the associations they may bring? Do troubling thoughts smother all others? What about the incessant thoughts of desire?

These voices may clamor more loudly than the softer, subtler, voices from the deeper levels of your mind and soul. How will you be able to hear them all? If you can train yourself to attend to and hold the differing voices, you can begin to realize the goal of holding them all. Following the ageless voice of wisdom is always the most reliable choice.

Challenging journeys are more enjoyable with the right provisions. Using headphones, this music gives you the following essential provisions:

•  An opportunity to practice focusing.
By presenting you with 2-4 instrumental "voices" at
all times, this music provides practice in holding all
those voices, thus preparing you to hear the
different voices always vying for your attention.

•  Relaxation and refreshment for your mind.
The deeper voices of the mind and the soft voice of
the soul are calming, peaceful, and even playful.
This music emerged from such voices. Allow the
musical resonance to soothe your mind, giving
yourself a break from the barrage of thoughts and
desires that can weaken and drain your vital energies.

•  The freedom to listen.
Using the respite gained, listen for the voices of your
deeper mind and soul. You can recognize them by their
calming peacefulness and loving wisdom.

Soul Pulses and Soul Yoga are the next musical places on your journey to self-integration.

 

SOUL PULSES Program Notes

All is One, and the One is Expressed in a Myriad of Rhythms and Harmonies. This album was created to give you a variety of listening experiences: You can simply enjoy this music as easy listening. You can let the music bring you from a place of quiet to one that pulses with vibrant rhythms. You can continue the journey to self integration that you began with the Soul Bridge CD, increasing your capacity to hold more than one focus and enabling you to enter more deeply into the focus being held. Pheo Rose music can soothe, refresh, and bring you to the deeper places of the mind and the soul. For more information, look inside, and visit: myspace.com/pheorose

More Information About the Music: 

All is One, and the One is Expressed
in a Myriad of Rhythms and Harmonies.

This album was created to give you a variety of listening experiences:

•  You can simply enjoy this music as easy listening.
•  You can let the music bring you from a place of quiet to one that pulses with vibrant rhythms. .
•  You can continue the journey to self-integration that you began with the Soul Bridge CD, increasing your capacity to hold more than one focus and enabling you to enter more deeply into the focus being held. 

 

More Information About Each Piece: 

Breathe Longer: Your physical breathing is part of the "Breath of Life," that subtle energy coursing through all life. Focus on both your breathing and the musical voices. Can you bring them together into oneness? This piece, like many of the pieces that follow, is almost 3 times longer than the version on Soul Bridge . Work to hold your focus longer.

Open Wider: Awareness begins with openness. As you open yourself to the music, notice the warmth of your body. That warmth comes from millions of cells actively working in you so that you may live. So, too, on this planet are millions of lives. Be open to the realization that just as millions of individual cells are integrated to make up your body, so millions of lives make up life on earth.

Unite With More: Our perception tends to fragment stimuli for easier processing. Instead, use the part of your mind that knows and can connect with the oneness of all.

Move Freer: United with more of life, experience an increased vibrancy and freeness of being.

Dance More: When we dance, we move with the rhythms of life's pulse, and this piece has plenty of rhythm.

Play Fuller: Experiencing the oneness of self, soul, and all life is a Joy that can heal and revitalize. This piece celebrates such joy.

 

The journey to self-integration continues.

The journey begins with Soul Bridge .

In Soul Bridge , you come to the place of holding not just one focus, but two or more. The musical pieces are short because holding such attention takes effort.

It continues with Soul Pulses (this album).

Now you are ready to extend the time and depth of focus, which brings these new challenges.

•  Dealing with Distractions. While listening to these longer pieces, you may find inner voices intruding on the musical voices. Once you have decided to focus, quiet the inner voices. Note which inner voices intrude the most, and then bring your focus back to the music.

•  Staying Focused Longer. There is also an increased quality of focus you can find now. The longer you can stay focused the more of the deeper mind is tapped into. Try to become "one" with the music.

•  Focusing without Judging. Can you be as comfortable and focused with a slow pulse as with a lively one? Try to find that place in your mind that lets you focus without judgment. You may find you like some pieces less than others, but can you hold all equally?

The Journey moves to the next level with Soul Yoga

You will need all you learn with Soul Pulses to be ready for this musical place.

 

SOUL YOGA Program Notes

Yoga derives from the word yoke: to join into union, meld into one. This album was created to provide musical yoga: First, yoke your scattered awareness into an integrated focus with the help of musical "voices."Next, yoke your mind and body by focusing on your breathing cycle while still focusing on the music. Then, yoke your energy centers-chakras-with your integrated awareness of the music and your breathing. Look inside for more information about this album, and visit myspace.com/pheorose for more information about the journey to self integration and the other albums designed to take you on that journey.

The Musical Pieces on This Album:

This is the third album in the musical journey to self-integration; it adds even more focus on breathing and introduces chakras.

Chiki ( 3:28 ) Draw the energy from this piece through the work of yoking.

Dojo's Way-Expanded ( 12:01 ) Practice focusing as the three strolling musicians invite you to follow their solos, duets, trios, and rounds.

Slow Breathing ( 11:24 ) Now imagine the cyclical path of your breath that begins with your inhale and ends with your exhale. Your challenge is to focus on this path as well as on the music. 

Kuma Chakras ( 9:27 ) Learn to focus on your inner energy "crossroads," or chakras, opening and freeing them from constriction.

Maku Chakras ( 9:12 ) The final challenge-holding all the chakras simultaneously with the breathing cycle and musical voices.

Waves of Bliss ( 23:01 ) Enter the bliss of oneness brought by the integrated focus on the music, your breathing cycle, and the chakras.

More Information About Each Piece:

CHIKI : Yoking takes energy. This lively piece gives you the opportunity to feel the energy you will need. Focus on the musical "voices" as you draw together your energy.

DOJO'S WAY : You rejoin the three strolling musicians you met in Soul Bridge . One musician begins with a single melody, followed by the second musician playing a different melody. Then the two play a duet-can you hear both melodies at the same time? The third musician plays a third melody, then plays a duet with each of the other two in turn. When they join together as a trio, can you hear all three melodies distinctly at the same time? Next the musicians impishly challenge you to follow each melody as a round is played. You get a few chances. After a last trio, they each send you on your way with solos.

SLOW BREATHING: This is a familiar piece from Soul Bridge and Soul Pulses . You have used it to practice following your breathing. Now, when you inhale, visualize all that oxygen being drawn down to the base of your spine. Exhaling, imagine the breath looping around to rise up the spine, around the back of the head, forward, down, and out the nose. Just follow your breathing and visualize the circular flow of breath and energy. Can you hold the focus on your breathing cycle as well as on the music? You are now yoking the within yourself with the outside yourself .

KUMA CHAKRAS : While staying aware of your breathing cycle and following the musical voices, attune to the musical reverberations. With the high notes, focus upon freeing the tension and constrictions in your head. As the music drops in pitch, move your focus downward to each chakra in turn, opening, and releasing each from tension. Near the end, the music sweeps you up and down through all of your chakras.

MAKU CHAKRAS : The final challenge-holding all the chakras together simultaneously with the breathing cycle and musical voices. You begin with the two deepest chakras: the base of the spine and sacrum. Then you hear the solar plexus melody. Strings lead you into the heart chakra. Moving up, add the thyroid chakra. The brain/pituitary chakra is next, but its melody is soon merged with the heart chakra melody, for love melded with intelligence gives wisdom. Finally, the crown chakra music is added. With the deepest to highest chakras now held, can you feel a vastness yet an intimacy of being? Serenely hold both. The ego's "either or" must give way to the oneness that can hold paradox.

WAVES OF BLISS : Now enter the bliss of such oneness, beginning with the music cycle that complements your breathing cycle. All is one, and you are floating through the vastness of self with lightness and transparency. Become one with what seems to be so infinite and yet is so intimate. There in that oneness, you are within your soul.

 

Inner Universe    The music of this album is dedicated and inspired by the beautiful souls around the world who have taken seriously the inner journey to integrated wholeness and live those values – bringing peace, healing, light, and love to this planet.  May this music bring peace, healing, light, and love to ALL who listen.      What went into producing each of the album’s ten pieces was blogged about on http://myspace.com/pheorose. so that those who wanted to follow along could track the album, and so those who came upon the music after release could get further elaboration about each piece. NOTES ABOUT EACH PIECE The deeper mind and soul make up our inner universe. This music is to help you imagine, enter, and explore your inner universe. Fanfare for the New Age: Focusing on the music and quieting all thoughts is a superb bridge between the inner and outer universes. Star Gazing: Imagine your conscious and deeper mind gazing fondly upon one another, as a person gazing upon stars that lovingly gaze back. High Lights: Ah, feel the vibrancy of energy that comes when your conscious mind has quieted and connected with your deeper mind. Coherence: When we enter the deeper mind and soul, we feel as if we are finding the real parts of ourselves that are beautiful, eternal, and “one” with all. The Vast: Using the musical beacons to focus your mind, travel within; finding intimacy in the immensity. Muka Depths: Quiet consciousness even more to enter the greatest depths. Lost One: There are times of personal lostness in life when conscious mind stops being a bridge and instead tries to dictate from its “own agenda” of desires and needs.. Recognizing and accepting this is part of the inner universe experience. Love’s Reach: No matter how lost, nothing is beyond the reach of Love. Twinkles: We all would do well to rest our inner child in the arms of Love. New Star: Personal Integration brings forth new stars in our inner universe, exquisite expressions of increasing "enlightenment." LEARNING MORE ABOUT YOUR INNER UNIVERSE: For 5000 years, individuals “enlightened” by the galaxies and brilliance of their inner universe, have left teachings to encourage and guide humanity to this full Self-realization and integration. Their teachings can help you to learn more about your own inner universe. A selection and synthesis of the very best of these teachings can be found at soulnurture.com. Anthologies of wisdom are also good sources of such teachings. Beware of any “wisdom” that does not refer to these teachings; for they have endured the scrutiny of time. For Developing the Skills of Stilling Consciousness: Enjoy the wonderful music of Pheo Rose, that also offers progressive meditation development through a series of three musical CDs: Soul Bridge, Soul Pulses, and Soul Yoga. This music can be used for easy listening, for relaxing and refreshing your mind, and for learning how to focus consciousness to be your bridge into your deeper mind and soul. Other information on meditation techniques can be found at soulnurture.com and other reliable websites. What is Contemplative Listening? All Pheo Rose music uses the full 180 degrees of stereo. At least two instrumental “voices” can be heard on the right, left, or center channels. Focusing on hearing each instrument at all times will help focus consciousness. For more information about Pheo Rose and this Album: Visit: myspace.com/pheorose. Blogs about each musical piece are available. Your Inner Universe: Calming Peacefulness and Loving Wisdom

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