New Jersey Stage 2017: Issue 4 | Page 107

INSIDE MUSIC by Rosemary Conte SHARE BUTTON There’s Music in Everything! Say I’m crazy, but my kitchen can opener whirrs to Bb and might change pitches with each new can. My Betty Crocker blender is a more independent and versatile player in that it whirrs in several keys. My Epson printer emits vocal tones and word phrases with each new document it prints. And don’t get me started on my auto wind- shield wipers which have kept me in the creative flow as well as the traffic flow through many long rides home from gigs. Music has been my sav- ing grace, the thread running NJ STAGE 2017 - Vol. 4 No. 4 through every aspect of my chal- lenging life. I learned to reframe what might be scary, boring and annoying. We are all Powerful with a capitol P when we use the enormous potential of our minds. And the reframe, with or without music, along with creative visual- izing is a multipurpose tool. I’ll never forget a reframe I cre- ated in 1993, the year the Celes- tine Prophecy by James Redfield was the book to read for anyone big into a spiritual journey or just curious to find out what was it that could keep a book on the bestseller list for 165 weeks! INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 107