Warm greetings, dear Friend!
I bless you on your journey, and I wish you Ease and Grace and Joy
with your SELF CARE and search for MEANING AND PURPOSE. 🙏🏻
The news from here:
1) It’s been 4 months since my last newsletter – FARÂ too long.
To be honest, it’s because I got burnt out from too many rehearsals, performances and road trips of “cover” music – too much time away from my OWN music making.
And, I’m happy to report that two much-needed SELF CARE “tools” have helped me to find my feet again. I offer them to you here, in the hope that they may be helpful to you too.
a) For years, I’ve thought about how powerful it would be to be able to go somewhere and safely vent my anger and frustration by smashing things. As it turns out, there are now many places where one can do just that! A simple Google search led me to “The Anger Room”, located within a local “amusement centre”. Once in the room, I donned a face shield and smashed MANY (60!) bottles against a concrete wall. Midway through the experience, I started laughing, and by the end of the experience, I was absolutely euphoric! And, interestingly, once I got back home, I felt drained and slept for an hour – a strong indication of how much energy I needed to release and reclaim.
b) I’ve started meditating again. Like most of us, my relationship with meditation has been very “on and off” over the years. That said, two small details have made my time “on the cushion” potent again: (1) Keeping my mouth slightly open, I breathe in through my nose and out through my mouth – reminiscent of waves slowly and gently lapping against a sandy beach. (2) Between the out breath and the in breath, I pause slightly.
2) Now that I’m expressing my feelings more fully and cultivating more inner stillness, I’m beginning to hear – and heed – my inner voice again. That voice is reminding me of my MEANING AND PURPOSE – my intention to foster belonging and connection in all that I think, do and say.
As I sit with this intention, what’s coming back to me as a strong way to manifest it is my desire to share songs and stories about my Camino experience. (In 2019, I walked the Camino FrancĂ©s – 500 miles / 800 km across Spain.) To that end, I’m happy to report that I now have the time to move forward on writing my book (an e-book with links to photos, videos and music) about the Camino, and that I will also begin to offer talks/presentations based on the book. (I’ll be offering a sample of this on June 12th – details below.) My sincere hope is that my words and music inspire and encourage you to live YOUR fullest expression.
In honour of this month’s themes – SELF CARE and MEANING AND PURPOSE – I offer you the title track from my first CD, “Little By Little” – which really is my theme song. May it serve you well: Little By Little
How about YOU, dear Friend? What’s been happening in YOUR experience? WHEREVER you are on your journey, I would love to hear from you. Please e-mail me; we’re all in this together, and we have much to learn from each other.
(THANKS for being a part of my journey, and SPECIALÂ THANKS to all of the kind souls who respond to my newsletters; reading your comments is always a highlight of my month.)
And, as always…
You can listen to my songs and chants here and here.
You can find the words to my songs and chants here.
You can buy my CDs here.
UPCOMING AND ONGOING EVENTS
– PERFORMANCES
I’ve now created 149 Chants/Songs for the Soul (which you can enjoy any time via my YouTube channel); I continue to serve many churches in both Canada and the U.S. (live, online via streaming, and with pre-recorded videos), as well as many local retirement homes; and I also perform in several local musical groups as a vocalist, bassist, and/or Chapman Stickist.
For more detailed information on any of my performances, please click on any date in my online calendar. (SPECIAL NOTE: I’ll be offering a 15-minute “taste” of songs and stories about the Camino at the Unity of Vancouver Coffee House on June 12th.) And if I can serve YOU in any way with my words and music, please know that it would be my great pleasure to do so!Â
– VIDEOS
To watch my
Morning Musings,
Keynote Concerts,
Facebook Live Concerts,
Performance Videos,
and Small Steps Big Life: Walking The Camino videos,
please click here.Â
As a very dear and wise friend in Montreal once said to me, “All I can offer you is my experience”.
My sincere desire, in every one of my newsletters, is to encourage us all to live our Big Lives one Small Step at a time.
Much love to you, dear Friend!
I bless you on your journey, and I wish you Ease and Grace and Joy
with your SELF CARE and search for MEANING AND PURPOSE. 🙏🏻
Go with Love,
– Nathen
Nathen Aswell
Performing Songwriter / Inspirational Speaker
Encouraging people to live Big Lives one Small Step at a time
https://www.nathenaswell.com/
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/NathenAswell
(604) 618-4429
