Dekila highlights the power of joy for resilience. If you were to create a “Resilience Playlist,” what three songs/activities/etc would absolutely have to be on it? Share a line or two about why they inspire you!
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I think I would have to say that time in Nature is my greatest source of resilience. Somehow, nothing else compares to it, though I do have a lot of meditations, etc that help me to move out of a fear-based place to a love-based perspective. I listen to a Ram Dass talk in the morning, which really focuses my day on love. Krishna Das chants heal my heart after a long day, and talks and meditations from Plum Village soothe me throughout the day. But if I can’t commune with Mother Earth, I’m cooked!
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My resilience playlist comprises of spending time alone in nature (going out for a quick walk or sitting silent in my balcony/room) and listening to Hanuman chalisa by KD along with that I journal out my feelings in my journal about how I am feeling, writing helps me pause for a while.
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- Stevie Nick’s Landslide song about impermanence.
- Joyfully collecting heart shaped rocks on my nature walks and painting Joy on them. Then I place them into my paint water. Every time the paintbrush dips into the water, joy is sprinkled all over my canvas! 3. Joy rocks are given to others, rippling like a wave, spreading for the merit of others!
Bomb-and-thematically tight Resiliency playlist: It unfortunately is more like 5 or 6 songs instead of 3, but the album Terrapin Station by the Grateful Dead seems to tell the story of the spiritual side of the band’s scene, or at least spin the tale of a spontaneous man of God at first facing disbelief/confusion as he faces outward and explores this new emergence of identity in the social sphere, only for the dynamics in place to see the story naturally culminating in his recognized legitimacy as a redemptive force of nature (a trajectory the album seems to suggest for the atypical Deadhead). It’s heavy stuff…the music is very clean and formal relative to most other offerings by the band (no blues licks or rock sentimentality at all)…all of the weirdness/heaviness in the piece arises purely from the subject matter of the lyrics, which explores the spontaneous creation of something like a religion as a desperate means of testifying to some eternal truth the narrator is entangled within… it gets super culty! In a real way… very witchy! A great Halloween playlist, albeit not at all spooky…