The Healing Sound of Music: Sammie’s Song

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Guest Post by Dennis Ernst

My head throbbed and my throat hurt so badly I could hardly swallow. The high fever sapped all my energy and made my world so blurred I could hardly make anything out. I was so sick that the rash that came with the fever was just a mild disturbance. Even though I wasn’t in school yet, my sister had brought home the rubella virus that was going around.

I laid on the couch in the living room, drifting in and out of sleep, wondering how long this was going to last or how long I could last. I was tired of being in this sick body and wanted to go back “Home”, the wonderful place I had come from before getting this body.

The thoughts of Home stirred my memory and drew my attention. When the wave of sickness washed through me, I seemed to be getting closer to Home. It was like there was still a connection yet still there. I was being drawn to the beautiful sound of harp music. This music was healing and full of love and compassion. It was the music that sustained me and was somehow helping to calm and heal my sick body.

Thirty years later I was attending an Eckankar seminar and the featured presentation was music by Sammie Thompson. Sammie had left a professional music career to take up the harp and learn to play “transitional music” for people approaching the end of life. This special music helped them relax, let go and move through the last stages of their life.

Sammie briefly talked about her music and the inner guidance that had prompted her taking it up. She said she had prepared some music that wasn’t her transitional music for this performance but was being guided to play something else. She didn’t know what that something else would be, so she would just start playing and see what would come.

The music she begin to play was wonderful and you could see the crowd relax and take it all in. Before long, she came to a point where the music made a shift and took a new direction. The music she was now playing was from the harp music I had heard when I was so sick as a child!

Tears streamed down my face, and the music was still bringing me healing, love and compassion. I realized it had been with me all along but my human sense could not pick up the high vibrations. I hoped this music would never stop and again was reminded that this was music from my beingness as Soul.

After the performance I shared the experience with Sammie and she was very touched. She told me that part of learning to play this type of music was trusting that the right music would come at the right time and provide what was needed for someone  at that time.

This was an affirmation that I was Soul and my human life was a dream. It was not my dream, but God dreaming Soul, dreaming all the possible dreams. We all are the dream of God, deeply loved and well connected.

Be the dream, the dream of God, that brings love, compassion and creativity to your world.

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Dennis Ernst is a retired Professional Land Surveyor who now devotes his time to sharing the natural beauty he finds on his many treks through photography, blogs, and poetry. Please visit his website, Dennis Ernst Photography, for a glimpse into his fascinating world.

Sammie Thompson has been a singer and musician all her life, expressing love through her professional career as songwriter, entertainer, concert and recording artist.  As a certified therapeutic musician, she became a greater vehicle for Divine Love. Sammie’s uplifting harp and piano selections at myriad Eckankar events have inspired audiences throughout the US and internationally.

Her CD titled “From the Heart of Love,” recorded with Rodney Jones, features an instrumental version of the popular song, “This Is Love.” It is also available as an MP3.

Sammie may be contacted via email here. 

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