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More, More, More

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Recorded a cute cover of More, More, More - the 1976 tune by Andrea True Connection -
with Seena’s Peace & Love Band earlier this year.
Music and video coming next week, so stay tuned <3
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Did you know that the original idea and demo for this song might not have happened if it wasn't for a problem?
The singer, Andrea True, found herself in Jamaica in 1975,
where she was hired and paid for a commercial job.
The problem was that, at the exact same point in time, due to political reasons, the Jamaican government made it illegal to conduct wealth transfers to America.
So, since she couldn’t take it with her,
Andrea True needed to find a way to spend the money she had made (wisely)
before returning back to the US.
She chose to invest in herself and decided to spend the cash
on recording the demo of More, More, More, in Jamaica.
This song eventually ended up becoming wildly popular and her biggest success ever.
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I hope this little story can serve as a reminder that, sometimes, problems in our path invite us to lift our gaze and become even MORE than what we might have thought ourselves capable of.
In addition to acknowledging the problem, we could also ask ourselves;
What other opportunities for positive growth are presented to me at this moment?
What new synchronicities, peoples, perspectives and time-spaces are available to me to build and share MORE love?
The answers you find might not take away the original problem or hurt,
but they can help lay the foundation for something new, exciting and wonderful.
Something MORE.
It ain’t over ‘till it’s over - so if you’re still breathing;
it’s not too late.
People start new businesses in their 40s (Vera Wang, Giorgio Armani)
and new families/kids at 60, 79 or 83 (Tony Robbins, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino).
So whatever problem you are facing right now,
in addition to dealing with that challenge,
I hope you somehow can open your eyes to new horizons
and discover that life has likely also brought you something that has the potential to bring you
MORE, MORE, MORE of all the good stuff.
❤️
S

 
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Cliff

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This essay is essay #3 in a series connected to my new EP Cliff

Read essay #1 CLIFF EP INTRO here
Read essay #2 ELECTRIC HEART here
Read essay #4 DISCIPLINE here
Read essay #5 NOT TOO SWEET here


The second tune on the EP is titled the same as the EP itself;

CLIFF

**Surrendering to life, being with it as it is, while holding a vision for something greater for you and others, is part of cultivating your inner CLIFF**

What is reality? Where did we come from, why are we here and where are we going? What possibilities are open to us as souls having this human experience?
As a spiritually inclined, sensitive artist, who loves being in my own company, I’ve chosen to spend a lot of time with questions like this.
Another question might be; What kind of force is it that makes flowers bloom, makes trees bear fruit and governs day and night in a perfect rythm? I believe that it’s the same kind of life-force that we carry within us. This force gives life, and organizes life, without asking anything in return. It is free flowing unconditional love.
For a very long time, it has been the norm of society at large to live in a state which is mostly out of touch with this force.
Although this kind of thinking won’t continue for much longer, it has been viewed as normal by most to ignore this force, ridicule our connection to it, or try to violently control it. Whether consciously or unconsciously, it seems to me that many people have been too busy with daily trivialities to re-connect to their true nature and reason for being. They forgot to pay attention to their life force, and they missed the opportunities it offered to let it help shape them.
This includes me. Over the last couple of years I’ve woken up more and more, and I am still cutting my diamond and polishing the mirror of my heart, like everyone else. Said in another way: I’m still cultivating my inner cliff and the connection to it.

An important piece of my puzzle was, and still is, attending Network Spinal care sessions.
If you’re not familiar with Network, you can learn more about what it is HERE and HERE. And I also recommend reading about the philosophies of the founders of chiropractic, D. D. Palmer and his son B. J.
Attending Network Spinal care sessions has put me closer in touch with my life force.

Sometimes, when we repeatedly choose to ignore the messages of our innate life force, life becomes an analytical excerise almost solely run by the intellect. We disconnect from our body-mind. We rely on force-force instead of flow-force. We choose what the intellect percieves as certainty, instead of choosing something that seems more uncertain, but that we have a gut feeling is more in accordance with our true, unique nature. I’ve made this mistake a few times!
While attending Network sessions I realized that, because most of us have been so accustomed to living life as a mental excercise, it can literally feel like jumping off of a cliff to try to trust the innate life force. It can be terrifying. But this very aspect is what all spiritual traditions have been talking about for ages; You have to have faith. You have to jump off the cliff. Proof comes after faith and action. Not the other way around. Life is experiential. And, actually, as written in essay #1, you will find that once you do jump, your perception of inner and outer cliff will merge closer, resulting in you bringing your unique light to the world. The cliff is both the question and the answer. It’s both the journey and the desination. It’s what you leap from, what guides you during your flight, and what you land on. It’s the most natural thing. It is universal consciousness and it is everywhere.
Dare to not turn your back on it.

We need the intellect.
Without it we could not cope on this planet.
And we also need our heart, our our intuition, our connection to that which our intellect can not comprehend.
We need to cultivate our connection to our inner cliff and become one with it.

The song Cliff is a love song.
It could be understood as an interpersonal love song, a love song to our guardian angel(s) and also as a tribute to life and life force.
This life force is our eternal companion.
So with that in mind, let’s try our best to take what we are given in this life, and accept it. Find the gifts in it and have faith in it; Have enough faith in it to acknowledge that our limited blueprint of what life should be will sometimes miss the bigger picture.
The bigger picture, of which you are part of, is perfect. Surrender to it, while taking on the responsibility of a co-creator for a better world. We become co-creators of a better world when we consciously use the energy of our life force for the best of humanity and beyond.

Each human is a unique expression of a heavenly tone. No one else can play your tone. Feel your tone and share the music. You can do that by jumping off your personal cliff, and genereously sharing your lessons from the trip with others. It can bring massive uncertainty, lots of lessons and sometimes a false feeling of loneliness.
But in the end it’s the most thrilling thing. And you will also find other cliff jumpers on your journey. Take it from me.

🎶 The Ep Cliff is named after, and dedicated to,
Dr. Cliff Inkles of Life Power Wellness in New York.
Visit LifePowerWellness.Com for more 🎶

 
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Not Too Sweet

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This essay is essay #5 in a series connected to my new EP Cliff
Read essay #1 CLIFF EP INTRO here
Read essay #2 ELECTRIC HEART here
Read essay #3 CLIFF here
Read essay #4 DISCIPLINE here

The fourth tune on the EP is titled
NOT TOO SWEET

**Speaking your truth - sometimes with a dash of humor - while holding multiple perspectives, is part of cultivating your inner CLIFF**

This tune is indirectly inspired by my learning Mandarin Chinese. For the last three years I’ve been diving into this beautiful and complex language, and I’ve also invested myself into learning as much as I can about Chinese history and culture. There are so many interesting facts, stunning pieces of art, and cultural take-aways from the different dynastic periods.
I’ve also enjoyed soaking in current trends and memes. One of the things I’ve picked up on, which might be unfamiliar to many people in the West, is that there is usually a discrepancy between East/West in terms of appreciation for sweetness-level in desserts. One of the highest compliments for a dessert in China would be to say that it’s ‘Not Too Sweet’.

I realized that, with a dash of humor, this concept could be carried over to a relationship setting, as well, and the tune Not Too Sweet was born.

Immersing myself in understanding a history and culture very different from that of my own upbringing, has made me more aware of the gift it is to hold multiple perspectives. The ability to see multiple perspectives at once, is one way to define a high level of conciousness. As the world becomes more and more interconnected, we are offered the opportunity to learn from eachother. This rings true on both an individual-to-individual level and a country-to-country level.
Just beause someone has a different way of going about things, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are wrong. It is a gift to be able to recognize how the ways of others shine light on both what is great about our own ways, and also what we could possibly improve. It also offers the opportunity to build character by respecting the way something is, without trying to impose, judge and project. Realizing that there is coherence and strength in differences, is part of cultivating our inner cliff. Different parts, different systems, different people all make up a whole solid cliff. We need to actively practice holding this perspective and not fracture our own cliff.

Not Too Sweet is a humoros love song not to be taken too seriously. I’ve found that humor is often the way of the universe, although sometimes we are only able see it in hindsight.

🎶 The EP Cliff is named after, and dedicated to,
Dr. Cliff Inkles of Life Power Wellness in New York.
Visit LifePowerWellness.Com for more 🎶

 
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Electric Heart

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This essay is essay #2 in a series connected to my new EP Cliff

Read essay #1 CLIFF EP INTRO here
Read essay #3 CLIFF here
Read essay #4 DISCIPLINE here
Read essay #5 NOT TOO SWEET here


The first tune on the EP is titled

ELECTRIC HEART

**Heart coherence brings a greater inner stability.
A more effortless connection to what is truly important.
Cultivating heart coherence is part of cultivating your inner CLIFF**

Did you know that the electromagnetic field of the human heart reaches out far beyond the body? It is measurable by today’s available tools and therefore has been proven and accepted by the standards of current mainstream science.

But even without that outside validation I believe most of us are innately aware of the power of the heart. To me, the heart represents what it truly means to be human; Connecting to the wisdom of the heart is connecting to the wisdom of the universe. Connecting to the source.
Whether we consciously realize it or not,
we affect others around us, much similar to the way adjacent tuning forks affect eachother.
Everything is oscillating, and the vibration of our personal heart center matters.
When we consciously choose to be present with ourselves and others in a state that is connected to the heart, we bring more light to the world.

This whole EP came to me after a session of Network Spinal care at Life Power Wellness in Manhattan with Dr. Cliff Inkles.
Dr. Cliff is recognized as one of the early contributors to the development of Network and is highly regarded as one of the most skilled Network Spinal chiropractors in the world.
Read more about Life Power Wellness here. Read more about Network Spinal and it’s founder Donny Epstein here.
Network Spinal has put me in greater touch with my body-mind, my heart and my soul. It is one of the tools available to use to achieve heart coherence. Other tools could be yoga, meditation, vocal toning and spending time in nature. Anything that can put your body’s systems more in sync with eachother, so it’s easier to cut through the noise and connect directly to your higher self.

”What would love do?”

For me, asking myself this question is such a simple and elegant way to connect to the wisdom of the heart.
Saying and doing what our heart truly feels, which - for me - is one way to define heart coherence, is what will move this world closer to truth.

Electric Heart is a love song.
It can be understood as both an eros and an agape vibe. To me, one of the most beautiful realizations open to us in this life is that agape love is always available.
It’s just a sprinkle of awareness plus a dash of a conscious choice away.
If you feel like you don’t have it, take the focus off of the limited version of yourself and try to give it to someone else, stepping into the larger version of you.

With that I’d like to close with a saying by Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk that I find to be true and beautiful: Only a broken heart is truly whole.
What does that mean?
To me, it means that we sometimes have to be cracked open or humbled to re-discover our connection to universal love. At the same time, I believe that we are moving into an era where we are remembering to choose love without being cracked open first.
We are, and will be even more, connected to our true essence, love, through our electric hearts.

Love is always available inside of you.
It’s the foundation of your inner CLIFF.

🎶 The EP Cliff is named after, and dedicated to,
Dr. Cliff Inkles of Life Power Wellness in New York.
Visit LifePowerWellness.Com for more 🎶

 
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Row, baby

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Love me some Dr. Donny Epstein wisdom!
What he speaks about in this video is exactly what my tune from 2020 Surfboard Love is about.
Sometimes you gotta row, sometimes you can surf.
Either way; - you are supported by the stream if you allow it.
❤️🌊
Seena

Listen on Spotify:

Listen on Apple Music:

 

Take it from Haim

 

One of my favorite podcast-episodes that I keep coming back to
is an episode of ‘How I Built This’ featuring Haim Saban.
In this podcast Haim shares his incredible story, great humor and sound principles.

Some of the most inspiring takeaways:
#1 To trust your innate instincts no matter what seemingly goes on outside -
even if it takes nearly a decade to materialize your vision.
Haim spent 8 years cultivating Power Rangers before someone believed in it enough to air it on TV.
When it aired it became an ‘overnight’ mega-success.
#2 Haim’s definition of luck is having the skill to grab opportunities when they are presented to you.

Embedded the Spotify version of the podcast above, and linked to the Apple version below.
Enjoy!
XO, Seena

Link to Apple Version:
How I Built This with Guy Raz feat. Haim Saban
(starts after the ads at 2 minutes and 15 seconds in)

 
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Tesla Lyric Video

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Lyric-video of my tune ‘Tesla’ <3
He found answers when connected to the world of answers, not the world of questions.
⚡️
“My brain is only a receiver; in the universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
- Nikola Tesla

 
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

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Happy St.Patrick’s Day! On that note -
Highly recommend this book:
‘Anam Cara - A Book of Celtic Wisdom’
by John O’Donohue.
Profound would be an understatement.
I only started reading it today,
but it’s already taken place in my heart right next to my other favorite book
’The Dance Of The Soul’ by Hazrat Inayat Khan.
Anam Cara is on Amazon HERE.
The Dance Of The Soul is on Amazon HERE.
🍀
Seena

 
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Forecast: Clear

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On a clear day
Rise and look around you
And you'll see who you are

On a clear day
How it will astound you
That the glow of your being
Outshines every star

You'll feel part of every mountain,
Sea and shore
You can hear
From far and near
A world you've never, never heard before

And on a clear day
On a clear day
You can see forever
And ever
And ever
And ever more

Don’t forget. You are divine <3
Seena

 

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