You know that song Any Day Now by Ronnie Milsap This favorite song has such a fun, upbeat tune and such sad words.  It used to bother me, thinking I could no longer listen to it, so I would not “program” myself with “negative” input.  Then I realized I didn’t have to make such a big deal of it.  I could just assign different meanings to the words.  Like living in the ashram and when we’d hear pop music, we’d change the love songs into songs to Krshna. The song now is simply to the beloved who has found their way to The Beloved.  No sadness and loss in being left by one who has a higher calling.  And the same with another favorite song, Only the Lonely by Roy Orbison.  I love the upbeat tune that just makes my body want to dance, and whatever key it is in, just makes the cells of my body come alive.  But if you hear the words with conventional meaning, it’s a sappy, pathetic song.  So I just asign different meanings to the words.  When I hear the words, I think, “Yes, only the blissfully solitary can have any idea of how wonderfully free and joyous it feels to answer to no one and to immerse yourself into everything around you, and find joy in the being with it.”  So I adore the song and it makes me happy, even though everyone else may not get it as a happy song.  Just like in the rest of life, we have to read between the lines and extract the pleasure and joy out of every single thing that faces us.  Especially if, like the song, we’re going to let it play over and over in our thoughts.

I saw a friend today who has spiraled herself into a hopeless feeling place and she can’t see any way out.   Every area of her life has a snafu. She and her son and two dogs live out in the sticks and she knows that isolation is a contributing factor.  She is unhappy and if you read her body language, you can see the anxiety and depression.

But I don’t read someone’s body language, unless I want to communicate with them solely on a personality level.  To me, that’s like reading someone else’s sad lyrics, when I’ve got better lyrics straight from the source.  I see the radiant soul of her, I see the One she is despite all the words and worry.  But that’s not who she sees.

I found myself almost tongue-tied which, if you know me, seldom happens.  I could tell that no matter what I said to her, she was not receiving it.  She was asking for clarification, but I could not speak her language.  We both realized we weren’t a vibrational match right now.  She acknowledged the problem was that she spent too much time alone with her own thoughts, and her thoughts were of a downward spiral nature, and she felt helpless against them.

It’s easy to say, well simply find a better feeling thought and write yourself out a script and read it over and over every time the bad thoughts came to mind.  The process is easy. Doing it takes more discipline than most want to cultivate.  She couldn’t even muster the discipline to download a file I’d sent her months ago that I knew would help her.  A file she could listen to in her sleep and not give any conscious thought to.  And she could not make herself download the file.

But none of that matters.  It’s not my job to fix her and not my job to make her get it or teach her how to strengthen her will or become a more alive, more enthusiastic person. She’s made it this far and she’s doing fine, although not to hear her tell it.  She’s smart and educated and spiritual and can be fun and I see the Light that she is.  Not that she CAN be, but that she IS right now.  It doesn’t matter if I’m the only one who sees it.  When I see her like that, no matter what the appearance to the contrary, then I’m seeing the real her. I’m seeing past the appearance to what is really there.  I’m replacing her sad lyrics with hopeful ones of my own, because I have the broader view.  When I see HER, the real HER, then, like Ronnie Milsap sings, my wild beautiful bird, you will have flown.

When you have someone, anyone, even just one person who sees you, all sorts of magic begins to unfold. For everyone.  And you can be that one who really sees the person in front of you.  It may be that you are the only one who does. That’s what you call a lightworker in action. And I love Chrissie Hynde’s version of Bob Dylan’s any day now I Shall Be Released (lyris below)

They say ev’rything can be replaced,
Yet ev’ry distance is not near.
So i remember ev’ry face
Of ev’ry man who put me here.
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.

They say ev’ry man needs protection,
They say ev’ry man must fall.
Yet i swear i see my reflection
Some place so high above this wall.
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.

Standing next to me in this lonely crowd,
Is a man who swears he’s not to blame.
All day long i hear him shout so loud,
Crying out that he was framed.
I see my light come shining
From the west unto the east.
Any day now, any day now,
I shall be released.

ANY DAY NOW LYRICS

Any day now I will hear you say ‘Goodbye, my love’
And you’ll be on your way
Then my wild beautiful bird, you will have flown, woah
Any day now, I’ll be all alone, whoa-oa-oa-oa-oa

Any day now, when your restless eyes meet someone new (Krshna)
Oh, to my sad surprise
Then the blue shadows will fall all over town, woah (Krshna blue!)
Any day now (any day now)
Love will let me down (any day now), whoa-oa-oa-oa-oa

I know I shouldn’t want to keep you
If you don’t want to stay-ay
Until you’re gone forever
I’ll keep holdin’ on for dear life
Holding you this way
Begging you to stay

Any day now, when the clock strikes ‘Go?
You’ll call it off
And then my tears will flow
Then my wild beautiful bird, you will have flown, woah
Any day now (any day now)
Love will let me down (any day now), ’cause you won’t be around

Then the blue shadows will fall all over town, woah
Any day now (any day now)
Love will let me down (any day now), ’cause you won’t be around

Any day now, you won’t be around
Ooo-ooo-oo
(Any day now)
No no no no no no
You won’t be around
(Any day now)

.

.

LISTEN FREE: Sleepytime Recharge: Retrain your consciousness to experience joy