The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #44526 Message #1772430
Posted By: open mike
29-Jun-06 - 11:15 PM
Thread Name: Certified music practitioners
Subject: RE: Certified music practitioners
When I sat with my mother on ;her death bed in the hospital,
I sang and played music for her for days. I believe she heard
it, although she was unresponsive. It helped me get thru the
experience as well as others in the hospital who i saw at the
door and listeneing to the music that helped soothe them too.
After my experience with mom (8 days), I felt i had gained some
insight into the process of "passing away" and felt as if i
wanted to become a hospice volunteer in order to share with others.
A few weeks ago i had the opportunity to sing and play for many
hours at a house where the people's daughter lay in her last moments
of life. It was an honor to be able to be there and provide the
music to help bring everyone together and help ease the passage
over the threshold for our dear girl. (It would have been easier
to remain detached if I had not known and loved the girl--I feel
i circumvented some of my letting go of grief by holding it
together in order to provide music for everyone else...now I
have to find a way to grieve for her on my own.) I was glad to
be able to fill the room with music. One unusual request was
Janis Joplin's Mercedes Benz. I was open to singing the songs
that everyone there wanted to hear, and naturally songs of
flight and flying came thru me as her soul departed...
it was a magical, blessed time and a type of work that felt good.