I have found that it is better to begin to take good care of myself early in the morning, as soon as I wake up.  It is at this point that I have a choice, a choice as to whether or not to be positive or to be negative.  I have always had this choice even when I was not aware of having this choice.  We do have the choice to be positive or negative regardless of whether or not we acknowledge it.  When we get it that early in the day can and does effect the course of the day we can start to create what we say we truly want.  If we are negative early on in the day, in the morning say, it will be more difficult to alter the direction of the day than if you started it out in a positive manner.

I start my day with my gratitude list.  I start my day with acknowledging what I am truly grateful for.  I start my day, as soon as my eyes open, with saying that I am now grateful for my house, my friend, my job, my family and my health.  Having an attitude of gratitude is very important.  Having an attitude of gratitude sets the tone for the morning and day.  Saying what I am grateful for allows me to put out into the universe those things and people that I love and want to continue to have in my life.  The actual saying of the gratitude list is the creation.  The creation is through my word.  I am bringing into existence that which I want to have in my life and I am bringing it into existence through my work and language.

The second thing that I do is to repeat my positive affirmations.  I have 20 positive affirmations that I believe support and enhance my life.  I listen to them every morning for about 15 minutes.  I listen to them with headphones, as they are mixed with relaxation music.  The music relaxes me completely and allows me to be much more receptive to the positive affirmations that I will eventually hear.  After I hear each affirmation, recorded in my voice, I repeat the affirmation out loud.  This process of repeating the positive affirmations over and over allows me to truly learn them, to have them become apart of my life.  The saying of them through my word continues to bring them into existence.  I am my affirmations when I say them.

The third thing that I am practicing is staying present to my word during the day, to what I say throughout the day.  Staying present to what is happening in the moment and also staying aware of my response to what is going on allows me to make a much better choice as to what to say and do in those moments.  Instead of acting and speaking from impulse which much of the time is or would be on the negative side, pausing and staying aware of the moment without action gives me the conscious choice to be positive with my word.  Acting and speaking from impulse is doing so from the past programming, is part of the machine, of how I have always conducted myself.  Being allow of my tendency to act and speak and suspending impulsive behavior gives me the freedom to create what I really do want and not that which is determined from my past.

At the end of the day I repeat the positive affirmation list and what I am grateful for.  I do this just before I go to bed.  Doing my positive affirmations and list of what I am grateful for allows me to take the positive nature of my word into my dream state.  This allows me to continue to be positive as I sleep, allowing my positive word to penetrate into my unconscious mind, into the back drop and context of my life.  Saying my positive affirmations and list of what I am truly grateful for allows the programming to continue as I sleep at night.  All of this is about living my life in harmony and serenity and also, about creating my Dream.

More on this later.

Dr. Harry Henshaw

Enhanced Healing through Relaxation Music

Part of my work is to also create 20 positive affirmations and repeat them throughout the day.  Here are the 20 positive affirmations that I have chosen to work on:

1.  I joyously release the past.  I am at peace.

2.  My body restores itself now to its natural state of good health.  I am perfect, whole and complete.

3.  My income is constantly increasing.

4.  I breathe slowly and deeply.

5.  With each breathe that I take I become more relaxed.

6.  I love everything about myself.

7.  I love and accept myself exactly as I am now.

8.  I forgive myself and I set myself free from the past.

9.  I love and approve of myself.

10.  I am relaxed, calm and peaceful.

11.  I accept and enjoy the moment, I live in the present.

12.  I trust the process of life.

13.  I am one with all that is and with the power that created me, with Source, with Spirit, with God.

14.  I love who I am.  I love my life.

15.  I am grateful for everyone and everything that I have in my life.

16.  My body is strong and healthy.  I am strong and healthy.

17.  My life and future is abundant and prosperous.

18.  I am intelligent, talented and creative.

19.  I always do my very best.

20.  I am the divine expression of God.  Who I am is Spirit, Source, God.

I have also decided to record these positive affirmations and mix them with my music.

Dr. Harry Henshaw

I first became aware of the importance of having a vision and creating as a result, a vision statement.  The vision has to be something that will draw me towards it, that will motivate me everyday, that will pull me forward.  This is power of language, of words.

What I found interesting and even exciting is that the vision can not be something that I can complete on, that I can not achieve.  It has to be something that is unreachable.  In this manner the vision keeps pulling me forward, keeps motivating me.

My work this week, starting today, has been to thinking about and start to create my vision.  While I will continue to work on it, I am starting to create from “World Harmony and Serenity through music.”  I want to transform the world with my music, something that will pull me into it.

This will be my dream.  Next is to think of the dream as if I already have it.  As I am thinking of it visualize it as if it already exists.

Next, create 20 positive affirmations that will be who I am as I am creating my dream and also, living in my dream.  Practice the positive affirmations every day, repeat them daily, in the morning, through out the day and before I go to bed.

It is here that I plan to record the positive affirmations and create an Individualized Positive Affirmation recording for myself.

More on all of this tomorrow.

Dr. Harry Henshaw

Enhanced Healing through Relaxation Music

I know that my music is for the world, is to help transform the world, to help others feel good.  I know that members of my global community will visit my site and enjoy my music and recordings.  This is the space that I am entering.  This is the space that I want to be, to stay, and as a result, to continue to create for.

As I learn more about the technology I am also having more fun.  The new analytics lets me see people as they visit my site, as they visit in real time.  Today I talk with a company that would allow me to chat with them as they visit, in real time, something that I believe is so fantastic.  It is as though the site is coming alive, not just something that exists out in space somewhere.

My work is to monitor my thought and continue to put out there, to generate, the positive that I want to have show up.  I want to have new visitors to the site.  I want to have them purchase my relaxation and healing music to help them feel good.  I want to get to know them, to have conversations with those that enjoy the music.  I want to reach out to be of service to my global community and to begin to be an instrument of transformation, of helping to transform the world with my music.  This is what I am up to now.

Dr. Harry Henshaw

Some of the psychological consequences of stress are anxiety, boredom, low self esteem, forgetfulness, depression, anger, apathy and worry.

Some physical consequences of stress are headaches, diabetes, fatigue, chest and back pain, hypertension and ulcers.

Behavioral consequences of stress can be overeating, loss of appetite, smoking, insomnia, alcohol and drug abuse, sleep problems, emotional outbursts and violence and aggression.

Some vocational or work related consequences of stress are absenteeism, accident, reduced productivity, job turnover, poor work relations and low morale.

People deal with stress in a variety of ways.  It is my belief that music can be one of the best and safest ways to manage and even reduce the stress that we experience, sometimes on a daily basis.

The relaxation music, meditation music and sleep music that I have created has been used in a variety of settings, many of them clinical in nature.  For example, my music is being used to help addicts with their recovery from drugs and alcohol.  I have also created a campaign to help raise money that will enable addicts to receive the treatment services that they need to change their life.

My music is also being used in the development of a very special program to help veterans deal with the trauma of being in combat situations, Living Tributes to America’s Warriors.

While my relaxation music can be very effective in the clinically oriented settings mentioned above, I believe its best application is to everyone who needs assistance in reducing and managing the stress of daily life.  I believe that if a person can learn how to keep himself in a relaxed state on a more consistent basis that he will reduce the harmful consequences that stress could have in his life.

While my music definitely has its clinical applications, I believe that my relaxation music can help to prevent individuals in our global community from ever experiencing the negative consequences of stress that was mentioned above.  It is in this sense that I believe my relaxation music has within it the possibility of transforming the world.

I will write more to this matter.

Psych Central Interview with Dr. Harry Henshaw - Healing with Music Relaxation Therapy 

Dr. Harry Henshaw

Enhanced Healing through Relaxation Music

Self Esteem:  Positive Affirmations and Relaxation Music for Self Esteem

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Positive affirmations can be very effective in helping you to improve your self-esteem and in turn your life.  Repeated use of positive affirmations can help you to improve how you think and feel about yourself.  The Self-Esteem positive affirmation recording by Dr Harry Henshaw combines positive affirmations with the therapeutic relaxation music of Fantasia to help you think and feel better about yourself, to improve your self esteem.  This recording of relaxation music and positive affirmations utilizes the power of theta binaural beats or binaural audio tones to further enhance the effect of the positive affirmations.  The Self Esteem recording is a high quality MP3 download of positive affirmations and holistic, relaxation music to help you to improve your self esteem.

Self Esteem:  Positive Affirmations and Relaxation Music for Self Esteem

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Using positive affirmations can change and transform your life.

Dr. Harry Henshaw

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Many times we are so eager to change our lives that we lose sight of many of the important things in our life.  Wanting to change so badly we sometimes get caught up in the process, almost as if it carries us away without us even knowing it, only to end up somewhere where we did not want to be.  The process of change, of transforming our lives, can be very exciting and generate a great deal of energy.  While such energy can be healthy and productive, we have to be able to disconnect from that energy at some point during the process and regain our balance.

This balance can be obtained through the practice of relaxation and meditation.  It is also my believe that music can play a vital role in this process, in helping a person to regain his balance and sense of relaxation.  The relaxation music that I create can, in my opinion, help to restore the balance back to an individual’s life.  When used repeatedly the relaxation music can be a very healthy component of a person’s life, of helping him or her to experience a deep state of relaxation and ease, even helping to limit the negative consequences of the stress that we have a tendency to experience.

I hope to write to the use of relaxation music for transforming your life and also for reducing stress.

Dr Harry Henshaw

Enhanced Healing through Relaxation Music

My dream, as I refer to it, is to impact the world with my music, to help others to relax with my music and as a result of listening to it to reduce the stress that they are experiencing.  Part of the dream has to do with making the dream my sole vocation, to make it what I do full time.  Part of my dream is to be able to make a living from the dream itself.  Doing so would allow me to create even more music.

As I move towards my dream I have to stay present to the  expectations that I create about the dream.  For example, I do expect that I should now be making more money from the sales of the music than I am at the moment.  I know that it is this belief that I have created that generates my frustration and even my doubts about the very nature of the dream.  When my expectations are not being fulfilled, as it is not now, I even doubt where I should continue to pursue the dream, that maybe it is a waste of my time.

I know that I have to stay aware of my feelings, especially the negative ones, that are letting me know that I am frustrated about my dream.  While it is easy to allow myself to fall completely into the frustration and even let myself be consumed by it I have to first recognize that I am in it, in an emotional dip, so to speak.  If I am not able to become and stay present to my immediate emotions and feelings about the dream then the dream may never become a reality.

However, once I recognize that I am in a dip, I have to make an effort to shift my thinking, my thoughts, to something else, to move away from what I am thinking about.  What I tend to do first is to let go of the work that I am doing with the dream and do something else different, like take a walk in nature, even down to the water.  Another thought shift is to become aware of what I am grateful for, grateful for the fact that I have a dream and that progress is being made slowly.  Part of being grateful is choosing at this point to practice staying aware of what is showing up and not what is missing.

While there is nothing that can replace the hard work that it takes to make the dream a reality, I have to stay aware of my thinking, of my very thoughts about the dream, as I go about the process of creating my dream.  My thoughts will either assist me or be a barrier to making the dream happen.  Positive thinking about the dream rather then negative thinking will go along way to making the dream happen for me.  Keeping my thoughts positive about the dream does matter and will make the difference.

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