Music and art can instantaneously open our hearts! When we are touched by the beauty or the depth of a painting or poem, or are deeply moved by a melody or a song, our hearts just melt open. As our heart opens, memories that we have been holding onto, such as pain, loss, or hurt, surface and are released through our tears and deeper feelings. As we let go of these deeper memories, we open a space for the beauty of the painting, poem, or music to enter and fill us with the light of the vibrational frequency of those colors or sound waves. When we are touched in this exalted way, we naturally heal. Here is where love enters, and where there is love, there is forgiveness. Forgiveness has the capability of opening our hearts to living authentically in the present. For as we forgive, we let go of the chords that are holding that old situation or experience frozen in time. As we let go, the beauty that has been surrounding us connects with our divine beauty within. It is as if the rhythm of our souls, our own inner music, invites us to dance in the flow of universal wonder and grace.

Music and art each touch our souls at the deepest levels of our being. Paintings can open portals into other realms, allowing us to step out of time and space and enter the eternal realm of the soul. Paintings can be guides, unlocking the mystery of our own ascension. Consider, for instance, the image of Christ’s rainbow body. Images like this stir our deeper inherent wisdom, sparking our heart fires into holy passion.

While on a vision quest in Sedona during 2008, I was struck by lightning. During my near-death experience I was suddenly catapulted into the most exquisite golden realm of light. The first thing I became aware of was being bathed in the most beautiful angelic music—music that seemed to speak to my soul in such a way as to pierce the very veils of illusion that surround the earth. And here, held within the grace of these most magnificent angels, I was able to reflect upon my life and realize the true meaning of life and what an extraordinary gift life is, so precious and full of promise. As my awareness was filled with this gorgeous music, I was able to see the circle of light, the circle of golden angels that were surrounding me. All at once, I knew that I was home and that the music I was hearing was my soul’s song.

Since that day, my life has changed in so many ways. It is as if my soul’s song is guiding me in miraculous ways. I think there is value in finding one’s soul song and allowing that song to awaken our creative fires from within. From this space of inner knowing, our divine sparks are ignited. When our heart sparks are truly lit from within, this is when the divine whispers in our ears.

I believe that we are all co-creator and artist of our own reality, inherently connected within the matrix of the universal grace of All That Is. You might also call this the “web of life.” Each person has been birthed into this life with special gifts, a soul purpose, and the desire to create and recreate his or her life anew. I imagine life to be a beautiful series of living canvases and believe that through our deepest desires and beliefs, we are the artists of our own realities. If you can see it and you can feel it, and you can believe in your dream, universal grace will mirror it back to you in your own reality. Quite literally, the universe will mirror in your life what is within your heart. In my life, I have been able to use this creative medium of visualization with inner will to live my life to the fullest. This has allowed me to try many different things.

In this life I have been a modern jazz and sacred temple dancer, an accomplished equestrian and, without going to college or ever working in an office before, a creative executive at Sony Studios—all through the process of creative visualization and the divine will to follow my dreams with such passion as to draw them into my reality. My deepest love has been helping people to heal and inspiring people to live their dreams! One of the ways that I have found to have the most impact is to have people dance their dreams as if they are living them now. Put on a song that touches your soul, and dance. Really let the music carry you away. Or paint a picture of the life you want to live, of who you are becoming.

I think it is important for us to keep our imaginations alive to all possibilities and for parents to encourage their children to keep that childlike creativity alive and to develop the creative spark of imagination that is within all children, so that they will fully be able to feel and believe that they can live the life they so deeply desire. My own experience of life has taught me, over and over, that dreams really do come true.