“When a woman in a certain African tribe knows she is pregnant, she goes out into the wilderness with a few friends and together they pray and meditate until they hear the song of the child. They recognize that every soul has its own vibration that expresses its unique flavour and purpose. When the women attune to the song, they sing it out loud. Then they return to the tribe and teach it to everyone else. When the child is born, the community gathers and sings the child’s song to him or her.

Later, when the child enters education, the village gathers and chants the child’s song. When the child passes through the initiation to adulthood, the people again come together and sing. At the time of marriage, the person hears his or her song. Finally, when the soul is about to pass from this world, the family and friends gather at the person’s bed, just as they did at their birth, and they sing the person to the next life.”

The above turned up in my email inbox just as the two amethyst crystals on this page came into my life. Stones, rocks and crystals fill my studio and home. They communicate with me at some unseen, higher level.

I see images or hear subtle messages. These two rocks – from the Hart Ranges in the Northern Territory of Australia – started singing to me as soon as I held them. I could see the energy lines flowing from them to me to the Glasshouse Mountains in Queensland. The stone spirits began speaking to me of the Songlines of our lives - of our interconnectedness and the universal energy lines that spread through timelessness.

Songlines radiate from our heart and soul. They are intertwined with every level of your being and beyond to the Universe, Mother Earth and all sentient beings on our lovely planet. You are born with your own song ringing in your ears. Unfortunately, that song gets dimmed during childhood as we adapt to society’s requirements and we learn the need for approval and “fitting in”.

If we ignore our own personal song and try to drown it out, we live in tension and unhappiness, inner emptiness and feelings of isolation because we’ve separated ourselves from our authentic self. If we listen closely, we can hear our song, encourage it to become louder and finally embrace it to sing our own song with passion for life and love for ourselves and all beings. When we do so, we know we’ve come home to ourselves because we are experiencing true soul healing, the most powerful healing of all.

I have learned that the heart is the gateway of the soul and everything we process goes through the heart. I have come to this conclusion not through thoughts in my head but through the healing path I’ve followed over the past decade and more. Of profound healing for me has been a soul retrieval process I undertook recently over nearly eighteen months. It has left me deeply connected to Mother Earth and to the recognition that being grounded and here in the present is an essential ingredient of walking our talk, talking our walk. It has brought me to a feeling of wholeness for the first time in my life and to a place of deep inner peace*. My personal experience is why I focus on following the Songlines of the heart. I encourage you to follow the same path. To listen once again to your own personal song, the melody of your soul, is truly to return to yourself.

*If you are interested in soul retrieval, please contact Fabeku at: http://www.dancing-dragonfly.com. He is he an amazing teacher who guided me through the whole process. I can’t recommend his work highly enough.

As well as soul retrieval, Fabeku also offers individual stone spirits for and provides an innovative, deeply spiritual approach to working with the stone spirits at his on-line discussion forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crystal_spirit_2.