Category Archives: Music

Living in the Moment…nicely said Mr. Mraz!

It’s encouraging when a powerhouse musician comes up with a song that reflects the best of humanity and inspires! I like Jason Mraz’ “Living in the Moment” song! Do you?

Lyrics:

If this life is one act
Why do we lay all these traps
We put them right in our path
When we just wanna be free

I will not waste my days
Making up all kinds of ways
To worry about some things
That will not happen to me

So I just let go of what I know I don’t know
And I know I’ll only do this by
Living in the moment
Living our life
Easy and breezy
With peace in my mind
With peace in my heart
Peace in my soul
Wherever I’m going, I’m already home
Living in the moment

I’m letting myself off the hook for things I’ve done
I let my past go past
And now I’m having more fun
I’m letting go of the thoughts
That do not make me strong
And I believe this way can be the same for everyone

And if I fall asleep
I know you’ll be the one who’ll always remind me
To live in the moment
To live my life
Easy and breezy
With peace in my mind
I got peace in my heart
Got peace in my soul
Wherever I’m going, I’m already home

I can’t walk through life facing backwards
I have tried
I tried more than once to just make sure
And I was denied the future I’d been searching for
But I spun around and searched no more
By living in the moment
Living my life
Easy and breezy
With peace in my mind
I got peace in my heart
Got peace in my soul
Wherever I’m going, I’m already home

I’m living in the moment
I’m living my life
Just taking it easy
With peace in my mind
I got peace in my heart
I got peace in my soul
Oh, wherever I’m going, I’m already home
I’m living in the moment
I’m living my life
Oh, easy and breezy
With peace in my mind
I got peace in my heart
I got peace in my soul
Oh, wherever I’m going, I’m already home
I’m living in the moment

Teaching the Macarena and brainstorming Samcheonpo Style

We have a short week, just Thursday and Friday, so I wanted to do something fun. Everyone here knows Gangnam Style ….hmmm what to do?

I decided to teach the Macarena to my elementary and middle school classes. I figured it would be a hit with the girls, but wasn’t sure how the boys would handle it. Luckily, after their initial groans, they got into it! Loved how the guys made a line dance of it and were better at it than me!

I showed a couple youtube videos including one of some elementary girls performing for a talent show. It was interesting to learn that a couple of them had performed in talent shows: playing musical instruments and doing a skit. When I asked if they ever wanted to perform, one said yes as a musician and another said no, but later admitted he would be okay being on TV as a professional soccer player.

Then we brainstormed, if we made a music video about our small town of Samcheonpo, what scenes would it have. They each had to sketch four ideas just using stick figures. Haha, so funny! Some unique ideas:

- A new line to replace “Hey Sexy Lady” … “Hey Fishy Lady” as the fisherman pulls in his net

- a guy diving off the bridge to his death, so the dance move is a dive

- crossing the crosswalk and getting hit by a car (…blood and knives are favorite highlights of the middle school boys drawings!)

- kangaroo dance. why? no idea!

- playground scene, elevator scene, fishing boat scene

This class reminded me that I don’t need to do hours of prep, but I do need to be a little brave to try things that may fail. But may pay off in getting all of us to take risks: moving, being creative and laughing a lot!

I used other videos to teach the dance, but here’s the original Macarena. It’s great in the variety of dancers and energy!

Unhealthy Song Lyrics: Codependent, Abusive, Jealous, Needy

Codependent, jealous, violent, damaged, needy, suicidal, no boundaries …oh the messages we sing about love! Skim through the zinger lines below or listen to the Youtube playlist: Unhealthy Relationship Lyrics,  (then call your therapist):

How Am I Supposed to Live Without You – Michael Bolton

How am I supposed to live without you. How am I supposed to carry on, when all that I’ve been livin’ for is gone.

Without You – Air Supply

I can’t live, if living is without you.

Because You Loved Me – Celine Dion

I’m everything I am, because you loved me!

Run for Your Life – The Beatles

Well, I’d rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man. Better run for your life if you can little girl. Catch you with another man, that’s the end.

All of Me – Frank Sinatra

Why not take all of me? I’m no good without you! Take my arms, I’ll never use them. I’m just a mess without you. You took the best. Why not take the rest?

If You Leave Me Now – Chicago

If you leave me now, you’ll take away the biggest part of me. No baby please don’t go. If you leave me now, you’ll take away the very heart of me.

(Words & Music by Peter Cetera)

Love Hurts – Nazareth

Love hurts. Love scars. Love wounds and mars.

Bend Me, Shape Me - American Breed

Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me. As long as you love me, it’s all right. (Similar idea as Bread – Anyway You Want Me)

I know there are more! Leave me a comment!

Tell me your favorite codependent song lyrics! Because “I need you.” “I can’t live without you.” “You make me happy.”

Codependency on a stick! Song lyrics seep in and mess with our thinking, just as easily as parent’s words. I’m working on a chapter and want to mention some of the most popular codependent song lyrics. You know, those that say that someone else or something else will make someone happy or crush them, that you can’t live without someone or need them.

I’m thinking of:

“I Can’t Live (If Living Is Without You)  by Pete Ham and Tom Evans, sung by Mariah Carey, Badfinger, Harry Nilsson, Air Supply and many others:

http://youtu.be/QujSLtsvodI

and

America’s “I Need You” …like a flower needs the rain.

Got any other ideas for me?

 

 

 

 

 

Why Should I Feel Discouraged?

Video: His Eye is on the Sparrow

Why should I feel discouraged,
Why should the shadows come,
Why should my heart feel lonely

- sung awesomely, wonderfully by the Mississippi Children’s Choir

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)