We need a center of calm.

The best escape is meditation, but it's so difficult to clear the mind when we're worried about so much!

Turn off the phone, turn off lights, light a candle and listen to music. First observe the flame of the candle. Then close your eyes and focus on hearing every nuance of the music. Let it enter your ears into your head and feel it untie knots of tension, knots of anger, knots of sadness. It may take practice, but it'll improve your life. Because when you step into the realm of the ether your magic/prayers/witchcraft will have a clearer shot to *GOD*.

I use music as my mind and bodywash, and when I feel that calmness inside, that atunement, I turn off the music to commune with spirit. Music is my vehicle.

Especially rock music. Surprised? Yeah, I know everyone else is playing etheral flutes with soft breezes stirring the wind chimes gently by the seashore... That's perfect to create the meditative mind I mentioned above. You can really focus on your life and perhaps see your choices clearer. You can determine your actions, visualize your desires, analyze your reactions, all in a frame of mind that felicitates your inner wisdom...but as I said, music is my drug. I use it to escape, to dream.

Blow out the candle. Adjust the stereo for optimal sound (loud) and get comfortable.
The pulse of the beat is the throbbing of your soul struggling to shirk the chains of flesh and mingle with the cosmic. Feel it vibrate in every pulsepoint on your body. Don't allow the music to stay out there, bring it in here, in you. It opens up a different side of you that you don't have time for in your busy life. The same you that was staring up at the clouds in wonder at 8 (or was it 10?) is alive and well and you feel that person become you again. Visualize ~ the true key to ALL magic/prayer/witchcraft ~ that the ceiling above you has become transparent, and that now you are looking up into that same cloud-filled sky, and as you breathe in wonder, you float up through the roof, out past those clouds, and sail toward the moon, and the music's heartbeat propels you, logging the distance between you and your physical life. Total freedom, total bliss and blithe.

At the end of the song I linger in the silent darkness and hold on to that feeling. I turn and look back at earth. I realize I have a better perspective of the overview of my life. My thoughts are clearer and I can hear myself think. I consider what I want to happen, if it should happen, and how I can make it happen. Resolved and set on my path, I drift back towards earth, bolstering my spirit, refreshed of heart and mind.