Power Down 2019

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Once my husband switched my music off and I pounced on him shouting “Music is my life!” We still laugh about that melodramatic outburst.

Listening to music is such a personal experience - it has to match our unique parallel heart beat in a given moment to speak to us and to really flow through our veins.

For me music is my oxygen, it restores my creative pulse, gets me unstuck and reminds me who I am.

It helps me feel my strengths but also see and connect with all sides of me and somehow make them OK, really make peace with them and enjoy the wonderful mess that I am.

It’s always been like this and I have been inseparable with some kind of music playing device since I can remember. Nowadays I don’t mind looking like an air traffic controller walking around in my huge wireless noise cancelling headphones.

I need music to be present, it calms me down, opens some kind of a door and widens my field of vision so I can see and grasp so much more.

When the right tune comes on it starts to tickle in my chest and something shifts in my brain. Hormones of happiness and aliveness rise, answers come. It’s almost like falling in love over and over again.

For years I was falling back on old school familiar tunes but this year I have been discovering more and more fresh sound. So as 2019 is powering down I present you with my playlist of down-tempo beats that kept soothing me throughout the year. I hope you will stumble upon one or two nurturing sounds.