We are all pretty familiar with the phrase “marches to their own drum.”

There was a time in human history where that was not necessarily a good thing. In fact that was usually something said about people that fell just outside the lines of ‘normal.’

I experienced this attitude first hand often growing up. Especially in school where reading, math, a just about any subject that was not physical fitness was required. I spent time in special classes for ‘slow learners.’ I was in elementary school before dyslexia was a term. I was just considered ‘slow,’ and ‘slow’ was not a good thing.

Today that attitude feels like the dark ages, not that it was such a long time ago, rather because it was such a limited point of view. Today social workers and educators are helping us all relearn that ‘normal’ doesn’t really exist and that these attributes like dyslexia, autism, Aspergers, ADHD, (oh the lists goes on) are actually superpowers and that many more of us have them rather than not.

I for one am re-seeing that my dyslexia is actually a gift. I interpret things in my own way. Even my pendulum behave opposite of many others. It is all good because that means what I bring to the table is 100% me.

So as ironic as it might be, I am actually making a living beating my own drum, literally. And in doing so, creating a new way to listen to the beat of our soul wisdom. The way you hear the music will be different than how I do. I might not “get my lick right,” as they say, but it is never wrong either.

The rhythm is my own, simply they way the movement and sounds come to me. The more I try to control them the less authentic the music feels to me so I don’t. I channel and allow the sound to simply come from me. From deep within me from where I connect to all that is.

In truth this is all that is required of any of us. We are not pegs that need to be shoved through a hole into a box. We are free flowing energy creating new forms of live through our creations and our very breath.

So today when you see people being authentically themselves celebrate! Because they are your mirror reflecting back to you all of the possibilities of you.

March to your own drum and own it! 

In love, light, and sound, 
Delaina