How to Rock Your Life: Maintain the Magic of Live Music in Your Everyday Experience - Softcover

Weathers, Taraleigh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504355946 ISBN 13: 9781504355940

Verlag: BalboaPress, 2018

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How to Rock Your Life is the book the author wished existed when she was suffering from a chronic case of post-show blues. Beating them with a rainstick, a hacky-sack, and a big boatload of intentional life changes, she knew she had to share what she learned.
If you're a live music fanatic, you'll go anywhere the music is playing for just one more taste of the good stuff. Is it possible to bring that live music magic home with you? It is, and Taraleigh Weathers will show you the way.
Filled with entertaining, laugh-out-loud, inspiring, and vulnerable stories, been-there-done that advice, playful exercises, and many references to Phish and the Grateful Dead, How to Rock Your Life will guide you to maintain the live music magic in your everyday experience.
Just like you do when your favorite band is performing, Taraleigh will show you how you can channel the wildest expression of your authentic self on a daily basis, feel those unique music festival feels at home, and find the magic in even the most mundane and uncomfortable of situations. She'll prove to you that it is indeed possible to surrender to the flow of the present moment before, during, and after the show.
If you don't read this book, there'll be curse placed upon you. From now until eternity, the person next to you at the show will never stop talking from the time the band plays the first note until the last. Just kidding. The truth is that if you're seated next to Loose Lips Lucy, after reading this book, you'll have the tools to deal with that situation with ease and grace.
Read the book.

""The creative power of intention, visualization, prayer, hoping, loving, listening, legging go, being honest with yourself, curiosity, openness, patience, action, quietude, and forgiveness is boundless. Taraleigh sees this so clearly and teaches it in this book.""

-Oteil Burbridge Dead & Company/Bassist

""The stories and advice from Taraleigh and her collaborators in 'How to Rock Your Life' will fill you with laughter, emotion, and encouragement. Her book truly embodies what she stands for as a person and will inspire anyone who reads it.""

-Ryan Dempsey Twiddle/Keyboardist

""Taraleigh radiates positive energy, and a sense of wonder while embracing the endless possibilities each new day brings!""

-Jay Blakesberg Long time photographer of the Grateful Dead and Author of Hippie Chick

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Taraleigh is a wild sequin-and-feather wearin live music fanatic residing in Vermont. If you find a pile of dirt, sand and glitter in her place, its whats left after she exploded from the excitement that youre reading her book. Literally dancing her way through life, (as a competitive dancer in her school years, earning a BFA in dance studies and choreography from Arizona State University and becoming a professional dancer and tumbler for the NBA) she found herself happiest when dancing to live music. It was at festivals where she let her freak flag fly and became inspired to become a catalyst of more magic in the real world. To deepen her studies she attended the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, where she came a health and lifestyle coach. Quickly, she realized that live music fans were her most favorite people to work with. After quite the journey, she launched the Rock Your Life brand which includes coaching, leading retreats with musicians for their fans, workshops, speaking engagements, writing for publications such as the HuffPost and Relix, and this book. Taraleigh and her husband Dan run a retreat center in Vermont on a farm, called This Wonderful Place. She hopes to see you there!

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How To Rock Your Life

Maintain the Magic of Live Music in Your Everyday Experience

By Taraleigh Weathers

Balboa Press

Copyright © 2018 Taraleigh Weathers
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-5043-5594-0

Contents

Foreword, ix, 
Why I wrote this book, xiii, 
Chapter 1 Consciously Infuse the Live Music Magic Into Your Everyday Experience, 1, 
Chapter 2 Get High, 29, 
Chapter 3 Magic is Normal, 55, 
Chapter 4 Achieve Self-Care Superhero Status, 91, 
Chapter 5 Slay the Time and Energy Vampires, 111, 
Chapter 6 Take the Highway to the Awesome Zone, 131, 
Chapter 7 Become a Manifesting Unicorn, 155, 
Chapter 8 Feel All the Feels, 181, 
Chapter 9 Stop Being An Ass, 201, 
Chapter 10 Forgive Everyone, For Realsies, 221, 
Chapter 11 Make Sweet Moves, 237, 
Chapter 12 Rock Your Life, 257, 
About the Author, 281, 
Book Club Questions:, 285, 
Gratitude, 287, 

CHAPTER 1

CONSCIOUSLY INFUSE THE LIVE MUSIC MAGIC INTO YOUR EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE

"I would not get up I would dance on my back Throw my legs up in the air like I don't care Then wave them side to side Then I'd bust into a windmill then right into a backspin."

Tweaker By The Speaker by Keller Williams

After college, I felt the pressure from society and my family to get off Phish tour, get a real job and act like a grown-up. I resorted to spending my time the same way most of my friends were: stressing out about money, boyfriends, and friend dramas, all while pursuing jobs that weren't aligned with their desires. But they 'paid the bills!'

During that dark time in my life, I got so caught up in the adulting tornado that I totally forgot something that was essential for real success. I looked everywhere outside of me for it, to no avail. I often wondered, "Where did all the joy go?" I knew it had to be lurking somewhere under the surface and I was determined to find it.

So I did what any responsible adult would do. I started to play more and I went to as many live music shows as I possibly could.

As a wildly hyper youngster, I spent my care-free childhood days dressed in outfits that weren't supposed to go together that I always paired with mismatched neon colored socks. Jumping as high as I could on my mini trampoline, sliding down my stairs on an old mattress, riding bikes all over town with the neighborhood kids, choreographing full on dance routines with my sister in my yard and doing other blissful kid-like fun activities was how I expressed myself.

As an adult, I wondered how I could add a little of that childlike freedom into my daily responsibilities. I allowed myself to play at festivals, but when I came home, it was like all the fun abruptly ended and the real life suckiness set in. What if singing in the shower, dressing up in a tutu and flower a crown when cleaning the house, and adding dance breaks in the bathroom stall at work were all doable solutions for my no-fun problem? I tried it and something very interesting started happening. Not only were my spirits lifted all around, but I found myself way more productive, motivated, successful, and abundant. Playing wasn't a selfish waste of time at all like I had originally thought because what my playtime did for me was to make me be playfully productive.

Growing up and being the innocent impressionable child I was, I was told many things by friends, family, and society, such as:

"You must work yourself to the bone to be successful."

"Work isn't supposed to be enjoyable; it's just something you must do."

"There's no time for fun now. If you can muster up the energy you can do it at night, on the weekends, and when you retire."

What I've found out through experiencing the world in my own unique way is that none of those things are true for me. When I started to rebel against the status quo, my world was rocked to the core, and everything I ever believed was challenged. You must work hard, that part is true, but instead of pushing against the resistance and eventually burning out, move toward the direction of the flow and allow the work to feel more effortless. Loving what you do and actually enjoying it, you'll have way more energy to put into it than if you hate it. That's the pathway that will lead you to true sustainable success. Don't wait until you're retired to have fun, because who knows if you'll make it to retirement anyway.

Going to shows are just as important to your health as drinking enough water is.

If you don't make time for activities that leave you feeling good a priority in your life, eventually, over time, you'll hit rock bottom and get your bootylicious backside handed to you on a platter. Mine has been served to me on that platter so many times that I don't have enough fingers and toes to count them on.

Second grade, pretty bad. Abusive boyfriend in my twenties, crushing. Countless jobs that sucked the soul out of me, not fun. Professional dancer-ending physical injury, thought it was the end of the world. The silver lining is when you hit rock bottom, there's nowhere to go but up.

Even though I wish I could take you in my arms and protect you so you never have to experience any pain, I can't do that for you. My hope is that you take all the tools I give you in this book, put them into practice, and rock your life.

When your life is rockin, it may trigger some people in your life. Our culture doesn't really celebrate happiness and, because of this, most adults have a really hard time admitting that they desire to be (insert gasp here) happy. They'll easily give you sympathy when things go wrong and revel in the darkness with you. Even on your birthday, you'll get more likes on social media if you say how you had the worst day ever than if you tell everyone how awesome your life is.

On my Facebook page I found these words from a man I didn't know: "You really love yourself, huh?" followed by a rant about how self-centered, narcissistic, and arrogant I was. Second guessing myself and my awesomeness, I thought, "No I don't! I'm not that great." But then I heard my mind chatter and what it was really saying and I didn't like it one bit. Actually, he was right. I really do love myself, and it's really sad that loving myself is looked at by our society as a negative thing. After I realized the truth, I responded, "Yes, I do love myself. Thank you for the reminder."

I end my emails with: The magic in me sees the magic in you. When you allow yourself to see the beauty in yourself, you allow others to see it in themselves too. If your light is hiding under a whole bunch of layers of gunk right now, let's make a pathway for your shine to get to the surface just like it did when you were a bright eyed baby. Along the journey, you're bound to hit a crossroad where you'll have to decide which way you want to go. With what I've laid out for you in this book, you'll have everything you need to choose the correct direction. Spoiler alert: Whichever way feels more alive, choose that one.

Note: Please read the following paragraph as if you're Prince reciting the introduction to his hit song, Let's Go Crazy.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called "life." Electric word, life. It means forever and that's a mighty long time, but I'm here to tell you, there's something else; the Sweet Life. A world of never ending happiness. You can always see the sun, day or night. So ditch your party pooper habits, you know the ones, Mr. Nothing-Ever-Goes-Right. And if anyone tries to bring you down,...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BalboaPress
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1504355946
• ISBN 13: 9781504355940
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 310
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