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Therapeutic Card Set

My harp therapy teacher created a set of music cards with 110 songs. They are small, easy to use and very portable. [...]

Therapeutic Card SetTami Briggs2025-06-24T11:02:02-05:00

Solstice Peace Meditation

You are invited to attend a Solstice Peace Meditation (summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and winter solstice in the southern hemisphere). [...]

Solstice Peace MeditationTami Briggs2025-06-10T10:57:25-05:00

Summer Opening

In Minnesota, this past weekend is called the Memorial Day holiday. It is really the opening of summer! Many people go to [...]

Summer OpeningTami Briggs2025-05-27T12:39:36-05:00

14-String PeaceHarp

I’m SO excited to be the new owner of a 14-string PeaceHarp! JoEllen Knight makes both the 12-string and 14-string PeaceHarps. Her [...]

14-String PeaceHarpTami Briggs2025-05-13T11:57:02-05:00

A Book Review: “On Horse and Harp”

On Facebook, I saw a book called “On Horse and Harp” written by harpist, Glenda Underhill. After purchasing it, I wrote a [...]

A Book Review: “On Horse and Harp”Tami Briggs2025-04-01T10:08:34-05:00

Interlude Program

In October 2022, I was asked to speak and play for the Interlude Music Program of Hospice of Cabarrus County, North Carolina. [...]

Interlude ProgramTami Briggs2025-03-18T10:44:32-05:00

A Book Review: “The Golden Future”

Recently, a friend suggested reading “The Golden Future” book by Diana Cooper. Oh my! It is a really interesting, thought-provoking read!! If [...]

A Book Review: “The Golden Future”Tami Briggs2025-03-04T11:04:33-06:00

Light Body Alignment

I spent quite a bit of time in 2024 learning a new healing technique called Light Body Alignment. Once I completed the [...]

Light Body AlignmentTami Briggs2025-02-18T11:26:18-06:00

Presenting at the United Nation’s Commission on Status of Women

I am excited to share I’ll be presenting at the 2025 United Nation’s Commission on Status of Women on March 12th at [...]

Presenting at the United Nation’s Commission on Status of WomenTami Briggs2025-02-04T08:07:37-06:00

Holding the Light for These Precarious Times

Yesterday was the Inauguration of the U.S. President of the next four years. I want to share a vision I had two [...]

Holding the Light for These Precarious TimesTami Briggs2025-01-21T10:26:33-06:00

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“Through vibration, harmony, tone, melody and meaning, music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality.”

Barbara Marx Hubbard

“Surrounded by the right sounds, we all can be invigorated, energized, and balanced. It has been demonstrated clinically that music adds to our general health and well-being.”

John Diamond

“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.”

Charlie Parker

“The more we cultivate great music in our lives, the greater will be our attunement to unlimited sources of the Creator’s power and direction.”

Hal A. Lingerman

“Music is God’s best gift to [humans], the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth that we take to heaven.”

Charles W. Landon

“Music has been called the speech of angels.”

Charles Kingsley

“Music is the answer to the mystery of life; it is the most profound of all the arts; it expresses the deepest thoughts of life and being; a simple language which nonetheless cannot be translated.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“…the time is fast approaching when Man will select his music with the same intelligent care and knowledge he now uses to select his food. When that time comes, music will become a principal source of healing for many individual and social ills, and human evolution will be tremendously accelerated.”

Corinne Helene

“The human being is essentially sound, vibrations, and melody.…”

Holger Kalweit

“Music is an extremely important instrument of the Divine.”

“Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible.”

Charles Munch

“Seek out a wise player on a harp: and it shall come to pass…that he shall play with his hand and thou shalt be well.”

I Samuel 16:16

“Music is the soundtrack of your life.”

Dick Clark

“David took a harp, and played with his hand: and Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.”

1 Samuel 16:23

“I am Music….Even before life began upon this earth, I was here—in the winds and the waves….And when Man came, I at once became the most delicate, most subtle, and most powerful medium for the expression of Man’s emotions….For I speak to all men, in a language that all understand….I am the food of love. I have taught men gentleness and peace. I comfort the lonely. I am a necessary luxury to all men.”

Anonymous

“Art is more than important—it is central to how we see ourselves, what we believe about ourselves, and how we present ourselves to each other.”

Bill Ivey

“Music speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls.”

“Music touches our innermost being and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man’s life.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan