Meet Laura Faeth, author, audacious creator and rock and roll lover music lover.
1. Laura, thank you for being a guest on Creativity Shifts. Tell us about yourself. Let’s start with the name of your business and/or website.
My company is called Sound of Your Soul and my website is www.soundofyoursoul.com. The site features information about my book, I Found All the Parts: Healing the Soul through Rock ‘n’ Roll, which chronicles my spiritual awakening with a famous rock band. The website also offers an extensive glossary of spiritual and metaphysical terms used in my book, as well as links to the intuitive featured in I Found All the Parts.
2. What are your deepest desires for personal growth and how do they impact your professional life?
My deepest desires for personal growth include awakening to my true spiritual self and being able to live in that higher state of consciousness indefinitely. Since my book focuses on my awakening with a rock band, the desire to awakening others, especially music fans, has become my life’s mission. All of my work revolves around helping others, as I say in my book, WAKE THE BLEEP UP!
3. Choose one word that represents the ‘theme’ of your life.
Discovery.
4. What are the values that are important to you in your business?
It’s important that I remain in integrity and reach out to others with sincerity. It’s hard not to get caught up in the mentality of “I’ve got to sell my book” at times, because I’ve spent so much time, energy and moolah creating it. Instead, I want to trust that the law of attraction will draw people to my work so that I can drop into an authentic place and just be real.
5. What is the essence of who you are and how is that essence expressed through your unique gifts?
I think the essence of who I am is enthusiasm. I’m usually enthusiastic about not only my work, but it’s fun being a cheerleader for others as well. I want everyone to win. I express that through a non-judgmental attitude and by offering emotional support when I can or when it’s appropriate. No matter how bleak one’s life seems, I hold a vision that they are whole and complete, and their life can change when their perspective shifts.
6. What are you willing to devote your life to?
I am willing to devote my life to the awakening of humanity (especially rock fans) to their divine nature. Sometimes I feel like no one in the rock community will ever see value in what I say or write, but it doesn’t matter. My life’s mission is to maintain a space of openness for all people to remember their spiritual essence.
7. What are the different ways you connect to those who would be attracted to your unique offering?
I author and run several blogs, one about music and spirituality www.rocknreincarnation.com, the other on the creative process, called www.culturalcreativesblog.com, as well as my own website mentioned above. I’m also getting into video taping creative people I know and putting their story up on YouTube.
I’d like to start doing seminars and workshops on music and spirituality, but I haven’t quite figured out yet how to share my information. I hope to attract a group of professionals from different disciplines (sound healing, counseling, body workers etc.) to create these workshops so that our different areas of expertise can hopefully impact attendees on a deep level.
8. If you could create one change in the world, what would it be?
I’d discover a way alter people’s brainwaves so that they could easily access transcendent states and recall their past lives. Maybe that would help eliminate religious warfare and prejudice if everyone knew that they were connected to everything else, and that they are truly an eternal consciousness, not just a physical body.
9. What metaphor can you think of that generates the feelings, images, and sounds of your own life story?
I’d say going on the Hero’s Journey reflects the story of my life. Despite a rock concert appearing very hedonistic to some, for me it became a place to access my spiritual side. Music is often synonymous with God since God (or All That Is) is vibration (at least that’s what I discovered on my journey). So my life-long pursuit of finding God (which is a primary task of the Hero) was actually uncovered at rock concerts because that’s where I discovered aspects of my psyche which had been hidden from me. A rock band reflected back to me the parts of myself I couldn’t see, and their music helped me face my shadow’s fears and heal from my childhood wounding.
The Hero’s Journey doesn’t have to focus on mythical characters going to a far away land in order to bring back a boon to society. Our modern environment provides plenty of opportunities to go on a journey of self-discovery.
10. Is there any other important information you’d like to add?
The night of my spiritual awakening, my life changed forever. I’d like to start a project interviewing people who have had a powerful, life altering spiritual experience with (or without) modern music so that we can share our insights with the world. Please email me at laura@soundofyoursoul.com if you’d like to connect.
Thank you, Laura.
