Anticipation
Dare to Dream
The Guess-stational Phase
Participation
The Dream Emerges
The Gestational Phase
Transformation
Living the Dream
The Relational Phase
Imagine the world as a vast kitchen, where each culture, spiritual tradition, and intellectual pursuit offers its own unique ingredients—some sweet, some bitter, some soothing, others invigorating. These are the ancient herbs of wisdom, each holding secrets of healing, guidance, and growth. The mortar and pestle, timeless tools found in every corner of the globe, symbolize the respectful and deliberate process of bringing these diverse elements together.
Since its inception in 2016, MedicineSinging™ has evolved from a simple platform focused on mental health and spiritual support into something much more profound. What began as a space for personal reflection and healing has transformed into a dynamic process of blending the world’s cultural, spiritual, and intellectual traditions. This evolution mirrors the action of grinding herbs in a mortar—an act that requires patience, care, and an understanding of each ingredient’s unique properties. Rather than diminishing the distinctiveness of these traditions, this process enhances their strengths, creating a rich, balanced elixir of collective wisdom—a potent medicine for the soul, mind, and body.
But healing, like wisdom, is not static. It is a process—one that moves through distinct phases:
These three phases serve as gateways, guiding you toward deeper engagement. Through Anticipation, we explore meaning and purpose, learning how to shift from pathology to possibility. Participation leads us into action, offering stories of courage and resources for mental health. Transformation reminds us that wisdom and healing are shared journeys, never owned but continually unfolding.
Each of these phases is a call to action—a step forward in the sacred process of blending wisdom, healing, and renewal.
Through MedicineSinging™, we invite you to join in this timeless alchemy, to bring your voice, your experiences, and your dreams into the fold, blending the wisdoms of the world into a medicine that nourishes and sustains us all.
Anticipation
Dare to Dream
The Guess-stational Phase
Transformation
Living the Dream
The Relational Phase
Good Medicine: MedicineSinging
Stephen W. Emerick
©2025
Music, dance, the pulse of vocables…
the rhythm of drumming – the fluidity of the flute…
like a good poem…
they move the body…
and the body moved, become
the songs and stories of our lives.
You and me! Choreographers!
of the songs we sing… the chords we play-
the dances we dance… the stories that we tell,
the silence when all sounds are muted-
these become the way we move,
and the way we move others.
Even now as we meet it beats sixty to one hundred times a minute –
Isn’t it sweet that the entire group of us become a complete fleet as we
gather to greet feet tapping to the beat of the Juke box of the heart that
got its start before we were born or our hair was ever shorn, we were given
…the four chambers of the heart of MedicineSinging:
…Sacred Waters, Sacred Breath, Sacred Species and Sites, and Sacred Stories
Let us make a sworn covenant on this day: To listen to our hearts
and its words. To feel our bodies dance, sing its songs and
listen to its silences… embedded stories – mine…yours…ours –
our ancestors! Flowing here within these bodies of water…
…this is the sacred Nature of Life,
…this is the embodiment of the Inner Voice, the Inner light…
It is the rhythm
of the Heart of MedicineSinging.
Stephen is a Poet, Spiritual Counselor, and a Custodian of Human Stories. He has served as a Counselor, Pastoral Counselor and/or Psychologist for over forty years. He resides in Centerville, Ohio, USA. His educational background includes graduate degrees in:
“Breaking through dogma and doctrine so that we
may humbly dialogue with others even though we
each are wounded, and with dialogue and
transformation, find wisdom.”
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