Soaking for Biblical Stress Management
In the new videos, I am so grateful to be able to use the music from Seasons of Life by Inspire Life Productions. WholyFit is all about the music. As a worship leader for over 30 years, my desire is to bring what I call “The Music of Heaven” to earth. I look for a certain genre, a certain “sound” in music that I can’t explain but i know it when i hear it. - and whenever i hear music that I relate to as “The Music of Heaven” I make it a point to help others hear it. I call this “bringing the music of heaven to earth”. This is the kind of music I use for WholyFit.
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So the Seasons of Life music and the SlowFlo Music is not just background for our an exercise DVD, rather the music is the avenue that the Holy Spirit flows through to renew, restore and heal. Music reaches parts of our spirits that nothing else can. I chose each song specifically for each part of the WholyFit routines in the videos to go with the movements, mood, Scripture and worship expression. I asked the Lord to Himself choose each song. I believe He did because as you watch the video, the movements seem to have been choreographed to the music (even though all was independently created.)
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Why is the music so important to WholyFit?
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WholyFit Teachers use a soaking technique to help people with stress. We “soak” our class participants in Scripture, praise and worship while they exercise. We call it “washing in the Word”.
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As WholyFit participants exercise, teachers speak a “Scripture Script” over them for at least 6 weeks till the participants have memorized it and the Scripture has given them a revelation experience allowing them to apply it, “eat it” and assimilate it into their spirits. The Scripture renews their minds and because they are also moving to the Scripture, I feel the Scripture even gets into the very cells of their bodies and is physically healing. The exercises act out the Scriptures or express worship to God like worship dance.
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In the new DVDs we detirmined to limit the narration and emphasize the “Selah” pauses and the “soaking” of Scripture. In this way we emphasized Biblical meditation and the worship experience.
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Video 1: Basics
Scripture Scripts: Fruit of the Spirit, Living Sacrifice and Crucified with Christ.
HOPE CD was mostly used.
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In the soundtrack, there is exercise instruction narrated on top of the music as well as the Scriptures being spoken. It turned out beautifully.
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Video 2: Intermediate
Scipture Script: Psalm 63
PASSION CD was mostly used
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I had a problem in this video because the Scripture Scripts were really long. When the DVD was done, the overall effect was chaotic because I had chosen songs that were very strong to go with the theme of Ps 63 - the longing of the soul for God.
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So we went back and re-worked the narration and text.
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* I eliminated the written text on the screen that we usually have.
* I also eliminated the spoken Scripture Scripts because the teaching, spoken Scriptures and music competed.
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But what about the Scripture? I prayed and struggled. That’s when I started hearing - what we have come to call - “The Psalm 63 Angels.” I began “hearing” (in my spirit) the Scriptures coming right out of the music. I imagine that this is what the angels sing to this music. So….
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* Instead of speaking the Soaking Scripture, I sang it. You’ll hear what we have come to call “The Psalm 63 Angels” the first 17 minutes of the video singing the Scriptures in the background with the music.
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Singing the Scripture instead of narrating it gave a very unified, peaceful effect that is a wonderful soaking worship experience. When you hear it let me know what you think.
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I really feel that the music on these videos will bring people into a heavenly place of stress relief, and healing for mind, body and spirit through soaking worship and mediation on Scripture.
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In Jesus,
Laura