The title of this blog post is the name of a playlist I have on Spotify. Most of the music on there is from the movie Interstellar.
The music I have on there is what I use to write things that are difficult. It honors the hope, the purpose, the drive, to keep moving, to keep going, to keep trying, no matter what. Even when it's hard, even when it feels hopeless.
Because when you feel hopeless is exactly when you need to feel hope, just enough hope, to take one more step, to go farther, to do that hard thing anyway. Like in the anime My Hero Academia. You go full on "plus ultra!" to do the impossible.
I love the music I have on that list. It honors the fear and the struggle, it doesn't hide from it, but at the same time, it is courage, because it says, YES, I see you, I feel you, and we are doing this anyway.
I always start with the first piece on the list. Echo by Big Giant Circles. That is a song that I can be swept away by the sound of hope, saromei, and then, then I can work. I can write my oracle cards, the project where the emotional labor is intense, a lot of shadow work comes up for me.
I hope you enjoy the playlist. ^__^
I hope you are inspired to make your own instrumental comfort playlist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0PCk3GpvYcPaTexnph8v5B?si=mRybRB_YRa--HoHvUPXXUw
