A LOVE SONG
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The Melodies in Motion™
Heart Centered Story
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These stories were created organically by Miss Jeannine on her Heart Centered Story weekly radio show. Although edited here for The Melodies in Motion Activities Manuals, these stories still hold the natural storytelling feel and should be read, understood and enjoyed as such! Organic storytelling is an ancient tradition that is still carried on today in homes across the world at bedtime and family moments. Talking to the children about the fun of telling stories and how we share our lives through story can be part of this activity as well!
Have the kids do an Art Activity while you read the story out loud. Keeping little hands busy often keeps their minds focused and little mouths quiet enough to hear the words!
LOVE SONG
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Sophia's Magic Hearts
Once upon a time there was a girl named Sophia. Now, Sophia was just an ordinary girl at an ordinary school in an ordinary neighborhood with an ordinary family with ordinary brothers and sisters and ordinary friends.
But there was one friend who went to Sophia's ordinary school. She was not ordinary. She was mean. Not like super bully mean. But just mean. She irritated Sophia to no end. Her name was Ellie.
Sophia could not figure out why Ellie was so mean. They used to be really, really good friends! A long time ago they were really good friends. In Preschool and Kindergarten they absolutely loved each other.
They would go to the park together and play on the monkey bars and swing on the swings. They would make little fairy houses in the flowerbeds in the backyard in her mother's garden. They did everything together. They shared their secrets together. They told stories together. And they even had sleepovers together sometimes!
They were the best of friends.
But then one day, Ellie decided she didn't want to be friends with Sofia anymore and she went off and started hanging around with other kids. She never told Sophia why. She just stopped being her friend. It hurts Sophia so bad! It felt like someone had punched her in the chest there was so much pain inside. It felt like her heart was broken and she didn't know why!
Every day at school Sophia had to see Ellie. Ellie would sit with the other kids and talk to them and laugh with them and Sophia would just sit in the corner and stare.
The more she stared, the angrier she got. The angrier she got the more sad she got and the sadder she got the more her heart hurt. The more her heart hurt the sadder she got, and the sadder she got the angrier she got! It was a vicious cycle.
She would give Ellie and the other kids glaring angry looks hoping they would feel the hurt in their hearts that she felt in hers. But she didn't even know why she was hurting so bad or why Ellie had left their friendship.
All she knew is she wanted them to hurt because she was hurt.
Before you know it Sophia was acting out, making angry grunting noises when she walked by them and rolling her eyes. Her friend Ellie would just laugh with the other kids. Ha- ha- ha. It made Sophia so angry she just wanted to shoot lightning bolts out of her eyes at them!
She couldn't do it though. So she just gave them the dirtiest look she could and turned around and walked away.
Then one day her friend Ellie moved away. Her friend move far, far away. Sophia didn't see her anymore. Every day Sophia missed her so bad, but she hated her so much too! It was all very confusing.
Sophia was still so angry at her so she would still try to shoot those lightning bolts out of her eyes at Ellie across the miles to the new neighborhood where she imagined Ellie was making new friends without her.
Every day Sophia would sulk in the classroom. On the way home from school she would kick rocks and hit the fence and pout and stick her bottom lip out. She was so mad! She started being mean to her brothers and sisters and her other friends. She even told her mom that she didn't like her anymore! Sophia's heart which had been so beautiful before was suddenly turning dark and sad. It just really, really hurt all day long. And she had no idea what to do about it.
Then one day she was on the playground by herself sulking in her doom and gloom, angry at herself, angry at the world, scared, sad, and all alone and someone came up and put their arm around her. It was a new girl. Sophia turned and looked at this new girl. (By this time everyone was leaving her alone at the playground at school and even at home because she was so grouchy and in a bad mood all the time.)
But here this girl was, with little pigtails and a smile on her face, putting her arm around Sophia.
“Why did you do that?” Sophia asked her. She wasn't sure whether to feel happy or to feel mad, or what to feel!
The new girl simply said. “You look like you could use a hug.”
“Sometimes,” said the new girl. “We just need a hug. Sometimes we just need some hearts thrown at us.”
“Some hearts thrown at us?” Sophia asked.
“Yep.” said the new girl. “My name is V. And I love throwing hearts!”
“Why are you throwing hearts?” said Sophia. Right now she thought this girls kind of nutty. Here she is, she comes over to me, when everyone else is scared of me and she gives me a hug and tells me about throwing hearts? It seems silly!
But V was serious.
“What do you mean you can throw hearts?” said Sophia again, looking down at the ground to avoid feeling uncomfortable as the new girl talked so openly with her.
“Well,” she said. “I can tell by the look on your face that you are very sad and scared.”
“I'm not scared.” said Sophia looking up and right at V defiantly. “I'm angry! I'm angry because my friend left me alone and became friends with other kids and then move far away and she didn't even say goodbye and she doesn't even like me anymore and I am angry! And my heart hurts.”
And that was when Sophia started to cry.
“See?” said the new girl. “Anger comes from the sad place. That's when our heart hurts. And when I'm sad,” said the new girl. “I throw hearts!”
“I still don't know what you mean by that.” said Sophia in between her tears.
“Well,” said V. “You know how in school today, when you were trying to throw lightning bolts out of your eyes at the kids across the way?”
“Yeeeeeaaaah.” said Sophia, unaware anyone had noticed, wiping away the tears from her eyes.
“Well,” instead of throwing lightning bolts,” said V. “You can throw hearts!”
“But, why would I want to throw hearts?” said Sophia. “They are the ones that took my friend away. I hate them!”
“The hearts aren't for them,” said V. “The hearts are for you.”
“When we throw hearts from the heart,” said V. “It helps our heart feel better. You can make all those yucky feelings go away. It helps us to forgive. Forgiveness is not about the other person. It's to help our hearts feel better.”
Sophia was beginning to think this girl is a little off her rocker. But you know, maybe it wouldn't hurt to try, she thought.
So that night when she was laying in bed and feeling so sad, she closed her eyes and instead of trying to throw lightning bolts all the way over to her friend Ellie, she threw hearts instead.
She took a deep breath and focused on her heart like V showed her and she began to shoot hearts right out of her chest! Using her imagination she could see hearts coming out and going all the way across the yard, all the way through space, and all the way to where Ellie lived at her new home. Those hearts traveled all the way to Ellie's bedroom where Ellie was sitting there feeling scared and alone because she was at a new school with no friends and was really missing her friend Sophia.
And in that very moment sitting all alone in her room, Ellie suddenly felt love. It made her so happy and so sad at the same time! She really missed her old friend Sophia.
The very next day Ellie decided to have her mom call Sophia's house.
When Sophia home from school her mom said, “Sophia! Someone's on the phone for you. Your friend Ellie would like to come over and play.”
“Ellie? But I'm mad at her. Aren't I?” thought Sophia.
The truth was that Sophia’s heart didn’t feel mad anymore. It didn't feel brown and black and broken and torn into pieces like glass shards. It felt good. And she really really wanted to see her friend Ellie.
The very next day her friend Ellie came over. She ran right up to Sophia, threw her arms around her neck and said “I love you Sophia! I love you and miss you so much. I'm so sorry for what I did. I just wanted the cool kids to like me and I didn't know that I hurt you so bad. But I missed you so much. Can we still be friends?”
Sophia looked into her heart that was now overflowing filled with hearts and said “Yep! I think I'm ready.”
And they hugged and played fairies together and got berries from the garden. Sometimes Sophia’s new friend V came over and they would all play together on the playground, surrounded with love and shooting hearts. And it is said that on a clear day if you looked just right at the girls playing all together you could actually see heart bubbles swirling around their heads.
©2015 Jeannine Proulx
Heart Centered Story
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These stories were created organically by Miss Jeannine on her Heart Centered Story weekly radio show. Although edited here for The Melodies in Motion Activities Manuals, these stories still hold the natural storytelling feel and should be read, understood and enjoyed as such! Organic storytelling is an ancient tradition that is still carried on today in homes across the world at bedtime and family moments. Talking to the children about the fun of telling stories and how we share our lives through story can be part of this activity as well!
Have the kids do an Art Activity while you read the story out loud. Keeping little hands busy often keeps their minds focused and little mouths quiet enough to hear the words!
LOVE SONG
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Sophia's Magic Hearts
Once upon a time there was a girl named Sophia. Now, Sophia was just an ordinary girl at an ordinary school in an ordinary neighborhood with an ordinary family with ordinary brothers and sisters and ordinary friends.
But there was one friend who went to Sophia's ordinary school. She was not ordinary. She was mean. Not like super bully mean. But just mean. She irritated Sophia to no end. Her name was Ellie.
Sophia could not figure out why Ellie was so mean. They used to be really, really good friends! A long time ago they were really good friends. In Preschool and Kindergarten they absolutely loved each other.
They would go to the park together and play on the monkey bars and swing on the swings. They would make little fairy houses in the flowerbeds in the backyard in her mother's garden. They did everything together. They shared their secrets together. They told stories together. And they even had sleepovers together sometimes!
They were the best of friends.
But then one day, Ellie decided she didn't want to be friends with Sofia anymore and she went off and started hanging around with other kids. She never told Sophia why. She just stopped being her friend. It hurts Sophia so bad! It felt like someone had punched her in the chest there was so much pain inside. It felt like her heart was broken and she didn't know why!
Every day at school Sophia had to see Ellie. Ellie would sit with the other kids and talk to them and laugh with them and Sophia would just sit in the corner and stare.
The more she stared, the angrier she got. The angrier she got the more sad she got and the sadder she got the more her heart hurt. The more her heart hurt the sadder she got, and the sadder she got the angrier she got! It was a vicious cycle.
She would give Ellie and the other kids glaring angry looks hoping they would feel the hurt in their hearts that she felt in hers. But she didn't even know why she was hurting so bad or why Ellie had left their friendship.
All she knew is she wanted them to hurt because she was hurt.
Before you know it Sophia was acting out, making angry grunting noises when she walked by them and rolling her eyes. Her friend Ellie would just laugh with the other kids. Ha- ha- ha. It made Sophia so angry she just wanted to shoot lightning bolts out of her eyes at them!
She couldn't do it though. So she just gave them the dirtiest look she could and turned around and walked away.
Then one day her friend Ellie moved away. Her friend move far, far away. Sophia didn't see her anymore. Every day Sophia missed her so bad, but she hated her so much too! It was all very confusing.
Sophia was still so angry at her so she would still try to shoot those lightning bolts out of her eyes at Ellie across the miles to the new neighborhood where she imagined Ellie was making new friends without her.
Every day Sophia would sulk in the classroom. On the way home from school she would kick rocks and hit the fence and pout and stick her bottom lip out. She was so mad! She started being mean to her brothers and sisters and her other friends. She even told her mom that she didn't like her anymore! Sophia's heart which had been so beautiful before was suddenly turning dark and sad. It just really, really hurt all day long. And she had no idea what to do about it.
Then one day she was on the playground by herself sulking in her doom and gloom, angry at herself, angry at the world, scared, sad, and all alone and someone came up and put their arm around her. It was a new girl. Sophia turned and looked at this new girl. (By this time everyone was leaving her alone at the playground at school and even at home because she was so grouchy and in a bad mood all the time.)
But here this girl was, with little pigtails and a smile on her face, putting her arm around Sophia.
“Why did you do that?” Sophia asked her. She wasn't sure whether to feel happy or to feel mad, or what to feel!
The new girl simply said. “You look like you could use a hug.”
“Sometimes,” said the new girl. “We just need a hug. Sometimes we just need some hearts thrown at us.”
“Some hearts thrown at us?” Sophia asked.
“Yep.” said the new girl. “My name is V. And I love throwing hearts!”
“Why are you throwing hearts?” said Sophia. Right now she thought this girls kind of nutty. Here she is, she comes over to me, when everyone else is scared of me and she gives me a hug and tells me about throwing hearts? It seems silly!
But V was serious.
“What do you mean you can throw hearts?” said Sophia again, looking down at the ground to avoid feeling uncomfortable as the new girl talked so openly with her.
“Well,” she said. “I can tell by the look on your face that you are very sad and scared.”
“I'm not scared.” said Sophia looking up and right at V defiantly. “I'm angry! I'm angry because my friend left me alone and became friends with other kids and then move far away and she didn't even say goodbye and she doesn't even like me anymore and I am angry! And my heart hurts.”
And that was when Sophia started to cry.
“See?” said the new girl. “Anger comes from the sad place. That's when our heart hurts. And when I'm sad,” said the new girl. “I throw hearts!”
“I still don't know what you mean by that.” said Sophia in between her tears.
“Well,” said V. “You know how in school today, when you were trying to throw lightning bolts out of your eyes at the kids across the way?”
“Yeeeeeaaaah.” said Sophia, unaware anyone had noticed, wiping away the tears from her eyes.
“Well,” instead of throwing lightning bolts,” said V. “You can throw hearts!”
“But, why would I want to throw hearts?” said Sophia. “They are the ones that took my friend away. I hate them!”
“The hearts aren't for them,” said V. “The hearts are for you.”
“When we throw hearts from the heart,” said V. “It helps our heart feel better. You can make all those yucky feelings go away. It helps us to forgive. Forgiveness is not about the other person. It's to help our hearts feel better.”
Sophia was beginning to think this girl is a little off her rocker. But you know, maybe it wouldn't hurt to try, she thought.
So that night when she was laying in bed and feeling so sad, she closed her eyes and instead of trying to throw lightning bolts all the way over to her friend Ellie, she threw hearts instead.
She took a deep breath and focused on her heart like V showed her and she began to shoot hearts right out of her chest! Using her imagination she could see hearts coming out and going all the way across the yard, all the way through space, and all the way to where Ellie lived at her new home. Those hearts traveled all the way to Ellie's bedroom where Ellie was sitting there feeling scared and alone because she was at a new school with no friends and was really missing her friend Sophia.
And in that very moment sitting all alone in her room, Ellie suddenly felt love. It made her so happy and so sad at the same time! She really missed her old friend Sophia.
The very next day Ellie decided to have her mom call Sophia's house.
When Sophia home from school her mom said, “Sophia! Someone's on the phone for you. Your friend Ellie would like to come over and play.”
“Ellie? But I'm mad at her. Aren't I?” thought Sophia.
The truth was that Sophia’s heart didn’t feel mad anymore. It didn't feel brown and black and broken and torn into pieces like glass shards. It felt good. And she really really wanted to see her friend Ellie.
The very next day her friend Ellie came over. She ran right up to Sophia, threw her arms around her neck and said “I love you Sophia! I love you and miss you so much. I'm so sorry for what I did. I just wanted the cool kids to like me and I didn't know that I hurt you so bad. But I missed you so much. Can we still be friends?”
Sophia looked into her heart that was now overflowing filled with hearts and said “Yep! I think I'm ready.”
And they hugged and played fairies together and got berries from the garden. Sometimes Sophia’s new friend V came over and they would all play together on the playground, surrounded with love and shooting hearts. And it is said that on a clear day if you looked just right at the girls playing all together you could actually see heart bubbles swirling around their heads.
©2015 Jeannine Proulx