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How Music Can Affect You and Your Creativity Music can skyrocket your:
Anything you want is a goal. Music can align those parts (or interfere with them). Just as your car runs more smoothly after a tune up, music can tune you up so your life runs more efficiently.
Let's see how music can affect each part of you.
Music is a powerful force. It can affect you physically,
emotionally, mentally and spiritually, and you can use it as a connector
to universal wisdom.
I first noticed its physical effects when I was producing sound tracks
for radio, TV and film.
One day in the studio I felt a disturbing pressure in my heart area.
I suspected a bass drum sound so I asked the recording engineer to reduce
certain frequencies.
When he did, the discomfort left.
Disruptive
Sounds
David Tame in The Secret Power of Music, writes: (p. 138)
Sound
Moves Matter Beneficial
Sounds
Can music affect you beneficially? Here's a striking example:
Music can be disruptive, beneficial, or do nothing at all. What's in
the music you listen to?
How
Music Can Affect You Mentally Music
Helps a Lost Soul
Back in the 1950's there was a short overweight woman in a hospital
for chronic schizophrenics.
She lived in a locked, concrete enclosure, like an animal in a zoo --
one of 200 incurables. Many had been hospitalized for over 40 years.
They sat all day, doing nothing. Perhaps they were waiting to die.
One day someone donated an old piano. The woman wandered to the bench,
sat, and haltingly struck at the keys. The doctor on call listened to
the notes. Random. Disjointed. Then he suddenly realized she was playing
a Beethoven piano Sonata, very very slowly.
Over time, she played all 32 Beethoven Sonatas, in order, with increasing
fluidity. After that, she went home, never to return.
Music
Saves a Life
When a Chicago man was about to commit suicide a therapist played him
some music. The therapist later told a musician:
Music
Speaks to You on Many Levels
Music is a language that speaks to you on many
levels.
When a friend played harp in a hospital room, 3 or the 4 patients began
to smile. The 4th man was in a coma. "I wonder if somehow he too hears
the music?" she thought.
A while later she glanced over at the coma patient and noticed his toe
moving under the covers to the beat of the music. At some level, the
music reached even him!
The
Hollow Bone Effect - Your Endless Source of Creativity Inside
you is an endless source of creativity. And you can activate it with
the Hollow Bone Effect.
A Lakota Medicine Man once told a student about this source:
"To
be a great healer become like a hollow bone. Then spirit can come through
you and give the person what they need, instead of what you might think
they need."
A similar thing happens when a musician connects with a universal creative
current. He doesn't direct it but simply says: "I want to be of service
to my fellow human beings."
You, as a listener, can then use that music to tap into the same creative
current and access abilities you don't normally use.
What happens when you use the Hollow Bone Effect?
The
following story shows what can happen when you trust the universe to
give you NEW solutions and answers:
Bill Mann is a guitarist/singer who played for Alzheimer's patients.
Since many didn't know who they were, where they were, or even how to
eat, Bill could not entertain in the normal way. So he used a Hollow
Bone attitude.
First, he rid himself of preconceived notions that no one would be able
to hear or understand his playing. Second, since there were few outward
signs of anyone "being there," he played to soul, to the inner part
of them.
Some interesting things happened:
"Relatives
came up to me afterwards and said: 'my mother or father hasn't been
this lucid in years. She or he was singing along with you. I don't
know what you did but thank you.' And I didn't know how to tell them
that I didn't really do anything. I just opened myself up, and this
love, spirit, God, or whatever you want to call it came through, and
built a bridge. And that bridge helped people 'come out' so we could
have an exchange." What
is a Hollow Bone Musician? A
Hollow Bone musician empties himself of ego so he can create music that
best serves the listener. Richard Lawrence, a violinist who played with
the BBC Orchestra says the great composer Brahms had this ability:
Joshua
Leeds, author of the Power of Sound
says:
Dr. John Diamond, an Australian M.D., has tested music's effects for
over 35 years. In his tape The Role of Music in Enhancing Life Energy
he says:
An
Experiment With Beneficial Intent
I experimented with intent at a house concert in Seattle. A guitar player
had been in a car accident and asked us to excuse his playing because
his neck hurt. When it came time for me to perform I played piano for
his neck, using the Hollow Bone attitude. In other words, if the music
would help, fine. If not, it was just nice music. (Perhaps he needed
the neck experience for some reason and I was not going to interfere
with that need. I simply played for his highest good, without expectation.
At an intermission, I asked him if anything had changed. He told me
he had much greater range of movement.
Intent
in Painting and Cooking
In China there's a whole method of painting (Qi Gong painting) where
the artist paints with a beneficial intent so that people viewing the
finished painting receive beneficial life energy from it.
Intent is also well known to professional cooks. One chef at an upscale
restaurant told his assistant:
Another cook agreed. He said:
Hollow
Bone Music can be many different styles - country, classical, light
rock, new age, light jazz, semi-classical, etc. or even a combination
of styles. The important thing is that the musician connects to the
great creative current that sustains us all, and that he acts as a hollow
bone or conduit for its beneficial effects. When that happens, you as
a listener are also able to tap into that creative current and get from
it whatever you need.
Hollow
Bone music has:
Using Music to Get Clarity/Music with “Movement” – Exercise 1 Music that has movement takes you out of a left-brain mode - where stuck thoughts can endlessly repeat - and allows your right-brain intuitive abilities to find surprising solutions and ideas. When your attention follows the movement in music, the music acts like white noise to counter mental clutter that accumulates during the day. As you listen, follow any changes, so your mind can move from confusion to clarity. Does the melody move up/down? Does one instrument suddenly take over the melody from another? Does a certain instrument texture remind you of anything - a bouncy feeling, a joyful feeling, a picture of something? Does the music get softer/louder? Slow down/speed up? What images come to mind? When the music ends, sit quietly for a few moments, and your intuitive side will give you surprising insights for your well-being. Jot down whatever occurs to you without judgments or analysis. Wait ½ hour, then read what you wrote so your logical side can see it. At that point, write down anything else that occurs to you. Awareness of Life Energy – Exercise 2 Explore
the following: Do you feel better in the company of certain people?
Do others drain you of energy? Are you more comfortable in certain environments
than others? Why? As you listen to a piece, are you uplifted? Agitated? Is your breathing relaxed or suddenly shallow? Does it affect your thoughts? Emotions? Evoke images? Is the music great for dancing but not ideas? Vice versa? Both? How do you think the composer felt as he/she wrote the music? Begin to sense what kind of music feeds you best. Do you want to speed up or slow down? Pick music for the mood you want. What does rhythmic music do compared to music without rhythm? Experiment. This will give you new ears. Have you ever heard the same piece played by two different groups, and one felt great while the other left you cold? What was the difference? The music was the same. The instruments were the same. Were
the musicians playing to impress you? Or were they simply being themselves,
allowing the music to play through them to you, in order to give you
something? As you improve your life energy awareness, your communication will change. When someone talks to you, practice listening to their "song," rather than just their words: You are an orchestra of atoms that whirl in harmony and rhythm. As such, you constantly vibrate and "sing" to the people around you. And they to you. Take time to listen to their songs.
Then they'll take the time to listen to yours! If you think there's ONLY one way to do something, you'll ignore other ways that might be easier, better, cheaper and more satisfying. To change your normal thinking mode let music tell you a story. For this exercise, ask yourself a question (what do you want to know?). Then listen to music with the intent that it will tell you a helpful story. The story will be in pictures and symbols, not words. Flow with it and see where it takes you. An example: I was overwhelmed, and afraid of an approaching situation. I put on some music and almost immediately "saw" a large bear. It was frightening but something told me to get on its back and ride it. So I did. As the bear whipped through the forest, the fear turned into an adventure. And that was the message for me: to ride out my situation as if it were an adventure and look for the nice surprises from it. The music helped me change paralyzing fear into calm expectancy. Using Your Imagination Activating your imagination is so important that Einstein said: "Imagination is more important than knowledge." He first logically considered what he wanted to know, then threw all caution to the wind and imagined he could talk to a light beam. The insights he got led him to discover his theory of relativity. Your imagination is like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the easier it is to use. Use it enough and it will start to show you choices you never considered before. Hollow Bone Music Recommendations For most of my life I have followed the Hollow Bone principles. Because when I do, surprising and wonderful things happen. In this e-book, I’ve given you
those same principles, so your life can become richer and more fulfilling.
Dr. Bach’s remedies have stood the test of time – over 70 years of successful use. I believe it was because of his loving, healing intent. Just as a healer’s intent goes into his healing, a musician’s intent is infused in his music. When a musician composes and plays with love that has no conditions attached (acts as a hollow bone), the listener can use that music to connect with his own inner needs. Because the music produces an environment that allows that to happen. I have seen how both autistic and paraplegic kids relate to that kind of environment, when little else makes sense to them. I studied the effects of music for over 15 years, and combined that study with alternative healing. The result is 38 music pieces that correspond to Dr. Bach’s 38 remedies. The Bach Flower Music was done with love. To give you an environment that is freeing, so you can heal such things as your emotions, finances, relationships, and tap into your innate inner wisdom. I offer you the Bach Flower Music Kit, to give you that environment. Order a Bach Flower Music Kit
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