Re: Math and Religion


"No Busking" <nobusking@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> George wrote:
>
> Just to be clear...I'm NOT talking about a belief in God (or lack thereof)
> with the religion reference here.
>
> The guy was expressing a view that you have to play a bit from your heart,
> and a bit from your head. I like the model...there are lots of players
> who don't do much for me because they're too much of one or the other.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>

I like this model, too, Mike. Not just for music, but for life. I think we
all have to have an equal balance of head and heart. Sometimes I work with
people who cannot seem to solve their problems because they intellectualize
everything but refuse to acknowledge their feelings. I work with them on
trying to "get out of your head and into your heart." And sometimes I work
with people who are all emotion, and cannot think through things clearly
enough to look at consequences of actions, and so we work on improving
cognitive thought processes. There needs to be a balance.

A few years ago, I took a hypnotherapy training program. I use it sometimes
in my work. It is amazing how quickly you can get somebody out of their
"head" and into their "heart" just by getting them into a more relaxed
state... and how quickly that allows them to see things differently (or
rather, feel things differently). But... it doesn't require hypnotherapy to
do that. Getting lost in a good book can do that for me... put me into
almost a trance state. And, I think music does that for most of us, and
that's why it is so special. The thing about it is that it's both a
right-brained and left-brained activity. To be able to play a guitar (or
any instrument) requires some basic left-brained activity... a mathematical
understanding (even if only intuitive) of how chords and scales work in
relation to one another so that you can put together melodies. But once you
have the basic concepts, to play it and feel it, you have to move to the
right side of your brain, the creative, feeling part. So there always has
to be that balance.

I know for me, I tend to live in my head a lot... too much, probably (be
quiet, Hawkins and Cashion!) So, I think that's why music has always been
so special. It's that one thing that takes me quickly into another level of
consciousness... moves me away from thinking and more toward just feeling.
Especially when I'm alone, and doing it just for me. I have to work more on
allowing myself to get into the feeling part when I'm playing in front of
other people... because that's when I cannot get out of my head, and because
of that, I worry and hyperventilate and choke and... I realize now that if
I'm ever going to rise above my intense performance anxiety, I'm going to
have to find a way to do that. Anyway, because music is both heart and
head, I think it's about the closest we can ever get to being in a total
spiritual place.

"Resolute, like a boulder in a creek I stand, absorbed in the contemplation
of music. If music is truly a vehicle for the soul, my soul had found a
place to rest."

--
Regards,

Arlene

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"Kol Isha" - A Woman's Voice


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