Mindful Music Listening
Today I would like to share a mindfulness practice using music, which I have been offering as part of teaching mindfulness.
Connecting with our creativity
‘Where words fail, music speaks.’
Going with the flow
‘Flow is the antidote to trauma.’ Dr Peter A. Levine
Music and mindfulness
Like music, mindfulness is an embodied way of living, and like music, mindfulness can help us approach our emotions in a new way.
The music of now
‘The only thing that is constant is change.’ Heraclitus
Silence
‘A religious spirit in which one feels there is nothing to which one is not related… This is the experience of silence.’
John Cage
The first performance of John Cage’s seminal piece, 4’33’’, was met by outrage and dismay. It took place at Woodstock, New York, in 1952, in front of an audience
Tuning in
There are many reasons why someone chooses to take up a meditation practice, but an underlying motivation might be a desire to either tune out, or to tune in. While some meditation traditions encourage their practitioners to aim for ‘special’ states which help them to tune out from everyday concerns, mindfulness meditation is very much […]
Our Top Ten Tunes
Remember that annoying tune you couldn’t get out of your head? It might have been some inane advertising jingle, or a pop hit from the 80s you thought you’d outgrown long ago. Even if the tune was a little loftier, there are only so many times we want to hear the ‘Ode to Joy’ from […]
Contentment
‘Knowledge is full of labour, but love is full of rest.’ From The Cloud of Unknowing Imagine writing a song for every emotion you experience during the day. How many different songs would you need to compose? Would it be the same song repeated on an endless loop, or would you be flitting from […]