Laziness on the curriculum

I am currently preparing for some corporate training and NLP programmes, digging through books and just sitting thinking about the things to be covered, I have been reflecting on music, society, education and us.
Most of the time I go around in some form of robotic state and this trance state does my driving, teaching, eating and many other functions but what I have noticed is that state does not do song writing and guitar practice, if anything it stops me and that is something I need to change in my life.
The only reason I find for this is creativity is something that happens when I am totally relaxed and have nothing to do, in other words in my idleness zone.  So idleness is one of the things that I need to embrace and find for myself otherwise nothing will change for me.
The other state that I find useful and again one much maligned is the state of naivety, without it one would never do anything because the odds are so stacked against you why bother.
In the past naivety has helped me become a guitarist, helped me play gigs that I will think about as real achievements in my life and taken me to life experiences that shaped me; if I thought about those things first they would never have happened.
So let us include laziness into the school curriculum so that daydreaming will develop the creative trance and let us do it in a state of total naivety so that children and adults can believe anything and in that blissful state open the mind to the possibilities of new ideas set apart from the ideas of society that restrict.

Vic


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It is no measure of health...

Reaching out as much as possible to friends and family, without feeling humiliated or the stigma that is carried with the label ‘depression’ and the negative phrases that go with it, mental illness, mental disease. Krishnamurti was right “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

 

With every death of someone who is conspicuously talented like Robin Williams whose very brilliance is predicated in their state of mind we then have a period of soul searching about mental health.

It might be better to think of it as a disease because if we go back to the original meaning ‘ dis ease’ then that unease that people feel with their lives and society then the quote of Krishnamurti is validated.

 

The amount of pressure to succeed to be responsible and capable when in reality we all fail, are often irresponsible and incapable makes many feel uneasy with life for some they wear a face that works in public, they are funny, talented and crazy. When the mask slips someone like Robin Williams decides it is time to check out and we are shocked by the fact he wants to leave.

I would suggest that we take a long hard look at society and also how governments work and see that there are many areas that are profoundly sick and some of these things only occur to us when we step back and look from a detached place.

So from this place look at what music could do to create meaning in people’s lives when viewed as a creative self-development, in my experience I have taught a number of doctors who by their own admission have said that music has saved them from having ‘another nervous breakdown’

Vic

 

Foundations of Life.

We must go down to the very foundations of life, for merely superficial ordering of life that leaves its deepest needs unsatisfied is as ineffectual as if no attempt at order had ever been made. – I Ching
Ok a little deep but this week I am looking at levels of change which can happen with life events such as a divorce, loss of employment, ill health or death of someone close. Also deep levels of change can and do happen when you explore oneself through music and traditionally this was an excepted part of personal development.
One of the frustrating things for therapists who really want people to get better is that they find it difficult to create change in old habits and form new ones in their clients that would lead to the improvement and healing that they seek. It seems that even ways of living however destructive because they are familiar are better than the unknown however promising their adoption would be, therefore people carry on as normal.
The advantage with music is one can affect some sort of change without realising it especially adults whose whole development of musical skills might be wrapped up in letting go of negative programming built up over the years of educational brainwashing. Because it is not obvious what is going on by incorporating subtle changes of thinking whilst learning music, things that were believed before like the lack of musicality and creativity can be disproved and then lots of changes can happen.
If this was obvious to the ancient Chinese sages then it might be interesting to know how they affected change. We know that along with acupuncture, herbs and meditation, sound was part of the therapy.
Vic