How music can
change your world
I
think it’s fair to say that most people would be able to tell you anecdotal
evidence to point to the fact that music is of great benefit to her health and
her state of well-being but how about it being true the transformation where it
can rebuild your life, prolong your life and change the world that you inhabit?
For
me I’ve been teaching and playing music now for over 45 years and I am very
interested in music from an artistic and psychological point of view and have
used NLP alongside music to transform my life and other people’s lives as a
teacher.
My
search into a deeper aspect of music started many years ago and being intrigued
and just basically nosy about what made successful musicians achieve and create
and wanting to know how they did it, I started the ‘Creative’ podcast,
interviewing musicians and artists and getting them to tell their stories to
see if I could find any clues. One of
the lines of thought that I picked up on is where idea that there were no
limits to possibilities and this is evident in people who are highly successful.
I
was a conversation with Ben Thomas who plays guitar for Adele. Ben has been her
guitarist right from the beginning, meeting her at Brit School. He was telling
me about being invited over to her birthday party in America and he describes
all the crazy things that are going on within this mansion. people doing magic
tricks and stuff like that and he was saying that when you meet these high
performing and high achieving people they don’t have any limits to what they
believe, they can do anything, anything is possible, like there are no rules.
For
us hearing this initially might make us slightly concerned and conflicted but
in actual fact that tells us something about why we are stuck, because there
are limits to what we think is possible.
Prince
obviously later on his life had some dealings with Mormonism but Princes
artwork and the way that he presented himself had blatant magical overtones
such as the use of sigils (remember the logo and the odd shaped guitar that he played)
On
the surface that all seemed ridiculous however these people are achieving
unbelievable things with this mind-set so if we come from a scientific process to
test things out you can’t test something out with the belief that it’s not
going to work you have to be open-minded and then if something works then that
is all that you are really concerned with.
A
number of years ago I became involved in NLP and I was fortunate enough to do
the training with Richard Bandler, Paul McKenna and Michael Breen, but it was
Richard Bandler’s story about how he arrived with the idea of NLP was
fascinating.
He
tells the story about as a young man being enthusiastic about martial arts trained
for many hours a day, however he is diagnosed with cancer and he is so angry
and distraught about this he says that he went AWOL and then in his words ‘I
woke up in Mexico’ he said that he discovered later that tequila was a great
way of destroying cancer cells as it obviously destroyed his tumour, but reading
deeper into this story I think he was talking about his pilgrimage to Mexico to
meet a shaman following in the footsteps of Carlos Castaneda and book The
Teachings of Don Juan.
I am
guessing here but I am assuming that Bandler took copious amounts of peyote in
the Mexican desert and ‘woke up’, much of NLP is based on shamanic practice
just like the work of Carl Jung being deeply indebted to the mystical Christianity
and Gnostic traditions which was only evident after the red book was published
only recently.
For
both of these people they needed to ‘science up’ the work, which speaks a lot
about the situation that we find ourselves in with the current thought paradigm
which is, if something that doesn’t fit it cannot be spoken, to do so is a form
of heresy; science has become a religion. We have situations where people will
not dispute ideas from their teachers until those teachers have died and then
somebody else can put forward a new hypothesis. This happens in all sorts of
areas from science to archaeology, medicine, to psychology and even research
into the areas of ESP.
So
let’s look at what music can do let’s start with what we think it can do. I
believe the power of the arts can literally change the world,
Change
the context and that will change the detail, at the moment music and the arts
are very much of a commodity but it never used to be it was powerful and change
the conscious of people (trance dance in shamanic traditions but also raves,
discos rock concerts etc) the details can also change the context one can
influence the other if we start approaching music, dance, drama, poetry etc in
a way that it has real power it can start to really change your life.
How?
Come
to Bluescamp and we will show you ……..
