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there is an axiom in the music world that you don't GET to sound good until you are WILLING to sound bad. even a highly trained and practiced musician is going to make mistakes while learning/creating a new song. once the individual musicians learn the song, there is more hit and miss within the process of bringing those versions together into the instant gratification we enjoy when we click "play" on our listening devices.
i am not a musician, but my own music therapy uses live instruments, voice included. this music axiom translates seamlessly into my recovery program. when i begin using a new therapy tool, i can't expect to master the skill on the first go-round. anything worth doing is worth doing badly until i master the method. even if i never master that particular tool, the willingness to try exercises my psychic muscles for future attempts.
am i making sense? thoughts?
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Hey All...I hope that you have a lovely, peaceful beginning of your weekI have a bunch of chores that need doing but may put them off til tomorrow and just hang out with my landlord/roomie todayWhat about you?...Anything special going on?Have a great day and take good care of you!!..Xo
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Once again I've had a fever today. I'm not going to the hospital because that's a huge waste of time but I did schedule a dr appointment for Wednesday afternoon.
Finding the tools that work best for you .. I think gratitude and prayer are probably most important to me and I sure hear you re the willingness to try.... Another hug and a blessing sweetie... xo
Yes this makes sense to me. I don't know if this sounds weird. But I think that this does for me personally tie into my ptsd stuff. Like por ejemplo, the hypervigilance of always trying to stay safe & looking out for anything that doesn’t feel rite maybe has goes too far sometimes? as that the minute it doesn’t feel perfect I run. Maybe I should revisit things in my past that I dismissed ‘I tried that once but it wasn’t for me’ .... maybe I need to try it a couple times & not let the idea of if it doesn’t perfectly work for me or if I can’t perfectly do it that it’s ‘not for me’
I don’t know I also wonder if I’m making sense
* maybe I need to revisit some tools & give em another try & try not to be so scared that I even get scared of tools sometimes.
Music therapy sounds cool
Big hug <3
another musical axiom addresses the need to continue practicing after you have achieved the master league. "one day without practice, i can tell. two days without practice, the band can tell. three days without practice and the audience can tell."
practica, practica, practica. . .
music therapy is cool. i swear by it. making my own music is not about how i sound. it is about how i feel. it be a breathing exercise, creative expression and cathartic release in a single psychic harmony.