Setting our Tone
- 13 jun
- 1 minuten om te lezen
I love how learning music always turns out to be so much more than just about music. Practicing music helps to deepen and expand our ability to listen with our inner ear, not to outward sounds but to the inner sound that sprouts out of the stillness of our being.
In a world where senseless noise and dissonance get artificially amplified by algorithms, learning to listen deeply and set our own tone helps us from being so easily thrown of center by all the noise surrounding us.
The most fertile ground for music to grow and flourish, is deep listening. In the presence of deep listening, music always flows more effortlessly. By consciously practicing deep listening, we not only increase the ease with which we play music, but we also heighten our awareness of our own inner guidance, the wisdom that speaks to us through the prompts of our heart, the still small voice that is so easily drowned out by the noise of the world.
The more we get centered in our own tone, the better we hear the bigger music our own tone is a part of, and the more we get a sense that deep down, underneath all the noise and dissonance on the surface, all hearts are, and always were, in harmony.
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''Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.'' - Hafiz
