Summary: Too often in life we let our minds act as tyrants over our bodies. We accept this because for a lot of us, this is all we have ever known. We often over-look, over-try and over-instruct our lives which leads to a lot of stumbling around. It is important for us to create a "mutually supportive team," a partnership between our minds and our bodies in order to find balance. When we pull out our little "director" selves during lesson or practice time we can't let our "director" become a dictator. When we actually test ourselves we find our bodies don't need to be micro-managed but do many good things on their own. One way we can stop micro managing is to look at relationships and patterns in the music rather than every note to note value. We need to be able to step back and look at the big picture rather than being overly obsessive with the tiny details.
Key Concept: Allow your mind and body to be an equal partnership. Don't allow you mind to micro manage your body.
Connections: Point taken! My mind is totally a dictator and it has been a long struggle to free my body. I am getting better. When I do experiments with my voice and allow it to be free of my dictatorial mind I sing so much better!
No comments:
Post a Comment