Plans, Yoga and Music/Sound/ Mindful Listening Meditation

Time to think a little more about the other things I want to do in my quest to share harp music.

I'm always interested in working with other souls with a preference for cross discipline type like I did with 'Catch the Moon' and 'Gifted Eccentrics'. The harp working along side poets reading or performing their work, supporting, holding, ringing.

Are there others I'd like to share 'working with'?

What about other practices of self-expression?

What is the practice I need to do to be my best at walking and playing?

Plans

Be who you truly are, fulfill your potential. 

For that you need a clear free head and a strong, healthy body. 

Plan: Meditate and practice Yoga.

Yoga

Preferably done by one and all to the body flexible and strong. 

My wish is to play alongside a practitioner... ...because that is the way to explore sound...to observe and react; to be there and watch the unfolding of the poses while carrying the flow and heartbeat... ...to be present... ...to create... ... to express that moment.

My plan: is to practice yoga... ...to practice is my plan... ...yoga practice...is my... ...plan.

Music/Sound/Mindful Listening Meditation

Meditation. The practice of being present. To live in the now.

There's a lot of what is called Meditation Music about. But in meditation music isn't used to focus the mind. There is too much repetition and it will make the mind run cartwheels. Tibetan Bells are used.... ....listening to the overtone series... ...holding the sound... ...its ringing... ...sound can be part of meditation... ...the subjection to sound... ...the randomness in it... ...no control... ...In Mindfulness Meditation where the focus is on the breath (oh so easy, so oh so hard!) can also be practiced around sound just as it can on walking and dishes... ...surrender... ...mindful listening asks of the listener to be truly present and hear without judgement...without letting the mind fill in the gaps with stories and comments... ...to be in the ears, listening to the world turn... ...listening...listening to the world... ...listening.

A Mindful Listening Meditation could/should include: 

• silence
• sound
• overtones
• musical phrases
• random intervals
• intervals 
• chords
• harmony
• dissonance

The sitter is asked... ...to listen... ...to hear... ...to be... ...in the sound... ...the silence... ...the car passing outside... ...the dog down the road... ...dissonance... ...consonance... ...silence... ...fly... ...

The plan is: To sit alone... ...listen... ...feel and be present... ...no music just the instrument, sound, ears. To sit for ten minutes. For fifteen minutes. Twenty minutes. Half and then three quarters of an hour. An hour.

That is the plan.

A lot going on so: walking, playing, yoga, meditation.

But yes, that is the plan.