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 in 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 Prince’s 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 ……..
