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When we use free improvisational music-making to explore our inner world, we learn to reconsider what freedom means. Mindfulness Through Music: An Introduction How the practice of...
- On Playing Together
The method was originally based on using group music-making...
- Parent-Child Music Lessons
The music lessons are typical with the exception that the...
- Music & Origami
Music & Origami How paper folding complements music...
- All We Need is One Scale
Vocalists, wind, and string players know the pleasure of...
- Bill Evans' Meditation on Serenity
With limited music technique we can express, contemplate,...
- On Playing Together
- Mindfulness For Musicians
- Music to Enhance Mindfulness
- Mindfulness For Musical Practice
- Musical Practice For Mindfulness
Mindfulness can enhance our experience of being a musician. This is the application of mindful meditation towards the peak practice and performance of music. The most common issues that musicians encounter include performance anxiety, impostor complex, and what Abraham Maslow described as the Jonah complex (the fearof success). Through instruction,...
The second direction we can take in mindfulness and music is the enhancement of our mindful experience of daily life through music. We typically employ exercises in listening and free improvisation to discover spontaneous, active, and deliberate styles of living and making music. Through daily practice in listening and playing, one can cultivate a ...
The first step in becoming more mindful of one’s craft is to silence the mind. In Buddhist teachings, the illustration is often used of allowing muddy water to settle to the bottom so that one can see clearly through the water. This analogy helps us to understand how action often interferes with gaining insight. Just as the dirt in the water cannot...
The next exercise aims to use music as means toward a more expansive, and more mindful, sense of self. This exercise does not require you to have any musical abilities or any level of proficiency on an instrument. The guiding principle that is often heard in expressive arts therapyis, “low technique, high expression." That principle will serve the ...
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Mar 11, 2020 · Music is only experienced as a real experience in the now. Music is a powerful reminder that all is now, that a person lives each actual occasion in the present – a foundational principle of practices of ‘mindfulness’, bolstered as they are by ancient teachings and modern psychology. In mindfulness practices
- Paul Laurent Lauzon
- 2020
Based upon foundational principles of existential-humanistic psychology many diversified theories have emerged that directly or indirectly induce social change: existential therapies, transpersonal psychology, positive psychology, meditative therapies, and interpersonal psychodynamic therapy (American Psychological Association Division 32 ...
Jul 6, 2018 · There are countless possible ways of thinking about humanistic dimensions of music therapy that may hold meaningful implications for the field, that have yet to be explored, across theories, models, ways of working, and clinical contexts.
- Brian Abrams
- 2018
Jul 22, 2021 · The concept of the Joyful Life may operate as bridge between positive psychology and humanistic, existential, and spiritual views of the good life, by integrating hedonic, prudential, eudaimonic and chaironic visions of the good life.
This article considers the link between PHP’s emphasis on attuned mindfulness and meditative sociocultural awareness as part of an emerging mindful and multicultural humanistic-existential psychotherapy (MMHEP) approach.
