Reclaiming Music
Playing music with others is healing in and of itself. Music heals the body through regulating our systems and entraining us to optimal biorhythmic states (think flow-state brainwaves, and the many benefits of a regulated nervous system).
Playing music with others is a way to merge with a group while retaining individuality, which is essentially the goal of all psychological healing. We all need to belong fully and also fully be ourselves - music is a way this can be experienced in these bodies we have, here and now.
It doesn’t really matter what the format is, each of us experiencing our innate musicality together in the now moment is a unifying, harmonizing, soothing, energizing experience that heals all ills of the soul.
In the next series of posts I will walk us through one possible path for reclaiming music for ourselves.