Curious how to build on
"Guidelines for Practicing a Music Instrument"
from Wynton Marsalis and Yo Yo Ma
~ http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm
"Guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument:
Articulating 12 Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument (by Marsalis and Ma) with developing how to practice loving bliss"
~ http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm
(see, too: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_%28eliciting_this_neurophysiology%29)
to explore
"Ways in which to generate loving bliss with a partner or friend that would grow, for example, say over 50 years"
Riffing on the above two sets of playing / practicing ideas,
and drawing on my own previous experiences of being in love with caring,
and incorporating the milieu of Harbin Hot Springs and its warm waters,
how might one best explore this further?
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INSPIRATION
3 Set goals to chart development.
4 Concentrate when you practice.
Yo-yo says join feelings into your music when you feel bad, to integrate your feelings with your mind and body.
5 Relax and practice slowly.
6 Practice hard parts longer.
8 Don’t be too hard on yourself.
Learn from your mistakes.
9 Don’t show off.
10 Think for yourself.
Don’t become a robot, but don’t dismiss what you’re taught.
11 Be optimistic.
Nothing sounds worse than pessimism coming through a horn.
12 Look for connections. (Make the social aspect of practicing regenerative - S.M.)
Music washes away the dust of everyday life from your feet.
Warm regards,
Scott
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What do you wiki think?
Add your ideas here ~
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_%28eliciting_this_neurophysiology%29)
and drawing on my own previous experiences of being in love with caring,
and incorporating the milieu of Harbin Hot Springs and its warm waters,
how might one best explore this further?
1
connect with her out of attraction, in language and with movement, and potentially to have family ... it happens naturally and share your vision
2
meet again and again to explore your visions together, as connect develops
{potentially explore John Money's conception of love maps in language with each other ~ http://scottmacleod.com/JohnMoneyLovemaps.html}
{potentially explore John Money's conception of love maps in language with each other ~ http://scottmacleod.com/JohnMoneyLovemaps.html}
3
write to each other about connecting as it unfolds
{figuratively and literally explore and develop the idea of shared musical scores ~ explicitly for loving bliss generation ~ and playing duets together developing over decades; if and when children come along explore in the same way musical trios, quartets, quintets, etc. together, at developing age appropriate levels. Can you generate a rock band for loving bliss for a mother, father and a 7, 6 and 3 year old, and then in a different way when they are 5 years older, for example?}
{figuratively and literally explore and develop the idea of shared musical scores ~ explicitly for loving bliss generation ~ and playing duets together developing over decades; if and when children come along explore in the same way musical trios, quartets, quintets, etc. together, at developing age appropriate levels. Can you generate a rock band for loving bliss for a mother, father and a 7, 6 and 3 year old, and then in a different way when they are 5 years older, for example?}
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focus when you connect in person and in writing
5
join feelings with your connecting
6
seek to talk about hard parts in unfolding ways
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Share and connect expressively with each other
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Be gentle with yourself and each other in difficult communications
9
ease away from "showing off" to each other as connecting grows
10
Continue to think independently, freely and for yourselves, even as connecting and understanding grows
11
be optimistic with each other when possible
12
look for connections creatively with each as your friendship develops
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the above are simply ideas - and here's what I riffed with
Guidelines for practicing loving bliss vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument
Articulating 12 Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument (by Marsalis and Ma) with developing how to practice loving bliss
Friends,
Here are some practices to elicit loving bliss with which I'm beginning to articulate these 12 'how-to' guidelines below:). And here are what I think is love in some of its best senses. In the following ideas and explorations of how we might 'practice' loving bliss, as we would practice a musical instrument, I assume our bodyminds are like musical instruments. {Feel free to print, below, and add to this}. As I'm presently thinking about this, I'd love your thoughts about this ~ scott@scottmacleod.com.
INSPIRATION
~ Keep the vision of making {loving bliss} 'music' in mind
~ Make eliciting loving bliss, as practice, enjoyable (e.g. omega-3 fatty acids, 1000 mg flax seed oil with food, 3 times per day, plus a multivitamin, may be helpful biologically)
1 Seek out private instruction.
> ... for modeling and teaching qualities of loving bliss
> With whom?> Might interactive media via the internet help give shape to this, without private instruction?
> With whom?> Might interactive media via the internet help give shape to this, without private instruction?
2 Write out a schedule, a plan with goals. (Choose pieces you enjoy playing – S.M.).
Yo-yo Ma says, never make a sound without hearing it first; hear it in your mind.
Yo-yo Ma says, never make a sound without hearing it first; hear it in your mind.
> Are there 'loving bliss' musical pieces?
> What are the skills of loving bliss?
> Develop techniques of loving bliss, such as 'tuning' {e.g. via the relaxation response}, expressiveness/performativity, breathing, relaxing, eliciting, remembering
> What are the skills of loving bliss?
> Develop techniques of loving bliss, such as 'tuning' {e.g. via the relaxation response}, expressiveness/performativity, breathing, relaxing, eliciting, remembering
> Questions vis-a-vis 'flow: the psychology of optimal experience' - choose learning situations for this
> Reading and engaging 'loving bliss in its best senses'
> Reading and engaging 'loving bliss in its best senses'
3 Set goals to chart development.
> These qualities of brain neurophysiology, then those qualities of brain neurophysiology?
> Engage a teacher for this goal charting
> Use a technology (what machines exist now that measure, or provide biofeedback about, loving bliss?)> Use language, as a kind of technology
> Use your own inner sense of loving bliss 'response,' and then build on this
> Synthesize arts like Watsu {water shiatsu} with loving bliss, to develop ways to chart development
> Engage a teacher for this goal charting
> Use a technology (what machines exist now that measure, or provide biofeedback about, loving bliss?)> Use language, as a kind of technology
> Use your own inner sense of loving bliss 'response,' and then build on this
> Synthesize arts like Watsu {water shiatsu} with loving bliss, to develop ways to chart development
4 Concentrate when you practice.
Yo-yo says join feelings into your music when you feel bad, to integrate your feelings with your mind and body.
> Use feelings to integrate you as a musical instrument when you feel bad, then ~>
> Relax into the relaxation response> Elicit the 'bubbling up' biology (bodymind releasing and welcoming) of loving bliss neurophysiology
> Relax into the relaxation response> Elicit the 'bubbling up' biology (bodymind releasing and welcoming) of loving bliss neurophysiology
> While listening to music
> While dancing
> While exploring positive emotions
> While eliciting loving bliss with a friend
5 Relax and practice slowly.
> Relaxation response, breathing, eliciting, 'practices to elicit loving bliss,' with your bodymind releasing
> Find pools of warm water (like at Harbin Hot Springs, or your bathtub) in which to practice eliciting loving bliss, with ease and focus
> Find a friend to do this with
> Find pools of warm water (like at Harbin Hot Springs, or your bathtub) in which to practice eliciting loving bliss, with ease and focus
> Find a friend to do this with
6 Practice hard parts longer.
> Go into, or release richly into, loving bliss?
> For transcendent & heightened experiences of loving bliss, focus on these often, and with depth
> For transcendent & heightened experiences of loving bliss, focus on these often, and with depth
7 Practice expressively.
Be serious – invest yourself expressively.
Be serious – invest yourself expressively.
> Let go into loving bliss fulsomely, imaginatively, exploratorily, performatively
> Bring emotion and 'verve' to this practice
> Engage music (especially favorite - for me the Grateful Dead, Raga and Mozart all take me there) as reference experiences
> Bring emotion and 'verve' to this practice
> Engage music (especially favorite - for me the Grateful Dead, Raga and Mozart all take me there) as reference experiences
8 Don’t be too hard on yourself.
Learn from your mistakes.
> Focus, after not concentrating, - and care for yourself, while generating loving bliss
9 Don’t show off.
> A kind of Taoist approach {mask the brightness - (Feng and English 1975: #56)}?
> Don't put your loving bliss on display
> And also let your loving bliss shine out, especially when regenerative, and with friends who are also exploring this
> Don't put your loving bliss on display
> And also let your loving bliss shine out, especially when regenerative, and with friends who are also exploring this
10 Think for yourself.
Don’t become a robot, but don’t dismiss what you’re taught.
> Innovate vis-à-vis eliciting loving bliss
> Learn loving bliss techniques, as if learning Watsu (water shiatsu}, and with focus
> Don't repeat loving bliss 'techniques' by rote (e.g. by listening to Mozart's "Magic Flute" or dancing to elicit loving bliss ~> cultivate loving bliss with relaxed intention)
> I think all of the above have quite explicit biochemical, neurophysiological correlates, that, when known, we might begin to orchestrate profoundly, - keep thinking
> Learn loving bliss techniques, as if learning Watsu (water shiatsu}, and with focus
> Don't repeat loving bliss 'techniques' by rote (e.g. by listening to Mozart's "Magic Flute" or dancing to elicit loving bliss ~> cultivate loving bliss with relaxed intention)
> I think all of the above have quite explicit biochemical, neurophysiological correlates, that, when known, we might begin to orchestrate profoundly, - keep thinking
11 Be optimistic.
Nothing sounds worse than pessimism coming through a horn.
> Cultivate optimism with loving bliss - it might be difficult not to
12 Look for connections. (Make the social aspect of practicing regenerative - S.M.)
Music washes away the dust of everyday life from your feet.
> Orient your mind to connecting with
- your own neurophysiology of loving bliss
- to other people~friends who are exploring this
- to innovating vis-à-vis generating loving bliss
> Explore doing this in multiple networks in your life (including playing musical instruments together:)
> Let's create a remarkable & profound language and socioculture for this
> Let's create a remarkable & profound language and socioculture for this
Warm regards,
Scott
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What do you wiki think?
Add your ideas here ~
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_%28eliciting_this_neurophysiology%29)
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