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?
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.
>
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
>
Questions vis-a-vis 'flow: the psychology of optimal experience' - choose
learning situations for this
> 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
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
> 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
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
7 Practice 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
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
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
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
Warm regards,
Scott
Wiki for sharing ideas about eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology (at World University and School): http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Loving_Bliss_(eliciting_this_neurophysiology)
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