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Depression and anxiety may be real. But they can also be Resistance. When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers. We're doing exactly what TV commercials and pop materialist culture have been brainwashing us to do from birth. Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product.
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
Rhythmic Practice Rhythm is a fundamental music skill, and practicing your rhythmic skills on something other than your main axe is a good idea. It’s pretty easy to learn the basic playing techniques for a small percussion instrument. Lots of musicians I’ve talked to about practice play the drum set, too, people like Serge van der Voo, Erin McKeown, and others. The benefit of playing a rhythm instrument is that when you play, rhythm is your main focus: not notes or scales, just rhythm—the almighty Beat. It’s a refreshing change. Very few days go by that I don’t spend some time playing conga, djembe, or small percussion. Rhythmic practice is important enough to get its own chapter, which is coming up next.
The Practice of Practice
Jonathan Harnum
Here’s what is happening inside your body: you are teaching your heart to feel stress . . . and let it go. If you were connected to my biofeedback equipment as you did this, you would see your heart rate accelerating on the inhale and decelerating by approximately the same magnitude on the exhale. Your body comes right back to where it began with every breath. That’s the physiological effect of feeling and letting go. Contrast that with what it would look like if you were a chronically stressed client hooked up to my equipment, breathing normally, with no pacing or purposeful re-creation of stress. The heart rate may accelerate on the inhale, but it would decelerate just a fraction of what it should on the exhale. In some situations, you may get stuck at the top of the inhale, plateauing instead of decelerating. That is an incomplete exhale, which prevents the braking of fight-or-flight response—the opposite of resilience.
Heart Breath Mind
Leah Lagos
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