This week's episode is a gentle reminder that there may be forces at work in the world around you that cause the funk so many of us feel this time of year. Hang in there, my friends!
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Hey friends! This week's episode is centered around a list I found on a faculty member's door several years ago during grad school that really convicted me. I felt like he had written it specifically for me! The list comes from David Gordon, Oregon based musician and teacher.
You can learn more about David Gordon at his website, www.spiritsound.com, which contains over 600 pages!!! The specific list can be found at http://www.spiritsound.com/stressed.html
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I love technology! Don’t you? If you’re a musician, you use it for all sorts of things. Practicing, listening, networking…
At home and abroad, I Instagram pictures of my food and bad misspellings on signs. I tweet inspirational quotes and random musings. I create podcast artwork and record my episodes on my Macbook.
At work, I record student lessons and my own practicing, dig through a mountain of email, and use Finale notation software regularly. I use my iPhone and iMac so much that they seem to have made all of my older gear obsolete. Why carry around all of those gadgets when everything is on the iPhone or iPad? I’ve bought into tech in a major way, just like many others seen to have.
Hopefully, this episode will help you shake up your practicing by digging some old tools from bottom drawer of your desk or your “old tech” drawer (admit it, we all have them!) to practice like it’s 1999. This “unplugged practicing” has really helped me freshen things up!
Remember that tech is here to help you improve efficiently. Tech is only a tool, and does NOT take the place of the hard work. Enjoy the episode!
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In this episode, Bruce talks about the role of the past in our current lives, and how anger and pain can be a direct result of dwelling on a past that we can no longer change.
Crucial to "living in the present moment" are the teachings of Eckart Tolle, who's book "The Power Of Now" is known world over for changing the lives of countless people.
Tolls quotes from this episode include:
"The past has no power over the present moment."
"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it."
"What a liberation to realize that the "voice in my head" is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that."
"Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath."
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Thanks to Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com for "Eyes Gone Wrong" and "Memory Lane" music.