Why Meditate as a Musician

Why Meditate as a Musician:

Have you ever been producing, practicing or even performing and felt hazy? That kind of haze where you are DOING something but feeling distant or lackluster? Yes. I have felt that plenty of times. Yet, I never attempted to find a solution to this sluggish haziness. The solution was always available and only cost a little time… anywhere from 1 minute to 10. Yep, Meditation. So let’s talk about meditation and why meditate as a musician.

How to Meditate as a Musician:

I’ve personally tried a few different meditation techniques….. certain sitting positions, youtube videos, articles, and MANY podcasts. What I’ve found is, meditation is completely a personal preference and one size does NOT fit all. You will need to do a bit of meditation exploration to find the type that resonates best with your natural abilities and personality.

I’ll attach my 3 favorite resources at the end of this article.

However, I will share MY favorite way to meditate to help you draw inspiration. I tend to meditate by simply sitting up straight, closing my eyes, letting my shoulders drop to allow the stress and tension to roll off my body, breathing deeply in a slow rhythm, and finally experiencing the tranquility of silence. The intensity of how silent any room can be is amazing. What I mean is, silence is relative to your awareness.  Once those speakers turn off, or you stop practicing your instrument It almost feels like the room is flowing with the ripples of your music. That’s just me anyways…

Now let’s talk about what you get from meditation… this is the good stuff.

3 main benefits

Below are the 3 main benefits I personally experience after a short meditation session either before producing or in the middle when I need to clear my head.

1. Heightened creativity and flow state.
2. Increased ability to listen objectively
3. Healing of the body (ears especially)

Let’s dive into these benefits a bit.

Heightened creativity and flow state

Meditating as a musician will unlock your creativity and flow state by becoming an internal cue for your body and mind to work as one. After meditating, your mind becomes a blank slate ready to take on the challenge of creating. Your stress has decreased meaning fewer blockades from the aspects of life that are NOT serving your creative moments (like work, emails, and the laundry you may or may not have forgotten about for 3 days straight). In conjunction, your body has experienced a shift in breathing or posture to help signal wellness.

You are now ready to enter the creative flow state.

At first, the flow state may take a few minutes. But with repetition, this meditation will become a trigger for creativity.

Increased ability to listen objectively

Listening objectively is a core aspect of progression for every musician. Progression can only occur when areas of improvement are realized. When listening to the same material or practicing some 8 bars for too long we quickly lose sight of what is “Good” and where to apply improvements.

Meditation is a consistent and fast way to readjust your ears to listen critically again. By removing the physical sounds from your surroundings your focus shifts to internal awareness. The internal body is much more precise and balanced than the external, so after we have reset, we are bringing that precision back into our ears and mind. Try your 8 bars again and you’ll hear what it really sounds like (hopefully better than you originally thought)!

Healing of the body

One main benefit of any meditation is the healing associated with it. Relaxation and release of tension help to keep our heart rate down, our body comfortable and our minds clear. Mediation as a musician also helps to re-calibrate our ears to a regular hearing level and can help prevent permanent hearing damage or even loss. How? Relaxing and recalibrating our ears should make any incremental volume increases over the session more noticeable… basically meaning you can turn down the volume again.

 

Meditate as a Musician conclusion:

The benefits of meditation are explored frequently with many truly amazing results, so as musicians it’s in our best interests to apply the techniques to further our creativity, skill, and health.

1. Heightened creativity and flow state.
2. Increased ability to listen objectively
3. Healing of the body (ears especially)

Now is the time to practice meditation. Grab your phone, search guided MEDITATION in Google or your favorite podcast app and then slip away into a new world. Be 100% engaged and open to meditation to feel the most effect. And it only takes a few minutes.

Thanks for reading!! Until next time,

Take it easy!

-Kye

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