‘ve been talking about the creation of a wiser relationship with the music we love to listen to and the one we’re passively exposed to. This article deepens my personal viewpoint about the topic.
Music is thought
Music is great for lifestyle design, conditioning and character modification. Music, in a given environment, really dictates our behavioral responses, conditioning our character in the long run, creating and strengthening associations between facts and emotions (read ‘reinforcement’). It sometimes creates anchors (NLP term).
Music sends waveforms from a neural network to the other, and the amazing thing about that is… you have to know what you are doing with what genre and what kind of instruments.
Information is everywhere today. We live in a world in which we have incredible amounts of music (read ‘thought forms’). This way, our personality can be shaped in various ways. We can live amazing experiences, by just collecting the right music, listening to it the right way, knowing why we listen to it.
I usually love the idea of listening and downloading free music and free stuff. I also encourage YOU to do so. Download open source and creative commons music! Enjoying free music frees us from the burden of copyrighted material. This new year is a big opportunity to catch: it is an occasion to stop consuming exclusively copyrighted material: there is a free and open world to discover out there, from digital to physical collections and libraries.
Let’s take FreeView documentaries as an exemple (for video) or the audio section of Archive.org (for music)
Free and public domain content gives value to our inner selves. We don’t need cookie-cutter made music, movies, art and news. We need to get real, about what we know about what; and what we want to know and what makes us better. The basic idea is to create a personal collection composed of useful music and thoughts. Start experimenting, also with the music you own and listen to.