The Power of Music

We shall today be speaking of tunes, rhythm, symphony, and melody in terms of music, 'Raw' music. Music possesses the ability to lift your spirits, make you calm, cheer you up, align your overall mental state into a more comforting position. Rarely does one realize but our subconscious mind is attracted to rhythm and melody. If you don't feed your brain and soul with tunes, then your subconscious naturally makes you move towards activities where music is involved.

For example, you may think you really want to watch a film, but through my analysis, I have learned valuable lessons and would love to share them with you. Everybody knows that films have ample of background music, but no one knows what makes them literally feel the 'scene' and why they want to watch more films. It's the background music, the suspense fueled tunes, the spirit-lifting melody, the mind-calming lyrics, the natural rhythm of wind instruments that makes you morph into the characters in the film. Let me break this down for you.

We are in a generation where uniqueness is abated by the monotonous happenings in one's life. It is a very subtle move played by society, intending to partially control our consciousness so that we do not curb their individual growth. You do the same thing every day, travel in the same vehicle on the same road to your same office to meet the same people and come back to the same home in the same vehicle on the same road to the same people, that's why your brain and the neurons within it are not getting enough opportunities to fire themselves in all directions, which is also why you think just like another ordinary person. Your brain has been programmed to follow routine tasks with aplomb so that you don't fall out of sync with monotony. Now, we should know that music is played at multiple frequencies and these frequencies are supposed to induce a multitude of emotions within us, such as fear, happiness, exuberance, melancholy and many more. One fact is that Hitler while making public announcements on loudspeakers would set the sound to be released at a specific frequency which induced fear in the people. Sadly, we depend on people either directly or indirectly in order to activate any emotion within us.

Vattakanal, India

The secret for me is, I depend on music to activate my emotions and that is a one-way process, unlike its predecessor. I'd like to conclude by telling you how music activates any emotion you wish to summon.

When you listen to rock and roll, you're blooming with a zeal for enjoyment in life.

When it's jazz, you're calm as a bird and you groove.

When it's country you get peaceful and thoughtful.

When it's slow and the lyrics denote depression then you get melancholy.

Each genre has its own impact on your mind. Those half played, highly prolonged notes in jazz when heard, send waves to your brain which in turn send signals to your nerves all over your body and that energizes you to begin the groove, sing along and feel the voice of the singer- basically, it ignites an emotion which you would otherwise depend on other living beings to ignite for you.

Every song you hear has its own story, its own composition, its own melody, and its own meaning. That's what makes it friendly to you in the process of exercising your brain with undiscovered fortes.

Autonomous Perception

The only person you need to compete with is yourself. Today, we shall read something about Perception, how realizing that perceptions are a base for what's to come, not just for one moment, but for all.

The inside world, the outside world. Look what separates it? Multiple square glass pieces forming a window?

Undeniably, we all know that our planet currently runs on competitiveness. Let's get to the crux of this matter. Just like your children or parents, even you are in a constant battle with others to prove your worth and establish a position in the corporate world. But, what the masses do not realize is that they can use their most gifted weapon, Perception.

Truthfully, if they realize that their competitors are mere shadows and alternative personalities of themselves, then they rule out the most demonic mental blockage, which is that they are competing with fellow humans. The constant battle we have with ourselves is what leads us to abandon the most sacred temple in our head, the temple of Perception. If we were calm, intricately trained to control the flow of our thoughts, emotions, and actions, then we could patiently understand our varied perceptions and effectively act upon them. My point being, your only competitor is yourself. He is not your colleague, nor is he your friend, neither is he your neighbor.

You will feel more than you see!

Just a little piece of advice in order to experience the understanding of perception fully, You must leave your smartphone for a week, leave all the tech behind and go spend time under an open sky with strangers who are too seeking for the unnamed. Then you shall be in the very center of the world, with heightened awareness "Amongst Yourself". 

Love and Our Dear Friend, Light

There have been numerous times in our lives when we just stand looking through the branches of a tree, admiring the rays of the sun; dissected, split and segregated but blooming from a mutual source, flashing through the gaps. Usually, you cannot directly look at the sun, but when you see a multitude of rays through the tree, a supreme feeling of happiness and serenity kicks in, which I describe to the people of our times as the unfathomable feeling of oneness.

Somewhere in Paris

Recently, while sitting amidst nature and contemplating the harsh realities of life, I thought let us be simple for a while and speak about trivialities, keeping the usual hush-a-hush aside. So, this time, with the sun behind my head and me facing the anterior of this beautiful spectacle, a tree.

The coruscating beams directly struck the bark in my sight and I could suddenly see the tree clearer than ever, clearer in every aspect, I felt the tree was happy to have me around. I'd look around to see that the tree I was scrutinizing was so much more in focus than the hundreds of trees around me. Again, pausing and stumbling over firing thoughts in my head, I walked alongside the tree, filled with benevolence for all around me.

What I saw on the opposite end of the bark was in stark contrast to what I initially saw, there were no molten-gold beams falling on it, a grim feeling kicked in, harsh realities came back. The whole picture was so beautiful and comfortable at first, the tree, it's bark, branches and leaves along with an element of light from the ever-raging sun, all this with you in one place, but this time I saw no joy for the other side of the same tree. Being one, rooting out of mother earth together, yet one receives light but one does not.

The Spectacle

The best part of my words above is that there is no conclusion, malevolence, confrontation but it is a mere observation. All this can be best seen in a painting. Van Gogh was a painter much more promising in calibre than the others, due to his ability of observing and conveying detail he owns some of the most meaningful artwork in human history. This man had such an impeccable talent to visualize and capture detail that he actually managed to paint how the sun would share its light among all the plants and trees in the park.

You see, how our friend Van Gogh used the power of light in his work to express love. Love could not be a friend or an enemy, nor the front or back of the tree, two things for one big one is a myth. Here, my friends, I see unity, companionship, benignity, and oneness.

-Paris, France

The Now

Another morning begins, some part of today's positivity/negativity comes from the previous day's nostalgia, some part of it comes from the present day's excitement and thrill. No harm in it all you know, but factually speaking this is induced into us by society and the sly weapons it uses to keep our conscious mind fully under control. Living in the moment, living in the now, not even the very second, but the very second, is a forgotten art in these times.

This specific art was omnipresent at the time when we had only a few leaders of various political classes and industries which produced on the effort of others. But now, by draining the simplest of our intellectual abilities, they have managed to chew away our most beloved gift, which is, living in the moment.

My advice to all readers is 'Live in the moment', don't stress over the past, don't plan your day, while you inhale oxygen at this very moment, cherish only that and nothing in the past or future, for nothing is greater than fully knowing the present.

Shnogpdeng, Meghalaya