Episode 7

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5th May 2020

Episode 7 Healing Meditation

Welcome back to the Living Musically Podcast.  Today’s episode we are going to be using meditation to heal our bodies.  

The beginning part of this meditation is one that I typically use at the beginning of my meditations and that’s a self check.  We’ll take a close look at each part of our bodies and try to feel and listen to what they’re telling us. Sometimes we can feel pain or tension sometimes we won’t feel anything.  All we are doing is taking note of what we feel at each part. 


As I concentrate on each section I can sometimes feel a tingling sensation as I focus.  Other people might feel different things. There is no right or wrong feeling. As you focus on your body, notice if it’s warm or cold.  You might notice that there is pain. Also notice if there is tension. If there is tension try to relax the tension. What you might find is that your tension in one area might be related to another area of your body.


Let’s begin our meditation:


Get into a comfortable position.  You can sit, stand or lie down. You can close your eyes or not.


Take a deep breath in

Exhale


Take a deep breath in

Exhale


Take a deep breath in

Exhale


Take a deep breath in

Exhale


Take a deep breath in

Exhale


Let your breath return to normal


Bring your attention to your left foot


Focus on your toes to start now, move to your whole foot.  


Now move up to your shin and calf.


Move up to your thigh 


Now take a full inventory of your left leg as a whole


Now move to your right foot and start at your toes.  Now move up to your foot, your shin and calf, your thigh


Now move to your glutes start with your left glute.  And now your right


Now i’m going to ask you to engage the muscles in your lower body and relax.  Each time you relax. I want you to imagine your legs sinking down deeper in to the chair or bed each time you relax


Now engage the muscles in your body from your waist down.  


Squeeze them tightly, and relax.   

Engage again, and relax

Engage and relax


If you felt any discomfort or pain. Imagine a bright white light shining on to your spots of pain or discomfort.  Feel them getting warmer.


Now let the light fade away.


Now move to your stomach and lower back

Up to your chest and upper back

Next move to your left hand start with your fingers and work your way up to your whole hand, your forearm, your bicep and tricep and then your shoulder


Now move to your right hand starting at the tips of your fingers, moving up to your hand, your forearm, your bicep and tricep, and then your shoulder


Just like before we are going to engage the muscles but this time above our waist and below our neck.


Engage and relax

Engage and Relax

Engage and Relax


If you felt any discomfort or pain. Imagine a bright white light shining on to your spots of pain or discomfort.  Feel them getting warmer.


Now let the light fade away.


Now  bring your focus to your neck, up to your jaw and your tongue, up to your nose, your eyes, your forehead and finally the top of your head


Just like before we are going to engage the muscles but this time above our shoulders


Engage and relax

Engage and Relax

Engage and Relax


If you felt any discomfort or pain. Imagine a bright white light shining on to your spots of pain or discomfort.  Feel them getting warmer.


Now let the light fade away.


Now we’re going to engage our whole bodies.  Each time you relax imagine gravity is pulling your body down to Earth with more force.


Engage and relax

Engage and Relax

Engage and Relax


Now I want you to imagine your whole body is now surrounded by that bright warming light 


Now let the light slowly fade away


Take a deep breath

Exhale


Take a deep breath

Exhale


Take one more deep breath, make it the biggest breath of the day and exhale


Let your breath return to normal


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About the Podcast

Living Musically
How to use techniques from music to live a more meaningful and simple life.
Welcome to the Living Musically podcast, I’m Kyle. I’d like to start this first episode by talking a little bit about what this podcast is about. We live in a crazy world. There are so many negative factors that affect our lives. Fear, consumerism, politics, our job, the list goes on. I’ve realized when either performing or practicing, those factors just don’t exist in my mind. That’s not to say they’re gone completely, but music is able to free me for just a little while.

I’ve realized that music is a way to quiet my mind from that inner voice that tells me how much of a failure I am, that I’m going to go completely in debt and live in a box under some bridge like some ugly old bridge troll. As you can see my inner voice is not the nicest.

I’ve learned to take the concepts and feelings that come over me as I’m performing and practicing and utilize them in everyday life to truly live musically.

Over the next weeks and months I’ll be releasing episodes with some of my thoughts and hopefully show you how to live more musically and escape the craziness of the world. In the end I hope to help you live a more meaningful and maybe even a simpler life.

I don’t want you to think that you need to be a musician to put these ideas into place. These ideas will simply calm your mind so that you can more accurately process your thoughts in a more meaningful and helpful way.

Please make sure you subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss any of the upcoming episodes. I look forward to taking this journey with you. I’ll see you soon. Peace

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