Monday 18 February 2013

Making music to deal with troubles: instruments of peace?


This Facebook post by "Her Will: community page about meta-physics" is interesting because of the use of that picture to illustrate the quote. 

How does a girl playing the piano illustrate "Worrying doesn't solve tomorrow's trouble; it just takes away today's peace"? 

Well, the hot, moody colours of the room and the burst of bright positive stuff coming out of the piano as well as the little fairy seated beside the girl are significant. It looks like the piano is creating the positive stuff. The postures of the girl and the fairy are not positive, so the source of the happiness is within the instrument. Could the piano be creating the peace for the girl? 

Certainly, making music can help us to work through feelings we have. Just as expressing ourselves in a heart-to-heart with good friend can help to define and dissipate feelings, so can creating or interpreting a piece of music provide an outlet for our thoughts and emotions to illuminate them and then set them free.

The music we create can give us and others peace, and when we are at peace with our thoughts and emotions we spread that peace around. 





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