Today I feel better than I did three days ago. And, guess what, I also had a "better" day. Today I got to hear amazing singers, learn about vocal function, spend time with new friends, be mentored and be a mentor. It was a special day. But, everyday lately has these elements, or at least most of them, and yet I experience each day so very differently. Emotions, energy in motion in the body, dictate how these experiences are processed and perceived to a degree that actually frightens me sometimes.
As a performer who feels emotions larger than the typical office worker, it is important to understand how our emotions color our world so that we are not flung far and wide by them. Emotions are the reason we sing - to give expression to that BIG energy in our bodies and help others resonate to our "energy song." We need music and the voice to help the world access dormant emotions and energetic experience that the average person cannot tap into unaided. When we understand that our emotions are not the whole picture, though, we can make better judgements about what might actually be happening around us on a daily basis.
I believe in embracing emotion more than ever, and I also reserve the right to judge my perception of the world not on how my emotions color my view, but on what is true - which is that everything is always ok, that I am always exactly where I should be, and that love is all there really is. Knowing how to direct emotion, now, there's an entirely different subject matter. For now, I am grateful for music as a vehicle to get all that energy out.
May you be blessed today and a little better able to see not only through the lens of how you feel, but by what is and will always be true.
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