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Hearing rhythms: stochastic patterns and music medicine

Oct 27, 2021 | Beauty

Rythym,
randomness
and healing with our deeper interconnections.

Losagaintir

Listen to the sea

You’ll hear Rhythm
The rhythm as the waves break on the shore
The rhythm as they wash back to sea

Listen closer
and you’ll hear the randomness
a stochastic rush of sand and water particles
hiss and rivulet runs
underlying undulations which fit an overall pattern. But,
there’s no way of knowing
when a rush and intensity peak will
arrive.

At least that’s how I interpret music medicine:

Music medicine

Listen to the soundtrack above>

You’ll hear the rhythm and randomness
Beat, waves and rush rivulets

For me this is medicine

It aligns me with the wider world and its patterns
It honors the chaotic natures of my feelings—when will I be blue or warm? Maybe I can statistically estimate that over a week. However, there’s no way of knowing what emotions I will be aware of at any given time. Emotional states and the awareness of them are stochastic. 

I think this is some of the power of music medicine.
It connects us with our broader reality
It enhances our abilities to hold difficulty as an awareness of that awareness.
Hold with more ease.

Listen to the tracks and see what you think?
Are there patterns that connect for you?
In yourself?
In a felt sense with the wider worlds around you?

Do they change while you listen?

Losagaintir

Resources

Credits

Jonthan and Andi Goldman talk about music medicine, and some of the background behind this, in a podcast here>.

Photos on this page are by Festina Lentívaldi, (be) Benevolution. Reuse: Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0 US.

Video is Anna Brun, Last Breath

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