Music
A writer writes from a need to express his inner self to so benefit his readers, whereas an author writes selfishly to benefit himself through the manipulation of his readers. Most so-called writers are really authors, as are most actors, artists, and musicians, however skilled they may be.
After extensive research, Dr. Diamond discovers a group of seven classical composers whose music deeply energizes an essential aspect of the Acupuncture Emotional System: intimacy, associated with the liver meridian. These are the composers he most wants to listen to.
As we listen to music, and move with it, we can become one with it. In this way, music has the potential to connect us with the ultimate truth: that all is one.
What if singing were also equally in- and out-breaths, so that the singer would wait at the end of every phrase for the breath to enter by itself?
There can be no wrong notes, for all is Intended. It's just that some are judged wrong (and that's also as Intended).
In 1940 Stravinsky delivered the Charles Eliot Norton series of lectures at Harvard University. They were entitled “The Poetics of Music.” I feel certain that whoever came up with the title was not a musician. For it is backwards.
I used to finalize all my paintings, stopping when they appeared to be balanced.
The repetitive patterns that naturally arise in playing the didgeridoo are, Dr. Diamond suggests, brain patterns that need to be released.