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**Unit Question: What happens in the mind of a musician while performing?**

The Music Instinct (PBS: Science & Song) Where do musical goosebumps come from?

Musical goosebumps come from the emotions we feel while we are listening to music. They are generated from these emotions and transferred to emotional outputs into our body such as tears and goosebumps.

[|The Inner Game of Music] [|Article on the Inner Game] [|The Book] Read chapter 10 "Teaching and Learning" Go to contents to find it. Page 130 **  **Take simple notes in your portfolio.**
 * Please read the Beginning of this book through chapter 2.

I can see from this book that techniques from the inner game can be applied to any different parts of the world around you. I noticed that learning the inner game techniques rather than the outer game techniques can help you accomplish your goals more successfully. If we eliminate the voice in our head while we are playing, we will play better. If you are listening to the voice inside your head while you are playing then it is almost impossible for you to be fully concentrated on the music. Self 1-interferes with potential, Self 2-expresses potential. The best way to gain access to self 2 is to ignore self 1. You can ignore self 1 by listening to sounds, watching the way we are playing, monitor our feelings, and more. Teachers should change "do this" instructions into awareness instructions by rephrasing them so the focus of attention is on the students experience. Detailed verbal instructions are seldom as effective as experience. We learn so much more when we learn through our senses and experiences. Awareness instructions are based on the students own experience. They are based on their to learn by noticing whats happening. This approach to teaching and learning deemphasizes "instruction" and relies more on the body's ability to sense problems and change them without first translating them into words. It encourages students to be their own teachers. The emphasis is learning by some sort of experience rather then learning by following instructions.

[|Power of Intention](Dwyer)


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Everything in this world shows of from a source. Intention isn't necessarily something do but something you connect to. "In the universe, there is an unmeasurable, indescribable force which those who live of the source call intention and that absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link. Sorcerers are not only concerned with understanding and explaining that connecting link, but they are especially concerned with cleansing it of the numbing effects brought about by all of the concerns of living at ordinary levels of consciousness." Everything in this universe was intended here. Everything that shows up in the material world emanates from a source. This source can be thought of as that which intends things into the material world. Everyone is connected to this field. This field beats your heart. It animates all life. Intention isn't about whether your going to connect to it. The question is how rusty, how corroded, how dirty is the link between you and this field of intention. Sorcerers are those who are concerned with cleansing this connecting link so you become more and more in harmony with this field of intention. The more you are in harmony with this field of intention, the more you are able to do all that this field of intention is able to do (such as create miracles). All things and all people originated from this source. "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." When a problem is inside of you, don't try to fix it on the outside, try to fix it on the inside.

How can you apply the Power of Intention to your process as a musician?

I can apply the Power of Intention to my process as a musician by trying to better understand the link between myself and my instrument. I can understand what my intention as a musician is and try to find better ways to apply that to my music. I can also understand what I need to work on inside my mind as a musician (focus, determination, etc) rather than techniques outside my mind (fingerpicking, bends, etc).


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Effortless Mastery Exposure to music starts in the womb. If kids are left alone when first starting to play music they could develop on their instrument more. They could then begin to get taught when they were curious because their own experimentation led them to be curious. The reason some people stopped playing their music in their teenage years was because the bliss o music had been filtered out of their studies. The dryness of music in school causes people to tune out. Many people who start playing music stay with it. Music is the bond between the material and the internal. Poetry was born of music. Our most natural tendency is to make music. Religions were based entirely on music. Making music requires no more thought than breathing.