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Chaos and Order
Most of us
spend our lives trying to make things work better. Get to work
with less stress, fullfill our obligations with less drama and
make things smoother and easier. In some ways the process of
opening up your heart to sing goes against the natural tendency
we have to create order in our lives. It's the messy dramatic
feelings that move through us to effect an audience. Opening
ourselves to the inner chaos of our feelings can be like the
process of therapy where uncovering stuff makes us feel out of
control and a little crazy for a little while at least until
we can balance that emotional space with other self supporting
energies.
This chaos
factor one of the main reasons why singers (like other performers)
sometimes experience their lives as a big struggle.That's the
emotionally chaotic space we need to be in to make the art happen
sometimes.
Eventually
after years of inward examination you can learn to open yourself
for the act of singing without causing all kinds of drama and
chaos in your life for yourself.
Best to start
that process of inward examination earlier rather than later
as dependancy on drugs and other fake ways to get us feeling
ok about ourselves and our life can take their toll on any career.
Any number
of brilliant artists we can name have found their lives careening
out of control because the basic foundation and balance has never
been achieved.
Of course you
don't have to be riding in a limo to be desperately unhappy and
out of touch with your true self. You can be struggling in small
clubs or working at in- the- meantime jobs that are unsatisfying
and fall prey to the drama of feeling failed or hopeless.
That kind of
chaos is almost always counter productive and tangles the energies
inside and around us with our fear and chaos. We don't have to
be in struggle to feel like we are working hard at our goals.A
good life makes for a good artist
Order you heart
so you can give into the chaos of your art when needed. |
