Become attached to music and nourish the body and mind.
The first time I felt the relationship between music and growth was in the observation of a child. It was the beginning of school in Ningxia, and I was giving music lessons to the children. In our teaching, appreciating world famous songs is a very important link. Children are usually accompanied by music, facing the mirror, dancing freely and enjoying the same song over and over again. After the course, a child less than 3 years old did not leave. He said to me, "Teacher, I still want to hear it." Looking at his firm and eager eyes, I took him back to the office with a music tape.
I still clearly remember that it was a song that great artists are very familiar with-Beethoven's Ode to Joy, which was expressed in the form of a chorus and accompanied by a symphony. The child sat on my desk, wearing big headphones (I turned the sound to the right volume) and listened to the music quietly. I watched the children quietly. At that moment, the child's eyes were full of spirituality, and his quiet face was full of love, as if life were swimming in the depths of music. That beautiful and pure expression made me really see a pure mental body. Feeling the state of the child, all I can do is rewind the tape over and over again. After 32 times, the child told me with satisfaction that he didn't listen, and then left the office happily. Before that, I only knew that repetition was a child's intellectual gymnastics. But that day, I deeply understood that children are nourishing their inner spiritual self with music.
The theory of multiple intelligences education holds that music is the innate ability of human beings. In other words, it is a part of life. When the pulse of our life beats for the first time, the wonderful melody accompanies the life in our body. Breath and blood, like the melody of life, begin to flow in our bodies. It can be seen that the nourishment of music to life begins with the arrival of life.
From pop music to classical music, from Chinese folk music to western music, as long as you are willing to blend with them with your life, how beautiful the music is and how elegant your life is!
Connect with limbs to regulate body and mind.
As a tool to carry life, human limbs truly reflect everyone's inner world at all times. This reaction is usually an unconscious state, for example, when the heart is afraid, the body will involuntarily contract; When the heart is happy, the body will gradually relax; When life is in pleasure for a long time, the body will appear very stretched. This kind of performance is more obvious in childhood, because children's lives are more sensitive and spiritual.
Therefore, by expressing your inner feelings through your body, this energy will be deeply stored in your life. Now popular yoga, modern dance, etc. It's all about strengthening the relationship between body and mind, and even finding spiritual life through body and breath. In the philosophy of yoga, human cultivation and purification can be divided into five levels:
The first layer is to make our limbs soft, relaxed and coordinated through asana training.
The second layer is through breathing exercises, so that the inner qi and blood can achieve a sense of patency.
When the breath is smooth and flowing, the inner wisdom will appear. This is the third level of purification.
Then, the inner self gradually emerges and matures.
Finally, the true meaning of life is not to stay in the true self, but to blend into the world and the universe as life matures. I think this is the love that Buddha hides in his life.
In terms of dance, isadora duncan, the pioneer of American "modern dance", regards dance as a lifelong activity to express and wash the soul.
Duncan's dance basically comes from improvisation, which usually shows the commanding heights of human spirit. She used dance to find the spiritual life and artistic aesthetics of the ancient Greeks. Many times, she stood alone in the studio, motionless, for hours at a time. It's just to have an epiphany at that time and then express yourself with body movements. During this period, she thought that the mind would be sublimated and could show the sanctity of life with the mind. So, when someone asked her who taught her to dance, she wrote in her memoirs: "The God of Dance taught me. I can dance when I can stand. I've been dancing all my life. Everyone in the world should dance. This was the case in the past and will be the case in the future. Some people tried to stop it. They don't want to understand that nature has given us this natural need. This is an unchangeable fact. " She said: "Before performing on stage, I must gather a force in my soul. When I have that power, my hands, feet and whole body will naturally dance, out of my control. If I don't have enough time to gather this power in my heart, I can't perform on stage. "
In fact, no matter what we do, if we want to reach a certain level, we need to combine with the energy inside our lives. With the music, we meditate quietly and let our breath flow with the slow rhythm. Then, with the inner feelings, the body dances spontaneously. At that moment, there was no other people's judgment, no self-denial, no good or bad, no can and can't. Some just connect music with nature, flowing and real limbs, so that it can be integrated with one's own soul. Life thus enters the spiritual light.