Music and Laughter the Ultimate Panaceas

So true, I really do love music...and the love fortune is that I love how you love music...I have to say it is one of the things I spend a lot of my budget on...in spin class I sing along...if it's got a good groove I'm bopping my head...it's as if the music is controlling me...or better it's setting me free.  And the truth is I'm an idiot savant...a song will come on and I'll be able to say I love that song and maybe even sing along but I probably can't tell you the name and/or who is singing it...may be one but rarely both...and if the song isn't playing my recollection is way down the hill...and the funny thing I wake up with a song in my head every morning and when it gets to a certain repetition level or volume, I know it's time to get up.  Sometimes I'm convinced the song has meaning.  Although this morning I woke up with Abba's Chiquita, I knew it was Abba but had to go back to my itunes to listen in full and interestingly this song is reminding me of last night.   I met a friend that is in angst over his career after he had a disappointing dinner with his mentor.  And if I had thought of it maybe I would have played this song for him and saved a lot of other words.  I'm convinced my ipod is shuffle.  I don't necessarily use it like a Crazy 8 ball by asking a question and hitting shuffle... mostly I have it on shuffle and when I'm pondering a question or issue in my mind as I walk (as I go no where without my ipod in my ears (unless I'm with a friend, I'm not rude)) the perfect song comes up.

And I have some recent pop music however as you can tell by my Abba admission, my repertoire is far from cool, I have kirtans, gospel, show tunes, folk, tunes from my youth like, Bobby Sherman, Jackson 5 ...but tomorrows morning song may be Lou Reed, the Doors or Lenny Kravitz

I think music is like poetry that you can dance to.  It is a way of expression that I like to use when I am not feeling eloquent or able to move from an uncomfortable mental or emotional state.  Or I use it to help me move my emotions.  When I'm feeling stuck I like the song Surrender by Guara Vani or Use Me by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir.  And interestingly when I am super angry and I need to real it in, you may think I'd want something peaceful but that would be false.  When I'm really angry...angry like I want to emmasculate or castrate someone...I don't go there often, yet it happens... and I know that I need to reel it in....a peaceful song would be like a friend saying breath to me during a rant or rage, to which I would then reply FUCK YOU!!!.   So I like to fight fire with fire which actually is how they put out forest fires.  When a forest fire is too big they set another one up in the vicinity.  They do this because fire needs oxygen to survive.   So the other intentional fire also needs oxygen and since they are close to each other they both sucks the air out of each others and both fires go out.  So foolish friends for saying breath to me, that would just feed my inner fire as my F.U. retort to breathing recommendation implied.  I like to use this over the top expression angry song to suck the air out of my fire...

Now I'm wondering if it's the mutual anger sucking the anger or because this sone is over the top and in truth it makes me laugh...and we know we need oxygen to laugh too (have you ever had someone laugh so hard they say they can't breath anymore)...perhaps the laughter takes the oxygen out of my rage and interestingly the rage goes away but the laughter stays were two fires kill each other off.  I knew laughter was a great panacea.  So yes music and laughter, both great panaceas... And who would have thought that someone saying that they love my love for music would lead to laughter is a great panacea...so I guess I also need to play the following...and I love the paradox of the two songs.  I know I've played this song before but I love the beginning part of this version too and this one has lyrics so please sing and laugh along.

P.S.  I'm not against using breath work to relax but there is a time and place for everything.