Please take a big breath in as you raise your shoulders to your ears, and drop them as you breath out completely. End smile, even if you have to force, and sing. You can hum to yourself, or really sing out loud. Any song. Too much focus on the source of the stress can be destructive. It can lead to an excess induction of the stress hormones and adrenaline, undermining your executive functions.
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According to neuroscience, you cannot wait for motivations to come to you. You have to start whatever you want to be motivated to do. Starting is your responsibility. Motivation kicks in after you start. When I really wonder if I really have to practice today too, I put a timer on for twenty minutes and tell myself, I can take a break, or even a day off, if I still wanted to after twenty minutes. Usually, by the time the timer comes on, I want to keep on going. Let’s not ask “WHY” we do what we have committed ourselves to doing, but “HOW” to keep on going, when it feels difficult.
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When: Sundays, Aug. 23 & 30 at 11:30-12:30 (PT)/2:30-3:30 (ET)
Admission: Free (All donations will go directly to the performers)
Program: Beethoven Piano Sonata No 14, Op. 27-2 first mov (“Moonlight”), Scriabin Nocturne for the Left Hand, and Rachmaninoff Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 3-2.
For more details and reservation, please go to https://cmcollab.org/
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How about little musical cues before the beginning of every online classes, or time to to their homework? Maybe a chime? A little call-and-response? It could even be a ringtone. It does not matter what it is as long as there is an understanding between you and the children. It’s like a very small ritual of conditioning, like Pavlov’s dog.
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The phrase âhistory is written by the victorsâ rang in my ears during a recent conversation with a friend. He asserted that history, as a narrative, needed simplicity; and that its need for simplicity prohibited it from embracing all perspectives and that there will always be the voiceless. In reaction, I thought that may be one of the powers of culture, art and creativity was to give voice to the voiceless.