Savoring Music
“Savoring Music” introduces music as a practice in savoring, exploring our senses and expanding our imaginations. The introductory episode, “Savoring Breath,” asks the viewers to breathe to Bach’s famous Prelude No. 1.
We are “Human Beings,” not “Human Doings”
Studies show that deep breathing can reduce our fight or flight response. Breathing deeply breaks the cycle of panic. It releases tension, and helps you relax physically and mentally. Physiologically, anxiety can only last for ninety seconds. Anything longer than that is your consciousness perpetuating it. By learning to release your anxiety by breathing technique, you can reduce your stress and alleviate panic.
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Book Review. God: A Human History (2017)
2020-9 God: A Human History (2017) by Reza Aslan I listened to this book as an audio book in the car I picked this book up because I vaguely remembered hearing about it on NPR. I am not religious, nor is my native country. Although I did have casual association with Catholicism (my mom was
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In Sickness and in Health
This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on March 19, 2020, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. We promise our partners to love and cherish each other “in sickness and in health” when we get married. Weddings, funerals, graduations…at all of these ceremonies that mark the the
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Book Review: How to Age
2020-8 How to Age by Anne Karpf (2014) Two reasons for picking this book up: Its compact size that fits into my small shoulder bag, and that it was a prescriptive nonfiction. I found it at the library. It turned out not so much about HOW exactly to age, but how to resist the stereotype
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