![]() ![]() Even if you are not a master musician, you can still enjoy the song. Every step along the way, each brief space between the notes, is nourishing and restorative. Fortunately, almost every meditation session or yoga practice benefits the body and mind, even if there is a lot of mental activity. Achieving a true meditative state is a very difficult challenge. Almost all of us have trouble being truly quiet for even the briefest of moments. It is a process that takes months and years. As your thought process – your string of notes – gets slower, the spaces between the notes will get longer, like the space in a Miles Davis trumpet solo. So a quarter note with four dots above (or below, depending on the stem being up or down). Often times people start to philosophize about this and how it is applicable to life and such as for example in what I found online: Claude Debussy said, Music is the space between the notes. They may be hard to find, but patiently watching and waiting for them, they sometimes begin to appear. Its shorthand for writing out a series of faster repeated notes. The common interpretation of this is that it’s the pauses in between the notes which makes the music. As you become quiet, calmer and more observant, see if you can be aware of these spaces. Adding More Spaceīetween each of these individual thoughts there is, however small it may be, some amount of space. Just beginning to observe this activity, becoming conscious of it, will cause the thoughts to move at a slower pace the mind becomes calmer. Each of them arrives in your mind and departs from your mind. ![]() To move toward a quiet mind, the next time you are sitting for meditation or lying in savasana, imagine the usual string of mental chatter as a series of individual thoughts like notes in a melody. Our active minds are besieged by series of thoughts and impressions. How do we achieve a quiet mind? Practices such as yoga and mindfulness are good preparation, but there are additional helpful concepts and exercises that can enhance the experience. Thoughts and disturbances are the notes, images or text. If comparing a mind in that moment to music or design, it might be thought of as the space between the notes or the white space on a page. Whether the mind is completely filled by the breath, a yoga pose or true silence, in this state, it is not distracted by thoughts or outside occurrences. A Quiet MindĪ quiet mind in a meditative state is fully absorbed and present. The concept that what is not there is more important than what is there can also be applied to meditation, whether it is seated meditation or an active yoga class. In a similar vein, graphic designers, whether for it’s for the printed page or a website, speak of the value of white space, areas without text or images. “Music is the space between the notes,” is a quote attributed to French composer Claude Debussy, with jazz trumpeter Miles Davis famously expressing similar ideas several decades later. ![]()
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