Writers need other artists just like we all need air. Truth is, everyone needs art, music and writing to feed our soul, our sense of groundedness and interconnection.
Julia Cameron, author of The Artists Way talks about it as "filling the well".
Here are the musicians I listened to while writing my novel and my health book. I don't know if I could have made it without them, but I'm so glad I didn't have to try. They gave lift to my wings, may I do the same for them. Some are so famous you'll have heard of them long ago, while others are lesser known or largely unknown. Music, art and words produce resonance within us--frequencies that can heal.
As I talk about in my book Your Best Health by Friday, our unacknowledged emotions are lodged within us, creating inflammation, which leads to disease. Music can help us release them through emotional resonance. Those who have had a difficult childhood are set up for disease later in life. Of those, the nicer ones are often some of the most loaded with unacknowledged emotions. According to Dr. Gabor Maté, author of When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, the very kindest, most emotionally repressed people seem to be more likely to get ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. People who are givers, who take care of others emotionally and who never are good enough for their loved ones seem more likely to suffer breast cancer. The disease connections go way beyond these two examples. It was good incentive for me to take on my emotions. Maybe it will be for you too?
If you listen to music and you feel uncomfortable, it's a sign there are unprocessed emotions you would do well to release. It might be easier to do so through music at first than it is to go into old memories--and especially because our old memories may be repressed, it might be the only pathway in at first. I'm including links to the first four bands, since they're lesser known artists:
As I talk about in my book Your Best Health by Friday, our unacknowledged emotions are lodged within us, creating inflammation, which leads to disease. Music can help us release them through emotional resonance. Those who have had a difficult childhood are set up for disease later in life. Of those, the nicer ones are often some of the most loaded with unacknowledged emotions. According to Dr. Gabor Maté, author of When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, the very kindest, most emotionally repressed people seem to be more likely to get ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. People who are givers, who take care of others emotionally and who never are good enough for their loved ones seem more likely to suffer breast cancer. The disease connections go way beyond these two examples. It was good incentive for me to take on my emotions. Maybe it will be for you too?
If you listen to music and you feel uncomfortable, it's a sign there are unprocessed emotions you would do well to release. It might be easier to do so through music at first than it is to go into old memories--and especially because our old memories may be repressed, it might be the only pathway in at first. I'm including links to the first four bands, since they're lesser known artists:
Phantasmata
Iron & Wine
Lucius
Asgier
Coldplay
Enya
Feist
Jordin Sparks
Goo Goo Dolls
Gotye
Imogene Heap
Katy Perry
Kelly Clarkson
Kate Campbell
Priscilla Ahn
Rob Thomas
Sarah McLachlan
Shawn Colvin
Sheryl Crow
Taylor Swift
Tears for Fears
Train
Vampire Weekend
Vangelis
The Villains
Whitney Houston
Iron & Wine
Lucius
Asgier
Coldplay
Enya
Feist
Jordin Sparks
Goo Goo Dolls
Gotye
Imogene Heap
Katy Perry
Kelly Clarkson
Kate Campbell
Priscilla Ahn
Rob Thomas
Sarah McLachlan
Shawn Colvin
Sheryl Crow
Taylor Swift
Tears for Fears
Train
Vampire Weekend
Vangelis
The Villains
Whitney Houston