How to use the meditations
1. Find a quiet place where you will not be disturbed.
2. Read through the whole meditation a few times, then put it down.
3. Sit in a position both comfortable and alert.
4. Allow the meditation 10 minutes or so in your imagination. Do not give up before this time; stay with it.
5. Allow another 10 minutes for recording what happened. Allow events to develop as you record. |
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MEDITATION 9
THE ENDURING SONG
The "fixed song" forms the basis of all polyphonic music.
Its origins lie in the plainsong of cathedrals and monasteries in the Middle Ages.
The fixed song would be sung by one of the voices – perhaps a tenor. And the other voices would create other music around it.
These other voices went in many directions; the music could develop in an infinite number of ways. But beneath the variety was always the home tune, the fixed song, from which all else flowed.
Imagine
You are an orchestral arrangement; a choir of different voices.
What sort of music do you play to the world?
What is the style of music you produce?
What effect do you hope it has?
As you play now, can you see the people's faces and reactions?
Perhaps you sing different tunes in different places.
But beneath the varied music of your life is your fixed song, from which all your other music flows.
Can you hear it?
Fixed songs vary – for some it is happiness, for some despair; for some, contentment, for others, fear. For some anger or depression, for others, delight or adventure.
Do you have one? For good or ill, do you have a fixed song?
Is it a good song? Is it working for you? Might it need to be changed?
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