Filed under: Contemplate, English | Tags: alpha, artist, balance, binaural beats, contribution, delta, difference, English, fibonacci, global, meditation, music, spiral, world
I did meet a Brazilian artist on the net and he is preparing a global meditation with binaural beats.
Binaural beats? Well, if you bring 100 Hz in one ear and 104 Hz in the other, your brain will make the difference to bring balance: 4 Hz. This way it is possible to get into Alpha or Delta without falling asleep.
This artist, Luiz Felipe Klein, wants to collect as many people as possible to meditate at the same day: 22 september, a contribution to the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFArfsRFOsE
I really love his music: he is using binaural beats, the sounds of whales and dolphins, nature sounds and in the end he even uses the principal of the fibonnaci spiral to create a climax.
Are you interested or do you want to hear some excerpts of his music?
Go to: http://globalmeditation.ning.com/
Music with a fibonacci spiral to heal the world? Sounds great!!!
Bea
Filed under: Beyondia, English | Tags: choose, English, focus, get clear, great work, invite others in, possibility, say no, say yes, short movie
In this 8 minutes movie you see 5 rules to create your great work…great stuff. To my opinion those rules do fit in other branches of life as well.
Hope you enjoy this movie as much as I do!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZF6vz5ThR0
Bea
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: ability, badhearing, beyond, brain, disability, ears, English, frequence, hearing, image, lichtenberg institute, more, research, sense, smell, taste, unique, vocal coach
About a week ago the three of us (running this blog) were having a conversation about abilities and disabilities and the opportunities this was creating for each of us.
I did study music at the conservatory in Antwerpen-Belgium and it wasn’t obvious because I am a badhearing. Bert (one of the three) was telling me that the word ’badhearing’ was giving me a negative image. He said: you are much, much more than that. But I am hearing bad so I started wondering about it.
I did my own investigation for years and at the soundorientated institute of Lichtenberg in Germany I discovered that our ears are doing much more than just hearing. Hearing is what you do when you pick up a sound in your ear and it ends up in you brain where you finally ‘hear’.
The other important role your ears do have is the possibility to sense. This sensitivity is directly communicating with your larynx and it adds a lot of colour and frequences to your sound. And this is something all of us can produce. What an ability!
So when I am coaching a voice I do smell, taste, feel, sense what is happening in a students’ mouth. Hard to explain but that’s the way it works for me. I’m reaching beyond the ‘normal’ way of hearing.
So Bert has right to say that badhearing isn’t the right word for me. But I do not find another word. It has something to do with hearing in a different way, feeling a sound, tasting and smelling frequences.
My disability became my own unique ability!!
My question to you: do you have any suggestion for a new word that suits me about the way I hear? Your suggestion or comment is more than welcome!
Bea
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: affect, chocolate, I can't sing, mouth, naked sound, overtones, smelling, sound, sweet, tasting, undertones, vocal coach
As a vocal coach people often tell me that they can’t sing. Then I ask them to produce a sound. After some hesitation they do but they also immediately claim: ‘you see, this is no singing!’ Then I say: ‘maybe but you have just produced a naked sound’.
You see, the basic of a sound is a sinus tone (you hear that quite well when you try to sing high notes: it often sounds very sharp without any colour). When you want to ‘colour’ that sound you have to allow overtones and undertones. You can compare it with an atom which has a nucleus or centre and a cloud of electrons moving around the nucleus. The cloud of electrons are the overtones and undertones. They do give your voice its personal colour. To be able to produce them you have to make use of the acoustic possibilities in your head: the mouth, the throat, …etc.
At this point I do stop giving information and let them experience:
Take a small piece of chocolate (or honey or marmelade or something you like and that melts quite quickly in your mouth).
First take a smell of the chocolate and try to situate the places in your mouth were you are smelling or tasting it already.
Then put it on the middle of your tongue. Close your mouth and keep it there about 10-15 seconds. Your salivary glands will react immediately, be aware and try not to swallow yet. Now start to rub the chocolate with your tongue against your palate. Finally swallow the chocolate. Be aware of all the places you experience the chocolate, the texture of it, the smell, the satisfaction.
After you swallowed it, keep on going observating what is happening in your mouth. Now you will be fully aware of all the acoustic places of your mouth and a bit of your throat. If you feel comfortable produce a sound being fully aware of the chocolate experience. It will affect your sound and now your are singing a sweet chocolate sound.
The more you enjoy tasting a sound, the more a public will enjoy the taste of it too. It is like drinking wine: the more you are aware of smelling and tasting it the more you will enjoy the bouquet.
this way a naked sound will be surrounded by overtones and undertones and end up in a rich and colourful result everyone is enjoying, yourself included.
Sing chocolate!
Bea
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: brainstorming, conversation, denie, discussion, English, failure, feeling, lie, statement, success
I had several conversations last week about the feeling of not being good enough. What is failure and what is success? We were also talking about pleasing people in order to make sure you were taken care of. Even if you have to lie or to denie yourself (often as a kid we do). This way it is hard to be successful and failure is the easy one to catch. Is this true? Or is it just a black and white statement?
Yesterday after some brainstorming on my own , I came up with next sentence:
THERE IS NO SUCH A THING AS FAILURE EXCEPT IN THE MIND OF PEOPLE
What do you think about it? What is your experience on this subject?
Bea
Filed under: English | Tags: beyond, dance, dream, English, fibonacci, limits, own, rollercoaster
A festival…one guy starts to dance…on his own for quite some time…
Watch what happens!
Do you recognize? 1 1 2 3 5 8 13…..
One man starts to dance…suddenly a second one is showing up and now they are two of them. A bit later number three is joining the party. Very quickly you see two more and then they are five….three more and then they are eight…4 and 1 more then they are 13 and now it is speeding up like a rollercoaster….
What would happen if we all keep believing in our ‘dance’???
Something to ponder!
Dream beyond your limits and dance!!!!
Bea
Filed under: English | Tags: beyond, collected, English, firm, hara, limits, secret, self, vocal coach
As a vocal coach and the creator of the Natural Corset training I cannot tell you enough how important the hara is.
For those who are not acquainted to this subject:
“Hara, or balancing point or gravity point, is the vital center of the self, the focus of existence . It is a prime factor of all human life. The hara is an area located one and a half inch below the navel and one and a half inches inward toward the spine.
A person with a good hara will stand upright, firm and collected. The body would not easily be toppled over if pushed.”
What does this mean in practice?
One day I was giving a workshop and I wanted to demonstrate this principal. I asked for a volunteer to push me away. A young man, about twenty years of age, came forward. He really had very strong arm-muscles. (he looked a bit like Arnold Schwarzenegger). Honestly I was a bit worried. Was my hara that developed that I could resist his pushing me away? But I easily did. It was quite embarrassing for him so I told him my ‘secret’.
David was a student in one of my music classes. He was eight years old and very tiny for his age. He looked quite insecure and after a little while I figured out that they were bullying him on the playground.
I asked him: Do you want to learn how to be strong and how you can resist them without fighting? He didn’t want to believe that anything could possibly help him but I made him curious. We started practising how to use the hara. A bit nervous but very enthusiast he left my classroom. A week later (I do have my students once a week) he ran towards me, completely overexcited: miss, miss, I did it! I did it! They stopped bullying me and some of them already want to play with me!
I can assure you: nothing in the world can pay me for those shiny eyes and big smile of a person who has conquered something and went beyond his or her own limits!!
Cherish your hara!
Bea
Filed under: Beyondia, English | Tags: beyond, connect, fibonacci, golden ratio, habits, multiply, rabbits
As earlier mentioned we are inspired by the Fibonacci sequence of numbers…one of us said to the other: I am interested to start a blog about ‘blablabla’. The other answered: strange I got the same idea. Great….let’s connect and start together. Two days later one called the other and said: guess what! I know someone who is really interested in joining us….and then we were three of us….end of story??? I guess not…
0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 ect…
Leonardo da Pisa (1170-1250) didn’t invent this sequence of numbers but added zero and used this in his book ’Liber Abaci’ to proof the way rabbits were multiplying.
I hope we will multiply as fast as, but not as rabbits !!
Leonardo da Pisa …Fibonacci? Nickname of his dad was bonaccio (goodnatured) and he became filius bonacci…Fibonacci (son of Bonaccio)
I like Fibonacci! He’s Italian. As a young boy he travelled the Middle-East. He got his education in the North of Africa…a perfect mixture, a man of the world, going and growing beyond habits (or rabbits?)!!
Even more special: the higher up in the sequence, the closer it will approach the golden ratio….a thing of beauty is a joy forever!!
Let’s go Beyondia!
Bea
