Mindfulness and Music Workshop with Terry Oldfield at IYC Sotogrande
Many of us may remember Terry Oldfield as the gifted flute player from the famous 1973 Tubular Bells, composed by his brother Mike Oldfield. Terry and his wife Soraya Saraswati now travel the world bringing their magical music to workshops in the context of mindfulness practice. Founder of the Integral Yoga Centre Gibraltar and Sotogrande (Spain), Nalanie Chellaram, graciously hosted the event which was attended to full capacity.
Being mindful is about bringing your attention to the present moment, with intention, self-compassion and non-judgment. It is a practice of observing the quality of our thoughts. What are our pre-dominant thoughts? Are they positive in the main, or are they negative? How do we see the world? Do we focus on pain, gossip, suffering, criticism or do we celebrate joy, success, health, gratitude and abundance? What thoughts do we choose to think? Or are we thinking ‘unconsciously’?
The present moment is the only thing that is real. Without a mindful practice we may spend most of our lives oscillating between thoughts of the past and the future, neither of which exist. The past has gone. We can never ‘catch up’ with the future. All we truly have is the present moment. Many who feel stuck in their lives, without being able to move forward may be replaying a traumatic incident that happened to them in the past, over and over in their minds in their present. The mind does not distinguish between past and present; this means that when we recall a traumatic event, our emotional and physical bodies will react to the recalled event, almost with the same intensity with which it was felt/ suffered at the time.
Reliving these negative experiences in the present, can take us on a downward spiral emotionally, leading to stress, anxiety and depression. But we are reacting to something that no longer exists! In order to become ‘unstuck’ we must bring our thoughts to what is real, in the present moment. By doing so we can check in with ourselves, understand that we are safe in this moment, that what happened has passed, we can accept and acknowledge what happened to us, process the anger, humiliation, frustration, let go of our attachment to that event and open up to the healing process. Only then can we change the quality of our thoughts and therefore the quality of our life experience.
Scientists commonly work with healing frequencies. When listening to the right frequency of music, we can find peace of mind and heal.
Soraya says, “At the bottom of the emotional scale we have depression and we have grief and the top of that emotional scale is joy, peace and pure love. Our life dances between those two scales”.
Terry adds, “We tend to look outside for the solution to things. The big shift comes when we start to look within. The right music will come to those open to it. This is the magic.”
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