Mindfulness

This is not an exhaustive list. These are the truths that I have been thinking about in recent weeks and I am sure you all know some more. Socrates asked questions to expose that those who were certain should admit the gaps in their knowledge. There are so many things that are not proven nor will ever be proven. So much that is unknown and will probably be always unknown. So what are the things that we can hold onto? Well, I think it comes from a lot of observations about life. These are my truths about life. I hope to hear yours. Because there are few truths in life we should never be afraid to experiment, read, travel, dialogue, and get ourselves out of our comfort zone. The pursuit of truth is not a safe venture it is a vulnerable one. We are not the experts on everything and to acknowledge that means to be wiser than those who do not see that. Speaking our truth is better than wallowing in things that are left unsaid or left undone. It will create internal or external conflict t...

I am a big believer in the practice of mindfulness. This is the practice of learning how to get the mind to focus on a present task, so that you can drown out the noise and in return it usually gives perspective on where you are in life right now. Most of us follow busy routines and get pulled in a million directions. The only time we really get a break is when we sleep. Yet, studies have shown our sleep seems to be dwindling as well. We as a generation are work-a-holics and we are sending those messages to our youth. Our youth has never been more stressed than they are today. I can point you to many studies, if you disagree, I have loads. Our kids our stressed. Our kids are stressed because they are being raised by stressed parents and taught by stressed teachers. We are modeling this behavior and many of our youth are internalizing these unhealthy ways of always being busy or stimulated. So the new wave of teaching social-emotional learning and mindfulness in the classroom or at ho...

Millennials are beginning to fall into the older person pattern of claiming musical superiority over the younger generations. I am here to throw some things at you to think about before we get entrenched into this thinking. Music is many things to people it feels a bit wrong to write off any genre or generation of music. I think before I get to my main point we need to explore how important music is to people. Music, along with any type of art, is a place for people to feel understood. People are drawn to music that showcases how they feel or represents their worldview in many ways. It is a place to escape, to have a voice, to connect, to reflect, and to display the psychology of the people living today. Music, if we think about it, is really power and history. Post-World War I the art showed us that the people in Europe were lost, destroyed, and distrustful of their governments. You can feel the loom of World War II and the rise of fascist dictators preying on those desperate feelin...