We can all safely admit that this has to be one of the weirdest times of our lives.

 

With the new-age of COVID-19, the world’s been forced to transform ways of living through social distancing, cleanliness habits, and beyond. Personally, with so much time being spent in my room and away from friends, it’s been a deep inward journey for transformation within myself.

None can run away from their own thoughts (especially during quarantine!). But you can learn to slow down, stop, and simply turn around to look at what is really chasing you. And that’s been the motivation for many of my days.

“Easier said than done.”

 

Fuck. Tell me about it. But I’ve been learning to patiently make progress by the inches.

When we get so identified with our life story, our thoughts, our emotions, it distracts us from ourselves. The attention is having to jump across too many things to deal with in the span of a day before returning back home. It’s all good until you stop coming back home and continuous attention to thoughts becomes your default mental pattern. You begin to feel detached from yourself because you’re incessantly consuming information that is randomly generated from your thoughts. It becomes tiring.

On the other hand, I’ve realized that activities that require me to focus or become intensely aware of just one or a few things keep me centered and closer to myself.

 

Training my own voice forces me to deal with a limited set of physical sensations in order to tailor my singing for musical needs.

Working with my students as a vocal coach motivates me to pour all my attention to their demonstrations in order to decide the best move forward for their development in singing.

Even cooking, songwriting, listening to a talk, working on this blog post, all are things that require me to limit my attention to a handful of things. It forces me to adapt & deal with them.

 

Beyond the material necessity of these activities, it has proven to be extremely essential for my mental well-being.

 

I’m not over-blowing my system with a large number of thoughts. Instead, I’m allowing a limited number of these thoughts and learning to manage them!

It has made me rediscover my ability to slow the fuck down and stay there.

We find mindfulness in all kinds of activities that we do in everyday life. I’ve been learning to accept this fact more and more and welcome the quality of being.

To constantly but patiently work the metaphorical lever of awareness to explore your own nature is supremely interesting!

 

I urge everybody to innovatively discover their own ways of accessing their sense of awareness.

I started a weekly routine of writing these little one-minute ‘songs’ (I see it more like a poem or haiku activity but with all things music) to affectionately engage myself regularly with my thoughts but also my musical skills and more importantly, with my own awareness. :)

Wanna leave you with ‘nomad’s tune’ which kinda inspired me to write this post.

Love