understanding music: first stop

I always thought music has a fascinating way of connecting thoughts to feelings and also gain a spiritual base inside of us. It's beyond lyrics, melodies, rhythm & genres. It's the feel. I conclude that feel is derived from our desires and the voices within us. The voices I'm speaking of are the nafsu and the good inside of us; our faith. In short, the way we feel music entirely depends on us that also means our choices are limited to what we feel. The problem right now is not all of us feel the way we're meant to feel to the extent that the music is providing the feel instead when it should be the other way round. That's destroying music and us. I believe if we know how to feel music, we would be a much better individual. I'd like to explore that; making the connection from feeling music to becoming a more spiritual and enlightened individual. Ultimately, proper music listening is closely related with one's Faith. Music here is just another entity for us to relate to ourselves better, as a whole, I hope to accomplish this journey in a way that the way we feel towards everything will change for the better.

In this space I will document whatever thoughts and conclusions I draw in the path to understanding music in a spiritual way. So on this journey, I'll make stops to jot down my findings and with that being said, there is no definite period when I'll update this space. But right now, I reached my first stop.

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Experience

There's a lot of things happening when we listen to music. It's like playing an old film of memories at the back of our head. The only thing is that, the one rolling the film is the Evil one most of the times, you have no control over what is being played. I noticed that if we get entertained to that film of memories, our following choice of music to play will be greatly affected. For example, not a very creative one but I believe all of us can relate to.. you're feeling extremely lazy one hot afternoon and you have a list of chores to do. Now you're sitting in front of your PC playing some music, obviously, you don't want to do the chores. Now the current play list you have going is something very hype and energetic and naturally you will switch the play list to some mellow trip hop and suddenly that becomes a reason for you to go for a quick nap. That's one example of the Evil one pulling some strings to kill your music experience. I labeled proper music listening experience as when the music playing is assisting you to think and feel the Right way. You don't listen to music for it become a reason, you listen to music to accommodate what you're reasoning is. The music experience will help you to appreciate, do, paint a more positively desired picture.
 

Atmosphere (Mindset)

Where and how we listen to music affects the whole experience. The atmopshere, people around you, your surrounding thoughts will either assist or distort your whole music experience. An ugly landscape can be a spiritually beautiful place with the proper mindset. Also a beautiful place can be a very ugly place if you don't have the right mindset. Our aim is make everything we listen and view a beautiful and positive thing with the help of music. I also realized, if you're feeling bored and want to make listening to a music as something to entertain yourself, it won't work out. You will feel terrible. I'm not sure of the reason but I believe it is because you have no proper mindset, no targets, in short you don't really know what to expect and how to feel. That is the key thing to appreciate music, you must know what kind of feel you're trying to bring forward.

That's it for now. I'll try to expand a bit more in this first stop during this coming weekend. Please feel free to drop your thoughts, arguments & comments.