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Let Go, Learn to Play and Change with the Native American Flute
I received a Love flute music CD in the mail. The music was an expression of pure joy. To the discerning/critical mind the CD did not conform to the standards of 'good music'. But this limitation was over come by the enthusiasm and joy in the playing. The Native American style flute is helping to liberate many of us from evaluating and criticizing everything. The Indian flute can help us overcome our self-critical behavior patterns.
Why can't we just relax and have fun? Why are we so hard on ourselves? the current culture or correctness and perfection can take the fun out of life. Playing the Indian flute or expressing our selves in other ways should be based on freedom from fear on criticism, especially self-criticism. Otherwise we are perpetually caught in the spot light. The spotlight where everyone is looking at us. And if we don't do it right there will be a price to pay. That price is self-respect. Holding ourselves up to impossible standards or other people's standards means that we are always setting ourselves up to fail. When we are self critical we are living under a cloud of our own creation. Actually, we didn't create it.
It started when we were children. Constant criticism of our performance. We were always doing it wrong. Who doesn't? Life is a learning process and we must have the freedom to make mistakes without fear of criticism. Nobody gets if right all the time - or even most of the time. Practice, practice, practice - until we end up hating what we are doing. We may become good at it but we're not having fun anymore. So what's the point?
In tune? We can become so devoted to being in tune we're dead to joy. Making a fetish out of playing it right is like wanting the sun to shine the same way every day. 'That's the way it should shine' say the purists. Not too bright. Not too dull. Just this way and this way only. What if I like it a little brighter? What if I don't care? Can anyone set standards for the perfect sunny day?
When, with an open heart, we grant others the right to play any why they please and are capable of we are released from our own self-criticism. Life is a Circle of such diversity that there is room for every individual and every song. Let the breath of life go out through your flute into a receptive world. You can change your life and perhaps the world one song at a time.
About the Author
My name is John Stillwell. I have a woodworking shop in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree California. I make unique hand crafted Native American style flutes. You too can play the flute. It's easy. For more information about me, flute playing lessons and the history and craft of flute-making visit my website
http://www.atflutes.com
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