Lost Opportunity, refers to all those times I missed the signals, failed to take the leap of faith, didn't recognize or understand what others were feeling/wanting. From my own hang ups and fears, a lost soul, living in a fish bowl, running over the same old ground, what have I found, the same old fears. I've learned in my twenty eight years to say yes, I've never regretted the things I tried, the chances I took, even when I fail or are rebuffed, even when they don't work out or even when they hurt.
Music seems like it as always been in my life my musical taste are wide and varied, folk, country, rock, blues, punk, grunge, gospel. Performing always turns me on, I always thought it was the performing, but have come to realize it is more about the music and how it makes me feel, a note, a beat, the perfect harmony..
Music is my drug, my aphrodisiac, this is not a new thought, people have used music during sex for centuries, the Greeks & Romans paid musicians to play during orgies. By definition, auralism means that you are aroused by sound. How this looks, though, can vary from person to person. People that are specifically aroused by sounds are practicing mindful sensuality without even realizing it. A study from McGill University in Montreal suggests that the euphoria you experience while enjoying music is triggered by the same brain chemical system that gives humans pleasurable feelings associated with sex and recreational drugs. Some people smoke for it, snort for it, put needles in their veins for it, to get the feeling I get singing and playing my old guitar. The movie of my life mite suck but the soundtrack would kick ass.
The idea of music as a healing influence which could affect health and behavior is as least as old as the writings of Aristotle and Plato. The 20th century discipline began after World War I and World War II when community musicians of all types, both amateur and professional, went to Veterans hospitals around the country to play for the thousands of veterans suffering both physical and emotional trauma from the wars. The patients' notable physical and emotional responses to music led the doctors and nurses to request the hiring of musicians by the hospitals. It was soon evident that the hospital musicians needed some prior training before entering the facility and so the demand grew for a college curriculum. The first music therapy degree program in the world was founded at Michigan State University in 1944. The American Music Therapy Association was founded in 1998 as a union of the National Association for Music Therapy and the American Association for Music therapy.
