Contemplative fieldnotes: My brother - a musician - asked me how he would go about using music to train attention. Playing around, using this masterpiece from James Holden - Renata https://youtu.be/2FmFXQSIzCo If anyone has played with music + meditation let me know.
I rarely use music in sitting practice, and I don't do a lot of other 'sound based' practices - mantra, chant, song.... But I've used it for 'trigger practice' as Shinzen would call it - which allowed me to untangle a lot of the 'sensory overload' that many aspies experience.
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I can. I noticed that if I was somewhere really loud my body would get tense, stomach would knot up, etc. But then one day I went to a Hookwoorns gig - very loud - and all the emotional energy in the body, anxiety and discomfort etc, began to change into intense pleasure....
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