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Let Go, Learn To Play And Change With The Native American Flute
Author : John Stillwell
I was listening to a flute CD that someone had sent me. It was an exuberant, openhearted expression of pure joy. To the discerning - might I say critical - mind it did not conform to the established standards of 'good music'. But it's limitations in that respect was more than compensated for by its enthusiasm. The Native American style flute is helping to liberate many of us from our habit of evaluating and criticizing everything. Especially as this behavior applies to self-criticism.
Why can't we just relax and have fun? Why are we so hard on ourselves? The culture of correctness and perfection has taken 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. We live under a dark cloud of our own creation. Actually, we didn't create it.
This type of behavior started when we were children. Constant criticism of our performance. We were always doing it wrong. Who doesn't? Life is a learning process in which we must have the freedom to make mistakes without fear of criticism. It is not in the scheme of things that we will get it 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. Trying to play it 'right' is like wanting the sun to shine in 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 light the sunlight to be brighter or softer than you do? What if I don't care? Who dares set the standards for what is the right amount of sunlight for a 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.
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My name is John Stillwell. I live and work in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree California. For more than ten years I have devoted myself to making and playing the Native American style flute. This flute is an instrument that anyone can play. No prior musical experience is necessary. For more information about me, flute history, flute playing lessons and how to make flutes visit my website http://www.atflutes.com
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Tags: Native American flute, Native American flutes, Indian flute, Indian flutes, Love flute, Native Indian flute, Native Indian flutes, Love flutes, playing the Native American flute
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Submitted : 2010-07-15 Word Count : 1 Popularity: 270