Overcoming physical Blocks with wingwave music
(from the book: 'wingwave – like the wing beat of a butterfly' – Cora Besser-Siegmund and Harry Siegmund, Junfermann Publishers, Paderborn 2010)
- Try to sense in which part of your body you feel uncomfortable / tense / stressed.
- Describe the feeling in your body with words: 'pressurizing, stabbing, circulating (eg in the case of tension or an unpleasant feeling in your stomach)
- develop an image from these words, a metaphor:
- what does the feeling look like?
- how does it sound perhaps?
- Formulate words for your image: 'It's as though a stone were pressing against it, as if I were carrying a rucksack..'
- Or imagine the discomfort in more concrete terms: X-ray image, reddened tissue, tense muscle strand etc?
- Now put on your headphones and listen to the music
- Now think the words described and look at or listen to the image/metaphor. Think these contents to the rhythm of the music.
- If you notice a small change, formulate words and sentences such as
- 'The feeling is slipping downwards'
- 'It's rising like a wave'
- 'Something is dissolving'
- Repeat these sentences or words inside yourself like a mantra to music.
- Allow yourself to think of other things:
- 'I'm thinking about my work'.
- 'Which emotion matches this?'
- 'Which feeling is developing in my body?'
- 'Which word or images describe this feeling?' Etc.
- 'Then return to your body perception.
- When the first pleasant emotions, feelings, associations emerge, continue in the same manner:
- compose what you sense and feel in words: 'It's light, it feels free..etc,'
- Find images and metaphors
- Perceive and think positive words, images and metaphors in rhythm with the music
- Continue the process until you achieve optimum relaxation/until you achieve the best possible result
Grade:
The experience runs in waves: each up and down is allowed, sensed in the manner described, focused with words and thoughts and then 'let go' again.
- Symbols for the initiation of balancing, calming effect:
- breathing deeply
- distinctive swallowing
- yawning