You can't find a more effective antidote than music to the emotional stress in response to the competitive working environment of these days. Are you tired of the heavy workload, unkind treatment or plain rudeness? Well, nothing could fix your problem better than a piano piece by Mozart, to be played at home in the evening, in the coziness of your bedroom. Those gentle yet merry sounds will make you hopeful again, offsetting by themselves your rough handling by the external world.
Does your profession entail a lot of mental or physical effort, you being a broker, lawyer or doctor and, as such, you need plenty of relaxation, though not of a total kind, but of an active and intellectual type? Well, listen to Berlioz's witches or to a Prokofiev piano sonata played by Sviatoslav Richter, and see if the humor combined with coolness wouldn't cheer you up, preparing you for perfectly handling any further pressure.
Is your marriage on the rocks and are you trying to revive romance? A candlelit dinner in your beach house might be the very thing needed, especially if aided by some Chopin sonata, with its passionate yet diaphanous feel, played by Dinu Lipatti, or, if you'd like an impressive voice, any of Janis Joplin's heartfelt love songs. But, perhaps, it's a holiday romance you are having, while on some exchange program overseas. How about Axl Rose's plaintive and yet ardent 'Since I Don't Have You', while having a romantic dinner in the roof garden above your dorm, overlooking a beautiful European city at night?
Are you a cultivated or religious person who cherishes beauty or transcendence above all and the ways it's embodied in human art? Then, you are surely no stranger to the complicated, yet uplifting 'The Art of Fugue' by Bach. If, on the opposite, you are a human body worshiper, appreciating values such as youth, freedom and sharing, nothing could make you feel more alive than some 'AC/DC' or 'Black Sabbath' performance. In other words, either vocal or instrumental, music can make you forget stress, feel romantic, transcendent or social.
Imagine then how much happier you could feel, were you able to sing or play an instrument yourself! Let's say, for instance, that there is an easy and fast technique to learn piano, not requiring knowledge of traditional music notation or practicing since little, stuck as it were to your piano stool. Let's say that all you'd have to do is to play with numbers and colors, so that to recognize patterns and assimilate them. Wouldn't you feel at least like trying, whether for having fun, feeling good about yourself or impressing the others? Think a little!
Does your profession entail a lot of mental or physical effort, you being a broker, lawyer or doctor and, as such, you need plenty of relaxation, though not of a total kind, but of an active and intellectual type? Well, listen to Berlioz's witches or to a Prokofiev piano sonata played by Sviatoslav Richter, and see if the humor combined with coolness wouldn't cheer you up, preparing you for perfectly handling any further pressure.
Is your marriage on the rocks and are you trying to revive romance? A candlelit dinner in your beach house might be the very thing needed, especially if aided by some Chopin sonata, with its passionate yet diaphanous feel, played by Dinu Lipatti, or, if you'd like an impressive voice, any of Janis Joplin's heartfelt love songs. But, perhaps, it's a holiday romance you are having, while on some exchange program overseas. How about Axl Rose's plaintive and yet ardent 'Since I Don't Have You', while having a romantic dinner in the roof garden above your dorm, overlooking a beautiful European city at night?
Are you a cultivated or religious person who cherishes beauty or transcendence above all and the ways it's embodied in human art? Then, you are surely no stranger to the complicated, yet uplifting 'The Art of Fugue' by Bach. If, on the opposite, you are a human body worshiper, appreciating values such as youth, freedom and sharing, nothing could make you feel more alive than some 'AC/DC' or 'Black Sabbath' performance. In other words, either vocal or instrumental, music can make you forget stress, feel romantic, transcendent or social.
Imagine then how much happier you could feel, were you able to sing or play an instrument yourself! Let's say, for instance, that there is an easy and fast technique to learn piano, not requiring knowledge of traditional music notation or practicing since little, stuck as it were to your piano stool. Let's say that all you'd have to do is to play with numbers and colors, so that to recognize patterns and assimilate them. Wouldn't you feel at least like trying, whether for having fun, feeling good about yourself or impressing the others? Think a little!
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