There has been an explosion of great blog posts in the past week, and I want to share them with you. They have enhanced my every day practice of self-care, wellness, and music therapy.
Self-care & Wellness
1. Rest and Recovery from the Art of Non-Conformity. Chris describes how to manage energy instead of time. Our energy is something that we can be aware of, something that we can convert, something that we can refuel. Whereas, we have can’t change the pattern of time.
2. The Zen of Doing from Zen Habits. Explore ways to engage in everyday tasks with a deep feeling of inner peace and appreciation.
3. Making Art Instead of Setting Goals from Agile Living. Goals = Future. Art = Now. Give living in the here and now a try between your goal-achieving sessions.
4. Live Your Life as if Everything is a Miracle from Make It Happen. Life, love, the body, nature, creativity. Modern science has not been able to figure out these phenomena. Miracles are everywhere!
5. How to Make your Drumming More Meaningful by former Rusted Root drummer Jim Donovan. Jim describes how to connect drumming patterns to your body and mind by way of movements, breathing, and intentions.
Music Therapy
6. Functional Neuroscience for the Clinical Music Therapist handout by Kimberly Sena Moore, MT-BC
7. Middle Eastern Idiom for Guitar Improvisation by Dr. John Carpente, MT-BC
8. The Mindful Music Therapist’s handouts for Taboo Topics by Roia Rafieyan, MT-BC
9. Book review for Bella’s Blessings by Rachel Rambach, MT-BC
One more for music therapists that you’ve got to check out if you work with kids who have special needs is More with Music. Free songs for music therapists!
I apparently live under a rock, Kat! Thanks for linking to my blog. And thanks for the other cool links. I’m a big fan of Zen Habits (which you and I may have already agreed about at some point). (Oh dear. My brain. It is flattening.)
No worries, Roia! Your posts are SO needed in our field and SO helpful for growth and development as therapists. Keep up the great writing~ It’s probably easy for you to just be your authentic self like that =)