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A peculiar question  [message #42167] Sun, 29 April 2007 18:28 Go to previous message
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They say that the reason that church services are full of dreadful dirges and mumbled, repetitive prayers is that doing this puts the mind into neutral, semi-hypnotises you and increases the chances of a mystic experience.

I find I can get what I assume to be the same sort of effect when I'm half asleep and in the right frame of mind by closing my eyes, leaning forward and playing some basic but pleasing chords over and over again on the piano, along with a repetitive accompaniment. I might do it for 10 or 15 minutes, or until someone tells me to shut up (so I can only really do it when I'm alone or on the keyboard with headphones). I come out of it contented and my mind relatively stress-free.

(If I'm not in the right frame of mind -- most of the time I'm not -- then I just play or improvise normally.)

Does anyone else do something along the same lines -- something repetitive that relaxes you without apparently being at all productive?

If not, have you tried it, ever?

David

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