Playing Music and Intuition

When you’re young, it can be hard to see how one job and the next can form a career trajectory, but they often fit like hard-to-find puzzle pieces. Last weekend, after my gig at a winery with two young men, a talented drummer and an excellent guitarist, I saw the connections between intuition and music.

To play music, you have to let go of your physical plant, open your emotions, and feel the vibe. The beat in music is like your heartbeat. To become more intuitive, you have to narrow your focus to the small beat of your heart. It’s an openness to the world, and a way to feel vibes from someone other than yourself.

Both music and intuition have a healing potential to the audience. Intuitive connections between people and events can’t be explained any more than the connection between a music performer and the audience, yet it is real and profound.

Bruce Lee, the martial artist, sums it up. Be like water. Be fluid, responsive to the situation, alive and present.