Provocation of the month:
It is all about energies
Everything around us is energy, colors that you see, thoughts that you think, the touch from a loved one, sounds that you hear and so on. Music i.e. is more important than we may understand. Music is pure energy. We listen to it and it has an effect on us. Music makes us remember with joy or sadness and it fills us with energy. If it is new it can open us up to new opportunities. Music is personal and it relates to our past and our personality. This means, of course, that it also affects us as leaders in an organization. We all have our personal energy level and energies that we relate to in different ways. The energy of music connects us and gives us meaning, it helps us to be spontaneous and playful. It touches our emotions.
We communicate in terms of energy with all of our Five Aspects: Body, Emotions, Mind, Soul and Spirit. Music is a very important part of this. Some of us get excited by Mozart or jazz and others get irritated. Some of us get excited by the Rolling Stones and Journey and others get irritated. Music is energy that affects us based on personality and memories.
We all need to be aware of this and bring ourselves music that we need at a certain moment. At the same time we need to understand that ”our” music may not be what our colleagues need right now. Music is a delicate matter. At one meeting the leader wanted to energize the group by opening it with ”Eye of the Tiger” at 8:30 in the morning. The older members of the group almost walked out. It was not the right energy for them at this hour.
I am very grateful to all composers, because they have opened up to me the possibility to balance my energies with music. When I am sad I can listen to BB King. When I am full of energy or need energy I can listen to John Fogerty and add even more energy. Music is a great resource to add to the qualities of my Five Aspects. At the same time we need to realize that we are all on our individual journey every day and our music has to be personal for the moment and sometimes for the long term.
We may share the same music, but that cannot be forced as the energy of music is such a strong part of our personality and history. The sharing of a common music tradition builds a culture. Most religions use music to transcend the moment and build their traditions which passed down through generations. It creates a common bond. The hymns, chants or mantras help people escape the problems of the present and connect with the spiritual. How do we then choose the right music when we invite friends to our home or guests to our hotel? We are many times Inside-out when we choose the music. How can we become more Outside-in?
Twenty years from now we will know so much more about energies and how everything is about energy. Let´s begin by learning more about the sound and music as one energy source that has an effect on us. How has music influenced our life so far and what effect does it have on our everyday life?
Pure energy, thank you Hans for challenging us!
- Kjell
Energy boost, thank you for sharing.
- Daniel
"At one meeting the leader wanted to energize the group by opening it with ”Eye of the Tiger” at 8:30 in the morning." This might have worked in my team, but you can imagine the old guys, hard hill to climb for the leader from there that morning.
- Roger
Hans great reflection. I listen to music often and the music takes me to the right mode. It could be occasion when I need to come in contact with my inner life, down to earth or I want to get wild crazy either of them the music support me well. I also think it is amazing how music can connect myself to memory way back, for example I heard on the Radio Factory "Efter Plugget" and direct I start to remember my teenage time, a lot of memories came up. So music is for me important. A tips, can recommend the film music from Gladiator, great music to relax and reflect upon.
- Niclas
Thank you so much Hans! "All is energy" - something I personally strongly belive in, which has given me a whole new perspective on many things in life. The effect music can have on our health and state of mind is fantastic and something to learn more about. I agree with ABBA "Thank you for the music... "
- Charlotte
Yes, everything is energi but just in different nivels. Music is a very important part of my life that I will not live without. I also feel that I could express my self by listening to lyrics and the music that are put to it. Manytimes it`s like having healing throw the music like an emotional wash for the soul. Thank God for the music you are creating in my life!
- Dina
Thank you for yr wise reflections and a reminder of how important music are in our lives. I often use music to change my energy and to relax, specially after an intense day at work. And spotify is a greate source of finding both old music that reminds of other times and to find something new to listen at. So thanks for the reminder, appreciate yr reflections..Thanks for sharing
- Marie-Louise Frohm
Yes, music can be a difference of relaxed vs stressed; focused vs in-effective; filled with hope vs feeling pointless.
- Lars
Very much agree with Lars's comment. Listen to some energy boosting radio station when working on monotonous task like grass-cutting and you will see the difference! But I find it impossible to concentrate if working on management issues if any music is playing.
- Viktoras
All so true Hans! To me music and mood go together like horse and carriage. The curent mood I am in makes me want to listen at a certain kind of music or the other way around, a specific song gets´me in or triggers a certain mood. Music as such is also a great way to get connected to all my Five Aspects, a total experience, or could trigger the contact with one or two aspects.
You talk about music as a memory- trigger, and I assume that my hearing is in direct contact with my Amygdala, because there is nothing like music that brings back memories that are so intertwied with emotions, could be happiy or sad but still there are fond memories.
- L Gunnar B
This is the first newsletter i have received from you...thank you. It reminds me of the importance of our consciousness around music and as you said, how it impacts us and others. I am highly sensitive to sound and the energy of music...I feel it thoughout my body. When I did consulting work we consciously played classical music for some processes. We were told that Largos and Adagios in particular open up certain hemispheres of the brain and fostered learning and creative thought. Anyone heard of that? For me personally, it works...like when I'm painting. Thank you for the reminder.\
- Sue lightning Dove Blondell
Thank You for the music reflection. It was beautiful, it will help me survive the dark autumn and winter evenings... I will fill them with music. It its a marvelous way of getting balance.
- Gia Gunilla
Its all about energies...hmmmm. Yes I believe it is. My first really different experience with energy was when I learned kinesiology. It was extraordinary how I felt and could affect energies in myself and others. There were energy connections which I never had experienced before.
Being a electro engineer with specialization in elektrooptics and electromagnetic waves I have also learned that everything is moving if you go deep enough. And everything that moves radiates energy…so…
And music is one kind of beautiful energy witch really touches me in all my five aspects. I hear it, it creates feelings and I think about earlier experiences. It can stimulate my creativity and boost my life energy.
So as one other person said, Thank you for the Music.
- Torge
A couple of months ago my 9-year old daughter invited seven friends to a pyjamas party at our home on a Friday afternoon. After a while they got really wild and crazy in the overcrowded appartment. I said that I wanted to do an experiment in the living room. I asked them to lay down on the carpet and put on some nice meditation music. It was like magic! When the parents came to take them home they where amazed to find their daughters still laying and listening to the calm music...
- Desirée
Spot on Hans! It is so important for us all who have to "energize" others to find sources for our own energy refill as well. Music is one such source. We continously have to seek for energy refills in our daily life to keep being inspired and inspire others.
- Kristina
Hans thanks for bringing this insight to the forefront of my mind. It is easy get lost in the swirl of the busyness of life and forget about the small things that can really make a difference.
- Mike
This is an article fromt the Star Ledger Newpaper in Newark New Jersey about energy from music.
Uunity through Chants
Dave McCombs starts to move his body to the rhythmic beat of hands clapping at practice Wednesday afternoon, and then the words that have been drilled into him for 40 years stream from his mouth.
“Are bad dogs in?” McCombs, the Shabazz High football coach, begins to chant.
“Are bad dogs out? ... Do we got soul? ... The black and gold. ...”
McCombs’ lines are punctuated by his sweat-soaked players, who shout “Yeah!” during the coach’s pauses. The chorus of voices rumbles like claps of thunder. The players and coaches bounce in place. The tradition lives through another generation.
“It adds to the emotion, it adds to the excitement,” Shabazz senior lineman Khalid Jordan said of the chanting. “It’s something that we can really connect on.”
The Shabazz football team has been chanting since the 1950s, in one of the most time-tested high school sports traditions in New Jersey. The team sings and chants during practice two days before each week’s game, a ritual that fosters spirit and unity among the players and connects the program’s past with its present.
McCombs learned team chants long before he ever slipped on a uniform at Shabazz, where he played from 1976 to 1979. When he took over as coach of the program in 1986, he made certain to continue the tradition that originated back when Shabazz was called South Side High.
“Dave utilizes it well,” says the coach’s brother, Mark, who played and coached at Shabazz. “Particularly in the summertime, when you have young kids and they don’t even know why they’re here — they just know that they’re going out for a team. After a rough practice, he’ll gather them all together and then he’ll start a song.
“When he does that, I think in their minds they say, ‘Wow, this is much bigger than just playing football. There’s a spirit to it.’ And the spirit of it never left this place.”
The chanting dates to when the South Side High football team practiced off-campus at Weequahic Park. During long walks — and later bus rides — to and from the field, the players would sing and chant to pass the time and ease the commute. The chants, both then and now, were often tweaked to incorporate coaches, players, opponents and themes.
“I can’t even begin to tell you how many songs there are,” Dave McCombs said. “It’s a tradition that’s been around forever.”
After McCombs chanted Wednesday, the players gathered around the coach. McCombs turned to his brother, Mark, who is now a preacher.
“Sha walo-walo,” Mark began, “Woo-woo!”
The players bobbed their heads. They clapped their hands. And before long, everyone’s voice sliced through the air.
- John Dunnigan
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