SINGING YOURSELF ALIVE - WILL HEWETT

Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening.. Love like you´ve never been hurt and live like is heaven on earth. - MARK TWAIN

Thanks so much @SunniBrown for tweeting on gorgeous video featuring @vocata.

Vocalist and improviser Will Hewett explores the language of sound beneath words. After singing 15 minutes every day for a year, Will Hewett describes--and sings--what he learned about commitment and the ability of a simple creative practice to open us to vibrancy, and to a deeper connection with ourselves and the world around us.

Some extracts:

My whole concept of time turned inside out This practice became like a generational center of my day. It was like a fire, hoooooo, that the rest of the day gathered around.

Listen to the singing world around me and find my part on it. Something it was like if the world was singing so fully that there was nothing from me to add. 

I sang whatever showed up. Most times sounds in made up languages.

I got to travel every day into the world beneath words: the world of colour, of life, of vibration, of motion, a world that has no borders, no countries, and for me it feels like swimming. And I think we all know this world. I think our bodies are experiencing it all the time, they´re experiencing it right now. We just tend to cover it up with a layer of words, ideas,.thoughts about who we are or who we should be. But words are really flemsy messengers for the fullness of the experience. And singing can bring us here.

So my simple hope is that we´ll just sing more, that we´ll sing our way into the world of our bodies and the body  of our world. That feels more important than ever.

You can start it´s easy. You can just start humming...

Time bows to authentic commitment and it stretches to accommodate it.

Enjoy life, listen to the singing world around us :-)!

Eleder BuM31    Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Creativity

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MANIFESTO

I recently took part in HELLO CHANGE!... These two writings where the answers to a question: "tell us about a project of yours', successful or not, in two ways: 1. as if you were speaking in front of a big audience; and 2. as if you where writing in Funky projects' (the company that designed Hello Change! as their hiring process) blog"

1... IN FRONT OF A BIG AUDIENCE

Have you ever experienced something inside you asking for change? Change to a more purposeful and fun living style? Do you sometimes hear a deep inner voice that says: "give up this job, sack your boss, follow your dreams!”. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

I spent some ten years in "comfortable" jobs, but I never felt fulfilled. One always knows it, but comfort is a hard drug. When used to it, the body needs more of it,... One good day I started again. From zero. I just stopped, took breathe, listened and set on. I started freelancing on the tasks I can accomplish due to my personality, experience, training and abilities. It's growing and it's exciting, and I can assure it to you: there is not a single minute I feel bored.

The word "job" does no more make sense. No boss, no clients,... just project-mates, life-mates. Family- and social- life is much easier and richer. One's whole life becomes a project, a life-project. It all makes sense again.

Do you know the good news? You are free too. Awake and act. Start. Now!

2.... AT FUNKY PROJECTS' BLOG

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything makes sense now. Not a single minute is useless. Connections appear all the time. All the people around can help. One idea makes place to another one, that sums up with another mate's one,... The buzz is started. It won't stop. It'll just grow, spread and multiply. The creativity virus has caught me. Fear is history. Dreams are the motor. Now as a freelance. Tomorrow collaborating with Funky Projects and all the happy shiny people out there.

Cheers!

Eleder

BM31: Mind Mapping-Open Space Technology-Sormena

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