Alternatives to high-risk activities

[Friday]

One of my favorites - all kinds of music works......

I’ve found the kind of music, over the years, tells me my feelings better than I know them.

- Cello? Rising out of roiling pain. All the fire and crush. But also all the blue skies.
- Downshifting from punk to metal to rock to alternative is lowering my heart rate as I go.
- etc.

 

[Freddyt]

I’ve found the kind of music, over the years, tells me my feelings better than I know them.

- Cello? Rising out of roiling pain. All the fire and crush. But also all the blue skies.
- Downshifting from punk to metal to rock to alternative is lowering my heart rate as I go.
- etc.

I find Violin the same as you do Cello, I understand the technical part of it too because well....I play so....

Otherwise its strait up rock or blues - anything with a heavy back beat (Ostinato) that repeats. A product of my era - late '60's through the early '80's. And a lot of bands work before commercial success - like Def Leopard - On through The Night, way better than the dreck that they are famous for. Blues fits in there big time too, SRV, BB King, lots of Clapton's work, Muddy Waters.

And complexity - stuff like CSN Suite Judy Blue Eyes, Southern Cross, or art rock stuff like Boston, Queen, ELO, Fleetwood Mac, and on. Plus reggae, and Latin music.

Probably because its music you can "air drum" to, "tap therapy" in its raw form....

 

[PlainJane]

I struggle with music, I don't know what it is. One thing I do know to be true is:

I’ve found the kind of music, over the years, tells me my feelings better than I know them.

Whether I really understand what that feeling is or not varies. I know when I am angry, because I will actually want to listen to something hard and be reckless. When I was running I coud not listen to anything that got my heart rate up, I listened to Yo Yo Ma, otherwise I'd forget how to breath. Other than those, I cannot get "into" music the way everyone else does. Mostly I find it overwhelming.

 

[PlainJane]

Violent video games works too, FPS and blow the hell out of everything.....empty the clip, empty the belt, blow the snot out of everything.....

Something I just remembered:

I filled water balloons with paint and went to town in my dinning room. The splatter was so satisfying, as was the destruction of my dinning room.