“Meditation is an incredible tool (even if my own report says otherwise) to connect with this world on an entirely different wavelength.”
I have never meditated in my life. But I play my bass daily since the mid 90s.
I wouldn’t be able to stop ever, I think.
It does make me connect to this world on an entirely different wavelength. In the deepest moments of concentration when improvising, when my eyes are closed and my fingers know three to five steps in advance what to do?
It’s indescribable. It feels like I am One with Everything.
I’d always laugh reading musicians speak about that type of thing. A stereotype, indeed. But then you reach that level of expertise and you can only be quiet about it. Because it’s that overwhelming and intense and so serene.
Fun fact: brainwaves are going from 1 to 150Hz and bass guitar is about 40 to 400Hz. I wonder if they synchronize and/or harmonize.
Anyway I always, always need a good ten minutes to get my brain back to being able to activate speech.
Because playing a musical instrument makes me feel like jumping from stars the size of atoms to the size of actual stars, with a grappling hook. I told you, it’s indescribable.