For me music has an instant way of bringing underlying aversions to the fore - maudlin music, for instance takes my mood down to a place I instinctively and fervently try to avoid. A friend suggested I try doodling whilst listening to the very music I'd normally avoid, using it as a kind of soundtrack or prompter for the pencil.
The result was fascinating and what's more, when my chattering mind stopped complaining and busied itself elsewhere, I found the emotions it brought out were a lot less bothersome than I'd first imagined and made the doodle a kind of visual representation of my emotions... quite a cathartic thing!
Unexpectedly, I also developed an unaccountable fondness for brass bands!
“The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.”
Bhagavad Gita (Composed between the 5th and the 2nd century BC)
