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More on properly using the mind, from the Notes pages:

our brains are all about finding the patterns with the noise. Once we find those patterns, we tend to lock in on them and a feedback loop can make those patterns appear stronger and stronger to our pattern-recognizing minds.

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Empathy is usually thought of as a one-way street – an empathetic individual tends to be more sensitive to the emotions of others. But the effect is even stronger when it works both ways: an individual performer who understands, through their own empathy, what affects the hearts and minds of others, can then use that awareness to make their performance that much more emotionally engaging for others, and the more empathetic the audience the stronger the feedback loop. When that loop is in place, both the performer and the audience become transmitters and receivers, both tuned into that channel we call empathy.

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“It used to be we thought sensory systems were pretty passive – they took the sound and just passed the information to the cerebral cortex where all the hard work and thinking was done,” says Kraus. “But now we’re understanding that as we use our sensory systems in an active way, this feeds back and shapes the sensory system all the way down through the brainstem to the ear.”

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the idea that learning music can rewire the brain and repair potential problems relates nicely to the newly growing science of epigenetics

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like a performer and an audience, we’re transmitters and receivers of the patterns of information that we are all navigating through and traveling within.

Full article over at the Imagining the 10th Dimension website.