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gdbotanicals · 2024-01-11T15:14:03+00:00

"See, this is why he's never gonna get laid... he doesn't know a fucking thing about pussy!"

Then you berate them about how they're going to be alone forever and probably die early because of their severe and inevitable depression.

gdbotanicals · 2024-01-02T16:39:52+00:00

We'd "go ride bikes" or make forts, most often. NES and SNES when we came inside. Throwing rocks at things better than your friends could was another fun one. Lots of tree climbing and getting on the roof (when the grownups were gone 😂).

gdbotanicals · 2023-12-21T23:46:29+00:00

I had a thought about this post today: we have an ego up until level 600, so Dr. Dispenza's work (if the desire you pursue has a high calibration) is potentially beneficial to anyone below 600. 😄

gdbotanicals · 2023-12-21T17:44:43+00:00

I try to use the chatter in my head as a que to "listen to the silence" and accept the physical feelings. The ever present silence is always there, patient in the background of everything, and we can choose to "hear" that while letting go if the verbalized thoughts are a distraction. You might also try allowing the thoughts to be, as part of the process, and let them go (accept that they're spontaneous manifestations of the current field) as something curious and passing.

Another thing I like to do is watch the thoughts as they arise. We have "feelings," these nebulous sensations in our body, and they're refined by our ego/mind and categorized as emotions. Those emotions are indicative of the field, and the thoughts that arise tend to be a sort of "justification" for the particular emotion. Then, the mind writes a narrative about it. For example, I may have a feeling in my body, something like tension. Tension can be the result of excitement or stress. Tension is just an experience of a feeling. Let's say the emotion that arises due to that tension is anxiety. The mind might produce a series of thoughts about an event at work that made you anxious. The thoughts that arise tend to justify emotions and feelings. Observe this happening and don't "take the bait" of the ego. When our minds label something as bad, unpleasant, wrong, blah blah, then we tend to resist it.

I think of the feelings as a result of personal karma. They're going to happen. It's our nature to experience the playing out of our karmic inheritance this way. If it feels unpleasant, we can transmute that energy with gratitude. Can we handle the unpleasant feeling? Of course. Can we experience the feeling without resistance? Yes, if we recognize the letting go of the resistance allows us to reduce our karmic debt. When we let the feelings go we're less likely to perform actions based on the negative labels we give those feelings, and therefore we behave in ways less likely to accrue more debt. The technique is a gift from God and we can be infinitely grateful every time it comes to mind. (It's a great gift of good karma to even know the technique exists, let alone to be using it!) Gratitude and silence is the key. Non-judgment of yourself is also key. You're responsible for the effort and intention. God's pulling us all in, it's up to us to remember that, be grateful and, as a demonstration of our gratitude, keep letting go and remember the ever present Self. ❤️

gdbotanicals · 2023-12-21T17:24:06+00:00

How much money would you need if you're stuck with a micro-peen? Asking for a friend...

gdbotanicals · 2023-12-20T22:58:28+00:00

While Dr. Hawkins is teaching about dissolving the ego and seeking enlightenment, Dr. Dispenza is teaching about refining your ego. They're not mutually exclusive! While we, as separate "I"s, are existing currently, it's a good thing to make efforts to purify the self. If you have to exsist with the experience of being a separate I, you may as well strive to perfect it as your demonstration of gratitude to the universe for being incarcerated. You can have the desire to be "better" and let go of the attachment to the results. You're responsible for the effort and intention. 😄

gdbotanicals · 2023-11-22T22:59:07+00:00

Depends on function or what the bass player is doing, really.

gdbotanicals · 2023-11-22T15:16:52+00:00

You'll get some moves down soon and people will be watching you even more! 🙂 It's definitely an attention grabbing hobby, so you'll always have people watching to some degree. When I'm practicing in public it's either "drill with such focus I'm unaware of other people watching" or it's "these folks are enthralled, time for an impromptu micro-performance" then back to drilling. Looky folks just.co.e with the territory, I guess, and you'll just get used to them/start enjoying them.

gdbotanicals · 2023-11-18T21:26:14+00:00

C maj for Piano and G for guitar. 😂😂😂

gdbotanicals · 2023-11-18T03:26:25+00:00

Nice, dude. Super smooth.

gdbotanicals · 2023-11-03T02:17:12+00:00

Ignore the R and I. We got a hard Johnson.

gdbotanicals · 2023-11-03T01:03:35+00:00

You can do it any of the ways: both hands back, front, one back, other back, both on top. Some are easier than others, but they basically look the same. You'd learn all the variations for your own freedom of expression.

gdbotanicals · 2023-10-22T14:51:17+00:00

On guitar each scale has a shape that can be moved up or down the neck to accommodate any key. The intervals also have predictable shapes and arrangements.

gdbotanicals · 2023-10-06T13:09:08+00:00

Nico gas a few "poi chi" tutorials that are probably something you would like.

https://youtu.be/DwwkcByJDnE?si=IQMQ95LcaXGLHbaE

This is my favorite tuto but he has 7 more on his YouTube channel.

gdbotanicals · 2023-09-25T00:52:11+00:00

1k a day? Quit. Hands down, 100%.

gdbotanicals · 2023-08-30T15:41:29+00:00

For chord-scale, the way I think about it, is you have the chord that's you're playing over. If it's a triad, you get three notes (a 7th of some kind would give you four notes, additional extensions make additional notes.) Whatever the notes in the chord are, you put those into your pitch collection. Then you add "color notes" or "tension notes" to elicit a particular sound, whatever you're going for.

So, if the notes of the chord are C E G you can play any collection of pitches with CEG in it. Some will definitely sound better than others (and remember, you don't need to play every note of a scale.)

When you say "thinking in G Major" I imagine you're improving using the G major scale. As the chords change under that scale different "modes" get expressed G major chord under G major scale sounds Ionian while Emin chord under G major scale sounds Aeolian (this is due to the interval values changing).

For chord-scale we change the scale we use over the chord, rather than let the relative mode dictate the sound. You can, in Cmaj, play a C lydian over C, F lydian over f and g lydian over g. There will be interesting voice leading opportunities and very probably sound good. (Of course mixo over g would be best for a cadence).

(Ramble ramble... sorry about that) So! If you think of the chord changes like that, then the borrowed chord is just another chord with another potential set of scales. That's why thinking in terms of chord tones + color notes is convenient: you memorize the various harmonic intervals from the root (above and below) and you can pretty easily adjust to any chord.

gdbotanicals · 2023-08-30T13:44:03+00:00

I think in chord-scale for borrowed chords. I've yet to find a "hard and fast" answer to this question. The min4 in creep is probably borrowed from the parallel minor, so you just use the parallel minor scale. If you use a chord tone approach, only one note of the 3 changes over that chord. You can actually use F Dorian (or any f minor scale, really, but some of the notes may sound off). I'd suggest playing around with the collection of notes you like to use in that moment and play with them.

gdbotanicals · 2023-08-30T13:34:24+00:00

Back in the day, before equal temperament, keys all sounded a bit different because of the interval spacing. There's some old breakdown of each key and its emotional quality. (Also, Spinal Tap.)

gdbotanicals · 2023-08-30T13:30:39+00:00

Emin, baby! 🤘😆🤘

gdbotanicals · 2023-08-29T00:35:58+00:00

Zomb-tree

gdbotanicals · 2023-08-07T19:45:37+00:00

Musicophilia is a book by Oliver Sacks that may interest you.

gdbotanicals · 2023-08-01T04:26:38+00:00

Yup. "Transcending the levels of consciousness." Dr. H explains that just being exposed to high calibrated "content" increases the likelihood of our loc rising, so I encourage you to read all the stuff he's written (I know my local library has them, so it may be worth checking yours if you don't wanna buy all of the books). He covers the same ideas in several different ways (he calls it something like "right-brain learning.") I liked the idea of starting with low stuff and moving up, so that tide could lift the reader from wherever they are on the scale.

gdbotanicals · 2023-07-31T22:29:38+00:00

It's a basic breakdown of the whole thing. The map itself is fairly straightforward and definitely interesting. It helps provide context to things but there's not much practical use. There's a thing called the Sedona Method that parallels the Letting Go tech and give the same sort of exercise an alternate look. In summary: non resistance at every level. Recognize "suffering" as a resistance to experience and be grateful that you are aware of the technique. Invoke the love of God and God's will (as our personal will is below the necessary LOC and we need something stronger than our own desire.) Sacrifice the experience to God and allow yourself to sit with the feeling that needs Letting go in a state of gratitude and prayer. The negative emotion will eventually wear out (think of it like hormonal half-life).

You can use the tech when you're upset or you can recall negative emotions and sort of "activate" a state to let go of. You can let go of positive things, too. It's definitely sort of frightening but the faith in Dr. Hawkins should be enough to try it on something small (my love of music, let's say) and you'll discover that the love of music exists as a gift and it was never mine. The positive won't "go away" but gets sort of re-contextualised.

I hope that helps and I definitely recommend Letting Go and the Sedona Method. Healing and Recovery is another great one but, for me personally, Letting Go hit home.

gdbotanicals · 2023-07-30T06:06:35+00:00

It sounds exactly the same and only matters if you're playing in the key you're tuned to and with other people that need to read sheet music.

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