Music is the Art of Conversation

Asking for love. Ending a relationship. Giving a critical message, Saying no to someone in need. Confronting disrespectful or hurtful. Disagreeing with the majority in group. Apologizing.

At work, at school, at home, and across the backyard fence, difficult conversations are attempted or avoided every day.

A Difficult Conversation is Anything You Find It Hard to Talk About

Love, Sexuality, race, gender, politics, and religion come quickly to mind as difficult topics to say, and for many of us they are. But discomfort and awkwardness are not limited pass through the music.

Understanding feeling, talking about feeling, meaning feeling - these are among the greatest challenges of being human with music.

An Opera Without Music

The problem with this reasoning is that is fails to take account of one simple fact: difficult conversations don not just involves feeling, they are at their core about feelings, Feelings are not some noisy byproduct of engaging in difficult talk, they are an integral part of the conflict. Engaging is a difficult conversation without talking about feelings is like staging an opera without music.

Finding Your Feelings: Learn Where your Feeling Hide with Music.

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