A brief spoken excerpt from Ben Greenfield’s YouTube video "Music On It" offering a guided exercise that uses inspirational music, breathwork, and focused recall to connect the conscious and subconscious mind. He walks listeners through recalling pleasant and painful memories, observing bodily and emotional responses, expressing gratitude, and then posing a personal question to the subconscious while listening and breathing.
Music serves as kind of a connectivity device between the portal of your conscious and your subconscious. Here's what I want you to do. Find a deeply inspirational music train. Begin to play the music through a good set of headphones and then lay on your back in a comfortable and quiet place with something like an eye mask on. And then just breathe in some kind of a relaxed pattern that matches the cadence of the music. Next, put your subconscious to work. Recall a pleasant memory from childhood. Replay that in your mind. Process it. Observe what your body does. Your emotional response, your physical response, psychological response. Now recall a painful moment from just last week. Observe your response. Recall something you're grateful for. Next. Now ask yourself a question you've been puzzled by. And then listen to the music and breathe as your subconscious chisels away on the issue and your conscious waits for the response to come back to your rational, logical and aware mind.
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