You see what I see as spiritual is a situation where I become totally absorbed in what I am doing. Prior to this latest venture, it was my art which provided that total absorbtion. The way I would describe the situation with my art is where the external, what is happening around me, I cut off and focus completely on what I am doing. If I be making something, then that article is being made to what I have in my mind, all angles and possibilities I can picture, even the control of hand tools, I instinctively know where to cut, how much pressure to apply and where the cut will stop. When I am like that, I produce my best work and quickly and I would say harmoniously.
Now with this latest venture, ME dance, when I am playing the music, I can for the first time isolate and exclude instruments in the music, so as to say, not hear other instruments, my focus being on the instructions the instrument of my focus is giving. The dance, well my attempt at it, I just move to the music, not thinking about anything I have learned, but just doing. Obviously I do not play music in a sound excluded enviroment, there is always the external noises of life going on around, but I cut them out completely such is my focus. This is what I see as spiritual, total focus and awareness, a heightened awareness where activities become natural.
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