Live music concerts sometimes can be intimidating.  What if I don’t understand the music?  What if I don’t know how to listen correctly?  What if I don’t get it?  What if I do not nod my head at the right places?  These questions used to haunt me.

In spite of his feeling,  I landed up in concerts quite regularly because many in my close circle friends are ardent music lovers.  Sometimes I was in concerts because friends wanted to attend and I was pulled along;  sometimes friends were performing and I needed to be there to cheer them; Whatever be the reason I started enjoying listening to music.

Music is meant to invite reflection, awake feelings, activate memories, touch the heart. So these days I just let myself be affected. The music concert that I attended last week touched my heart.  I was affected not just by the flowing music, but the music conductor who happened to be blind also affected me. His hands on the keyboard were his eyes through which he created the beautiful musical notes. At the end of the program, he was asked to share his experience in the music world and the mike was handed over to him to speak.  He tilted the mike slightly away from himself, moved his head in the direction of the guitarist, and asked softly, “Is it morning or afternoon?” When he heard the reply ‘afternoon’, he placed the mike properly and cheerfully began his address by wishing the audience “Happy Afternoon”.

For that visually impaired music conductor “Believing is Seeing” and for the rest of us  “Seeing is Believing”.  While the rest of us needed to see to believe, he believed and hence saw what he believed.  He visualised that it was afternoon in his mind and saw the happy afternoon.

All of us are endowed with this power to believe and visualise what we want to happen to us in reality. This power to visualise can actually help us ti create a better life for ourselves. It is not without reason that mankind was endowed with the capacity to visualise, fantasize and imagine. Nothing in nature is created or done without a reason. Sometimes we understand it.

Everything that we want to happen has to be envisioned in the mind first. Our imagination is a specially designed tool, which provides us with the ability to actualize our goals. It is through creative mental meanderings that a child learns to develop her ability to realise the inner longings. Creative imagination is the first step in concrete realisation.  We have to dream, see it in our mind first for it to happen in reality.

“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. A whole stream of events issue from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come on his way.”

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