music and taichi

[gt3]

This may sound odd but I noticed after I started practicing taichi daily i no longer have any desire to listen to rock music. I used to almost only listen to rock, punk, and metal but now i have literally almost no desire to listen to it. I'm going through my hundreds of mp3s which used to bring vast enjoyment and now i can't think of one song i actually feel like hearing, its really weird. I find myself turning on the classical music station on the radio.

I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, rock music used to pump me up and now i don't feel like i need to be pumped up or something i'm not 100% sure what the deal is. Has anyone else experienced this. It's been steady for the last 2 weeks

[cybermonk]

Hasnt happened to me :(

[JohnnyX]

It's just a stage you are going through. :eek:

[TM77]

I like rock myself and I still listen to it. But I tend to play more classical and traditional Chinese music since I started tai chi. Mainly because I want to stay relaxed and rock music can cause tension, for me at least.
Of course there is some aggressive classical and it can pump me up, but I never feel tense when listening to it.

[haaptic]

it makes sense what you say gt3, but i wouldnt start deleting all yor music just yet ! :) ,

i also like a variety of music :
classical, experimental modern classical, electroacoustic classical,
post bop jazz, avant jazz, jazz fusion,
70's funk and soul,
classic rock, 70's metal (ie:thin lizzy), 80'smodern rock, current rock (ie:the strokes),
roots, reggae, dub rockers, progressive or underground hiphop, jungle,
electro, downbeat, broken beat,
and of course traditional chinese :)
and most of all BURT BACHARACH!! - this guy is a genius!

i figure the more types of music you are into
the easier it is to find something to fit your mood at the moment

[TM77]

i figure the more types of music you are into the easier it is to find something to fit your mood at the moment

So true.

[Solomon]

maybe you just aren't in the mood for it, and you think you are, and thinking that you are then not being able to get into it is making you think that you've stopped liking rock. and obsessing over this is leading to you mentally thinking that you don't like rock anymore, my advice just let it go. not rock, but stop obsessing over it.

i know there are times when i'll be listening to hip-hop and be like "i don't wanna hear this" but play it anyway, thinking that i'll get in to it eventually, but then turn it off, and put on, john mayer or incubus or something and find that that was what i was in the mood for.

i'll listen to one certain kind of music for one period then another for the next, and it switches back and fourth

hope i helped.

[gt3]

yeah but this is after 15 years of never having a 'stage' like this. it happened after i just started studying tai chi. I'm mostly only in the mood for 'soft' rock even still, but after a couple weeks of not wanting to hear the 'loud/fast' punk/rock im starting to doubt ill be in the 'mood' for it anymore if im always mellow now from tai chi (which is fine, i'd rather be mellow)

[ZillaBilla]

Rock, punk and heavier type music generally carry a aggressive/yang energy, thus in turn the music passes this on to you making you feel more aggressive, energized or any feeling associated with the yang spectrum of energy. So, if you are training a lot of IMA, you generally try and stay neutral/balanced, hence it is quite understandable that you do not want/need to listen to heavy music, furthermore your energy levels are probably more balanced, thus you don’t need that energetic impression that heavy music gives. I too am in the same situation as you, and have been neglecting my music collection. I personally think that most music genres are subjective in nature, thus carry some sort of energy in them, when you are no longer attached to any specific energies you seek balance, thus you listen to more objective music like classical, this type of music is created more from the heart, than the mind, thus is more neutral in nature, encompassing both passive and active energy. Anyway, if IMA's teach us one basic fact is that change is of the essence, so I would not put much thought on the change of your preference in music.

ZB

[Kinjiro Tsukasa]

gt3, maybe you're just opening your mind to new kinds of music. There's nothing wrong with that. Hang on to the rock mp3s, though, you may want to return to them in time.

[hwardo]

I know that when I began practicing qigong regularly, a lot of habits became unappealing dramatically quickly. For instance, while I don't mind violence in movies, my tolerance for any kind of psychological horror sort of went out the window-- the tension of it just didn't appeal to me. After years of coffee drinking, I found that I didn't have the stomach for that either.

I think that taiji and qigong make us more sensitive, hence we are more attuned to the way things make us feel. Perhaps the punk that you liked was a reflection of your own internal anger, and now it isn't any more. Maybe your insides reflect more gentle, harmonious kinds of music.

That said, I still love orange nine millimeter.