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December 12, 2002
Table of Contents:
1. MTIPS Theme
2. Welcome Notes
3. MTIPS Development
4. Notable Quotables
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1. MTIPS Theme
You can't feel bad if you hold yourself in a way that
feels good.
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2. Welcome Notes
Welcome to Music Teachers Insightful Practices (MTIPS)
Newsletter!
I am very excited about the state management issue that
went out last week. I truly believe state management is
the key to a life lived fully. So, I decided to not wait
until January for the next issue of MTIPS! Hope you
enjoy it!
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3. MTIPS Development
In the last issue of MTIPS, I mentioned the idea of
state management as a primary concern to create learning
readiness in our students. Yet the first state we need
to manage, before we can be of benefit to any student,
is our own.
Besides our physical state, we also need to manage our
emotional state. All state management is tied together,
so changing one area will affect another. Try this
experiment. Now, don't just read this, but actually get
up, out of your chair and try this. I promise, it will
be fun!
Stand up (come on, stop reading and stand up) and put
your favorite dance song on the stereo. Next, hold your
shoulders tall and take a big deep breath (for the
singers in the group, take a huge diaphragmatic breath!)
Continue to breath deeply. Now, put a big,
"I-know-something-you-don't-know!" grin on
your face. Think about the best thing that has ever
happened to you! Now, without changing anything, feel
really sad! Come on, try reeeaaaallly hard. Don't change
a thing and feel sad! OK, relax. Pretty tough to do,
isn't it?
So your physical and emotional states are very closely
linked. You can't feel bad if you hold yourself in a way
that feels good. And conversely, you can't look bad if
you feel good! (With perhaps the exception of having
morning or hat hair!)
But how else can you manage your emotional state so that
you may then assist your student in creating a state of
learning readiness?
The other day, I was parking my car in front of a café
at which I was having lunch. Just before I turned off
the radio, a holiday song came on called "Christmas
Shoes." Within a minute of this song, I was crying,
all by myself in my car. Not just small tears, but
actual sobs! The song was performed by Bobby Carlisle.
He has a knack for plucking at your heart strings. (He
also performed Butterfly Kisses, which I am sure, there
isn't a Dad who has heard who didn't shed a tear!)
Point: "Christmas Shoes" was managing my
emotional state for me. Ah, the power of our chosen
field, music! If you want to manage your emotional
state, try putting on some music that gets you up. One
of my facilitators used to keep his favorite comedian's
recording in his car with him. Whenever he was feeling
down, and not in the best "teaching" mood, he
would put on the comedian and laugh until he had changed
his state. What a fabulous idea!
NEXT ISSUE: Managing your Mental State!
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4. Notable Quotable
When we are inwardly ill at ease, we do not really see
things as they are; we see them as we are.
Vernon Howard - Psycho-Pictography
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