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Relieve stress, enhance vanity, and enhance focus by means of a easy physique music observe. And do it with a buddy to really feel extra compassion and successful of oxytocin.
Find out how to Do This Apply:
Strive utilizing these actions to create numerous rhythmic combos along with your physique:
One: Clap your fingers, barely cupping with every clapping as a substitute of hitting your full palms collectively.
Two: Faucet your proper hand to your left chest.
Three: Faucet your left hand to faucet your proper chest.
4: Faucet your proper thigh along with your proper hand.
5: Faucet your left thigh along with your left hand. Then loop again to the highest.
At this time’s Happiness Break host:
Keith Terry is a percussionist and physique musician who makes use of quite a lot of surfaces to create fascinating rhythms.
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Transcription:
Dacher Keltner: I’m Dacher Keltner, Welcome to Happiness Break, the place we take a brief break in your day to attempt a observe proven to assist us discover a sense of calm, and reference to ourselves, or one another.
At this time we’re doing one thing form of totally different. We’re going to create rhythms utilizing nothing however our our bodies, in a form of musical meditation.
Physique percussion practices have been proven to assist scale back stress and nervousness, enhance vanity, and assist us focus. And once we do them in synchronicity — with others — it helps us be extra compassionate and altruistic and this me caused by larger ranges of oxytocin.
Main us at this time is Keith Terry, a world famend composer and percussionist who makes use of his personal physique as his instrument. We’re gonna observe alongside as Keith guides us by means of a observe he created referred to as Physique Music — beginning with just a few fundamental claps — and shifting proper alongside into some rhythms utilizing the chest.
So discover someplace the place you are feeling snug, the place you may transfer round a bit of, and the place it’s okay so that you can get into your physique, and make some noise.
Keith Terry: Hello, I’m Keith Terry. I’m a musician. I’m a rhythm dancer and I’m an educator. And within the Seventies because of working with loads of faucet dancers. I had the thought that I might rise up and I might play all of the rhythms. I used to be enjoying on my drums, on my physique, they had been actually inspiring me. And I grew to become a physique musician.
Physique music is enjoyable and helpful in creative methods and music and dance choreography, nevertheless it additionally has therapeutic values I’ve found over time.
And by the best way, you are able to do this standing or seated, it’s as much as you.
First we’ll begin with a clap. So I’m clapping palm to palm, [clap]. And it’s not a high-pressured clap. It shouldn’t harm. I’ll say, “Prepared? Go,” [clap]. And on the subsequent pulse is our downbeat. The place we’ll clap. Let’s simply do a number of of these. A-ready, go [clap]. A-ready go [clap]. A prepared go [clap]. Oh, another time [clap]. How a couple of clap? [clap] Clap. Prepared go [clap]. Able to go [clap].
You bought the thought. Palm to palm. Hold it mild.
The subsequent sound comes from the chest [chest-thud]. After I clap, [clap] I’m gonna play my chest, the sternum, [thud] with my proper palm. So it feels like this clap [clap] chest [thud]. Strive that with me. Prepared? Go. Clap [clap], chest [thud]. Once more, it’s mild.
Let’s attempt that with a clap and a left hand. Prepared go — clap [clap, thud]. Left hand on the chest. Able to go [clap, thud]. Clap, chest. Prepared? Go [clap, thud].
Good. So you bought the suitable and the left. You bought that really feel. So let’s put this collectively. So I’m gonna go clap [clap]. After which with my proper hand, I’m enjoying the chest [thud]. Adopted by the left hand with the chest [thud]. So it feels like this: clap. Chest. Chest.
Will you attempt that with me? Able to go? Clap. Chest. Chest. Good. Prepared? Go. Clap. Chest. Chest. Able to go? Clap [thud, thud] Yep. Prepared? Go. Clap, thud, thud. Able to go. Clap, thud, thud. Yet another time Clap, thud, thud. Clap, proper, left, on the chest.
So we’re gonna simply play a sequence of threes, preserving the heart beat. I’ll offer you that. Prepared? Go. Clap, proper, left to clap, proper, left. Able to go? Able to go? Yeah. Clap proper, left clap, proper left. Hold it mild. Two extra occasions. Clap, proper, left to clap, proper, left. Yet another time. Clap, proper, left to clap, proper, left. And a cease.
Now if we proceed on down the physique to the tops of our legs, and by the best way, you are able to do this standing or seated, it’s as much as. you. I am going clap. After which proper chest, left chest, proper leg, left leg, simply the tops of my thighs.
Prepared? Go. Clap. Proper, left, proper, left. In order that’s clap proper chest, left chest, proper leg. Left leg. Strive that once more. Prepared? Go. Clap. Proper chest. Left chest. Proper leg. Left leg.
Yeah. You are feeling that sample, how that goes. Proper, left, proper, left. Let’s attempt it once more. Prepared? Go. Clap. Chest, chest, leg, leg once more, or prepared? Go. Clap. Proper, left, proper, left. Once more, able to go? A clap. Proper, left, proper, left. Oh, another time. Go clap. Proper chest, left chest, proper leg. Left leg. That’s your 5. Let’s see if we will repeat that now with out a pause. So it’ll sound like this. If I am going one, two, three, 4, 5, or one, two. We’re simply on that subsequent downbeat, you come again with the clap and begin the sample. , you’re 5. All proper. Good luck. Let’s attempt it. Prepared? Go. Uh, clap. Proper, left, proper. Go. Clap. Chest, chest. Prepared, go. Chest, chest, leg. Leg. clap. Chest, Chest. Able to go. Chest, chest. Leg. Leg. Proper, left, proper, left, proper, left to proper. Left. Yeah. Yet another time. Chest, chest. Leg. Leg. Ending with a clap proper right here.
Good. I hope that is supplying you with some concepts of how doing rhythmic work can form of deliver you again to your self for a second. It’s form of a slight neurological therapeutic massage as I consider it. I discover it very settling and soothing in addition to focusing. I hope you have got the same response.
And if you happen to’ve loved doing this sort of physique music work, I encourage you to ask a buddy to hitch you as a result of there’s nothing fairly like doing physique music with another person or with a gaggle of individuals. I discover this kinda work, this kinda rhythmic work, helps put us again into contact with ourselves and with different folks.
Thanks for becoming a member of me.
Dacher Keltner: That was Keith Terry, a composer and percussionist who makes use of his personal physique as an instrument. When you’d wish to see a video of Keith in motion, take a look at present notes on Spotify or wherever you’re listening proper now.
Do that Physique Music observe with a buddy and inform us the way it went. You’ll be able to e-mail us at happinesspod@berkeley.edu.
I’m Dacher Keltner, thanks all for making music with us on this Happiness Break.
