Something worth ‘noting’ in the head?….

I had a long hard week at work. So I got to Friday night. I spent most of the weekend delving into music, by which I mean twinkering and noodling away on musical instruments. Music has definetly become my main happy go to comfort place of solitude.

Music got me through Covid. Music got me through a lot of personal things and life challenges actually this last 4-5 years. It is just always there now, and I am happy that it is.

I wonder, where or what I might be with out that musical passion and self therapy through music. Ironically I used to cover Health & Social Care procurement in a previous employment role, and I was aware how art therapy and musical therapy could help people. I did not fully realise that I have been engaging in musical therapy myself for sometime now, and longer than I actually knew I was on reflection.

A question I would like to ask is does this resonate with anyone? You may be a homesick student or a fellow struggling university staff member, or another circumstance where you are a person who gets their inner peace from their music?

Another question I would like to pose is, despite being a non social media person, I have been reaching out this weekend and posting music online in an attempt to find others locally. I’d like to play with other musically minded people who are at my amatuer level, so can further develop and get some sort of social activity and mixing back into life. Is there a get together or club during evenings at any campus buildings? Is there even access to a grand piano and other musical instruments for myself as a staff member I wonder that I can experiment with?

Switching off from Mon-Fri with musical therapy… / Tender Is The Day, The Demons Go Away (I work in Procurement) by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0