The Practice--Watch Out for Music Overconsumption
I began my journey into the world of music as a young child. And my passion for music waxed and waned over the decades. When it was ebbing, I began a new journey into music consciousness. And one of the concepts that struck me early on was a comparison between a food diet and a music diet. And here's the thing, just like we can overconsume food and wreak havoc on our digestive and other systems, overconsuming music can also, I believe, confuse our cells and body rhythms. We don't eat food continuously all day and into the night. Most of us eat perhaps three or four meals a day and allow our stomach to do its job the rest of the day. Of course, some people are binge eaters or snack throughout the day which never gives the body a rest. After the portable tape players, then portable compact disc players, and now MP3 players came on the market, the music suddenly was immediately accessible. People started doing everything with music playing in either the foreground or the bac...