I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.
For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.
Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing something wrong.
Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.
When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.
I can meditate anywhere, anytime, even whilst talking to you.