The Effects Of Music On Our Body (With Pablo Arellano)

Music can be an important factor in the attitude of each person, depending on how we feel at a certain moment, we want to listen to a specific rhythm or even if we are not in the best mood we can resort to the music of our liking and raise our energies. Due to the positive effect that music gives us, it is a highly recommended method when we suffer from insomnia to listen to a soft melody, since it allows us to enter a state of peace, putting aside worries and offering us a safe space to relax.
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Is it true that music can help to alleviate our emotions?

How mantras can help us?

This is a very interesting conversation that I had with Pablo Arellano which is a very well-known composer and his music is amazing.

You probably heard about him.

So,

Let's start.

Welcome to this episode.

Today we are talking with Pablo Arellano which is a composer and a player.

He is of course from Mexico.

I'm very proud that he's Mexican.

He's a director and a writer.

He has been directing 8 movies and more than 50 albums.

He studied music at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

Just wait until you hear these three minutes in the middle of the conversation where he played for us.

Stay with us because today we are going to learn about the music for the soul.

Pablo,

I'm so glad you are here with us today.

So honored to be here in this space with you talking about mantras,

Meditation,

Music.

Thank you.

I'm honored too,

Dr.

Kamen.

So my first question is about the impact that you have found that your music has.

Thank you.

Well,

I realized that the music that I make has a very relaxing effect on people.

Also,

I've had a very powerful comment in the YouTube.

For example,

I published one of my songs that became very famous,

A guitar piece.

Very famous,

I mean.

It became famous.

It has now like 50 million views on the YouTube.

And I have thousands of comments in this song.

It's a 15-minute song with guitar and then 15 minutes with piano.

One of the comments was there was like a civil war in one region in Africa.

And this girl sent me a message that the family,

The city was being bombarded.

The family would hug in the middle of the living room and listening to the music.

And that was the only way they could survive the bombing.

Like that,

I have many,

Many comments.

Like people have used the music after some operation of the heart or doing the operation and also record faster.

Also,

A friend like you searched for me for an interview.

And then she played me an audio from a friend from Chile that played my music to her dying mother.

And the mother was already in the deathbed.

They played a little bit of my music,

Some of my music,

And then she woke up and lived one more year.

Yeah,

I can believe that.

And I see that the music has an effect beyond me.

I mean,

I do the music and I have a sense of what it means to me.

But you never know what it means to another person because you don't know the circumstances or what's going on in their life.

It can have other meanings and deeper meanings.

What actually motivated me to interview you was one of the comments on your music and one of the Inside Timer lives that you were doing.

Somebody comments,

When I started listening to your music a couple years ago,

I was on a stable emotionally and I became during this year's stable.

And she was referring to your music.

So a lot of questions in my mind as a clinical psychologist,

I truly believe in music.

I truly believe in music,

In the power of music.

But in my mind was like,

This is this deeper,

Powerful healing moment that we have available.

Yeah.

Well,

This is why,

Like,

I want more people to know about it.

Thank you.

Yes.

I also,

I'm also very surprised.

I,

I,

I do the music because it's in my heart and I can avoid it.

I always say that it's something that it's like an urge and wants to come out.

I can avoid it.

It's just there.

And I do it because I,

I connect with something.

I don't know exactly what it is,

But I do connect.

I can explain.

I say that it's the nostalgia of heaven.

Okay.

Like a part of heaven comes down and that part,

That little part of having a suiting is beautiful.

It's a place that surrounds you and hugs you and takes care of you.

Yeah.

And this is the feeling I get when I'm playing.

So when I'm playing,

I'm feeling,

I think it,

It conveys through your music.

Yeah.

I think people feel part of what I feel,

But different circumstances expand that feeling.

For me,

It's very humbling.

Yesterday I have a question in one of my groups.

Somebody was asking,

What is the difference in our body to listen from piano music or from guitar music or any other instrument?

Did you ever consider that?

Did you ever thought about it?

Yes.

Like in music,

The definition is you have like percussion instruments and you have melodic instruments.

So some instruments have more like a singing to them.

Yes.

For example,

If you hear a cello,

The cello has a continuous note,

Because the arch goes so it can stay very long.

In a piano,

You just,

It's like a hammer that hits it.

And if you put the pedal,

It goes,

It's not very long.

So I think different instruments provoke certain variations on deepness of emotion.

You know,

For example,

If I play a trumpet,

Maybe it has certain feeling than if I play a flute or a marimba.

Different sensations.

You play the harp too,

Yeah?

Well,

Because in the keyboard I can play,

I can change the instrument on the computer.

I imagine that I'm playing the harp in like a little bit like the style.

Then I do it,

The simulation in the keyboard,

But it's really the keyboard.

Okay.

You fool me.

Because I haven't listened to your harp,

One of your harp compositions like for months.

Yeah,

It's very beautiful.

I have a lot of comments in that harp that it helps a lot of people to sleep.

Yeah,

This is what I use it for.

I use it for sleep.

Yeah,

Because it has a very nice cadence and the instrument also is very fine.

Like when I play with strings,

I get the feeling it's much deeper,

Has much weight.

The harp is more light,

More free.

And it depends on the mood that I am.

I choose.

Right now I'm doing lives in the inside time where I play.

And sometimes I choose one or another instrument.

Sometimes I prepare something,

But I'm so inspired playing that I skip it.

It doesn't matter the preparation.

That's part of living in the present moment,

Yeah.

When I was younger,

I was very young.

I was writing some poems and my family didn't educate me Christian or anything,

But my father always talked about Christ.

Since I was little,

I was always asking who is he,

Why he's in the cross,

What he did to be there,

Poor guy,

You know.

And I had a very gentle man that would answer me.

He was very spiritual.

He just came from India.

So I was very happy with him.

I was very happy with him.

He was very spiritual.

He just came from India.

So all these questions and answers stayed with me.

And I became very connected with my own Christ,

My Christ within.

And I call him the Divine.

So I have a meditation and insight timer that talks about him.

It's like a dream that I had.

It's an encounter with him in the olive trees before he goes to the cross.

Okay.

He's walking there.

He's walking there.

And I'm like a jewel there,

Sitting down just,

And then he comes and sits beside me.

And then I ask one question,

Rabbi,

This,

This,

And this.

What I wanted to say is that the Divine,

Which for me represents the Christ within,

Is also connected with the present moment.

It's like a jewel.

Imagine that when you're not present,

You're trying to catch gold,

No?

With your hands.

It's falling from the sky.

But if you're thinking of something else,

You're going to be distracted and you're not going to catch enough gold.

Because you're thinking of tomorrow,

The day before,

You're not going to catch anything.

But if you're completely present,

All the gifts that come from the Divine,

You will catch them because you're there and you can hold all,

All,

All,

All.

That's true.

I think the Divine is always speaking to us in different forms and we want to express those forms.

You do these interviews because you want to express something higher that lives within you.

And everybody has a connection to the Divine.

Something,

Something that creates something bigger than themselves.

And it's not about money.

It's not about things.

It's about the connection,

The expansion of that consciousness in yourself.

And what we were talking in the Spanish interview about the flower,

Like our life is like a flower that is,

Is,

Is opening,

Opening,

Opening.

And the higher vibration we live in,

The more this flower opens to the,

To the sacred,

To the light of awareness.

And also the music helps for that.

We have people who listen to both.

So if you are listening in English and you want to listen to Spanish,

We,

We have different jokes,

Different stories,

Different jokes.

Yeah.

And yes,

As you were talking about these gifts,

You know,

These gifts coming from the sky.

Pablo,

Sometimes I have work in therapy with people that they give can very well hit in their head and they don't recognize it.

And when you set up your mind or willingness to be listening or opening,

You even see it when it's far away.

Yeah.

You even see when it's coming.

Yes.

Because the divine it's like,

I don't know,

Remember the Star Wars movies.

They talk about something called the force.

That force is in a way it's real because we're,

We're connected in a quantum level.

We're all connected.

Like you're,

You have one atom,

Atom of oxygen that I had before and before others and others,

The air that they breathe and they exhale,

I have it also.

So it's like,

We all breathing the same air.

We're all living the same atoms.

The earth has a certain amount of atomic matter.

We're all being recycled through all that matter.

It's not like new matter comes to the earth.

It's here.

And then that source of energy is connected through this divine that I don't know how to explain with words.

It's something mystical.

So this is all that you explain with your music.

Yeah.

Because you need sometimes things beyond words,

No?

And music is one of those things that can help you reach that reach that realm.

I don't know how to explain.

There's a Buddhist book about the realms of the Daikini.

The Daikini is like a woman,

The sacred tradition of Tibet.

It's a woman that they embalm in life,

They embalm her,

They purl to like to sleep in a catatonic state.

And she dies for three days.

So they cover her mouth,

All her orifices and do a sacred meditation.

And then she goes to sleep or like a very,

Very deep meditation for three days,

No water,

No food,

Anything.

And she goes to the realms,

To the different realms before God.

And sometimes I think my music speaks of those realms and brings down a little bit of that,

A little piece of that divine.

So we can connect.

But we all do it when we have that intention.

Would you like to say something to finish the interview?

You want to play as you play in the Spanish?

Yes,

If you want,

I can play a little bit and then we say goodbye.

Wow,

That feels like heaven,

You're right.

It feels like these realms that you were saying.

Yes,

Totally.

I play and I,

Well,

I feel a lot of peace.

So,

And I just go with that expansion.

Yes.

Sometimes the mind comes in,

You know,

I just let it go.

I mean,

I don't pay attention because the mind can say,

What note are you going to do next?

Now,

What are you going to do?

And the mind can be a very useful tool if you have thoughts of awareness,

Conscience,

Thoughts,

But if you're in that automatic victim state or with fear,

But maybe we could do another interview talking about the mantras in English,

If you want.

Yeah,

I will appreciate that.

I still would like to talk more about the mantras.

I know you have a couple of courses about the mantras.

I do.

I do an Inside Timer 2 workshops on mantras.

And I think they're going to release a new workshop I did on creativity using mantras.

Wow.

Yeah,

That's powerful.

There's one very nice exercise that I can suggest.

Do you allow me?

Yeah,

Of course.

It's,

You find a place in your home where you and your couple or friend or whoever you want to talk to,

You both sit there and you create a sacred space of talking in that place.

So what you're going to do is you're with your awareness,

You're going to imprint that that place that you're sitting in is a sacred place of communication.

So it's like,

I am in a sacred place to talk.

And you both say it.

So every time you want to talk about something,

About your feelings,

About what's happening or your emotions,

Or you want to just share something,

You go to that sacred place.

And because you imprint it with awareness that that place is for that,

The energy of that place is going to change because you had some awareness when you imprint it with that objective.

Because if you go to any couch to sit,

Oh,

Let's talk.

You didn't have that little time to know that that place is sacred.

So if you imprint something before,

It's going to stay in your awareness that that place is special for talking.

Again,

I'm using the I am.

I'm imprinting this place with awareness or I'm in a peaceful place to talk or I'm in a special place to share my soul or whatever.

You can use I am,

But then you imprint someplace.

And that's part of the workshop of creativity.

But there's no link because it's not being released.

Yeah.

There was an exercise that I used to do when I work with the teamwork that I asked that they have they imagine having a seal and they have a word there.

So they put the ink.

Yeah.

And I have like love or peace,

For example.

And they have in their feet,

And they go all over the room and they put it in the walls like I am a stamping love and peace and love and peace or awareness or whatever.

And that I create a safe environment to work in the workshop.

And it's very powerful.

It's like what you describe is very powerful to imprint that.

Yes.

That's why the ancient would do all these kind of rituals.

Yeah.

For example,

The labyrinth is a very powerful one.

You know,

It has a certain geometry.

It reminds you a certain of your path in life.

And it becomes a place where you can really reflect,

You know,

This you can do in your everyday life to create spaces of creativity or love or friendship or joy or bliss,

You know,

Compassion,

Empathy,

Stillness.

Everything is accessible.

Yes,

Definitely.

We can do another interview to talk about mantras and to talk about creativity that you may have a lot of information,

Creativity when you create these workshops.

Yeah.

You have a lot of information right now.

Yes,

Yes,

I do.

Because I'm always like a channel of this trying to live the moment and stay connected with us that we talked about in the beginning,

The divine.

Yes.

Well,

Looking forward for that about mantras and creativity.

Sure.

Anytime you want to talk and invite me.

I'm willing to do any kind of interview.

I'm very honored.

Thank you,

Paolo.

Well,

Let's close for now.

Thank you very much for being here.

And if you are still here with us listening,

Please find his courses,

His music.

Bless everybody.

I'm honored to be here.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I am so glad that you enjoyed this conversation with Paolo Arellano.

And I told you,

It was going to be amazing.

Yeah.

If you are still here and you want to work on your mantras,

On your music or whatever,

Just go to Paolo Arellano profile in Inside Timer.

You are going to love it.

And he's live very often there.

Send me your comments,

What you think,

What you like.

I am here for you.

And bye for now.

Reviews

Wonderful! The music was beautiful! Thank you!