Let the music guide your Qi

YOU know how it is in the morning or evening, or maybe even way pass midnight, it is quiet and it's just you and the silence, and then there is your qigong routine.
I have found on certain mornings, a strong urge to break the silence. It would seem the soul searches for the "rite of passage", if I may use that phrase. So there have been some early dawns when I put on a CD to help me ease my way into the qigong path.
Yesterday for example, the Celtic refrains of the Secret Garden filled the living room where I was going through the qigong exercises. I was pleasantly surprised that the music filled me with a whole sense of renewal.
It is true that for time immemorial, man has loved and used music to enrich his life. It is the one language that needs no words. Music then is like a magic carpet that takes a person from one plane to another in an instance.
Yesterday morning was one of those occasions for me. Suddenly, time took a backseat and I found myself being transported to a zone where qigong was no longer an exercise. It became the "way".
I have always loved music but not the kind my daughter prefers. She thinks the world of James Blunt and John Legend. I come from a different world, a generation far removed from the young lady.
Sometimes, I listen with great delight the mystical and mysterious tunes from the pipes of the Incas. This is a small, travelling group of musicians from South America who have on occasion visited Malaysia and entertained those of us lucky enough to encounter them.
The music of the Incas radiates and penetrates. It becalms a troubled mind, emits a musical force that defies explanation. I simply love it. When I put it on before the qigong session, it becomes a vehicle for a body and mind transcending experience.
Music has many purposes. In qigong, it slips seamlessly into the ambience of the surroundings and takes hold of all life-forms presents and become one with it. Music is the carpet that floats and flutters in the untapped regions of our minds.
If only more of us invites it into our busy and harried lives.