This very moment, there is a live music playing through you-the music of emotion. The music may at times be peaceful, dull, forceful, chaotic, loving, indescribable.

Conceptually blending music and emotion allows you to discover and free energies of your experience, to realize dynamic and creative qualities of your instrument of mind-body, to play your meanings in a culture that wants you to conform.

This book presents an alternative to the dominant models followed in mental health professions, which simplify and reduce emotion to labeled states & neurochemical fuel for human machines. The book shows how the mind & body play rhythms, tones and themes of:

·     sources of emotion in your vulnerabilities and the protective forces they trigger;

·     your capacity to center yourself from music that's disturbing, stuck, or self-defeating;

·     your capacity to play beautiful, passionate music of integrity, love, Soul.